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Show News Notes f It's a Privilege to Live in J Utah '' Ogden. The eighth annual Utah Department De-partment convention of the American Legion will be held August 23, 24, and 25, it was announced Monday by Department De-partment Commander Arthur Woolley. The convention will be held in Cedar City. Heber City. Twenty-five hundred head of dairy cattle have been tested for tuberculosis in Wasatch county during the past two weeks. Of this number fifty-three head were found to be afflicted with the disease. Salt Lake City. An article detailing the Victory highway motor caravan, which will travel from San Francisco to Salt Lake June 9 to June 12, a feature fea-ture of the May 12 issue of San Francisco Fran-cisco Business, house organ of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. Myton. According to reports given out in Myton, the rights of way for the Myton-Roosevelt unit of the federal fed-eral aid road have been obtained. It is expected that those who have the matter in charge will advertise for bids within two weeks. It is reported that construction work will begin by July 1. Salt Lake City. Roads through Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Duchesne Du-chesne and Uintah counties are in good condition generally, according to Ira R. Browning, chief engineer of the state road commission, who, with E. o. nuuwiiuu, itssisLani cuiei engineer in charge of maintenance, returned recently from a road inspection tour of close to 1300 miles through the counties named. They were accompanied accom-panied by Reuben Simpson of Price, engineer of road district No. 4, in which the counties visited lie. Myton. S. T. Taylor of Salt Lake City, manager of the Taylor ditch, which supplies water for the south Myton bench, expects to have water on the bench by the first of next week. Myton. According to reports given in by those who are in a position to know, the season this year is at least two weeks ahead of former years. Some of the ranchers are beginning to irrigate. So far the outlook is most promising in this part of the Uintah basin. The orchards came through the winter in good condition, and the prospects pros-pects are splendid for a good crop. Salt Lake City. Requests that the matter of developing the Navajo lake as a reservoir for irrigation purposes be taken up with the Utah Water Storage Stor-age commission was made of George M. Bacon, state engineer, by a delegation delega-tion of Cedar City argicultural interests, inter-ests, while he was in the southern part of the state early this week. Mr. Bacon announced upon his return. Brigham City. Prospects for n heavy crop off ruit in Brigham City this year are very favorable. There will be a full crop of Windsor cherries, cher-ries, according to leading fruit growers, grow-ers, but the early varieties, such as the Lambert, Orb, Napoleon and Bing will be lighter, the buds having been slightly nipped by the frosts. Salt Lake City. The acreage of commercial onions in Utah for 1926 is estimated at 750 acres in 4he spring onion forcast given out Friday by Frank Andrews, state agricultural statistician. This is 250 acres in excess ex-cess of the revised total of 500 acres for the crop harvested last fall and approximately 250 acres less than the forecasts of Salt Lake seed dealers -who were basing their estimates on the volume of onion seed taken by Davis county farmers, the leading onion on-ion producers of the state. Salt Lake City. Utah woolgrowers are now shipping their wool east through the recently .organized Utah Wool Marketing association, it is announced an-nounced by J. A. Hooper, secretary. A number of growers who have not been disposed to accept the price offered of-fered in Utah have shipped their wool through the association which has also financed the enterprise. Washington.-While the school land bIl is held up pending negotiations between congress and the interior department, de-partment, a flood of protests against Passage of the Sinnott or the Jones bill is coming into the department principally from oil permittees and operators, and prospectors and miners Particularly those operating in Utah and Nevada. Eureka-Mlnes of the Tintic dis-trict dis-trict shipped 167 carloads of ore during dur-ing the week that just, ended. Follow-"is Follow-"is are tho mine, and their sh;..,entr( m carloaa lots): T.n.io Standard. 6 Chief Consolidate. 32; America melting and Refining (dump ore) ;,. Bingham Mines, 19; Mammolh ' IP PHitus, 10; Iron King, 8; Colorado, i-Yankee. i-Yankee. 1. 1 |