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Show I News Notes J It's a Privilege to Liw in I Utah I Salt Lake In order to arouse interest in-terest among Utah apple growers in exporting their product to foreign markets, mar-kets, a meeting of Individual growers i and representatives of various state associations and chambers of commerce com-merce will be held Saturday at the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. The meeting has been called by H. A. La Fount, chairman of the chamber's ag :icultural committee, and will be ad dressed by George II. Corse, Jr., ot San Francisco, one of the biggest exporters ex-porters of apples on the Pacific cost. Price Members of the Carbon county board of education will visit the schools of Consumers. Standard-vllle Standard-vllle and Spring Glen on Wednesday, April 20, and look over the situation at each of the three communities with regard re-gard to the erection of new school buildings or the remodeling of the present structures. Residents of Consumers Con-sumers have asked for a new buildins, is the quarters now occupied belong to the coal company and are inadequate. inade-quate. An addition is needed to the school at Standardville and a new building will be required at Spring Glen, it is said. Provo Production of cherries in Utah has been increasing steadily the last ten years. In 1924 production was 3S00 tons, with a farm value ot $380,-000. $380,-000. Last year production was 5300 tons, with a farm value of $636,000. In 1925, an exceptionally favorable year, the state produced 5500 tons with a value of $770,000. Ogden Anticipating the heaviest shipment ever seen in California spring lambs, the first of which has already begun, improvements which will cost more than $10,000 are now being be-ing made at the Ogden Union stockyards. stock-yards. The sheep division is being enlarged en-larged and improved to take care ot expected increase in this department, L. F. Whitlock, general manager of the yards, said. Cedar City Randall L. Jones, special representative of the Utah parks' service for the Union Pacific arrived from his eastern tour Sunday and Monday in looking over the highway high-way conditions, driving to Zion national na-tional park and on the Grand Canyon road as far as the Arizona border. Logan Preparations for Cache county's coun-ty's two big annual dairy days, the Black and WTiite day at Richmond and the South Cache Dairy day at Hy-rum, Hy-rum, are under way. Dairymen in Hy-rum Hy-rum decided to hold the second annual South Cache Dairy day on April 23. This celebration will come just one week prior to the twelfth annual Black and White day at Richmond. Salt Lake The Salt Lake water prospects for 1927 are better than at any other time in the city's history, with the possible exception of 1923, was stated by Superintendent H. K. Burton at a meeting of the water storage stor-age committee of the chamber of commerce, com-merce, when Dr. T. B. Beatty of the state health department, Superintendent Superintend-ent Burton of the city water depart ment and H. C. Jesses, city enginee-, met with the committee. Provo The new city and county building at Provo is one of the few edifices ed-ifices of its kind recognizing artists by allotlng a permanent place for an art gallery. Gunnison Gunnison valley potato growers have received the first of a two-car order of Idaho Rurals, the purchase pur-chase of which is financed by the' Gunnison Gun-nison Valley bank. The Bhipment came from Idaho Falls, Idaho. The seed is of the very highest quality and arrived in splendid condition. One hundred acres will be planted this season and the framers are optimistic, as arrangements arrange-ments have been completed with one of Salt Lake's large wholesale commission com-mission houses for the handling of the crop. Ogden Several loads of steers, comprising com-prising a community shipment from southern Utah, topped the Bteer market mar-ket at the Ogden Union stockyards, bringing $9 a hundredweight, the highest high-est price paid for steers upon the Ogden Og-den market in a number of years. The consignment which brought the record price included four loads of 900-pound steers. Salt Lake Material increase in the cherry crop of Utah within the next few years was predicted in the March forecast of the 1927 crop issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician statis-tician for Utah. Information from eighty orchards in the state shows that there are 10,364 cherry trees, of which 6195 are of bearing age and 41C9 not yet of bearing age, according to the report. Salt Lake National forests in Utah arp traversed by S91 miles .of roads and 240S miles of trails. Theso f-.re valuable to stockmen and other users ! of the forest and in many cases are j generally used by the public. |