Show 4 ablo U 41 I 1 t News 7 1 I 1 V Notes I 1 its a Ni td live in 1 utah I 1 utan UTAH the western pacific railroad spent in utah fo r operating expenses during 1928 1028 PARK CITY the intermountain territory produces annually more than worth of manufactured goods while tho the value of minerals is in excess of SALT LAKI LAKE the population of the intermountain region is 60 per cent rural while 40 per cent of the people live in c cities i ties of in more ore than 25 2500 per tons pons CEDAR CITY because of the cold weather this spring sheep men fear the approaching lambing season as many of the lambs will die unless the weather becomes milder the same applies to the sheep cheep as shearing has haa already begun one sheepy Bhe epman an is f s reported to i have lost about sheep out of his herd of an unusually large proportion JACKSON the stage line jacon wyo and victor idaho the tha nearest 1 railroad point to this isolated wyoming town is experiencing con sid erable difficulty in making the trip over the foot pass in view of the fact that six feet of snow lies on tho the road going over the teton pass it is necessary to transfer the mail and freight from truck to wagon and from wagon to sled I 1 VERNAL shearing of range sheep cheep has started at the plant at jensen fifteen miles southeast of Vernal wital head hea a scheduled to be sheared at this power operated plant no sales of wool have been recorded from this plant although several buyers have been in vernal during the past few days sampling wool Favor favorable ablo weather continues to attend the shearing operations in uintah county ST GEORGE Washing washington fon county mohair growers received a price of 45 cents and aad 48 cents for matu and 58 cents for kid hair and two car loads of fleeces left cedar city recently consigned to boston local growers two weeks ago refused offers of 46 cents and 56 cents and since that I 1 time approximately pounds ol of mohair has been stored in cedar city under guard awaiting final disposition AIRPORT under the favorable dav arable weather conditions of the last few days the city under unde r direction of ha harry rry L fin finch C ap commissioner of parks is making a determined d def el dri daiv veto e complete laying di drainage ae tile oi ontjo we enter nan runway arf phase of field improvement i ent gl graders gladders aders and levelers are engaged in smoothing s in g off ff the entire acreage the object is to make the whole field available for landings and take takeoffs offe at pre present stint main runways are cinder surfaced LOGAN reuben hansen teste the tha college I 1 vard nvard dairy herd improvement association on has filed his monthly report with county agent robertj robert L wrigley the average milk production I 1 per cow during R march larch was ab pounds ands compared with pounds for february the average butterfat production per c cow ow was pounds compared i wit with h 24 2450 to pounds ds for foi the pr previous evious period one ohe hundred hund red and twelve animals ani nials gave aavo forty pounds of fat or more during the month I 1 MANTI the blacksmith shop at mayfield has hasteen been busy bil sy the past several days preparing I 1 gopher probes these rather dangerous looking instruments st are five or six feet long with threes three quarter inch tubing at I 1 t ono one end and a r rake 41 ce tooth at tha th other the Tho sharp point finds the gopher hole and the tube is used to io deposit a hace nice little breakfast of carrots therein ther ein the mere fact that the carrots c carry arry strychnine in quantities deadly to gophers jo pliers is in keeping with the general appearance a Fp Carance of df tie probo C RICHFIELD digging through MOW know from two and one half to twenty feet deep for a if distance istance of four our miles N B 13 cook chief deputy state fish an and d game commissioner nine deputy wardens and eight men 01 engaged by the beld lions club and the reports opened the road to fish sh lake fortha e purpose PU of planting k fin gerlings an and d obtaining fish eggs cook reported recently on his cretu return rn the gang occupied sixteen days in opening tho the boado road digging to earth so that trucks carrying the gerlings fingerlings fin might get to tho the waters about abou t thiry thirty civo truck truckloads loads of these fish a are re going into fish lake and the crowded condition of the hatcheries made it necessary to get them planted mediately to aake rl room for choso yet to be hatched BOISE boise had bad its firt first touch 02 01 spring recently when the sun remained out during the entire day and the thermometer the rometer mounted to 67 a temperature pera ture equaled only once this year on april 2 SPANISH FORK M RK poultry ry industry brought a return ret urn of to the producers of the tate state s durling 1928 I 1 a 11 survey CY of the agriculture iture booklet bool clet commit committee teo of tho the chamber of commerce under the direction dire atlon of J J porter shows this Is an ali increase Iner paso afi arly f 0 over 1927 when the returns totaled tile the production of the state as reported by twenty two thip chipping ping and marketing agencies follows eggs ces cases valued at poultry I 1 pounds valued at and turkeys pounds at I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 |