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Show I News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in ! Utah 1 Brigham City. W. W. Knudson of this city, who recently was appointed district agricultural inspector for Boxelder county by the state agricultural agricul-tural commission and county commissioners, commis-sioners, assumed his office. Mr. Knudson Knud-son succeeds Carl Isaacson of this city who served for fifteen years as county inspector. Cedar City. Wool contractors usually usu-ally invade this section of the state at this season of the year, but this year they are missing and woolmen are wondering what is the matter. The wool crop so far this year appears to be ahead of that of last year, being much cleaner and with longer fiber. Salt Lake City. The city's proposal as outlined by Commissioner Finch, provides for an expenditure of $2500 and a reimbursement rental of $50 a month over a period of five years. The Chamber of Commerce has agreed to accept the first year's obligation, with the remainder to he paid by the Western Air Express. Myton. The regular meeting of the Duchesne county farm bureau was held Saturday afternoon at the I. O. O. F. hall in Myton and representatives representa-tives from all over the county attended. attend-ed. Fred Wahlquist, president, presided. pre-sided. The main question up for discussion dis-cussion was the advisability of perfecting per-fecting a seed growers' association. Salt Lake City. Temporary closing of several state highways is being considered con-sidered by the state road commission to prevent severe injury by the passing pass-ing of heavy vehicles over the highways, high-ways, softened by melting snows. The Parley's canyon road was closed Sunday Sun-day to give state laborers and the special squad of convicts an opportunity opportun-ity to remove the snow and repair the highway. Price. At a meeting of more than thirty members of the Price and Helper Help-er chambers of commerce, Ira R. Browning, new state road engineer, pledged his support to the road interests inter-ests of Carbon county and eastern Utah. Mr. Browning said he could make no definite statement as to what is to be accomplished this year as he had been in office only eight days when he left Salt Lake. Prove R. E. Hoover, state mental hospital enginer, was instructed to report re-port on the plans for the new heating plant and to advertise for two types of boilers, at a meeting of the board of insanity recently. Myton W. W. Clyde of the firm of Sumsion & Clyde, contractors of Springville, who have the contract for the Myton-Antelope unit of the federal aid road, arrived in Myton Wednesday and is getting ready to resume re-sume active operations immediately. Ogden. Weber county farmers, who last week joined with Salt Lake county coun-ty farmer to grow celery for export purposes, have pledged themselves to grow thirty acres of celery this year. Only twenty-acres was requested by the chambers of commerce of Salt Lake and Ogden at their meeting here recently. Manti. C. O. Scott, agricultural agent for Sanpete county, has collated the results of the annual reorganization reorganiza-tion of a number of farm bureau locals lo-cals in this county. The programs and project leaders are also given. Salt Lake City. Monday, March 22, is the last date entries will he received re-ceived for the ninth annual intermoun-tain intermoun-tain livestock show, it is announced by J. H. Manderfield, manager of the show. To date, however, the number of entries for the show is considerably consider-ably in excess of the number at the same time last year. This increased interest applies in every department Mr. Manderfield explains. Huntington. The Utah crop report for 1925 shows an increase in crops of Emery couniy varying up to S3 per cent, practically all crops for last year showing a gain in yield of nearly that amount. The one exception was peaches, a decrease being shown in this respect, the same situation existing exist-ing throughout the state, many of the trees haveing been winer-killed. Vernal. Uintah county can expect a normal situation in regard to water unless some unusual climatic condition condi-tion should arise, according to Supervisor Super-visor A. G. Nord of the Ashley national nation-al forest service at Vernal. Ogden. Construction of the Twenty-fourth street viaduct extension will be under the point supervision of the city and county, it was determined at a meeting of the city and county commissioners com-missioners iu the office of Mayor George E. Browning. Granting of the request of the local authorities to do this has been given by the state road commission. |