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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Livln UTAH J LEHI In 192S a prominent Utah farmer received a check of 118,900 (or sugar beets raised on ISO arces. DRAPER In 1928 a total of 690 carloads of eggs, valued at $3,906,-113, $3,906,-113, were shipped from Utah points. KAYSVILLE A total of 7i carloads car-loads of Spanish onions were shipped ship-ped out of Utah In 1928, the Extension Ex-tension Division of the University of Utah announces. MANTI Beginning Monday, Oo-tober Oo-tober 21, with three government and state veterinarians at work at Indianola, Milburn and Oak Creek, respectively, the county-wide tubercular tu-bercular test for dairy cattle In Eanpete will begin. WASHINGTON More devastation devasta-tion has been caused by forest fires the last summer than at any time since 1910. Reports from the United States forest service show 2,657,-S44 2,657,-S44 expended oa tire control from July 1 to September 20. Weather conditions were largely responsible for the great Increase in forest Urea this year. AMERICAN FORK Sugar bebt harvesting commenced recently ia Sanpete and Sevier counties, with every prospect that the harvest would total nearly 70,000 tons, double the output last year, W. H. Ross, president of the Gunnison Sugar company, Salt Lake, reported. report-ed. The Gunnison factory will com- mence operations soon. RICHFIELD With the opening of the deer season, much speculation specula-tion rife among the local sportsmen sports-men as to the prospects of getting "your buck" the first day of the season. The consensus of opinion la that the present fine weather will find deer weU up in the hills and that quick and early kills are unlikely. DRAPER The Draper Development Develop-ment corporation, formed to ' sab-divide sab-divide Into small chicken ranches a tract of 113 acres near Sandy, filed articles of Incorporation in the office bf the county clerk recently. Capital stock of the company, which will have - headquarters at Salt Lake, Is listed at 150,000, with 60 000 shares at II a share. UTAH Big game hunters of . Utah are cleaning their guns for one of the best shooting seasons yet offered In the state, according to J. Arthur Mecham, state and game commissioner. Licenses will ' be Issued to 535 hunters of bull elk, while more than 6000 big mule deer ' are expected to be shot by sportsmen sports-men in a score of sections throughout through-out the state. PROVO Fruit growers of Utah county, whose orchards are Infested with San Jose scale, are warned by County Inspector H. V. S wen son not to sell or ship any of their fruit to the markets, as aU orchards of the county. Infested with this disease, dis-ease, have been placed under . quarantine as provided for in the quarantine orders of the state department de-partment of agriculture. GUNNISON The season's shipment ship-ment of turkeys from Utah to eastern east-ern markets will tatal more than 75 carloads, and wiU bring to the state approximately $1,800,000, Air bertus Wlllardson, assistant manager man-ager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, announced recently. The association's Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkey pool alone will amount to more than 45 carloads. UTAH Failure of duck hunters -to observe the rules and regulations governing the shooting on the puDiio shooting grounds near Corlnne prompted J. Arthur Mecham, state , fish and game commissioner, to again announce that shooting on the grounds Is only allowed Sundays Sun-days and Wednesdays. Hunters who have been going to the grounds on other days bave been turned away. ' DUCHESNE Information by state road officers is that construo-tlon construo-tlon of two bridges and the reconstruction recon-struction of another will immediately immedi-ately be put under way by the state, on the state road west of Tablona on the upper Duchesne river. The bridge over Farm creek will be 60 feet long with three spans, and the bridge over Squaw creek will be 60 feet long, of like construction. The present bridge over the north fork of Duchesne on the Wolfe creek road will be imprqved by using us-ing 66-foot stringers, the present bridge not being large enough to take care of high water. 6HOSHONE On the grounds that the destructive fires in north central Idaho this summer drove great numbers of game animals out of their safe retreats toward the more open areas which ere directly direct-ly traversed by traffic highways, sportsmen of Lemhi and Custer counties and other sections of this part et the state have induced the state game commissioner to close certain sections to hunting this fall. Tha petitioners Insisted that to permit per-mit hunting under such conditions would annihilate most ot the game animals in the territory |