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Show I News Notes J It's a Privilege to Live in J I Utah I , Weber Reports have been received :hat. the state road department is maintaining main-taining a crew of men with teams and sleds at South Weber to assist motorists motor-ists in traveling the state highway between be-tween South Weber aud the mouth of Weber canyon. At this point the state road crosses a wide flat, which is directly di-rectly in line with the full sweep of wind from Weber canyon, and it is wniH thova ia ftva fnr.t it til places. Saturday the teams were working work-ing steadily pulling motorists through. The road was in fair condition Sunday Sun-day and the men had a chance to take it easy for a while. Draper With forty-six per cent of their total egg production grading "New York extra," ponltrymen of this community are receiving larger egg checks than heretofore have arrived. A hundred cases of eggs are being shipped daily to the New York market, and for the last few weeks the percentage per-centage of highest quality eggs has shown a healthy increase. Pullets that' started lyaing this fall are now maturing, matur-ing, and are producing larger and more desirable eggs. Jack Hardin, manager of the egg department at the Draper poultrymen's warehouse, predicts pre-dicts that another two weeks 'will see at least seventy per cent of the eggs grading as "New York extra." Morgan T. U. Butters, who has charge of the East canyon dam for the Weber-Davis Canal company, reports re-ports eighteen inches of snow at the dam. He said this is the first season in three years when there has been ample snowfall to completely fill the dam, which has a capacity of 28,000 acre-feet of water. Monticello Monticello and vicinity have had the heaviest snowfall for six years. Starting Tuesday night with a blizzard, the snow fell with little interruption in-terruption until early Thursday morning, morn-ing, when there was then fifteen inches of snow on the level. The snow-has snow-has not been so heavy as to stop the mail schedule. Draper A heavy snowfall and a strong wind from the south threatened threat-ened to drift sufficiently to block the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad line through this city. Timely cessation of the storm, together with the fact that trains were running a closer intervals in-tervals than usual, kept the track open. Although the snowfall at Draper amounted to six or eight inches, Lelii was apparently slighted by the storm, only two inches having fallen in that vicinity. The highway at the Point of the Mountain, usually the scene of enormous snowdrifts, was unaffected. Brighton Nine Inches of new snow-had snow-had fallen at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning at the city watershed at Brighton, it was reported by Harry Tammond, observer, who left there Wednesday afternoon to come down to the city for the holidays. It was believed be-lieved likely that additional snow fell during the afternoon. Reports to the waterworks department showed five inches of new snow at City creek, eight at Mountain Dell and four at the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon. Ephraim A large committee from the Loins club and practically all of the business men of the city met with the city council in special session Tuesday night in the city hall for the purpose of considering the advisability of purchasing an engine of some sort to be installed in conection with the present light plant to insure better lights and power. Salt Lake The shipment of American Amer-ican sheep to Russia, the largest percentage per-centage of which was purchased in 1 tan and the iutermountain region, hits reached safely its future home, according ac-cording to information from J. W. Pincus of the agricultural department of the Amtorg Trading corporation. New York, fiscal agent for the Rus sian government sheep commission that visited the west and made the purchases this fall. The 1020 purchases pur-chases in America numbered approx-: approx-: imately 1700 head and. of this number mote than 1000 were taken in Utah. I Utah The second-substantial snow-! snow-! storm of the season visited Salt Lake i Tuesday afternoon, ushering in the cHicial beginning of winter, which oc-j oc-j cits Wednesday, and giving the city i 1 fresh, white covering for Christmas, "ihe snow began early in the afternoon, after-noon, reaching the peak in a blizzard around 5 o'clock. A heavy fall ccn-finr.ed ccn-finr.ed for about an hour, resulting in a deposit of several inches. Ofrdcn The American Falls dam is now holding approximately 400.000 acre-feet of storage water for southern Idaho farms, W. H. Wattis. president of the Utah C'-istructlon company. s-Jd upon his return from an inspection inspec-tion tour of this work and a railroad extension project at Shoshone, which tha company has under way. |