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Show News Notes I It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah Ogden. During the next twelve months Ogden will invest more than $2,000,000 in building construction, according ac-cording to a survey of proposed projects. pro-jects. Logan. Ten pairs of silver-black foxes were received here recently from Salt Lake to be kept at the fox farm at the mouth of Logan canyon. Thirty-five more young are being kept in Salt Lake for a short time before being shipped to Logan, and another lot of thirty-five will be received shortly from Prince Edward island, Canada. Salt Lake City. William Gill, assistant as-sistant manager of the Hotel Utah, was elected president of the Rocky Mountain Hotel Men's association at ita organization convention, which closed in Denver recently. Mr. Gill has been prominent in western hotel circles for several years. He has been associated with the Hotel Utah since its opening, having come here from Kansas City to accept a position posi-tion with that hostelry. He was active ac-tive in the formation of the organization, organiza-tion, which selected him to be its first president. t Myton. The record run for one day in cleaning alfalfa seed at the plant of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' Grow-ers' association t is 30,000 pounds. Threshing in this part of the basin is estimated to be 70 per cent finished. The crop in the Uintah basin this year is said by conservative people to be between five and one-half million mil-lion to six million pounds. A very small per cent of it has been sold. Ogden. The contract for Ogden's million-dollar hotel has been signed by A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel company, and George A. Whitmeyer, president of George Whit-meyer Whit-meyer and Sons, and Ogden contracting contract-ing firm. The contract calls for the completion of the building by December Decem-ber in 1926. Ogden. With work on the new stock show coliseum pushing forward with all possible speed and with entries en-tries being made by prospective exhibitors ex-hibitors from all parts fo the west and Pacific coast officials of the Ogden Og-den Livestock show are predicting that this year's show will far surpass all past exhibitions. Price. Completion of an inspection of cows of Emery county and Carbon counties for tubercular infection has just been completed by Dr. C. L. Jones of the United States bureau of animal industry, Dr. I. L. Nebeker of the state borad of agriculture and Orson Or-son P. Madsen, agricultural agent of the two counties. The report of these experts shows that there are no tubercular tu-bercular cows in the commercial dairies of this county. Cows tested in Carbon numbered 323. Lack of time prevented the inspection of indivud-ually indivud-ually owned milk cows. Ogden.- Saturday, November 14 promises to be the biggest pay day in the history of Ogden. The Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company distributed approximately $2,500,000 to its beet growers in Utah and Idaho and the canning companies with headquarters here paid out approximately $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 to tomato growers. Brigham City. Governor George H. Dern and other state and federal officials of-ficials participated in the dedication and formal opening of Utah's largest concrete bridge. The new structure spans Bear river between Brigham City and Corinne. The formal opening open-ing was arranged and conducted by the Boxelder Commercial club and chamber of commerce. Garland. A band of yeggs visited Garland in the early hours of morning, morn-ing, cracked two sates, burgalarized a candy store and later a service station. sta-tion. The loots included $500 in cash, a shotgun, a flashlight, candy and gum, and six and a half gallons of motor oil. Ogden. The appointment of a receiver re-ceiver of the Interstate Sugar company, com-pany, sought in an action brought by the Columbia Trust company, trustee for bondholders, in the Second district dis-trict court, will not be made until at least after the present campaign of sugar making is over, Judge James N. Kimball indicated. Gunnison. The first payment by the Gunnison Sugar company to the beet growers for this season was made recently. It was the largest payment ever held in Gunnison valley, val-ley, as more than $25,000 was distributed. dis-tributed. This payment and the payment pay-ment for October deliveries will exceed ex-ceed the entire payments for last year |