Show J newt news notes 4 its a privilege to live liv in utah CEDAR CITY latest scenic high highway linay zion national park mt carmel Is being pushed forward with several hundred men employed on the works PAYSON at a meeting ot of nebo school district board recently bids bid were opened and contracts let tor for the new junior high school building in payson work will start at once and construction will be completed before the opening of 0 school next september the general con tr acting work was let to chytraus is lindquist of salt lake at SALT LAKE with head reported utah ranked second in the number ot of sheep and lambs january 1 as compared to the number in each i of the seven far western states ac cording to report ot of george A scott utah livestock statistician tor for the U S department ot of agriculture issued I 1 recently california ranked first with PRICE mud on soldier summit i road due to the thawing and recent i rains makes that highway impassable it was announced recently by E C knowlton maintenance engineer ol of the state road department the mud Is so BO deep that it is dangerous to try and travel over that road it was reported the road through heber and provo to the uintah basin is still passable but the rains and thaws have made it muddy and is in a poor condition PARK CITY park utah consolidated mines company one ot of the largest silver lead mining enterprises in othe the state earned a net of during 1927 according to the com coca carlys report tiled filed with the state board ot of equalization recently for taxation purposes this is more than the amount required to pay tile tha companas comp anys dividend ot of 80 cents a share during that year PANGUITCH rains and thaws during the past week have made farmer ere of this section happy although many ot of the roads have been made rather difficult of travel due to the recent storms the bear valley route from panguitch to paragonah Para gonah has become impassible to motor travel most of the tourists now taking the cove fort route by way of marysvale Marys vale SALT LAKE contracts signed for sugar beets tomatoes and peas insure increased acreage in all these industries throughout the state planting plans through various associations reveal LOGAN tuberculin tests will be applied to all cattle over three months I 1 ot of age in cache co beginning march 19 it was decided by representatives ol of twelve local farm bureau organizations who met in county agent R L Wrig leys office in the court house I 1 W H ballard jr county chairman ol of i the dairy committee had bad charge of the session which was attended by dr W H hendricks state veterinarian dr E D libby representing the fed eral government and dr 0 wenner 1 greo gren EUREKA Deci decision Blon to make im prove ments on the tintic gintic highway extending from santaquin San to eureka amounting to approximately has bas been made by utah county commissioners I 1 1 ners and and E C knowlton state road maintenance engineer RICHFIELD holstein dairy cattle i owners of sevier county whose herds I 1 now BOW number according to a recent census 2044 head are orga organizing 9 a holstein breeders bleeders bre eders of sevier 1 county movement to this end received a decided impetus here the past week during the visit of R E everley field man tor for the holstein friesian association of america and as a result the following board of dl di i rectors have been chosen to perfect I 1 an organization and to serve until the I 1 fir first 8 t annual meeting PROVO construction on the two miles of new road from near the junction of 0 the mt Timpa loop road with provo canyon up the canyon to the narrows probably will be started this summer it was announced by E C shepherd super supervisor viso r of wasatch j forest recently the project which was proposed and favored last year by the bureau of public roads has hag been held up on account of the excessive cost and the steep grade in evolved the construction will cost about COALVILLE distribution 0 of the th e road funds tor for summit county tor for the coming year was made at the county commissioners regular meeting recently county road funds were allotted on a mileage basis to the following precincts henefer He neter upton 2026 2025 Coal collvile vile peoa geoa oakley 1200 marlon marion kamas 1650 woodland francis parleys park and park city and beaver city I 1 LOGAN after making the regular I 1 monthly snow survey on mt L logan ogan I 1 professor george D clyde of the uta utah I 1 agricultural college reports that feb 1 auary has been very unusual and the i prospects now are that the water supply tor for the coming coining season will be bei I 1 low normal the precipitation in the tha r valleys and on the high watersheds watershed 4 has been deficient during the past mouth month whereas the total ac camu I 1 j precipitation during february I 1 1327 1927 was inches of w water ater at al feet elevation the total this year I 1 I 1 I 1 at t the same el elevation was waa only about one loch inch professor clyde announced |