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Show : News Notes t It's a Privilege to Live tn Utah Safe and Sound Stop and let the train go by, It hardly take a minute: Your car starts off again intact, And better still you're in it. Boston Transcript. Salt Lake Purchase of 50,000 tVayno county wool fleeces, comprising compris-ing the Rabbit valley clip, by Dewey Gould & Co. of Boston, was announced The deal is the first Utah wool eon-tract eon-tract to have been executed this yaar and was handled by Howard Cand-lanrt, Cand-lanrt, local agent for the Boston company. com-pany. The price was 26 cents a pound. Monticello The closely contested iituijii ujive same to n cjud rMiiKa-day rMiiKa-day night after all the ammunition in Grand and San Juan counties had been used up. Rabbits were plentiful, the weather was ideal for the hunting and only the ammunition was short, so supplies were requisitioned from Grand Junction, Dove Creek, Bland-ing Bland-ing and Moab. The rabbit ears were counted at Young theatre Wednesday evening and the White, under J. W. Hansen, were declared the winners by the small margin of fifty-one rabbits. Tiie final count was: Whites, J. W. Hansen, 14C6; Reds, J. E. Weston, captain, cap-tain, 1-115, making a total will of 2S51 of the pests. Salt Lake From 1918 to 192-1, the proportion of enrollment in average daily attendance in Utah schools increased in-creased from 77.7 per cenut to D1.5 per cent. Price One hundred new steel lockers lock-ers are being purchased for the Carbon Car-bon county high school and. will be installed immediately upon their arrival. ar-rival. The cost is approximately ?000. Unusually large increases in attendance attend-ance at the school have made the locker lock-er shortage quite a problem. As many as three students have been using the same locker. Salt Lake Statistics compiled by the bureau of reclamation, department of the interior, show that last year sugar beets were grown on 62,407 acres on eleven federal irrigation projects, proj-ects, producing 614, 3S6 tons valued at 54,916,233, or $74 per acre. Salt Lake The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad purchased, in 1926, 100 per cent more of its supplies sup-plies in Utah than during the previous year, according to W. B. Hall of Denver, Den-ver, chief purchasing agent of the road. Mr. Hall attended the annual conference of the road's storekeepers held in Salt Lake, Wednesday evening eve-ning for Denver. Price With the recommendation already al-ready made for a new $115,000 federal building in Price out of a lumpsum appropriation ap-propriation of $200,000,000. whic.i congress con-gress is expected to make this session, the problem now. arises of obtaining a suitable building site at a cost of which will not cripple the erection of an adequate structure with the fund to be made available. Vernal After two weeks of milder weather, during which the mercury of the official weather station's thermometer thermom-eter remained above zero, a change v;t in on the night of January 21, the mercury again dropping to 10 degrees below zero. Only one light precipitation precipita-tion of snow has occurred, the fall being be-ing less than half an inch, (Paring the past ten days. The ground throughout through-out Ashley valley is still covered with snow from the -storm of two weeks ago. Delta The coldest weaiber experienced exper-ienced in Delta for several years prevailed pre-vailed here during the past few days, according to the government bureau at Deseret, which registered 15 degrees below zero Saturday morning, 17 e. low Sunday morning and 11 below Tuesday morning. Monticello San Juan county is rejoicing re-joicing over the heavy snowfall which began Friday afternoon and continued for twenty-four hours. At Monticello a foot of snow of high moisture content con-tent fell. This is the heaviest snow fall experienced this season and farmers farm-ers are jubilant because they are promised prom-ised an abundance of irrigation water Bountiful With fif:y f.et of their H-ork completed, contractors engaged in driving a water tunnel on the.cicy farm are how progressing at the rate of six feet a day through a hard clav formation, it is learned by Ernest Mad-sen, Mad-sen, mayor of Bountiful. The work has been going ahead rapidly. It is expected ex-pected that another luO feet of tunnel will open a water-bearing sand Bountiful Fire protection measures on Bountiful's newly acquired watershed water-shed will be taken by the city, according accord-ing to an announcement made by Er-nest Er-nest Jiadsen. mayor. Since an a-t of 1 congress, passed last week, enabled the city of Bountiful to acquire 610 acres of land at the head of Holbrook canyon, the city now has 1200 acre3 of mountain land, which Insures watershed water-shed protection. I |
