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Show ! News Motes : It's a Privilege to Liva in PROVO Contract for the paving of l.i miles of country highway between Provo and Pleasant" Grove via Lake-view, Lake-view, was awarded to the Wasatch Grading company of Provo, according to A. O. Smoot, chairman of the board of county commissioners. The contract con-tract was let on a figure of J33.709.SO. The only other bidder in the field was the Christensen & Gardner company or. Salt Lake City, who figured the job at S3G.5S5.50. SALT LAKE Sales of state lands remaining in force at the close of 1926 in eluded some 3,243,537 acres, the sale prices of which aggregated some $7,923, S66.. . BRIGHAM CITY Most Important of the road Improvements to be made in the northern part of the state this year will be the oiling of the state highway from Mantua, In eastern Box-elder Box-elder county, through Sardine canyon to the paved highway In Wellsvill, according ac-cording to K. C. Wright, district engineer en-gineer for' the state road commission. PRICE With damage to growing crops between Price and Castle Gate estimated at thousands of dollars; bridges washed away; traffic on highways high-ways and railroads . tied up; Castle Gate's and Price's water supplies cut off and five homes demolished at Castle Cas-tle Gate; Helper's streets and basements base-ments -flooded .the menace caused by the rainstorm which started Monday is still growing. MT PLEASANT R. Kishl, T. Shim-oyama Shim-oyama and Y". SaneyoshI, representatives representa-tives of the- Japanese government, and K. Katsuyama of Nosawa & Co., of New York City, have been in Mt. " Pleasant during the past week looking over the leading Rambouillet flocks and purchasing sheep for the Japanese Japan-ese govenment. OGDEN William Parry, formerly general foreman of the" Union Pacific shops ' at ' North- Platte, Neb., will be general foreman of the new roundhouse round-house at -Ogdem He will he under J. Gogarty, division master mechanic at Green River, Wyo. One hundred and forty 'machinists," helpers and other employees will begin work at the new .shops July 1.- At 12:01 o'clock Friday morning the Southern Pacific shops will cease doing the Union Pacific re-"pair re-"pair work. : PRICE! A half inch- of rain fell in Price : -Monday - jn . the. heaviest rainstorm rain-storm to hit this section, of the state this year. The downpour came inter-"mittently inter-"mittently throughout the day, the last deluge falling early in the evening. "" OGBEN Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific railroad, accompani-,edby accompani-,edby Vice Presidents E. E. Calvin and S. W Robinson, inspected the new roundhouse here Tuesday. It will be open July 1. They will leave for Salt Lake Tuesday night, and will later visit the southern .part of the state. ROOSEVELT Recent heavy rains have been a great value to fields, gardens gar-dens and ranges In the Uintah basin. The protracted dry weather, extending over a period ' of more than two months, was endangering vegetation on public domain and private lands on which irrigation water cannot be readily read-ily placed.. :: SALT LAKE Salt Lakers experienced experi-enced .their, first real summer Thursday. Thurs-day. The mercury in the thermometer in the weather bureau's office on top of the Boston building soared to 97 degrees,' establishing the record high temperature for the year. A hot, humid hu-mid wind sweeping in from the desert des-ert added to the general discomfort, and, acording to J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist meteor-ologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau, made it seem much warmer than it really was. OGfiEN Announcement from Washington that bids on the Echo dEm will be opened August 9 was tlie most pleasant news of the year to A..P, Bigelow, president of the Weber ( River Water Users' association, who returned from a fishing trip with Governor Gov-ernor II. Dern's party. President Bige-low-was immensely pleased over the news of -the -final action to assuro completion com-pletion of the dam. LAYTON Movement - of seventy-five seventy-five carloads of cherries from Davis county- was under way Thursday, it was .announced by R. B. Needham, traffic manager of the Bamberger Elec-:tric Elec-:tric company. The cherries are being be-ing shipped to New Y'ork. Owing to the fhortage of the cherry crop In the northwest territory, there is a heavy demand for .the Utah product, Need-ham Need-ham announced. MURRAY' Paving of State street from curb to curb through Murray installation in-stallation of a white way street light-ins light-ins ' system and the opening up of Main street, from Thirty-e-igtth South street, were the principal topics discussed dis-cussed Tuesday at a meeting of tho Murray Lions club. Paving of State street before f.ill is practically assured, assur-ed, Mayor I. Lester of Murray, who n-as present, told the club members. |