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Show :Hh &- - F A ' . PIUTE COUN'frNfeWS. JUNCTION. UTAH : News Notes: It a Privilege to Live in U Utah aMm40 0 A entomologists and Logan Forty-eigh- t plant pathologists from eleven western states and from governmental bureaus at Washington assembled at the Utah experiment station for the purpose of coordinating research work along the lines of controlling insect pest and plant diseases. The conference started at 10 oclock Thursday morning. Myton At a recent meeting of alfalfa seed pool, which was ormemganized, by N. L. Peterson, the bers decided to make arrangements to finance the claims against each crop and bulk the entire pool. The seed will then be placed on the market. N. L. Peterson la retained as talesman of the pool. Montlcello The fleet of trucks of the Moab Garage company Is boing kept busy hauling steel culverts and bridge material from Thompsons to Montlcello preparatory to starting This projwork on federal project ect consist of 7.1 miles and extends north from Montlcello to the top tot Peters hilL It is understood that work will start as soon as frost is out . of the ground. Salt Lake In the intermountaln region the annual receipts from national forests, coming from fees paid for livestock grazing and timber cutting, amount to about $70Q,000, and of this amount about $175,000 reverts to the counties for schools and road Improvement. Provo Utah county fartpers and business men will get together Febru ary 12 in a social and business mens The object of the gatherprogram. ing is to unite merchants, bankers and farmers more closely in the production and sale of farm and manufactured products. The days program will begin with a meeting at 10:30 a. m.t in the. Bonneville ward social hall, and a banquet at 12:30, followed by an automobile excursion to points of interest in the county. Ogden Horses in Utah are decreasing at the rate of 2000 a 'year, accord ing to statistics compiled by the Uni ted States department of agriculture and announced on Monday, by George statistician in A. Scott, livestock Utah. According to the report, the number of horses on ranges and farms in Utah on January 1, 1927, was or 2000 less than at the same time last year. Officials of the department of agriculture state that horse breeding T may be a profitable business in five years. contest on Myton A rabbit-killinthe part of the citizens of Mountain Home, Boneta and Talmadge has been brought to a close. When the count was made it was found that Mountain Home was in the lead with a total of 1100 and Boneta and Talmadge had more than 700 each- Boneta and Talmadge entertained Mountain Home at a supper and dance. The purpose of the drive was to remove the rabbits, which were becoming a pest to a great Our Pet Peeve the-Myto- Land's End, Southernmost (Prepared by the National Geographic 8oclety, WaahUcUn, D C.i THE coast of Englands penlnsulu that taptrs to Lands End is an unfriendly coast with its heavy sea and winds and thick fogs, and a dangerous one. Its rocks ake ever ready to tear holes In the stoutest vessel; its currents are ever ready to drive them on. But it is a picturesque coast; a wonderfully beautiful coast, both upon summer day9 and in winter storms; a coast with many harbors, none too easy of entrance by Veason of rocks and tides, many impossible for any hut the smallest craft, but all made as servlee-sbl- e as natural difficulties permit There is Penzance, the sunny little sea eiv, whence came those picturesque stage pirates that made tuneful our youth. The coast Is no more beautiful here on Mounts Bay than elsewhere to east or west; not so rugged or so wild as on Cornwall's northern shore, but the' curve of green cliff is very. smooth and lovely, the sun shines warmly; the roses bloom ; every baby ripple murmurs a sea story ; every tiny breeze brlugs a legend. It Is a fascinating place not only for what It Is, but ,w hut It suggests. . There is Little Mousehole, on her right, bejond Newlyn lovely Newly a, beloved of fishermen and artKts. Mousehole ("Mousel, in local speech) was an Important port before London was a town. As for Maraz1n, to her. left, who shall measure her'yearsj' According to Cornish history, "in the days of Ezekiel the prophet it was already an Important city, to which Phoenician merchants came for tin. For town which has entertained Phoenicians and giants and has looked for centuries at a castled Island floating In a marvelous sen, Marfizion is remarkable dull. No one goes there gives except to visit the island which ' the bay Its hame. St. Michaels Mount St. Michaels Mount, little brother to Mont St' Michel