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Show I News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in f j. Utah j nriRham City An egg grading plant tor this community is practically assured, as-sured, according to members of the committee appointed to wait on the board of directors of the State Poultry Poul-try association at their meeting place In Salt Lake City Saturday . Salt Lake Plans for Utnh celery week, which will be observed November Novem-ber 15 to 20, Inclusive, for the purpose of promoting the nationwide, as well ! as local use of this product, were ! worked out Tuesday at a meeting of 1 the celery committee of the chamber of commerce of which L. E. Gchan Is chairman. Utah Receipts at the sate treasurer's treasur-er's ofllce amounted to $1,055,970.10 In October, according to the report for that period by John Walker, state troasurer. ' Disbursements for the month wore $701,395. Of the total receipts re-ceipts $905,200.91 was Hated as true renue, while the balance represented returned Investments at the state land office and fees and miscellaneous receipts. Vernal Farmers and stockmen using us-ing the range are becoming alarmed over the detrimental effects of the protracted pro-tracted dry spell prevailing In Ashley valley and the Uintah mountains. A storm threatened Friday, but stiff breezes blew the clouds away. The mercury at the official weather observer's ob-server's station last Friday night dropped drop-ped to 12 degrees above sffro, the lowest record of the season. Myton F. C. Gwyn. project engineer, engin-eer, has notified water users that water wa-ter will be taken out of all government govern-ment canals Saturday, November 6. Water run after October 31 Is for cul-nlary cul-nlary purposes only, and must not be used for Irrigation.- This action for the season of 1926 Is several weoks ahead of ,the season of 1925. Heber City Notice that 11,822 acres of land In Summit and Wasatch counties coun-ties have been surveyor and will be thrown open for entry to those who had valid rights prior to the time the area was withdrawn for a forest reserve re-serve was lsued Tuesday by Ell F. Taylor, register of the. local land office. The land involved was placed within the Uintah forest in 1897. and was later transferred to the Jurisdiction of the Wasatch forest. It will be thrown open for entry under tho various land laws to those qualified beginning December De-cember 6. Payson Fearn Crey and a party of huntors from Payson arrived home Tuesday afternoon from Boulder moun- tain, Wayne county, where they spent the past ten days hunting deer. They report gajjie Is plentiful and In very good condition, Eight deer were killed, kill-ed, varying In le from 160 to 320 pounds. The hunt was conducted in the higher parts of the mountains, where the animals seemed to be larger, larg-er, due to better feed condition existing exist-ing on the higher elevations. v Provo J. B. Walton, local weather observer, anounoes the following temperatures tem-peratures for the past three dayB: Saturday, lowest,. 20 degrees; Sunday 21 degrees, and Monday, 22 degrees. hese.were the-coldest days of rec ord this fall, he states. Layton Davis county farmers are realizing the value of adequate fertilization ferti-lization of their already rich soils and are utilizing all the manure from the Salt Lake Union stockyards. J. H. Manderfield, manager of the yards, offered of-fered the farmers of Davis the fertilizer ferti-lizer if they would haul it away. The yards are capable of supplying between be-tween 40,000 and 50,000 tons a year, reports Mr. Manderfield, whiah wili go a long way toward sustaining the richness of the farms of Davis, Salt Lake It requires but a little glance into history to appreciate what Utah has been doing in the poultry industry the last half dozen years. In 1922 the value of poultry and poultry products marketed waa not much more than $105,000. Last year it had in-crensec" in-crensec" to $3,600,000. Wai aington Approximately 1500 reside its of Utah were relieved of the bunle.i of income taxes by the federai tax reduction law passed in 1924 an effective in 1925, according to a com parison between returns filed in thess years made available by the treasury department's report of income statistics statis-tics for 1924. Price After penetrating an 13-Inch saani of hard rock Monday the drill in tho test well of the Price River Petroleum Pe-troleum company again bored Into the Mowery shale, with increased showings show-ings of gas and oil. Although a strike of some sort was expected under this hard formation, which was thought to be a cap-rack, the real objective of the . well is the Dakota sand, lying approx-1 imately 150 feet lower. Twenty-five ' feet of hole was made Monday In thu shale. Heber A Utah district, the Heber He-ber valley. Is achieving considerable fame in producing lambs. Heber lambs ranged on almost Ideal range, are In strong demand each fall on the middle western markets. Myton Bliss Lott, foreman at the plant of the Eintah Basin Seed Growers' association, In Myton dur wi the past few days, has been mnk ng a collection of samples of alfalfo ;eed for the t'tuh exhibit to the Inter national Hay and Grain show to b j held In Chicago. ' |