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Show liNews Notes:: . ' It's a Privilege to Live In ii UTAH ii LAYTON Utah has 440,000 acrei of Irrigated alfalfa and (0,000 not ir. rlgated, making s total of halt a million. mil-lion. DUCHESNE Seed was harvested In Utah In 1928 from 73,000 acres; (2,000 In 1924, and 13,000 acres In 1919. HEBER CITY Harvest acreage of all crops In Utah In 1928 was estimated esti-mated at 1,150,000 acres, of which 870,. 000 acres were Irrigated and 280,000 produced crops without Irrigation. KAYSVILLE Utah ranked third among the states In the average yield per acre of onions in 1928; Its average that year was 475 bushels per acre. The average yield In the United States was 246. i MT. PLEASANT A statewide pool for farm-grown wool, as distinct from range wool. Is the plan set in motion t a meeting here recently at which representatives of arm wool pools in four counties were present to the number num-ber of 24. MYTON The business men of My-ton My-ton In conjunction with the sheepmen who are members of the Antelope Sheep Shearing association, are formulating for-mulating plans and raising money to construct a more direct road to Hank's Ferry by way of the South Myton bench. This point Is used crossing the Green river, and If this project Is completed it will save several miles of extra travel. BRIGHTON Ten inched of new snow fell recently on the city watershed water-shed at Brighton, thus bringing the total stand of snow now on tie watershed water-shed up to 81 Inches, according to a report received here at the office of H. K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks. The stand Is considerably consider-ably above that which was on the watershed last year at the corresponding correspond-ing period. VERNAL A representative of Draper Dra-per ft Co., Boston wool buyers, has purchased at 32 1-3 cents per pound 60,000 fleeces from John Reader and 65,000 fleeces from Witbeck Brothers and Witbeck & Spiers at the same price. The Reader flocks have not been sheared as yet but the sheep of the other flockmasters named are now being sheared at the Watson shearing plant. All the fleeces will average eight pounds, and the wool Is contract d for June delivery at Watson. GUNNISON On the Mantl forest this year's program of water development develop-ment projects totals approximately $1400, and about $1600 will be expended expend-ed in the construction of boundary and other fences. The funds for these improvements are taken from the grating grat-ing fees and must not exceed 10 per cent of tha total grating fees for the year. In selecting these range improvement im-provement projects care is taken to distribute them over all parts of the forest where they will benefit the largest number of grazing users. MYTON Horace W. Sheeley, water commit sioner named by the federal court for the Uintah basin, has reappointed reap-pointed Clarke C. Shaw as deputy commissioner for the Lake Fort river and its tributaries, and Loren Cloward as deputy commissioner for the Uintah Uin-tah river and Its tributaries Decrees of Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson direct the regulation of these streams. They irrigate 49,000 acres under ditches ditch-es constructed by the department of the Interior for the Indians and 87,000 acres irrigated by white families. COALVILLE Placing of gravel on the Lincoln highway from Wan ship to the beginning of the new road around Echo reservoir was started this week by the Utah state road commission com-mission with a crew of twenty men and several teams employed. As soon j as the gravel placing is finished, oiling of the road from the Chalk Creek bridge at Coalville to the Intersection with the Silver Creek canyon road will begin. The work of oiling from Echo to Baskln, in Echo canyon, will be started at the same time. UTAH State highway funds totaling total-ing $142,661.01 were distributed during dur-ing the month of April, according to a report from the state auditor's department. depart-ment. The money was apportioned as follows: Highway equipment, $76,- S41.81; office expenses, $556.75; travel, $784.78; and salaries, $3896 79. Suspense Sus-pense is listed at $313.69. Individual county distribution is as follows: Beaver, Bea-ver, $314.20; Boxelder, $1385.94; Cache, $38.86; Carbon, $158.43; Davis, $587.92; Duchesne, $6973.83; Emery, $318.75; Garfield, $9906.34; Iron, $4,-667.22; $4,-667.22; Juab, $3716.36; Kane, $18-350.82; $18-350.82; Millard, $7.15; Morgan, $4.21; Salt Lake, $33.21; San Juan, $688.81; Sanpete, $33.21; Sevier, $13,793.82; Summit, $9.50; Tooele, $1500.83; Uintah, Uin-tah, $10,380.35; Utah. $184.11; Wasatch, Wa-satch, $6048.03; Washington, $6273.68, and Weber, $53. PROVO To the sheepmen, the ' rains which began as a blessing to the flocks on the desert have turned to a menace and a curse, according to members of the Jericho clip, at least Arrangements were made for the Jerl-jcho Jerl-jcho shearing season to begin on April 12, but conditions made It necessary for the opening date to be changed first to April 14 and then to April 18. Only two herds had been shorn when heavy rains caused the work to stop and the herds to be turned on to the range again. All of the shearers, after af-ter seeing that the rains were to bo xtensire, returned to their homes |