off the Ereton coast. Is a rocky islet 230 feet high and a half mile from shore, .with which it is connected by a ngJtural causeway uncovered for about "three hours at ordinary low tides. With southwest gales the island may. remain an island for weeks, and' with high seas be inaccessible eVeri to boats. It Is a most picturesque pile; its steep grassy slopes, in springtime yellow with a million daffodils, crowned with the Irregular Jumble of chapel and castle and ringed by a gleaming sea. It has much history. Like the other SL Michael, it stood once in a forest aDd was pagan, Christian, druidical; it has been tenanted by saint and sinner, soldier, monk, and knight. Dearest to the heart, perhaps, is the story of Cormoran, whom later slew, dearest perhaps because of the memories of little girls and boys who, loved the story long ago. eastWe may follow the coast-lin- e ward and southward to the .Lizard, passing the great wireless station upon Poldhu. or cut across the little neck of land to Falmouth, a very fair harbor. Megavissey, beyond, is but a fishing port, where pilchards become sometimes sardines; but Fowey. to which we next come, has considerable and past importance present pride. Once it was one of the great seaports of the kingdom. Boats from Fowey sailed by scores to the Crusades. to the siege of Calais, to the Fowey plundering of Normandy. gallants swaggered on all the then known seas, and when not busy with strangers turned to trimming their rivals nearer home. Finally they were accused of piracy and Edward IV confiscated their ships and gave them to Dartmouth. Eastward frotn Fowey upon the coast, in a cleft so narrow, so Jagged, so rocky one wonders why men chose it for a home, lies Polperro, the mast picturesque, the most unspoiled of Cornish fishing ports, retaining all its ancient dignity of life and labor rnfinered by the summer villas now . beginning to crowd the cliffs above tis head. Polperro a Charming Place. Polperro is a fishing town but it did not always depend upon fish for a living In the days when smuggling was a profession, if not an art, Polperro had few rivals, and, reading piens-ure-lovln- g Tip of England. , old tales, one sees quite clearly why men chose these clefts for habitations. Conveniently near are coves and caves, undiscoverable by the keenest customs officers, and boatmen could d sail In and out of those narrow harbors fearing no pursuit. look attentively at Polperro, ut Its closely huddled houses, built on and lu and of the rock; Its roses and fuchsia:? and clematis, which bloom as luxuriantly as In southern limes; for these rock clefts are sheltered from winter winds and warmed by the southern sun ; at its little gleaming harbor, where at high tide the boats rook lazily and ut low water a thousand silvery gulls pick up their dainty feet discreetly in the ooze; at its steep, slippery cliffs, whence one has such glorious breezy views of sea and sock and headland, and of the warm sheltered valley at ones feet. Polperro attends to its own business, and that does not Include catering to tourists. There are always artists at Polperro. They and the fishermen observe each other, become friends, perhaps; but business is not mentioned between them. Clovelly fills a rock deft on the north Devon shore as Polperro does upon the southern Cornish one, but there all comparisons end. Clovelly may he still an earnest fishing village, but her looks bfefie it. The most some England exquisite village-I- n one called her, and she deserves the rock-houn- rock-boun- d title. i From the coach-roa- d where, at the top of the cliffs, you enter upon Clovellys one street, to the sea; or. if you come by boat, from the haibor to nobby Drive, and the public road, everything is dainty, elegant of Its kind, groomed to impossible perfecNo whitewash gleams whiter tion, or bluer or more delicately yellow than here at Clovelly; no roses, fuchsias, clematis, nor lilies bloom in more profusion ; no trees are richer and greener, no vines more luxuriantly graceful than there. Never a bit of paper litters that one stony street, more staircase than roadway ; no speck of dust mars shining windows or spotless curtains; no noise of railroads, of i trolley cars, of traffic, breaks the soft5' stillness of this village of delight, Down the street goes a long procession of tourists arriving by coac-from Bideford or Boscastle, stopping at every house to Oh ! and Ah ! and perhaps to buy souvenirs or to eat strawberries and cream. Tintagel of Arthurlcan Legend. At Tintagel more than at any place, perhaps, what- we bring measures what we take away. Come full of the Arthurian legend; come with