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Show News Notes I - It'$a Privilege to Live in f I Utah j Selt Lake Secretary of Agriculture. Agricul-ture. Jardine has been asked to have a personal representative at the region-si region-si conference on agriculture, sponsored spon-sored at Salt Lake, October 1 and 2. It is related to the secretary that this conference will bring out a cross-section of agriculture in the eight states to be represented, Utah, Idaho, Wyo-ming, Wyo-ming, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico which the government department should have. Logan What is commonly called "water core" in Utah grown Jonathan Jona-than apples is a serious handicap to the marketing of the crop, asserts T. H. Abell, assistant horticulturist at the Utah Agricultural experiment station. Interstate shipments of vmter cored fruit have been condemned condem-ned and the orchards producing them have received a commercial black eye. Brigham City All crops figuring in Boxelder county's agricultural program, pro-gram, save the sugar beet, came through the 1926 season with a satisfactory sat-isfactory production, it is indicated in a consensus taken during the county's annual Peach Day celebration hers Friday and Saturday. The sugar beet situation is, however, quite serious, ser-ious, for the county counts upon the beet money every fall. Normally Boxelder produced between 223,000 and 250,000 tons of beets, and last year the beet fields of the county averaged av-eraged 26.1 tons. This year production produc-tion will do well to hold to one-quarter of the 1925 total, and but one factory, fac-tory, the Garland plant, will operate. Price The big Horsley dam in Pleasant valley, near Scofield, was formally accepted at a meeting of the three directors of the Price River Water Conservation district, promo-tors. promo-tors. Salt Lake Invitation to have one or more representatives at the annual convention of the Western Association Associa-tion of Highway Officials, which will be held in San Francisco, October 7 to 15, has been received by the Utah state land commission. It has not been decided yet whether the local commission will be represented there, it was announced. Murray The Murray City fire department's de-partment's new quarters are rapidly nearing completion. The fire depart-. ; ment occupies a building at the rear of tue city hall. Recently an exten-, exten-, ive Improvement program, which Included In-cluded enlarging the building, was started. The walls huve been extended extend-ed . several feet higher and a new roof has been constructed. The work will be completed within the next few days. . 'Ogden A fierce forest fire raged Thursday on Causey creek, twenty- ! five miles, northeast of Ogden, and a larjre force of men unier W. II. Anderson, An-derson, county game warden, wen busy ail afternoon fighting the flames , salt Lake That there will be a rail road through the Uintah basin within the next few years is the prediction of Senator William H. King, expressed --day In an adress to the uoard .if governors ot tne chamber of com- ' merce. Senator ivlng was invited vy the board to discuss matters with regard re-gard to the development of the Uintah basin, and the effect upon Utah to the completion of the Moffat tunnel. Ogden The Utah Construction com-puny com-puny Thursday received word that the . contract for building the Gibson dam In Montana had been awarded to the ; Ogden company. The company received re-ceived word three weoks ago that K was low bidder with a figure of $1,556,000, which ws assurance that the contract would be awarded later. Price That one of the greatest needs of Price In the way of civic Improvement Is s public pay camp ground, is the opinion expressed by Dr. H. B. Goetzman in a letter to the membership council of tb Price chamber cham-ber of commerce, which was organ lzed a few days ago for the expiobi purpose of furthering Just Buch enter-prioes. enter-prioes. ; Slalt Lake "Salt Lake already the Omaha of the air," " Colonel Thur-man Thur-man H. Bane, formerly chaif engineer of the air dlvisioB of the United States army said waen ho arrived at Wood ward field after flying to Sal' j Lake from Los Angeles. That Salt Lake cannot fail to become j one of ths most Important cen- , tors' of flying activity in the nation j because of Us strategic position and i the enthusiastic cooperation of the city, was assorted by Colonel Bane. 1 " Panguitch At the last meeting of the county commissioners It was decided de-cided to give the voters of Garfield couuty a chance 10 vote on a bond issue is-sue for the purpose of building roads In this section ot the country. Bingham Flames which for a time threatened the destruction ot thi '. closely grouped buildings at the lower part of Carr Fork were confined U jo Dahlstrom boarding house and the Catholic church Thursday. Tne ' damage is estimated at JS000. , Brigham City The Peach growers of Boxelder county have been bring-ing bring-ing In their peaches on trays, In crates and In boxes for the annual Peach day celebration, which opened hers Priday for two days. With th peaci vrop coming nearer. ' |