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Show News Notes I . t It's a Privilage to Live in Z Utah i PAN'GUITCH Local cheese factory, latest business venture sponsored by the Commercial club, is fast nearing completion, due to liberal subscription, subscrip-tion, due to liberal subscription to stock and good management of the club. According to President V'. J. Henderson, the factory should be ready for operation about November 15. Mr. Ray Stringham, an experienced experi-enced creamery man, is in charge of the important details of completing the factory, and the club is taking every possible precaution to make this new enterprise a success. PROVO Turkeys marketed by Utah growers in 19 JG amounted to 320,-000 320,-000 pounds at $150,000. This was an increase from 240,000 pounds for 1925, valued at $10S,000. SALT LAKE During the week ending end-ing November 9, moderate temperature tempera-ture prevailed over L'tah, according to the weekly report on weather, range and crop conditions, issued from the office of J. Cecil Alter, government weather observer. "The weather proved very favorable for lir-stock grazing on fall pastures and the winter win-ter ranges," says the rafort, "and for the germination and growth of fall-sown fall-sown grains. Fall seeding has been about completed. Early sown grain is making splendid growth and late seed-ings seed-ings are coming up nicely." OGDEN Utah's herd of Holstein catle exhibited at the seventeenth annual an-nual Pacific International Livestock exposition at Portland, Ore., arrived here in the care of Gilbert Thatcher. The state herd won third place in the competition of western states and every animal of the eleven was in the prize money class. DRAPER Poultry industry in Utah Is steadily growing, as shown in the production of 1926 of 1,466, SS0 pounds, valued at $374,054, compared with that of 1925, when 1,155,700 pounds brought 5277,353. SALT LAKE Utah produced 726 carloads of eggs at a value of $2,541,-000 $2,541,-000 during 1926, as compared with 60S carloads in 1925, valued at $2,117,500- PAYSON Twenty carloads of cattle including approximately 700 head, were shipped from Goshen, November 5, over the D. & R- G. "W.. The herd of cattle was driven from Delta and was headed for Payson when decision was reached to ship it from Goshen. Because loading facilities were inadequate, inad-equate, Agent H. E. Jones, the help of a section crew, constructed an improvised im-provised loading platform. PANGUITCH State fish hatchery No. 8, located two miles west of Hatch is now feeding 250,000 rainbow trout. According to James Sargent, Jr., director di-rector of the hatchery, these baby trout will be kept at the hatchery until next spring, when they will average five to six inches in length, and theD will be placed in the various lakes and streams of this section. Mr. Sargent Sar-gent reports that the silver salmon placed in Navajo and Panguitch lakes last season are thriving; that fishing in this section generally has been the best in a number of years. VERNAL Federal meat inspectioi for Vernal was unanimously endorsed at a meeting of the Ashley Valley Sheepgrowers' association, called by President John Bennion, at which Dr. F. E. Murray and inspector W. T. Hoffman Hoff-man of Salt Lake City of the United States bureau of animal industry strongly recommended that every step be taken to secure this service. ROOSEVELT Notice of intention to pave an additional seventeen blocks of sidewalks in Roosevelt has been announced an-nounced by the city council. These Improvements will, for the most part, act as additional approaches to I churches and schools. In addition to the construction, notice is also posted of intention to improve and reconstruct recon-struct certain of the present sidewalks. The total cost is estimated at SS499.60. LOGAN Farmers of Cache county harvested approximately S5 per cent of the sugar beet crop and SO per cent of their potatoes during the mouth of October, according to a statement issued is-sued recently by the local farm bureau. Fxceptionally favorable weather prevailed pre-vailed throughout the entire month, permitting the harvesting of crops to advance at an unusually fast rate. SALT LAKE Fresh fruits and vegetables veg-etables unloaded at Salt Lake during October show a considerable increase over the amount unloaded during the same month last year, according to Edgar M. Ledyard, chairman of the agricultural committee. OGDEN Change in the course of the state highw ay and a "straightening out" of the Utah-Idaho Central railroad rail-road tracks at the Utah hot springs, nine miles north of Ogden, are being urged by Orman W. Ewing and his associates, as-sociates, who recently purchased the resort. The changes, acording to Mr. Ewing. are incident to the plan he has in mind of building a resort there. MOAB. Campaign to stamp out scabies among the sheep of this state i was carried on during September and October, it was reported to the state I board of agriculture by Thomas Red-' Red-' mond, chief state sheep inspector. During September about 70,000 sheep were inspected and found free from scabies, and 10.30G sheep-found free from scabies were dipped once for eradication of ticks. There were thirty-eight sheep found infected with scabie? that were dipped the third tuns. |