Show A I 1 news notes j its so a privilege to live in J utah J murray rids for murray municipal auxiliary power plant plan tare are now being advertised the bids will be received at the murray city hall up until january 31 work on the plant which will be located within a hundred feet ret ot of the oregon short line railroad tracks on forty ninth south street will start immediately atter after contracts for the work have been awarded deaver beaver forest R anger blaine bettinson has prepared a report of 0 snow stake readings at the V U S weather bureau stakes on oil the deaver river watershed which gives the record ol of tour four successive years tor for the depth of 0 snow on the last day of december olf oft each year according to records the amount of 0 snow at each snow stake slake on december 31 1926 is a little less than that ot of any year since 1917 salt lake for the first eleven days of the month of january the precipitation was better than a halt half inch above normal according a cord ing to 10 reports made at the local weather bureau wednesday there was a precipitation ot of 38 or of an inch so that with the precipitation ot of xa for tile the day before the total for the iwu awu day snowstorm snow storm was inches this brings brines the total tor for the month to which is better than the normal precipitation tor for the first third ot of the month while much ot of the snow has melted an inch and one halt half depth was measured by the weather observers I loab the municipal water system of moab which is operated by the moab pipe line company is in better belter condition than it has eer been to render service to its patrons according to a report made to the stockholders of 0 the company at their annual meeting by secretary john peterson ogden the price which utah growers will receive for or tomatoes during 1927 will be fit 11 a ton it was vas announced by martin P brown president of the utah state farm bureau federation and joseph F balker baiker secretary of the utah canners association ra salt lake A total of tons of 0 coal with ith a value of 0 was produced in utah during 1925 by miners engaged in the work according report of L mann and F G tryon which was issued by the bu b reau of mines of the department of commerce commer ceon on january 8 1927 myton jhc thc J C peppard seed company with offices at duchesne roosevelt and vernal report on unexpected peet ed rise in the alfalfa seed market no 1 no 2 15 1500 00 no 3 1250 no 4 extra no 1 5 percent over no 1 some of the alfalfa seed growers who have been holding their seed are busy hauling it to market myton Will william fain lowe manager of the uintah basin seed growers association in reporting tor for the season of 1926 states that the plant has handled nearly nearl y pounds of alfalfa seed the largest percentage being owned by In members embers of the oran in the plant at the beginning of 0 1927 there was poun POJ PO J Is of seed unsold part of this is in tile the pool formed by 11 L peterson while tile the balance Is held by growers vernal ernal v supervisor A G nord of c the ashley national forest in ills his annual report to tile the district forester at ogden states that the herd of deer on this orest forest numbering approximately 1500 head made a slight increase during the past year according to the same report the mountain sheep numbering about thirty five head and the band of forty elk remained stationery in number provo the provo gos gor larm farm loan association will elect cers at its regular annual meeting which will be held january 15 in the high school auditorium all members of the association are requested to be present according to secretary ralph poulton garfield at an expenditure of approximately a road will be constructed ted from kanarraville Kanar raville to the washington county line a distance of tour four and one halt half miles the state stale road commission decided monday afternoon garfield county commissioner ls s were also advised by the commission that a road north from panguitch would be constructed as soon as federal aid funds can be obtained price an active campaign to secure a state experimental farm in carbon county tor for the eastern utah region is being catriel on oil and will come to a head in fit the next few days with the introduction of a bill in tile the state legislature A great deal of interest is being taken by carbon county count bep in the legislature by the farm arm bureau the chamber of commerce taxpayers taxpayer ap association and other civic organizations myton the utah poultry producers in compiling the results for 1926 relative to turkey growers state that those who through them received a net return of II 11 cents a pound the bulk of turkey shipments went to new york and new jersey markets but ten tell thousand pounds were delivered to the west coast markets from the uintah basin price total expenditures of are contemplated in the carbon coull ty budget for 1927 as fixed at tho meeting of 0 the county commissioners commissioner monday |