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Show l News Notes j ? It's a Privilege to Live in J ! Utah Myton. Those who are engaged in the raising of honey report that the bees wintered well in the Uintah basin. ba-sin. They will start in to gather pollen pol-len this spring in better condition than for years past. Honey prices quoted to apiarists are better than they have been for some time. Salt Lake City. America's most comprehensive set if field experiments dealing with the problems of alfalfa seed production on both irrigated and dry land will be inaugurated this season sea-son in the Uintah basin and in San Juan county, according to agronomic experts at the Utah Agricultural experiment ex-periment station, who have just completed com-pleted planting plans for the new alfalfa al-falfa seed experiment farms located near Fort Duchesne and Monticello. Salt Lake City. An increase of 4.7 per cent In the number of hens and pullets of laying age on farms on January Jan-uary 1, this year, over January 1, 1925, and a production of 4.2 per cent greater than in 1D24, the estimated by the department of agriculture. The total value of the chickens produced on farms last year was about 12 per cent greater than in 1924 and the average aver-age chicken produced was worth 7 per cent more. Myton. Sumslon and Clyde company com-pany of Springville, which has the contract for the construction of the Myton-Antelope unit of the federal aid . road, has started the rock crusher at Antelope and has a crew of men and teams at work, hauling gravel to surface sur-face the road. It expects to push the work to completion as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. . , - Myton. F. A. Gross of Fort Duchesne Du-chesne superintendent of the Uintah and Ouray Indian agency, as a representative repre-sentative of the government, will offer of-fer for sale certain Indian allotments May 15. Ten per cent of the offer made by the bidder must accompany the bid, and also ?20 to defray the expense of advertising and the sale. Lists of the tracts and the location will be furnished interested parties. Salt Lake City. So that Price river riv-er conservation district will have all the water necessary this year for the farmers, a temporary dam Iras been ordered constructed at Fish Creek canyon, which will conserve 10,000 acre-feet of water, said E. B. Jorgen-sen, Jorgen-sen, representative of the conservation conserva-tion district, and the Sutherlin-Barry company, Inc., bankers of New Orleans, Or-leans, who returned from a two weeks' tour over the project. Price. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Carbon Water, Land and Power company held recently re-cently it was decided to prohibit the use of the canal to livestock owners for the reason that ihe canal is greatly great-ly damaged by livestock watering therein and the water is befouled, making it .detrimental to the tenants who are required to use the water for culinary purposes. Salt Lake City. Figures on comparative com-parative snow depths announced by Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, commissioner commis-sioner of the department of water supply sup-ply and waterworks, show that at this date 1926 is the leanest of the three years, 1924, 1925 and 1926, in water supply. Neither the snow depth nor the water content is even as great as at March 15, 1924, preceding a summer sum-mer of acute water shortage. Brigham City. W. W. Knudson of this city, who recently was appointed district agricultural inspector for Boxelder county by the state agricultural agricul-tural commission and county commissioners, commis-sioners, assumed his office. Mr. Knudson Knud-son succeeds Carl Isaacson of this city who served for fifteen years as county inspector. Salt Lake City. The city's proposal as outlined by Commissioner Finch, I provides for an expenditure of $2500 and a reimbursement rental of ?50 a month over a period of five years. The Chamber of Commerce has agreed i to accept the first year's obligation, with the remainder to be paid by the Western Air Express. Myton. W. W. Clyde of the firm of Sumsion & Clyde, contractors' of Springville, who have the contract for the Myton-Antelope unit of the federal aid road, arrived in Myton i Wednesday and is getting ready to resume re-sume active operations immediately. Salt Lake City. Temporarv closing of several state highways is being considered con-sidered by the state road commission to prevent severe injury by the passing pass-ing of heavy vehicles over the high-j high-j ways, softened by melting suows. The Parley's canyon road was closed Sun-I Sun-I day to give state laborers and the special squad of convicts an opportun-I opportun-I ity to remove the snow and repair the |