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Show i News Notes It's a Privilege to Livs in X Utah - ! I BOISE Construction ci the inter- -itate highway south from Rogerson to ! :he Nevada state line, the connecting j I ink between Idaho and Nevada high-1 j ay systems to furnish the Twin alls : ! country with a direct outlet to me Pa- j :ific coast, will start this fall, the bu- . I :eau of highway announced in calling i lor bids in work. LEHI The recent rains have bene- j ited the beet-growing sections of Utah, It was announced by Mark Austin, ag-1 icultural superintendent of .the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company, who returned re-:ently re-:ently from an inspection trip. He de clared that the company expects large crop this season from all its beet-crowing beet-crowing territory. The beets are in excellent shape, he stated. BLACKFOOT Eastern Idaho dis-crict dis-crict fair board announced everything in readiness for the biggest and best fair since the organization of the dis-j dis-j trict. at the close of the meeting held in Elackfoot on Tuesday afternoon. MYTOX New machinery has recently re-cently been installed in the Upalco flour mill, located in Myton, by C. P. Watterson. The new machinery will ! make it possible to grind new wheal t is soon as it is brought in by the farmers. farm-ers. Mr. Watterson expects to open the mill in a few days. Indications j show that the average of -wheat ia larger this year. BOISE Idaho seed growers and eastern seed buyers alike will be protected pro-tected under a plan of certification worked out at a recent conference in Helena and Bozeman, Mont., with the United States department of agriculture, agricul-ture, John S. Welch, commissioner oi agriculture, announced upon his return re-turn from the meetings. BRIGHAM CITY Brigham City's peach harvest is on, and for the nest ten days or- two weeks will be one of the busiest communities in the state. The peaches grown in this section are Df excellent quality this year, according accord-ing to reports, and will bring a good price. It Is estimated By prominent growers that upwards of 20 carloads of peaches will be shipped from this city and immediate vicinity this season. sea-son. Together with the carlot shipments, ship-ments, thousands of bushels will be sent out by express, parcel post and in truckload lots. BLACKFOOT Indications that the increase in egg production in Bing ham county would be greater than the local market could absorb led some oi the larger producers of the county to sign up 4000 hens with E. H. Brock-I Brock-I man, fieldman for the Idaho Egg Pro-! Pro-! ducers' association, who has just completed com-pleted a survey of the county with County Agent M. L.Tillery. MYTOX- Precipitation of rain for Myton and this portion of the basin Saturday and Sunday was 1.25 inches. T. C. Gwyn, resident engineer of the project, reports that the damage done j to the Myton townsite canal by the I storm was $1000. .Moscow tstabiisnment or a sal-! sal-! mon fish hatchery on Oro Grande creek 1 j near Orofino will be recommended to ' , the federal bureau of fisheries by State Game Warden R. E. Thomas, accord-1 Ing to an announcement made by the Idaho official, following inspection oi the creek a short time ago. SALT LAKE Sugar beets proSuced ! In the state of Utah in 1926 amounted ! to 1.034,000 tons, having a value of ap j : proximately S7.23S.000. From 990.00C ! tons of these beets 135,000 tons oi ' sugar were produced. j TWIN FALLS Date for the celeb I bration for the opening of dedication i of the Twin Falls-Jerome bridge span j ning Snake River canyon at Blue lakes was definietly fixed for October 1. This ! decision was reached at a meeting 1 here of committees representing cham hers of commerce of Jerome and Twit j Falls, with officials of the bridge con struction and operating companies. MYTOX C. A. Engle of Blackfoot Idaho, who holds the position of su pervising engineer of the Uintah In j dian irrigation project, accompanied by Porter J. Preston and R. V. J. Teel I of Denver, Colo., who are connected i with Ve reclamation service of Indian I affairs, arrived in Myton Tuesday, act-' ing in the capacity of a special advis I ory committee to inspect the Uintat i irrigation district. BOISE1 All fish planted in the Saw-tooth Saw-tooth lakes are growing well and fur I nishing good sport, W. M. Kelt, state fish commissioner announced upon his return from a trip to the Stanley basin country. Quananiche, plantings ol which were started three years ago, are furnishing sportsmen good sport, particularly in Toxaway lake. LOGAN Sugar beet conditions throughout the entire county were found to be unusually good by ap-proxinmately ap-proxinmately 175 beet grow-ers who made an excursion cooperatively under the auspices of the Cache county Beet I Growers' association, and the Amalgamated Amalga-mated and Franklin county sugar fao j tories. VERNAL Reed W. Bailey, geolo gist, and Georpe D. Clyde, irrigation j engineer, both of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, are in Vernal making a I survey of the Uintah range, working j east from Washington lake, near the head of Provo river, in speaking of the Paradise Park reservoir, of great interest in-terest to the farmt.rs of Ashlty valley, they said this project gave prospects of storing an immense quantity oi ' water. MYTOX Local showers in Myton the past few days have benefited vegetation vege-tation and helped to lay tlu dust A', talfa seed growers have bsuu cu: tins |