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Show I News Notes j I It's a Privilege to Ltv in i j Utah I LOGAN' Oregon fir trees, which sere ordered by the merchants' committee com-mittee of the Logan chamber of commerce, com-merce, arrived here. The trees, which re to be used for Christmas street (ecorallons and are of uniform size, will be placed In the flag receptacles long Main street. These, together with colored festoons, which will be itrung above them, are expected to make the business section of town very attractive and also stimulate early Christmas shopping . OGDEN Members of the county commission discussed with Kenneth C. Wright, district state road engineer, the hard-surfaced highway program of the county for 192S. For this purpose $70,000 has been set aside In the budget. bud-get. Mr. Wright said that the state road commission would be willing to pave the two-mile stretch from the terminus ter-minus of the present hard-surfaced highway in Ogden calley to Huntsville. PANGUITCH Fifty thousand dollars dol-lars Is the estimated value of the certified cer-tified seed potato crop of Piute and Garfield counties, according to Morgan McKay, county agent for the section. Although many will be kept for seed, approximately sixty carloads, valued at $30,000, will be sold from the section sec-tion before spring. JUNCTION Land totaling approximately approxi-mately 120 acres at Koosharem in Sevier Sev-ier county near the Piute county line was set aside for homestead filing by the government for use of thirty-four Indians who have been living on the property for several years, according to Eli F. Taylor, register of the United States land office in Salt Lake for the district of Utah. OGDEN' Actual construction on the hanger9 at Holther field, Ogden's aviation avia-tion depot, was begun under the direction di-rection of Ora Bundy, contractor. With the prospect of good weather, rapid progress on this work Is expected, and within a few days most of the work will have been completed. DUCHESNE Several bridges were washed out, headgates and irrigation ditches damaged and a number of ranches inundated when the new embankment em-bankment of the Farnsworth Canal & Reservoir company's reservoir, seven miles below Moon lake, gave way sending a ten-foot wall of water down Lake Fork river. LOGAN At the commencement of the winter quarter a new four-year course in forestry will be introduced at the Utah Agricultural college. Through cooperation of the United States forestry office at Ogden the course was made possible. OGDEN Ogden will hold a big celebration cel-ebration on December 17 in observance observ-ance of the opening of its new white way. The celebration is being sponsored spon-sored by the chamber of commerce. The new triple lighting system extending ex-tending from Twenty-second street to Twenty-sixth street on Washington avenue will be turned on with appropriate appro-priate ceremony at that time. SALT LAKE Wednesday morning's fall of snow in Salt Lake and vicinity brought the total depth for the two days of storm condition to 8.2 inches. The storm, which broke in the early morning hours, was strictly local in character, according tn the United States weather bureau in Salt Lake, with only a trace of snow reported south of Salt Lake and on' Provo bench, and one-half inch at Pocatello. DUCHESNE Federal aid in tha construction of highways in the state, amounting to $27,797.49, was received by the state treasurer Tuesday from the bureau of public roads. Of this amount $17,053.41 is to be applied on the highway from Fruitland to Duchesne Du-chesne and the remainder for bridges in Grand County. John Walker also received from Iron county the sum of $50,000 taxes for the current year, and also $11,532.32 from the county of Millard Mil-lard for taxes for this year. SALT LAKE Plans for the thirty-ninth thirty-ninth annual Utah poultry show of Utah State Poultry association, to be held In Salt Lake from January 16 to 21, were formulated at the monthly meeting of the association, held In the city and county building. II was decided that during the last two days of the show an auction will be held similar to those which conclude the various stock show-s. OGDEN' With the issuance of the most complete premium list in the history his-tory of the association, the Weber Poultry association announced complete com-plete plans for the seventeenth annual exhibit to be held January 7 to 12, inclusive, in-clusive, in the huge coliseum in connection con-nection with the ninth annual Ogden livestock show. LOGAN' Approximately 19. $04 acres of winter wheat were harvested in Cache county in 1927, according to the report of the bureau of agricultural economics of the V. S. department of agriculture. Of that acreage IS. 193 acres were not irrigated and 1611 were Irrigated. - The county also had S474 acres of spring wheat. UTAH Construction will start within the next month on a $30,000 plant for the Pacific Coast Products company in which will be manufac tured a medicinal oil, developed by J. B. Jenson. mining engineer of Sail Lake, during his research and experimental exper-imental work in the production of smokless fuel. Mr. Jenson has sold his intents to the product to the Pacific Coast Products company, which is financed fi-nanced by Los Angles capital, but will supervise both the construction of tha building and, the operation of th plant. |