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Show News Notes j J It ' a Privilege to Live in :: Utah ! Myton. Storms every day for. a week culminated in one of the worst storms ever experienced in this locality local-ity Wednesday. Rain came down in sheets and hail was deposited in some places three inches deep. The hail covered an area of about five miles long and a mile wile. While considerable con-siderable damage is noted it is thought that the seed was not seriously hurt, none of it being ripe, and, as the plant was wet from previous rains, it was not easily damaged. Salt Lake City. Data on the forestry for-estry industry in the intermountain sates, Utah and Idaho, are contained in the annual forestry almanac of the American Tree association, recently published. This almanac is published in the interest of the lumber conservation conser-vation movement and contains similar data from every state. Vernal. Lieutenant J. H. Peters of San Francisco, representing the U. S. Geodetic survey, was In Vernal this week to set up a magnetic compass at the courthouse grounds. These in-truments in-truments are established in north and south parallel locations of the air mail ' route and eventually in every county seat, said Mr. Peters. The lieutenant is workiug between Utah and California. Califor-nia. Salt Lake City. If a motor truck gives you a dust barrage on the highway high-way between here and the Uintah basin, bas-in, grin and bear it that is, if you are a loyal citizen of Salt Lake. You can afford to. That motor truck and nineteen others operating between here and the basin are adding more than a half million dollars a year to the prosperity of Salt Lake. Roosevelt. Alfalfa seed during tho last te- days is not so encouraging, the outlook now being that the crop will be slightly less than in 1925. Two or three important districts, which last year produced a large tonnage of first class seed, will this year have only a small fraction of last year's output. While nothing definite can be given out as to the tonnage compared com-pared with last year, it seems certain that it will be materially less, although indications are that the quality will be equally as good, if not betetr. Salt Lake City. With tue object in view of compiling accurate data for the manufacturers of the state, the industrial in-dustrial department of the chamber of commerce is conducting two surveys, one or which is to ascertain what products prod-ucts manufactured here may be profitably profit-ably exported and the other to determine deter-mine to what extent Utah coal mines may hope to compete with those of the middle west. Beaver. More rain has fallen since the first of August than during all the: previous months of the year. Monday's rainfall reached six-tenths of an inch with a little less the pending day. A total for the nine days in August amount to 1.6 of an inch. Haying is beiug hampered by daily storms. Prospects Pros-pects for a third cutting of hay are good in the rainy belt. Washington. The cundition of the Utah apple crop on August 1, 1926, indicated a production of 932,000 bushels, bush-els, subject of course to weather and other influences between now and harvest, har-vest, according to the bureau of agricultural agri-cultural economics, division of crop and livestock estimates of the United States department of agriculture. Salt Lake City. Establishment of a new intermountain bee culture station sta-tion may come to Utah, according to a letter received by D. H. Hiliman, state apiarist, from James I. Ham-bleton, Ham-bleton, apiculturist of the United States department of agriculture. Brigham City. Utah's fruit crop, with the exception of apples, will be considerably larger than the crop of 1925, according, to the report issued Wednesday by Frank Andrews, federal feder-al agricultural statistician. The peach crop this year is estimated at 702,00" bushels, as compared against 110,000 bushels last year. Ogden. A road crew was engaged Wednesday in removing tons of rock and .bris washed on the main Salt Lake-C-gden highway at the foot of Wilcox hill Tuesday night as a result of a cloudburst in Farmington canyon. can-yon. Salt Lake City. Despite the fact that much of the tourist travel is going east this year, due to the many i conventions being held in Philadelphia In connection with the Eesqui-centen-nial exposition, Salt Lake and Utah can expect a heavy influx of tourist? during the remainder of the summe months, Grover C. Howe, traveling passenger agent for the Lackawanna railroad, announced on his arrival here Wednesday. Ogden. Work was begun Tuesday morning on a concrete reservoir in North Ogden to be used for storage water for fire protection. The reservoir, reser-voir, being built upon the advice of Fire Chief George A. Graves, is to have a capacity of 10,000 gallons. Logan. A committee representing the Utah State Holstein Breeders' association as-sociation has arranged to meet with the livestock committees of the Salt Lake and Ogden chamber of commerce com-merce soon. |