Show news notes j its a privilege to live in S W T B 4 utah vernal at a hearing bearing before the tha public utilities commission wednesday ion ion the matter ot of grant nig a franchise ito operate an auto freight line from vernal to salt lake city a comptom lse was effected between the sterling transportation company and the smaller trucking companies of the basin whereby it was agreed between the parties that the former company should operate between vernal and salt lake city over the strawberry biroute and the latter companies would operate from vernal to price price for the first time storage water behind the big horsley dam noar near scofield has been turned out and Is being distributed over the asi erict through the network ot of canals wallace R wayman water commissioner tor for the tha price river system anil and orson P madsen agricultural agent opened the valves at the dam the simple ceremony marking the begin ning ot of an era ot of agricultural develop ment in the price river irrigation dis brict salt lake city A government check for final federal aid payment on the fort duchesne vernall verna project was received at the office ol of the state road commission ro cantly weber county funds amounting to 19 ISO which will be applied on the morgan county devils gate project also were received by the road com mission as was a check tor for betterment funds tor for the extension oi ol 01 the rock wall in ogden canyon mt pleasant at a recent meeting ot of the sanpete county commissioners and representative citi citizens of mt pleasant together with Super pi J W humphries of the forest service commissioners george E cook and L P nelson pledged the support of 0 the board on the road building pro gram between fairrier Fair and hunting ton brigham city W H brattis vice president and manager and D B pratt agricultural engineer of the utah idaho sugar company came to brig ham city with the view ot of inspecting some ot of the beet fields in this part ol of the county roosevelt the first crop of alfalfa is cut in the lower central section ol of the basin and most ot of it has been in the stack tor for two weeks the second crop growths are well advanced in all of the lower or central part of tile the basin tor for the first time the farmers are cuthie the first crop tor for hay with few exceptions and depending on the second crop for seed this is done not only to get more hay bay but to better control the chalas fly and other pest Mon monticello monticell lo 10 representatives from blanding met with the commercial club of monticello monday evening in the office of the san juan record and the matter of finishing the road to the natural bridges was discussed salt lake city instruction in citi zenshin and milli tary courtesy was given to the citizen soldiers at their training camp a fort douglas wednesday these instructions will be fol lowed by close order drill and lee lec tures in first aid work major john J mccormick ot of the medical corps will have charge of the first aid in st ruction salt lake city indications art are chath the total tonnage of all fruit crops in idaho will compare favorably with last year says julius jacobson agricultural statistician for idaho in his monthly outlook summary peach es promise bushels against s aga last years hearts almost dismal faili failure ot ol bushels pears are forecast at al bushels compared with bushels in 1325 1925 the cherry crop will also be larger and is now being har bar vested last year carloads opre shipped and the 1926 figure is expect ed to exceed this total by several doz en carloads salt lake city the fame fama of fruits and vegetables particularly strawberries peas and celery is trav eling tar far and wide according to wes ley E king who has just returned from a six weeks visit in the east easl end and middle west the supply oi gi these products grown here and fur dished to the west could be multiplied by ten or twenty and a 8 profitable market obtained for them mr air king said monticello state engineer H J nielson Nl elson who has the work of survey ing the federal aid road from monti cello to the state line reports that the center survey line is completed a dis tance of twelve miles which brings it from the 1 end ot of project no 7 to tile the 1 utah colorado state line mr nielson I 1 reports the route inexpensive excell about tour four miles which runs through heavy timber salt lake city application tor for per mission to abandon its mixed traia schedule between utah railway junt juno tion and the hiawatha mine in car bon conaty and between jacobs and standardville Stand ardville was tiled filed with the he pub ab ilic ile utilities commission commissi 0 n I 1 by the t utah railway company the company setz set forth the fact that there b has as been a big shrinkage in the passenger trat fie on the road and that receipts from this source havo have dropped from 9 04 OS 42 in fit 1922 to fl in 1925 and to in the first three months I 1 I 1 lot 1926 16 |