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Show under contract in the Uintah basin, production will run from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre, promising a sizable return to the careful grower. According to Russell Keetch and Marden Broad-bent, Broad-bent, county Agricultural " agents of Uintah and Duchesne respectively, respec-tively, the cash crop of beet seed will prove highly beneficial to farmers far-mers of the Uintah basin. -- Best Fruit Harvest Topping all known records, Utah's fruit harvest is under way, with all crops showing a sizable increase over former years. The state's . cherry trees yielded 4300 tons of fruit; apricot trees, 10,400 tons; peaches axe estimated at 900,000 bushels; grapes at 900 tons; pears 221,000 bushels and apples 413,000 bushels. Apples were the only crop to show a decline de-cline over 1944. Timp Cave Break c Records f Spotlighting I UTAH I Unhappy Travelers From Brigham to Kanab, two of Utah's colorful cities situated at opposite ends of the state come stories about "unhappy travelers" who during week-ends find it almost al-most impossible., to- get food and hotel accommodations. At Kanab, Editor E. Eugene Roberts calls attention to the need by next summer sum-mer for several hundred additional "tourist accommodation" rental units and mentions the thousands of dollars in tourist money now passing through that city which could be stopped at Kanab if additional ad-ditional eating and sleeping facilities facili-ties were available. Said Editor Roberts: "There is a real oppoi-, tunity here for one prepared to take care of the traveler." At Brigham, Brig-ham, Editor Bill Long laments the lack of tourist accommodations and hopes for the timely, arrival of opportunity-seeking business men who will do something to make the "unhappy traveler" happy. ''From 300 to 500 Bushness hos-pitar hos-pitar visitors recently found themselves them-selves in Brigham on a week-end with only one restaurant in operation oper-ation and a lot of them went hungry," said Editor Long. ' What to Do About It 5 If such stories come from Brigham Brig-ham and Kanab, what's happening to the traveler in the 350 miles between these cities? . one asks, and are they also unhappy? Sug-upstpH Sug-upstpH rppnmmpnrlations : That res- Timp cave is drawing them in! On Labor day, 815 people visited I this magnificent scenici attraction near American Fork, an all-time record for visitors in one day. The cave is open to the public daily from 8:00 a. m. to 5.00 p. m. until winter makes the trail im. passable. 4- Millions Swarm Refuge There are now five million wild fowl on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, 18 jniles west of Brigham City, according to Vanez Wilson, superintendent. Migrants, the birds will leave soon for the south to winter while others will arrive from the north forced down by the migratory instinct. Tons of fish, shrimps, snails, worms, etc., are consumed by the birds daily while meandering over the 58,816 acres. The refuge is on the major duck flyways of North America. taurant operators on the state's highways unite to the point of seeing that sufficient eating houses remain open at all times to make the unhappy traveler "happy"; that hotel land motel operators lose no time in preparing prepar-ing for that great army of hungry, hung-ry, well-to-do travelers who will arrive here next summer anticipating antici-pating good accommodations such as a hot bath and clean cool sheets in a modern tourist unit. No traveler should be allowed to ' leave a city in an unhappy frame of mind and this column says, "You can't say we didn't warn you a year in advance," moral: Tourist complaints spread faster than a pestilence. -f Deer Casualties Seen Thousands of mustered-out service ser-vice ; men whose gun-conditioned hands are itching to fondle a deer rifle, along with Utah's meat-hungry meat-hungry sportsmen will make an unhealthy combination for Utah's deer herds this autmurt. In addition, addi-tion, hundreds of California and Nevada hunters will be heading for Utah mountains. State Game Director Ross Leonard's 66 wardens ward-ens are fully prepared for the big ' game season and 3,000 safety pro-i pro-i motion posters have been con- spicuously posted. Fifty thousand "Ten Commandments of Safety" have been sent to license agencies, I stores, and schools. Meantime . sportsmen who applied for special permits are receiving notification, and some are petting refund checks. Drawings for 700 Elk permits will be held October 12 and in addition to the regular elk season, scheduled for November 10 to 179, 1945 a special hunt is set 'for December 1 to 10, 1945 for taking 125 animals of either sex in the Nebo-Mona area. All of this promises to make 1D45 Utah's biggest big-gest hunting year. Fourteen Cent Beet Seed v Utah grown sugar beet seed at 14 cents per pound for the producer pro-ducer promises much for the industry in-dustry in Utah. A Michigan firm will purchase all the seed that can be produced from 300 acres now |