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Show l News Notes It's a Pr toil eg a to Live in I Utah ! Myton Many sheepmen are bringing bring-ing in their flocks from the mountains and reserves and are putting them on range south of Myton. The following j owners run their sheep on the range in that locality; Smith Brothers, Coleman Cole-man Brothers, Crystal Brothers, Roy Dillman and Paul Hanson. The scarcity scar-city of feed and water in the highei district caused the sheepmen to make the change. The sheep are in fine condition. Salt Lake Sheep raising in the Uintah Uin-tah basin is expanding rapidly. Turkeys Tur-keys are fitting in well with the agricultural agri-cultural scheme in that territory. Alfalfa Al-falfa seed and honey long have been dependable producers of checks each fall. Soon the basin may be able to finance the building of its own railroad, rail-road, providing these commodities return re-turn as basin folk hope they will. Ogden The Twenty-fourth street viaduct vi-aduct extension will be ready for use this week although all of the structure will not have been completed, it is stated by Ora Bundy, contractor. Completion of the extension adds 1300 .feet to the viaduct, which bridges a large system of railroad tracks between be-tween Wall avenue and the West Ogden Og-den hill, the extension has been completed com-pleted at a cost of $225,000, of which Weber county and Ogden city shared approximately $140,000. Ogden Eighteen head of outstanding outstand-ing Holstein cattle are coming to Utah from the national sale held .this week at AVatertown and Waukesha, Wis., according to a telegram received by C. S. Potter, prominent dairyman, from Gilbert Thatcher, who made the purchases pur-chases at the sale. Price The last load of sugar beets from the fields around Wellington has been shipped to the factories of the Holly Sugar company of Colorado. A report of the payment to be made on the beets in addition to the guaranteed guaran-teed price, and also an analysis of the ' sugar content will be available after the beets are received at the factory. The crop in Carbon county is way below be-low normal this year. Salt Lake There have been more than 81,000 head of livestock slaughtered slaugh-tered by the meat packing plants of Salt Lake during the first eight months of 1928, J. H. Manderfield. general manager of the Salt Lake Union stockyards, stock-yards, announces. These figures include in-clude 25,289 head of cattle, 24.332 head of hogs and 31,945 head of sheep and lambs. Kaysville Several Davis towns have received their quota of war materials from the office of the state adjutant. In Kaysville and Layton a quantity of German rifles, helmets, machine guns, bayonets, shells of various caliber and other war trophies have been displayed display-ed in windows of local business establishments estab-lishments for several days. Myton Passengers coming into the basin Monday on the stage by way of Provo canyon and Strawberry valley reported a heavy snowfall in both places. Provo The Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe foundry at Ironton, throe and one-half one-half miles south of Provo, will commence com-mence operation Monday, it was formally for-mally announced by officials of the company Thursday. Operations will begin on a small scale and will cm tinue to grow as intermountain and coast demands increase and as equip ment is added to the already fairly complete and modern plant, it is said. Myton The alfalfa seed harvest in the Uintaji basin is about completed. The crop of this season, according to i nose wno are in a position to Know, is 50 per cent less than thai of last year. Three and one-halt million pounds for 1920, as compared to seven million pounds for 1923. are the figures. fig-ures. Layton With beet hauling almost i completed, and with an average of 1000 tons of beets being handled daily, the fall campaign of the Layton Sugar company is half finished. Sugar averages av-erages have been running exceptionally exception-ally good, it is reported, and on several coca -.ions it has been necessary to slacken the factory's pace in order that .-omp!-:'.? extraction of the sugar could !.: made. Sugar content in some ex- t ' ! n;.lh good batches of beets has 'e..n ;s hi i,h as 17V4 per cent. . L:.i.e "Whipped hy a 42-mile tp.1. a te-.iifH; rainstorm swept over .vi.lt I.fkc 1'Ud vicinity early Tuesday iorn'!itt, leaving, according to wealh-. wealh-. r ion. -::u reports, a precipitation of .02 of an inch. The northw-st wind, v.if..-'n reached its maximum intensity sh'v'ly after 3 o'clock, ripped the roof of tns huge east grandstand at the I' -it crounds from the steel structure and hurled it several feet south of the 'and. The damage is estimated at S220O. according to Ernest Holmes, g'-ueral manager of Ihe state loir association. |