Show 1 I news notes its a privilege to live in utah DUCHESNE decision to complete within the ole next two years the federal aid highway construction program 2 conn connecting eating salt lake with the uintah aint 1 basin was announced by henry 11 blood chairman of the state road commission mission DELTA delta Is rapidly becoming a feeding center for sheep and cattle and according to information from sheep men there are already in the immediate community more than head of sheep being fed it also is said that before the s season eason is over there will be in the valley here approximately head of sheep OGDEN grass steers brought the highest price in the history of the ogden union stockyards Stock yards when cha charles clayton well known cattle buyer paid 1050 a hundredweight for two carloads of steers consigned by L bettis of bellevue idaho and two loads consigned to C J mccarter of fairfield idaho MYTON ideal weather conditions in this portion of the uintah basin still continue and is favorable for the harvesting of all crops by the farmers threshing machines are busy threshing on oats ts wheat and alfalfa seed th the 0 third cutting of alfalfa hay bay is abbat over and the seed plants are busy receiving the seed the farmers fan ners plant had received more than 2000 sacks of this gears cars crop of alfalfa seed the george tingley sons plant also is filling up SALT LAKE salt lake is perhaps in as good business condition as any community in the country du due e largely largel lr to promising agricultural returns ill ili its trade territory is the observation of F C schramm president of the schramm johnson drug company upon his return from the east where here he attended the annual meeting of the association of chain drug stores 31 new york KAYSVILLE one hundred tons of hay belonging to james criddle were destroyed by fire tuesday night with a loss of the bountiful fire department part ment was called to fight the flames and made the run in twenty minutes but chief charles A trump and the fire crew were unable to stop the fiam flames s which had gained good headway with the hay salt lake two of the largest concrete bridges in the state were con spruced during the nineteen months ending june 30 1926 one of these the bear river bridge on the bear river corinne road was 2655 feet in length and the other the ash creek arch bridge was 2225 feet in length MYTON Ae according to those who are in a position to pass judgment the estimate on the honey production of the uintah basin for the season of 1027 is about 60 per cent of a normal crop the reason given for the shortage is the continuous damp weather during the months of august and september when the nectar forms on the tha blossoms and is gathered by the bees PRICE more than 00 men are employed P in the beet harvest in the price river liver valley and are harvesting the crop at the rate of fifteen cars daily according to ray branch who is in charge of the local beet industry mr branch estimates that the yield of beets was cut down at least 20 per cent by lack of water last summer due to the washout in the canals of the ii district more alore than tons will be harvested however it is said RICHFIELD large percentage of the acreage of sugar beets grown in sevier county has been harvested and the remainder is in course of harvesting the yield exceeded the expectations of producers it had been expected that the beets were not as s large as in former years from the surface indications but when they arree are done they appear to be uniformly good size and are high in sugar content SALT LAKE forest roads form an important part of the highways of this state leading through some of the most beautiful mountain scenery up to june 30 1926 there had been expended of forest funds and of state or local funds in forest road improvement UTAH out of the forty eight states in the union utah stands twenty sev anth in the total mileage of concrete inroads roads twenty fourth in the mileage of bituminous pavement twenty third in gravel surface road mileage and twentieth in graded and drained earth road mileage LOGAN at a recent meeting of the logan and cache stake dennies den cies the city commission and the parks park committee of the chamber of comerce an agreement was made between the city and the stale stake dennies for the improvement of the grounds the expense of this project will be equally shared by the city and the L D S church ROOS ROOSEVELT EVELT chief deputy elsh and game commissioner J arthur Ale mecham cham accompanied by J W tin gey has hag spent some little time in the uintah basin lately looking over proposed sites for the erection of a new fish hatchery and rearing ponds payment in the near future of a dividend of 0 in addition to regular dividend by the dairy mens cooperative creamery of boise valley was announced hero here recently by W B mitchell Ml of parma president of the cooperative |