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Show : News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in t Utah i MOAB Oil and gas have been struck in the Lisbon No. 1 well of the Union Oil company of California, lo-. cated in Lisbon dome, forty miles southeast of Moab. While details of the strike and definite information as to the extent of the oil flow cannot be obtained in Moab, there is no question as to the authenticity of the report. PAROYVAX The Sixth annual I Southern Utah Rambouillet Sheep show and sale will be held August 19-20. 19-20. The show and sale in former years has been held during the middle part of September, but was changed this year in order that the Rambouillet Rambouil-let breeders of southern Utah might show their animals before taking them to the Salt Lake and other shows. MONROE A severe rain and hailstorm hail-storm passed over this vicinity, filling streets and ditches with streams of j mud and water in a very short time. I Gardens planted, lucerne and graiD j were beaten down by the force of the storm and large limbs were broken from trees. SALT LAKE Premium list of i927 state fair, to be held October 1 to S, incluisive. has been published and shows that plans have been made to bring the quality of the exhibit even to a higher plane than ever. The premium pre-mium list is in booklet form and is comprised of something over 120 pages, including the index to advertisers. adver-tisers. MT. PLEASANT Utah wool pt reduction re-duction for 1927 totaled 19,503,000 pounds, compared with 19,430,000 pounds in 192G, according to the July wool report of George A. Scott, livestock live-stock statistician for the department of agriculture in Utah, issued this week. The amount of production places Utah as fifth state in the national na-tional wool production. PRICE: Plans of the Price River Petroleum company indicate optimism and faith in the oil-bearing possibilities possibili-ties of the geological structure underlying under-lying Price and vicinity. Drilling at the company's test in northeast Price, which is now down 2265 feet, will proceed pro-ceed to a depth of at least 2700 or 2S00 feet, or until the Salt Wash sands have been penetrated, according to Ed Walsh, driller. It is in the Salt Wash formation that the company hopes to find oil. LOGAN The mayor and city council, coun-cil, together with Cache county school board members, Olsen and Hammond, met at the Hyrum city hall to consider consid-er plans and specifications for a sprinkling system for the public j square. A. H. Palmer of Logan was awarded the contract for furnishing materials and installing an economy sprinkling system tr cover the entire square. The work is expected to be j completed in thirty days. Lawn will j then be nlantpd. PRICE Delay of several hours td trains on the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad was caused Wednesday Wednes-day night by washouts at Clift, between be-tween Woodside and Green River. A crew of workmen was kept busy all night repairing the section damaged by heavy cloudbursts in that area. SPANISH FORK A. W. Anderson of Emeiy, president of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Honey Producers' association, was here yesterday conferring with beekeepers bee-keepers on the marketing of this season sea-son s honey crop. Mr. Anderson had just completed a trip through Gunnison, Gunni-son, Salina and other southern towns. He visited beekeepers at Springlake, Payson, Santaquin and Spanish Fork and will complete his business trip in Salt Lake City. Beekeepers in Spring-ville, Spring-ville, Provo and other towns were visited Thursday. SALT LAKE Utah's potato and tomato to-mato fields will be studied next week by a party of scientists aud experts whose life mission is to grapple with the problems of farmers when insects or' plant diseases th'eate:". crops. The party T ill be met at Pocatelio, Idaho, next Friday by Dr. B. L. Richards, , head of the department of botany and I plant pathology of the Utah Agricul-I Agricul-I tural college, who will accompany the : group on a tour of Idaho's agricultural regions, which will precede the visit I to this state. MANTI The first heavy slorm to i occur during the past month passed j over this city and resulted in an inch : of rainfall. During the storm, lightn-j lightn-j ing struck the barn owned by Jens Mickelson in the southern part of this city and cai.-sed considerabel damage. ' VERNAL, At its regular meeting ! the city council ordered closed : con-t con-t tract whereby a new triple-c :nbina-j :nbina-j tion motor fire truck will be secured and installed by October 1. This ma-ch'ie ma-ch'ie will be equipped with chemical apparatus and with pumps to force j water from city water mains, canals i or wells, as occasion requires. The j motor is of thirty horsepower capacity, j enabling the fire department to make rapid runs to all parts of the city. FILLMORE Although drought threatened Millard county's seed alfalfa, al-falfa, crop, rains during the past week have saved the situation, and as a result re-sult of storms ?Jillard county is expected ex-pected to be richer this fall by $2,-H00.G0O. $2,-H00.G0O. The first alfalfa cutting in Millard county was abundant. After the initial cutring. however, lack of moisture retarded crop development, nud as the drought became more acute it apeured that the second crop, which j fjirmeis weie growing for seed rather I ban fiir hay. would be a complete loss. The rainfall has altered the situation. |