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Show ! News Notes j It'a a Privilege to Live in Utah TOOELE The 1927 crop of lambs docked in the thirteen western range states, which contain about 6S per cent of the total sheep in the United States, is about 8 per cent, or 1.304,-head, 1.304,-head, less than the crop of 1926, according ac-cording to the yearly lamb survey of the department of agriculture, issued Wednesday by George A. Scott, regional re-gional livestock statistician. This condition is unexpected, for there were about 700,000 more breeding ewes in this area January 1, this year, than a year previous. The lighter lamb crop traces to unfavorable conditions for range sheep during the fall, winter, and spring. ROOSEVELT Through the conjoint con-joint efforts of the forest service and Duchesne county, approximately 25,- 000. 000 feet of timber will be tapped by means of a thirteen-mile road, to be immediately constructed. Duchesne county will build a five-mile stretch from the mouth of Yellowstone river to the forest boundary, where the forest for-est service will pick up the work and carry it eight miles further, into the heart of the great Uintah range. The recent heavy cloudburst washed out bridges and grades in a number of places, but the county's portion of the road is expected to be ready this year. SALT LAKE Registration at the summer school of the University of Utah for the first term of 1927 instruction, instruc-tion, which ends on Friday, exceeded that of 1926 by thirty-five students, according ac-cording to information given out Wednesday Wed-nesday by E. J. Norton, recorder. The registration for the present term of school is S27, while in 1926 the total number of students was 792. LOGAN" Wheat shipments from the, pacific northwest will be exceedingly heavy this year, according to E. E. Calvin, vice president of the Union Pacific system in charge of operation, who declared crops never looked better bet-ter in that territory. Mr. Calvin visited visit-ed here Thursday en route from Los Angeles' to Omaha. He just recently completed an inspection trip through the northwest. He said Utah's agricultural agri-cultural outlook is excellent. MAXTI Decrease in the tax levy for the city of Manti this year, as compared with last, is shown in the levy submitted the state board of equalization and assessment Wednesday. Wednes-day. The levy is 11.8 mills for the current year, compared with 12 mills in 1926. Midway, Wasatch county, reports re-ports the same levy for this year as last, 11 mills. PROVO Water is needed on the ranges and farms, according to the weekly weather report while sugar beets and alfalfa are reported in good condition. The temperatures throughout through-out the state averaged well above 90. with St. George taking the prize with 107. Provo experienced the greatest -xtremes with 100 as a maximum and !6 as a minimum. PRICE Erection of two modern clay ennis courts, built to full Davis cup limensions, is being considered by city officials and others interested. Many -f those who are already members of the two private tennis clubs in Price ire eager to see the new courts built and are taking an active part in promoting pro-moting the idea. If the efforts of these citizens are successful the courts will be put up at once so that full advantage advan-tage may be taken of the remainder if the season. RICHFIED Plans have been laid and the initial steps taken toward the building of the new Stake tabernacle at Richfield. A committee has bee,n appointed to take care of the necessary neces-sary preliminary preparations such as 'he procuring of plans, obtaining estimates esti-mates and devising ways and means of raising the necessary funds. MYTOX Indians of the Uintah and annual sun dance, according to an-Ouray an-Ouray reservations are planning their nouncement from Whiterocks. OGDEX President James H. Define De-fine of the Ogden chamber of commerce com-merce reiterated the decision of the jhamber to seek an equal freight rate on grain through the Ogden gateway to San Francisco, as will obtain under the proposed reduction over the Wells-Gogerson Wells-Gogerson cut-off. This statement was given at a luncheon of shippers held n the chamber of commerce. LOGAX Farm families from every part of Utah continued to arrive throughout the entire day in Logan for the seventh annual Farmers' en campment. which opened on the cam pus of the Utah Agricultural college and will continue under the direction if the Utah Extension Service for four lays. OGDEX Announcement of rules for (he fourth annual Utah intermountain fug laying contest has been made by r.yrnn Adler. station poultryman at the Utah Agricultural college, and superintendent su-perintendent of the contest. The fourth annual contest opens Xovembei 1, 1!27, and close October 23, 192S. |