Show 0 News Notes its a privilege to live in W va 19 v utah uta h 1 aaa AA 0 vernal at a hearing before the public utilities cora commission mission wednesday on the matter of grant nIg a franc franchiser hisor to operate an auto freight line from vernal to aft salt it lake city a compromise to was effected between the sterling transportation company and the alil smaller trucking companies of the basin whereby it was agreed between the parti parties that the tha former company should operate between vernal and salt lake city over the tha stra strawberry aberry route and the latter companies would operate from vernal to price price for the first time ate storage rage water behind the big 11 horsley lam dam near scofield has been turned out and Is being distributed over tho the erict through the network of canals Ny wallace allace R wayman water commissioner bloner tor for the price river system and orson P madsen agricultural agent 0 opened the valves at the dam tho the simple ceremony marking the begin ning nine of an erv of agricultural development in tit the price river irrigation dis erict salt lake city A government check for fin final al federal aid payment on the fort duchesne vernal project was received at the office pt of the state road commission recently weber county funds amounting to which will be applied on ahn morgan county devils late gate project also were received by the road commission as was a check tor for betterment funds for the extension of tile the rock wall in ogden canyon mt alt pleasant at a recent meeting of the county commissioners and representative citizens of mt pleasant together with supervisor super J IV Il humphries umphries of the forest service commissioners Commissioner Ei george E F cook anti anil L P nelson pledged the support of the board on the road building program between faira lew and huntington brigham city W 11 II vice alco president and manager and D B pratt egri agricultural cultural engineer of the utah idaho sugar company came to brigham city with the view of inspecting some borne of tile tha beet fields in this part of bf the county p r roosevelt the first crop of alfalfa is cut in the lower central section of oc the basin and most of it has been la ill the stack for two weeks the second crop growths are well advanced in all of tho ohp lower or central part of the tha basin tor for the first time the tha farmers are cating the first crop tor for hay with few exceptions and depending on tho the second crop for seed this Is dono not only to get more hay bay but to better control the chalcea fly and other pest monticello representatives from froin blanding met with the commercial club of monticello monday evening in the office of the san juan record and the matter of finishing tho the road to the tha natural bridges was discussed salt lake city instruction in catl citizenship and milli tary courtesy was waa given to the citizen soldiers at their training camp a F fort ort douglas wednesday these instructions will bo be followed by close order drill and lectures in first aid work major john J mccormick of the medical corps will have charge of the first aid instruction st salt lake city ind indications icat tons anro chath the total tonnage of of all fruit crops in idaho will compare acomparo favorably i with last year says julius Jacob Jacobs soll agricultural statistician tor for idaho in his monthly outlook summary peaches promise bushels against last years almost dismal failure of bushels bushela pears are forecast at 69 bushels compared with b bushels erml in 1925 the cherry crop will vill also be larger and Is now being liar har vested last year carloads were wera shipped and the 1926 figure is ed to exceed this total by several dozen carloads salt lake city the fame of fruits and vegetables particularly strawberries peas and celery Is traveling fr far and wide according to wes ley lcy E ning king who has just returned from a six weeks visit in the east cast and middle west the supply of these products grown here and furnished to tho the middle west could bo be multiplied by ten or twenty and a profitable market obtained for them mr air king said monticello state engineer 11 J Nl elson who has the work of survey i ing the federal aid road from monticello to the state line reports that the tha A center survey line ls Is completed a disi tance of twelve miles which brings it from the enil end of project no 7 to the tha utah colorado state line mr nielson reports the route inexpensive except bout four miles which runs through heavy timber salt lake city application tor for permission to abandon its mixed train schedule between utah railway junction and the hiawatha mine in carbon carboa comity and between jacobs anti and olville was filed with the tha public utilities commission by tho the utah railway company the company sets seta forth the fact that there has been a big shrinkage in tile tha passenger traffie traffic on the road and that receipts from rom tills his dource have dropped from 9 in 1923 1922 to in 1025 anti and to in the first three months of 1926 |