Tennyson. with Hawker, with Mallory, and, in spite of modern criticism, you will savor nought but romance. Here are the ruins of Tintagel about you; across the chasm the yet more formless remains of Terrabll, the twin fortresses known to the earliest Cornish earls. Roman, Saxon, Norman has built here; but It is not for architecture or archeology that one conies here; it is for romance. Tintagel is not a port. Occasionally a boat comes in under the cliff with supplies for the village, but houses are- few and there is little fishing Port Isaac, farther down the coast, is a typical Cornish port A steep carriage road descends to Port Isaac; and the little stone houses of the village cling to the sides of the ravine as best they Can. (As a harbor we should not approve of It, yet It has served a fishing fleet for 400 years. Pleasant enough It Is of a summer day, but in spring or autumn storm, when the waves come hurling in with appalling weight and force to suck out again, as If they would drag the village Into the depths, when the fleet Jockeys for hours in the trough of a vicious sea, unable to make the opening between the black cliffs, yet In constant peril of the surf one can but wonder why men made a home there. St. tves sits by a smooth circle of sea into which a tongve of rocky land tbrust9 'a bolT curving headland. inclosing an inner harbor in the great sweep of the bay. Here by the sea dwells the real St Ives. ' stone-buil- t to withstand the worst fctornis of sea and time. At St. Ives we touch modern conveniences once more and can take a train very reluctantly, no dotjbt back to London. h - close-presse- II o 7-- o o t a 0 O Wort Is Our Middle Same MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL MS i TAkl THORP WAVE A BET OU ABOUT WHETHER YOU POLKS READ EVERYTMIWQ THAT -claim wot. TOO PWWT tu rue PAPER becux it'd ee too . 0WA1 wm KAtSTER.tP VJE KMWDED WORK.NWE WOULDWT BE IU TV4E NEWSPAPER GAME EVERY WORD IM E VERY COUJMU OU EVERY PAGE IS WRiTTEM AMD REAO BY i THE PERSOU WHO WfiOTB (T THEM IT S REAO BY THE COMPOSITOR WHO SETS T WTO TYPE MUCH WORK ' 104,--000- g - extent. Salt Lake That the attractions of Salt Lake City have gained a world wide interest was showp by a com munication rereived here by Eli F, Taylor, register of the local U. S. land office. The letter is from Zurich, Switzerland, and ask that pictures of of interest In and about Great Salt Lake be sent so that they may be used in a Swits illustrated maga PROOFS ARE PRIWTED OW s StRiR? OP PAPER OF EACH COLUMU, WHICH ARE -read FOR ERRORS THEM A FILIAL 1 jy ( Search for, lmStak.eS S laape whew the first copy op tue paper comes off TM' 7- y -j 1 PRESS WHEW AU. MAUDS FALL AUD EVERY THIWGf IS REAP FOR TU' FOURTH TIME I sub-juect- zine. Myton As tabulated by the U. S. weather station at Vernal, conducted by A. Theodore Johnson, the report is as follows: From January 20 to 31 January 20, 13 below zero; January 21, 10 below; January 22, 15 below; January 24, 6 below; January 25, 5 below; January 26, 1 above; January 27, 1 above; January 28, 2 below; January 29, 6 below; January 30, 8 below; January 3i, 6 below. For several days also during the first of the month it hovered below the zero mark. Montlcello Jay Peterson and Ezra Crapo, farmers in eastern San Juan county, fitted out for a two weeks camping trip, left for Lisbon valley, forty miles northeast of Montlcello, in search of mountain lions. They took along three greyhounds. Lions appear to be plentiful in Lisbon valley and hide in the rocks. The men sent the hounds into the stronghold of the lions and when they came out the hunters shot thUl. Duchesne A completed road through the Uintah basin, a link of the Victory highway between Salt Lake and Vernal, within two years, is the hope now held by the Duchesne county people, following the signing of a contract between the county commissioners and the state road department. The road is to be constructed with federal aid, the recent contract between Fruitland and Duchesne, a stretch of miles. twenty-fiv- e Vernal Utah heaviest bodies of timber are in the Uintah range, where there is estimated to be three billion board feet of mature timber; on the Aquaris plateau of the Powell forest, southern Utah, is a stand of a billion and a quarter feet; and on the water shed of the Seviep river a quarter of a billion feet. Dalton The Utah state road commission Wednesday approved the contracts for the construction ol the Coal Pit and Huber Wash bridges and the Dalton wash box culvert, on the Dalton to Rockvile road in Washington county cw THE FEATHERHEADS Urn The J. P. 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