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Show ' Newa Notes;; I It't Privilege to Live in ! I Utah ij TOOELE With twenty-three working work-ing properties. Tooele county ranks third In the state in number of producing pro-ducing mineral mines. It also ranks high In the livestock industry. VERNAL Uintah county is second In the state In production of alfalfa seed, producing 33,333 bushels In 1927, and third In corn, with a crop of 67,000 bushels In 1927. SALT LAKE Producing 62,699,-257 62,699,-257 pounds In 1927, Utah county ranks second in the state In production of lead. It is first In alfalfa hay, apples, honey, peaches, pears, spring wheat and rnttlp HEBER CITY Wasatch county produced pro-duced $7,656,151 worth of mineral in 1927. It ranks second in volume of ore treated, second in minerals produced, second in gold, silver and zinc, and third In copper and lead. COALVILLE Summit county's eight working mines in 1927 produced J5.371.264 worth of minerals and $135,-901 $135,-901 worth of coal. The county ranks third in tons of ore treater, third in production of zinc and third in production produc-tion of coal. RICHFIELD The beet sugar harvest har-vest of Sevier valley Is about half over, according to officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company's plant at Elsinore. The beet factory will start slicing beets for the vats soon and expects to run continuously for a period of from four to five weeks. OGDEN Dell Adams of Layton, Utah, stopped off here on hla way home from a hunting trip and displayed dis-played a deer, a mountain sheep and a mountain goat, which he bagged on the middle fork of the Salmon river. His companions on the trip were A. M. Johnson of Avon and Billy Wilson, , an Idaho guide. Each of these also hot a deer, a sheep and a goat. PROVO Rats are again overrunlng Utah county and doing untold damage, while farmers are reluctant to take any measures to eradicate them, according ac-cording to agricultural officials here. W. J. Thayne, county agricultural agent; Grover Clyde and H. V. Swen-son, Swen-son, district agricultural inspectors, all said recently that thousands of the rodents were extant BOISE Idaho daries Increased the output of ever product but casein during dur-ing the first six months of 1928, George N. Tucker, state director of dairying, reports. The production of commercial commer-cial butterfat was 12,397,059 pounds, compared with 11,868,034 pounds during dur-ing the same period last year and brought In 15,502,300, compared with $5,287,468 last year, an increase ot 1214,202. PLEASANT GROVE Purchase of 125,000 bushels of apples has been completed by the Pleasant Grove Canning Can-ning company. The company just completed a large run of canned tomatoes toma-toes and shipped 5,000 cases to one eastern purchaser. Good crops of strawberries, cherries, beans, squash, apricots and peaches have also been handled this season. The run on apples started this week and will continue con-tinue until February. SPANISH FORK Comb honey producers pro-ducers of this district recently shipped to Jonesville, N. C, one carload of 14S8 cases of comb honey ot the fancy and first-class grade. The shipment was made by the Stewart brothers, Arthur and Albert Stewart, and Lew Jones, Selling with them were the Rev. Theodore Lee and a number of small producers. The honey crop was far below average in quantity this year, but of excellent quality. SALT LAKE Twenty federal aid highway projects, costing Sl,5SO,000, were in various stages ot contructlon In Utah on October 20, it is shown by a report issued at the offices of the state road commission recently. Five ot these were better than 95 per cent completed, five were more than 80 per cent finished, and only seven were under 50 per cent completed. Of the seven, two have been placed under contract only recently. GUNNISON S h 1 p m e n t s will amount to 120 carloads ot cauliflower and 30 of cabbage, the product coming j from the fields In the Westview dis-j dis-j trict that has found its way to the markets mar-kets from Gunnison, according to L. j E. Hancock, representing Smith and Hancock, wholesale merchants of Salt Lake, handling the products. Seven carloads have been shipped in the last week, making a total of last year at the same time. LOGAN Plans for a big celebration celebra-tion In recognition of the opening of the Western Milk company's new 1250,000 condensory at Wellsvllle are complete, according to F. P. Champ, j a director of the plant. The celebra-( celebra-( tion, which Is being sponsored by the Wellsvllle chamber of commerce, is expected to attract citizens from practically prac-tically every town in Cache valley. A half holiday has been declared by the town of Wellsvllle for Saturday, November 3. |