OCR Text |
Show News Notes ! It' a Privilege to Live in ! Utah Gunnison With organization of a .ocal poultry association at Gunnison '.he poultry Industry in the Gunnison valley holds promise of rapid expan-don. expan-don. The organization has started on i campaign to secure a large sign-up )f members. Plans already have been nade to ship several thousand baby .hicks into the valley next spring to snlarge existing flocks and start new mes on farms whose operations are nierested in entering the new activity. Ephraim A number of city ofu-Dials, ofu-Dials, the city electrician and some business men of Ephraim met with Howard C, Means of the Telluride Fower company Saturday to discuss the power from the Telluride company. com-pany. It was agreed by all that something some-thing must he done to insure light and power for Ephraim during the coming winter, and the proposition ot the Telluride company seems very ?ood to some of those present. Ephraim Considerable interest is being aroused locally by an experiment experi-ment by Ross Jensen of Ephraim in Tapping the alfalfa weevil. The main weapon used by Mr. Jensen is molasses, molas-ses, from a sugar mill. To this he idds a bait, the nature of which he i3 willing to explain to any farmer. The pan or other container with the mix-:ure mix-:ure in is placed at a convenient plac6 in the alfalfa field. If it Is a calm, ifarm day, such as those of late, it :akes only a few hours to get the container filled with a seething mixture mix-ture of weevil and molosses. Provo work on the new plant of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company, now in course of construction construc-tion at Ironton, is progressing rapidly, according to George E. Sibbett, general gen-eral manager of the plant. The plant is now. under roof and machinery is being rapidly installed, and prospects ire favorable that operations will be-;in be-;in some time in November. . Salt Lake The continued marketing f breeding stock throughout the country coun-try bears a semblance to burning the candle at both ends, and the cowman should consider well before .he lets go of his breeding stock, 'particularly if it is of proper type and quality, is the id vice of J. A. McNaughton, general manager of the Los Angeles Union stockyards. Figures cited by the Lol' Angelean show that for the first seven months of- this year' approximately 85 per cent of the cattle slaughtered in the United States was classified-: 49 per cent steers, 48 per cent cows and beifers, and 3 per cent bulls and stags. , Myton Starting Monday a series of community farm and home meetings meet-ings will be held tnroughout the Uintah basin. It is announced by the Uintah farm bureau. These meetings will be attended by officials of the Utah state farm bureau, and the Utah Agricultural extension division. M. P. Brown, president, and M. S. Winder, secretary, will represent the state bureau, while Rena B. Haycock will ittend as representative of the college. col-lege. E. E, Smith, who is colietting seed for the Utah exhibit to the international in-ternational hay and grain show, will make the trip at the same time to meet witn basin seedsmen. Ephraim Several cars ot sheep and lambs are being shipped from Ephraim. Eph-raim. P. C. Peterson shipped a car out Tuesday and Seymour E. Chris-tensen. Chris-tensen. O. C. Doke and Ruel Anderson Ander-son sniped a car of Rambouillet and Hampshire rams to Ogden. Ogden Petitions requesting the city commissioners to open Grant avenue from the Riverdale road on the south of Ogden to Harrisville road on the north of the city, thereby establishing another artery of traffic, were placei. in circulation Thursday. Opening o this street means merely the creation of roads at the two extremities. Washington A deatchment of fifty-five fifty-five marines, in charge of two officers was reported here as en route from the .marine corps base at San Diego to Salt Lake City to establish the postal guard there. Billeting quarters for the detachment, which is part of th-3 Fourth regiment of marines, will be sought in a National Guard armory or some other suitable place. The troops will be fed at restaurants under contract. con-tract. Salt Lake There are now more students stu-dents registered at the University of Utah than at any fall quarter in its history. A total of 2632 students, coming from the majority of the states ot the union and from eleven foreign countries are now attending classes at the state institution. In numbers, Idaho leads tho list of states having students on the Utah campus. California, Cali-fornia, Wyoming. Colrado. Arizona and Montana follow in close succession. |