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Show News Notes 4 It's a Privilage to Live in ! Utah ! SALT LAKE Trust companies in Utah have gained approximately three and a half million dollars in resources during the past year, according to data compiled by the United States Mortgage and Trust company of New York. Resources' of trust companies in Utah total $90,312,750 now, as compared com-pared with JSGjT-lo.lll last year. PROVO Mild, cioud- w, ath r rre-vailed rre-vailed for the week ending November 23, excepting for the latter part when temperatures fell below freezing, according ac-cording to the weekly weather crop c.id range report from the offices ot J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the United States weather bureau in this city. MORGAN Letter giving forma notice to the Utah Construction company com-pany to proceed with the relocation and construction of the railroad tracks and highway around Echo reservoir was sent by E. 0. Larsen, engineer with the reclamation service, lately. Under the terms of the contract the company must begin work within thirty days of the date on which formal for-mal notices is received. KANAB Ranges of southern Utah are in excellent condition for the winter, win-ter, due to unusually heavy moisture during. the past week, says David A. Smith of the presiding bishopric of the L. D. S. church, who returned lately from the Kana'b sta1--" quarter y conference at Kanab. Thirteen inches in-ches of snow was. reported on the country side of Kanab. The church official also reports that roads to, Utah's southern scenic lands are still open. HEBER General conditions of the highways are reported good by the state road commission in the weekly report on the roads in the state. There are a few exceptions, the road between Heber and Duchesne being barely passable. The road over Soldier Sol-dier Summit is partly covered with ice and snow, and chains should be used. MYTON Several farmers who reside re-side on the Lake Fork road out of Myton, under the supervision of F. W. J. Myers, during the past week have been grading the road and putting put-ting it in excellent shape. KAYSVILLE Gr.d togs of the Davis high school are tucked away for another .year, and beginning this week, Coach Jack Croft sent his basketball prospects together in the first games of a round robin class series that will weed out the squad and give him a working nucleus to put into the Ogden district race this winter. FARMIXGTOX School census records rec-ords for this year show a slight increase in-crease in enrollment over last year. There are 3756 students enrolled in the Davis county schools, an increase of 61. The number of children of school age not enroled in school is less than last year. This year there are 198 not legally excused and last year there were 218. VERNAL C. N. 'Woods and Dana Parkinson, assistant district foresters from the district forester's office in Ogden, Og-den, have returned to headquarters fallowing fal-lowing a conference in Vernal with A. G. Nord, supervisor and Glen A. Lambert, ranger, of the Ashley national na-tional forest, on the amount of funds required to maintain forty-five miles of telephone lines, 174 miles of trails, twenty-five miles of roads, nine miles of boundary and seven miles of fence3 on the Vernal district of the Ashley national forest in 1928. PRICE Price was the shipping point for two carloads of honey from the warehouses of the Mountain States Honey Producers' association, A. M. Anderson, secretary of the association, reported at a meeting of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce Directors of the Eastern Utah Creditors' Credi-tors' assciation also attended. REDMOND Grading and graveling of the county road from the north city limits to the Sanpete county line began be-gan Monday and the work will be rushed to completion before bad weather sets in. The stretch of highway high-way is about three miles in length. OGDEN Within a few days construction con-struction work on a mile of train sheds will be under way at the Union station, says Secretary Jesse S. Richards of the Ogden chamber of commerce. This is part of the program of improvements at the terminal, suggested by the chamber of commerce and given approval ap-proval by President William Sproale of the Southern Pacific and President Carl R. Gray of the Union Pacific system. sys-tem. MYTOX C. T. Beggs, IocaI honey buyer, recently purchased 839 cans i consisting of sixty pounds each from honey producers in the Uintah basin. This amount, on the basis of 500 cans to the car, represented over one and one-half cars of honey. Mr. Eeggs shipped this amount from Price to a Los Angeles brokerage firm, the same to be exported to Germany to supply market demands in that country. PAXQUITCH The latest project ol the local Rod and Gun club to imp-rove hunting of this section was ths placing of a shipment of twenty-five Chinese pheasants in f.c-lds along the Powar House creek. They will be protected from severe weather and the club has arranged with Ray R .bvrts of the Tel-luride Tel-luride Power company to see that the. birds have sufficient food throughout the winter. President W. Earl Marshall Mar-shall estimates that this fhi'.iingnt brings the total pheasants of the section sec-tion to approximately 500 birds. |