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Show : News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in ! Uiah ! I - j POCATELLO Four" 'thousand ' In-j dian ponies from the Bannock creek j district have been sold to a Portland j concern, the meat to be canned and ; shipped to European countries, according accord-ing to Stephen Janus, superintendent of the Fort Hall reservation. A big roundup will be held iu the near fu-ture fu-ture under the management of W. H. Jensen, reservation stockman, and the j animals will be shipped to the coast from time to time. PRICE Highway traffic in Willow Creek is blocked, and the surmise is that every highway bridge in that canyon can-yon has gone out, it is said by road officials here. The estimate is that at least three inches- of rain must have fallen in the present storm over the head of the canyon. It was raining j again at Price and other storms are showing at the head of Willow creek j end in the direction of Hiawatha. IDAHO FALLS All former power j customers of the Utah Power com- j pany in Idaho Falls were on the municipal mu-nicipal plain, circuits, the last cut-overs being made late Wednesday night, j The office of the L'tah Power nere will remain open to take care of the com- pany's business in the agricultural territory adjacent to the city. HEBER CITY Some IS. 000 acres of land in Utah were planted to com in 1926. From that acreage ayroxiinate-ly ayroxiinate-ly 446,000 bushels of the grain were produced, showing an average yield per acre of 24. S bushels. BURLF.Y Under the guidance of Donald McCean, secretary of the Idaho Ida-ho Woolgrowers' association, a commission com-mission of four Russian sheep buyers visited the Minidoka tract recently and purchased 160 registered Hampshire Hamp-shire sheep. An average price of about $42 per head was paid for yearlings, year-lings, 2-year-olJ and 3-year-old ewes and $250 per head for two stud bucks. MOSCOW Peppermint oil, for which the chewing gum and confectionary confec-tionary industry has caused a demand which can hardly be filled in this conn-try conn-try has sent the price sky high, the last two years, bids fair to become a profitable one for a few small-acreage farmers in the irrigated section just south of here, centering about Clark-ston. Clark-ston. BEAVER Auspicious circumstances circum-stances attended the opening of the second annual Beaver county fair and rodeo Thursday as strong winds which had persistently blown for manys days somewhat subsided for the day and farm exhibits kept coming in all day. Due to the fact that production on the farms has been lighter this year on account ac-count of drought, the display of agricultural agri-cultural products was slightly below expectations. However, splendid exhibits ex-hibits were shown, including a fine variety var-iety of g?rden vegetables of high grade, grains, potatoes, corn and alfalfa al-falfa seed. : BOISE Dates and places for the holding of Idaho state land sales at which 20.00U acres wilt be auctioned are announced by I. H. Xash, state land commiss'oner. Sales will be held at Cascade, September 20; Boise, September Sep-tember 27; Pocate'.lo, September 29; American Falls, September 20. and Jerome, Jer-ome, October S. Places and dates for the holding of sales of other lanas in the upper Snake valley are yet to be determined. SALT LAKE UtP.h's agricultural development has not only local, but world-wide, implications of the gret-est gret-est significance, for the reason that ever-increasing population must inevitably in-evitably shift from the humid to the arid portions of the earth, it was declared de-clared by C. Belilowsky, managing director di-rector of Hoerning Brothers. Ltd., of Rossleben. Germany, one of the leading lead-ing European sugar beet seed firms, who has been visiting Salt Lake City on a tour of observation of agricultural agricultur-al conditions in the United States in general and the beet sugar industry in particular. DELTA The alfalfa seed crop is the chief topic of conversation in Delta Del-ta now and will continue to be until it is harvested or its development ended end-ed with frost. Seed experts have been visiting the various alfalfa seed dis tricts and there is some variation in their estimates as to the amount of seed which might be obtained, but it is placed all the way from 6,000,000 to 10.000.000 pounds. MALAD B. P. Wilson of Pocatello. district highway engineer, was in Mal-ad Mal-ad Thursday making arrangements for the starting of work on the road between be-tween Malad and Holbrook. Mr. Wilson Wil-son also met with the Malad city coun-; coun-; cil and discussed the improvement of : the state highway through the town, i No definite action was taken. ! EPHRAIM During the month of ' August between 5000 and 10.000 lambs were driven off the Manti National I forest. Ram lambs were placed on i feed and wether lambs were sent to ! market. Ranger Thursby reports that j the black-faced lambs leaving his dis-i dis-i trict averaged around eighty-five I pounds. ! PAYSOX An allotment of twenty-one twenty-one cans of rainbow fingerlings have been received by the Payson Fish and : Came association from the federal i fish hatchery and placed in Payson ; creek at Rush fiat. Twenty-nine thousand which are at Maple dell will be turned into the creek this fall. The association has been taking care of those fish, assisted by George Brown, manager at Maple dell. They have aiso received permission from the city council to screen Paring lake, which is owned by the city, and protect til 3 black bass. Trout will also be placed ' in the lake after it is screened |