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Show I News Notes j t It's a Privilege to Live in J ! Utah ! Salt Lake There are now more students stu-dents registered at the University of Utah than at any fall quarter in its history. A total of 2652 students, coming from the majority of the states of the union and from eleven foreign countries are now attending classes at the state institution. In numbers, Idaho leads the list of states having students on the Utah campus. California, Cali-fornia, Wyoming, Colrado, Arizona and Montana follow in close succession. Heber City In bringing a shipment of 100 head of Ronmelette sheep from Canada, H. W. Harvey of Heber City, president of the Utah State Woolgrow-ers, Woolgrow-ers, is helping to introduce a comparatively compara-tively new breed into the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain region. The Ronmelette, while a crossbred type, is developing into a distinct breed. It is a cross between the Rambouillet, which is the favorite favor-ite breed with Utah woolgrowers, and the Romney type. Myon D. W. Shaw, superintendent "or the Lyon Construction company of Ogden, recently awarded the contract for the building of the Myton-Roose-velt unit of the federal aid road, has opened an office in Roosevelt. The subcontractors are at work and three camps have been established, one at the Duchesne George property near the Myton bridge, one at the Harris farm on the Chehan ditch and a third at the Balfour farm. Lehi Factories the Utah-Idaho Sugar Su-gar company will operate this year are all running at top speed, it was announced an-nounced Monday at the offices. Just eight plants will grind the beets this season. They are located in Utah, Idaho, Ida-ho, Montana, Washington and Alberta, Canada. Salt Lake Utah produced $564,000 bushels of apples, 2,6S5,000 bushels of potatoes and 336,000 bushels of onions on-ions this year, according to the estimate esti-mate of the United States department of agriculture and the report made to Walter T. Kingsbury, inspector in charge of the federal market service at the state capitol. Both apples and potatoes po-tatoes show a slight decrease from 1925 reports and onions a slight increase. in-crease. Park City Utah has more coal than the Ruhr basin of Germany. One-fifth of the state is underlaid by coal, and the coal resources in Utah are estimated esti-mated at abouut 196,458,000,000 tons. Provo Utah agricultural crops for 1926 are valued at $35,000,000, which is $2,250,000 above the average of the four-year period from 1921- to 1924, Frank Andrews,, federal agricultural statistician anounced in his valuation report. Ogden The livestock receipts at the Ogden union stockyards amounted to nearly 7000 head Monday. This included in-cluded 30S8 head of cattle, 2G59 head of sheep, and 1184 head of hogs. The cattle market was topped by H. B. Jones of Fairfield; Idaho, who sold two loads of 1005-pounds steers for $7.50 a hundred. Ogden Plans for the eighth annual Ogden Livestock show, which opens January 4, are to take definite form now that the ram sale, which occupied the attention of the stock show officials, offi-cials, has passed, it was stated by Charles H. Barton, president of the Ogden Livestock Show, Inc. The first preparation' for the annual livestock show is that made by feeders of carload car-load lots, L. F. Whitlock, general manager man-ager of the show, said, "These lots of cattle are being fed and fattened now in order to be in trim for the show." Provo Potato harvest in the county is just getting under way. Digging of Ihe small sugar beet crop also is commencing. com-mencing. The potato production ia expected to be large. Some yields already al-ready show that where good seed was used good yields were obtained. One grower sacked aprpoximaLely 1000 bushels bu-shels from a little more than two acres. Monticcllo The largest catile deal of the year was closed last week at. Monticello when George V. Dalton of Verdure sold out his entire herd erf while-face cattle to Roy Hist of Oincy Springs. Colo. There were 700 head of cows anil calves in the deal. Mr. Dal-ton Dal-ton will deliver the cattle at Thompsons, Thomp-sons, where they will be taken by train to Colorado ranges. Salt Lake Utah celery is becoming more and more important as a crop for shipment to outside points. Its finality connot he excelled; it is crisp, has a firm, white texture and a delicious de-licious flavor which has created a very large demand. Monticello A larse crew of men from IJlanding has been sent to repair re-pair the road on White Mesa hill on Ihe road from Bluff to Blanding. lienor Frosr., st:ite road agent, said that the recent min had done considerable damage dam-age to t1!'? Ti?ft of the rod. |