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Show I News Motes i It's a Privilege to Live in Utah I - A " Logan Certificates of honor Issued by tho American Dairy science association asso-ciation will be awarded to ninety-eight dajry farmers of Cache county at a meeting to be held February 17. The awards are given to dairymen having five or more cowa which have records of 300 or more pounds of butterfat for one year. Cedar City Aa a result of tho dairy short course given under the direction of the agricultural college dairy department, de-partment, a cow testing circle has been organized by the farmers of Cedar valley. Thirteen dairymen have joined the circle for a year with a total of more than 100 cows. The following fol-lowing men comprise the circle: Oliver Jensen, Alvin Ipson, N. C. Ford, L. Margrave, Marvin Qones, J. S. Thompson, Thomp-son, Alfred Stuck!, J. M. Brown, Thomas Blair, R. S. Hawkins, S. F. Leigh, Jos. Foster and Charles N, Corry. Duchesne A completed road through the Uintah basin, a link of the Victory highway between Salt Lake and Vernal, within two years, is the hope now held by the Duchesne county people, following the signing of a contract con-tract between the county commissioners commission-ers and the state road department. Tho rood is to be constructed with federal fed-eral aid, tho recent contract between Fruitlaud and Duchesne, a stretch of twenty-five miles. Ephraim Wrater measurements taken show that at the Great Basin experiment ex-periment station there are 41 inches of snow, with a water content of 9.5 inches, as compared with 34 inches of snow, with a water content of G.05 inches a year ago. The present water content is 17 per cent above the average av-erage at this time of yc.ar. There were 50 inches of snow at the meadows, hut accurate measurements at the Alpine station were impossible, owing to the extreme drifted condition. Vernal Utah heaviest bodies of timber tim-ber are in the Uintah range, where there is estimated to be three billion board feet of mature timber; on the Aquaris plateau of the Powell forest, southern Utah, is a stand o! a billion and a quarter feet; and on the watershed water-shed of the Sevier river a quarter of a billion feet. Myton It is estimated that 50,000 head of sheep are grazing on the range south of Myton, between Antelope and Green River. Smith Brothers, Sole-man Sole-man Brothers, Murdoch Brothers, William Wil-liam Lewis and others have bands of sheep in that locality. The feed is getting short and all of the owners are feeding corn. This year, according accord-ing to reports, the range is overcrowded over-crowded and because of that fact extra feeding is a necessity. Salt Lake State Auditor John E. Holdeu has been advised by the state board of examiners that the apportionment apportion-ment of the S3S.367.53 from the United States government, rtpresenting the state's share of the receipts from national na-tional forest resources during the fiscal fis-cal year 192G, has been made. The total to-tal amount is $38,367.53. The largest apportionment is from the Uintah forest, for-est, amounting to 110,140.08. Logan A reading of the stakes placed at various levels In Spring hollow hol-low from the purpose of measure in depth of the snow showed a much greater, depth and higher water content con-tent than were recorded on February 1 last year. Last year ou February 1 the depth readings at three levels were, in inches, 28, 40 and 42. At these same levels the depths recorded were 45, 64 and 72.4 niches, or nearly double those of 1926. Dalton The Utah state road commission com-mission Wednesday approved the contracts for the construction of the Coal Pit and Huber Wash bridges and the Dalton wash box culvert, on the Dalton to Rockville road in Washington Washing-ton county. The commission also agreed upon a modification of the road from Bridal veil falls to the Wasatch county line. Salt Lake The Intermountain Dairy Supply company, which is an amalgamation of the H. A. Shellen berger Dairy Supply company and the Idaho Dairy Supply company, has been established, with Salt Lake us headquarters. The company, which is incorporated at $75,000, contemplates in the near future erecting a $15,000 building on Main street, between Eighth and Ninth South streets. Logan The annual exhibition of the Cache County Poultry association opened Tuesday morning, in the Sidney Sid-ney Stevens building on West Cente .-.treet, and will continue for three days. Seven silver cups are anion;.' t'uo awards, and there- are many cash and poultry feed prizes to be awarded, i The display includes practically all ol j ilia b;st laying breeds nnd exhibits coming from ail parts of the ciuistj ar o unusually good- |