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Show f i News Notes I ! 2 It' a Privilege to Liv in 1 1 Utah ! DUCHESNE A. G. Young & Co., road contractors, are making very satisfactory sat-isfactory progress on the highway from Duchesne to Dead Ox flat. Strawberry has been turned on Wins-low Wins-low ranch and grading will soon be j completed. The rock crusher is beiug j moved this week to within two miles of Duchesne just east of the first crossing cross-ing on Strawberry. From that point to Duchesne will he graveled firsr. The pile driver is being moved this week and will proceed to the construction construc-tion of a bridge two miles west of Duchesne. OGDEN Utah's Holstein herd at I the seventeenth annual Pacific international inter-national livestock sb,ow now in progress pro-gress at Portland, Ore., won third place among the states Bhowing herds In the Holstein class, according to telegraphic advices received by C. S. Potter, Holstein breeder, from Gilbert Thatcher of Ogden. Washington won first place; California, second Oregon, fourth, and Idaho, fifth, In the states' competition. MYTON Uintah Basin Seed Growers' Grow-ers' association plant in Myton is beginning be-ginning to fill up, and lately it increased in-creased its force of men and now has both cleaning machines running. This move is made in order to keep the alfalfa seed cleaned as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. Recently the association had 3000 sacks in the warehouse of this season's crop. SALT ' LAKE Grazing conditions through the state were improved materially ma-terially as a result of moderately heavy precipitation during the week ending November 5, according to the weekly report on weather conditions, issued from the office of J. Cecil Alter, of the TJ. S. weather bureau in this city. PAYSON Little damage was done to the state roads by the heavy rains recently, it was announced by H. S. Kerr, chief engineer of the state road commission, after receiving reports from various parts of the state. A temporary bridge over the Valley City wash in Grand county, which was put in following the September floods, was taken out, and slight damage was done in the Strawberry valley on a new alignment now under construction, construc-tion, Mr. Kerr said, but in neither case was traffic retarded to any extent. MYTON The dry spell which has covered nearly the entire month of October has been broken during the past few days. Rain has fallen all over the basin, accompained by snow in the upper country and the mountains. moun-tains. On the summit between Duchesne Du-chesne and Price the mail and stage route out of the basin, several inches of snow is reported. PRICE Ray Branch of the Carbon county beet growers states that the wet weather of the past two days has left at least 60 per cent of the sugar beets of this section in the fields, with the harvest delayed materially. It Is expected that when the weather clears, it will be only a few days until the harvest work is completed, for, with the organization as perfected, the remainder re-mainder of the harvest can be completed com-pleted in a short time. OGDEN Cattle receipts at the Ogden Og-den union stockyards today were second sec-ond highest in the history of the stockyards, stock-yards, with a run of 5204. This is also the biggest run of the year. The market was active with good steers scarce and she-stock selling from 10c to 15c higher. VERNAL Testing of dairy cattle for tuberculosis in Uintah county already al-ready has resulted in finding the disease di-sease in thirty-three head, most of which were animals furnishing milk. About 2500 head already have been tested. The last time the testing was done, only two head out of 2600 examined,- reacted to the test. This year between 5000 and 6000 cattle will be tested. LOGAN Ninety-eight per cent of the 1700 grape starts planted this ' spring by the Cache County Dry Farm ' Grape Growers' association has thriv-j thriv-j ed, and as a result of this success J. E. Hyde of the' company expects tc plant twenty-five additional acres of grapes next spring. LAYTON Improvement in the location loca-tion of the stockyards will be made here within the next ten days, when the present yards will be moved west and north of the present locaUon. It has been the ambition of the town board for some time to get the stock- i yards away from the highway, as it will he a big improvement to the town. The change w-ill put the yards on a different spur of the Oregon Short Line, which will be parrellel to the main line and will make it easier for the proposed removal of the spur through the town. MOAB Farmers in this district, dis-trict, have been hit rather hard j this fall br the long dry spell j and a number of dry farmers j have been obliged to reseed their fields, there not being enough moisture mois-ture in the ground to germinate the first planting. SALT LAKE With only about 50 per cent of the lfT crop moved, sutrar beet shipments to date over the Salt Lake & Utah rni'.road have equaled last season's entire production accord I lng to a report from A. J. Anderson I |