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Show finavaaaaeaeAiAeaaeeeaaaaia I News Notes 1 1 I It'a m Privilege to Liu in I Utah W WWW f f f fTTfffv'f ' SALT LAKE Indicative of the steady growth of the city and state, Salt Lake postal receipt increased from $962,061.11 in 1921 to 1,370,874.. 41 in 1927, an Increase of 42 per cent HUNTINGTON The Emery comity fair will be held at Castle Dale September Sep-tember 20, 21 and 22. Emery Laracn Is in charge of the program and E A. Nielson of exhibits. FARMINGTON Thirty cars if onions and two cars of other produce were shipped from Davis county recently. re-cently. H. P. Mathews, crop Inspects1 reports that this is the largest Mj ment ever made in Any one day frooi thiscounty, and that they are of the highest quality. RICHFIELD Ground for the new stretch of highway, officially catalogued cata-logued as state and federal project No, 77-B, extending ten and four-tenths miles from fc'usinore to the portal of Sevier canyon, was broken recently : with a ten-ton tracto" and large Frcs-! Frcs-! no road grader of improved type. SALT LAKE Unsettled and cooler weather with probable showers, is I predicted by J. Ceiil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau. Rains huve been falling quite generally over the Pacific northwest, and the storms are believed to be working their way to- ; ward the intermountain region. PROVO Estimated crop yields in ! Utah for 1928 are gonora'ly above ' those of 1927, according to a report issued is-sued recently by Frank Andrews, statistician sta-tistician for the United States department depart-ment of agriculture. Despite the scant rainfall in August, the report states that most crops are yielding fairly j well. FILLMORE Ranges deteriorated ; during August and hence prospects for .j fall and winter grazing in Utah and ' Nevada are not good, according to tha monthly report just issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the United States department of acrri-culture. acrri-culture. Lack of rainfall, which has been about one-fifth of normal ."or Utah, is responsible for th's condition. WT. PLEASANT The last of thia season's flower shows sponsored by the Civic league, of which Mrs. S. D. Longsdorf Is president, was . exceptionally excep-tionally well attended Monday, with nearly one hundred entrirs of flowers. During the show a talk on "Rests and Treir Culture" was given by Professor Profes-sor Emil Hansen of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college. EPHRAIM Assistant District Forester For-ester E. Winkler spent several days recently In conference with local officers offi-cers checking up on carrying capacity of private and state lands within and adjacent to the forests. Moving picture pic-ture operators from Washington office of-fice and Assistant Supervisor C. Bct-tansen Bct-tansen of the Wasatch forest are spending several days on the MantI national forest securing pictures of heep grazing. SPANISH FORK Announcment was made recenlty by officials of the Crescent Products company of Salt Lake that a new branch of the company com-pany will be built In Spanish Fork. The new company, while controlled ly the Salt Lake concern, will be organized organ-ized under a new name. The new com. pany, which will as far as possible, employ Spanish Fork citizens in its plant, will manufacture dairy products and cold pack fruits and preserves. PARK CITY Snow fell in the foothills foot-hills recently, true to the prediction of J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist o? the United States weather bureau, and at several different parts of the city light flurries were reported by citizens. No trace of snow was reported, however, at the weather bureau, although rain and unusually cold weather was recorded. re-corded. The temperature taken at 6 a. m. Thursday morning was eight degrees below normal for this time of the year, the thermomster registering 41 degrees. SALT LAKE The continued drouth this year in the southern part of Utah has resulted in a shortage of feed on the ranges tha tthreafens large losses in beef and cattle, and many of the cattlemen are seriously considering selling out unless re'ief by the importation of feed is in sight, according to J. M. Macfarlane, presi-dent presi-dent of the Utah Cattle and Hors Growers' association, who Im I turned from a tour of inspection on which he conferred with cattlemen in the couties en route. HEBER CITY Due largely to Increase In-crease acreage, wheat this year is esti- mated at 6,817,000 bushels, compared i to 5,678,000 bushels in 1927. OaU also j will increase, according to present es- : timates, which state that 2,320 000 bushels will be produced compared to 2,142,000 last year. Hay is estimated at 1,608,000 tons while, last year 1,-674,000 1,-674,000 tons were grown. The apple and peach crops will show graater yields and the report states that thtre are more bearing peach trees this ' year. BRIGHAM CITY Peach shipments ! from Utah are gradually subsiding j after heavy season, and soon will ! find the fruit exhausted, it was said by A. J. Cronin, general freight nd I I passenger agent of the D. & R. G. VV. j j railroad. Spanish onions an 1 toniato?s : j are continuing strong, however, and i i should continue with heavy shipments I for another month, or until the frost ; strikes the crop. Woods Cross is one of the heaviest shipping points for onion3, while all of Utah and Davis county points are also heavy. T!.e j onions are beintr shipped principally I east and south, Mr. Cronin said. |