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Show News Notes;: 2 It'ta Privilege to Livt In UTAH j; . PROVO Tbe total orchard crop In Utah In 1928, Including small fruits, had a valuation of $2,250,000. MIDVALE Celery growing still is an Infant industry in Utah, but the product is recognized as a superior table delicacy the country over. LAYTON Utah growers have established estab-lished an enviable reputation in the production of sweet cherries. Last year's crop was worth 1690,000 snd totaled 9,200,000 pounds. PRICE One hundred pheasants have been planted by the Emery County Coun-ty Fish and Game association through the efforts of their commissioner, Fred Larson of Castle Dale. Larsen was In Price last week to receive a shipment ship-ment of the birds, and transfer them to the Emery district. MYTON Gideon Basil, who Is farming farm-ing In Pleasant Valley, south of Myton, and whose land Is under the Taylor canal, has made a good wheat yield for the Uintah basin en virgin soil. On a five-acre tract Mr. Basil threshed 40 bushels ot wheat to the acre, with the price of wheat at $1 per bushel. BINGHAM Immense amounts of gravel were carried down to the paved highway one-half mile east ot Bingham Bing-ham during a cloudburst reeently covering cov-ering the road to a depth of nearly five feet for a distance of 200 feet along the highway. No one was In the vicinity at the time and trafllo was later rerouted over another road. VERNAL A delegation from Vernal, Ver-nal, representing the commissioners of Uintah county snd the local Lions club, early this week went to the 'K" ranch near tbe Colorado line, where they met members of the Colorado state road commission and discussed with them plans for. the Improvement of the U. S. 40 highway from Vernal to Craig. 8PANISH FORK Roads in Diamond Dia-mond Fork canyon were rendered Impassable Im-passable by heavy rains and cloud bursts recently. A large number of picnickers and fishermen were caught in the canyon and had considerable difficulty getting home. In some places they bad to rebuild the roads where I they had been washed out. Deep gullies gul-lies were made by the floods. A force ot men Is busy repairing the roads. SALT LAKE Twenty-eight fires, 28 within forest reserve boundaries, have burned over lands less than 10 acres In size In Utah since beginning ot the present fire season, according to report re-port of the federal forest service, Issued Is-sued recently. A total ot $1527 has been expended, exclusive ot salaries, In fighting the blazes. Thirteen ot the fires were caused by man and five involved criminal negligence. - VERNAL A new record in growing wheat on virgin soil in the Uintah basin has been achieved by Gideon BariL a farmer residing south ot Myton, My-ton, Duchesne crunty, when he grew an average of 40.2 bushels of Karkoff wheat on five acres touched by a plow for tbe first time early the past spring. The wheat is ot finest quality of that variety, and Mr. Baril plans to seed a far greater acreage to the same wheat next year. OGDEN The Royal Canning company com-pany plans to open the tomato canning season in Utah Tuesday. Tomatoes grown along the foothills east of Lay-ton, Lay-ton, which ripen earlier than other crops of the state, will be canned first. Then the plant will be shut down for a few dys until others crops ars ready to be put up. The bulk of the season's pick will start moving next week, according to LeRoy Marsh, district dis-trict agricultural inspector. EPHRAIM Ranger Wells Thursby, of the Mantl forest reports that a band of elk, numbering seventy head, has been seen from the skyline drive near thj road camp nearly every day during the past week. Ranger C. Williams reports that district No. 1 has experienced more rain during the present season than for any year since 1914. Although the showers have been extremely heavy, the danyige from floods has been comparatively small. FARMINGTON Davis county grow-ers grow-ers began harvesting their sweet Spanish Span-ish onion crop recently. They will be merely starting, however, this week, only one or two growers reporting that they are ready, but by the first ft next week the harvesting will begin in real earnest. Lawrence Hatch of Bountiful, Wallace Noble ot Woods Cross and L. 8. Rice of Farmlngton are among U.e first to start to pull their onions. Carload shipments will not likely be made until the Utter part of next week. RUPERT Three cars of fat lambs, feeders and ewes, representing the cleanup for the season of about 800 head, were shipped recently by the Minidoka county lamb pool. The shipment, ship-ment, In charge ot Floyd Hansen, farmer, far-mer, went to St Joseph, Mo. VERNAL Fifty thousand Rainbow trout from the state fish hatcheries at Whiterocks, were trucked to McKee's draw on Diamond mountain north of Vernal, and planted in Francis creek. Another truckload was taken to Mos-by Mos-by mountain snd planted in Paradise lake. Also, several hundred thousand will be taken on pack animals from JUosby mountain to Whiterocks lake and other lakes at the headwaters of Ashley creek and other trout streams. The spawn are being planted earlier than usual this year, owing to the fact that the tanks at the hatcheries are crowded. |