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Show J Mews Notes : ' It' a a Privilege to Lioa in : Utah t a Myton Growing or corn In the. Uintah basin is an agricultural necessity neces-sity in. order to supply the locaL demand de-mand and it is being urged by business busi-ness men and others in terested in the future of this part of state. The growing grow-ing of corn has been tried out to- such an extent that it Is believed it can be produced in a profitable manner. Those who raised corn last year are-satisfied are-satisfied with the results attained. Milford With only 1100 acres of sugar su-gar beets reported contracted so far this year in Millard county, a decrease of practically 50 per cent under last I year, heavy acreage in the county will I be planted to wheat. This was the statement of M. S. Winder, secretary of the Utah State Farm bureau, who returned Saturday from a five-day tour of the county. Morgan Roads in Echo canyon should be open .in a few days, if the good weather keeps up. it was announced an-nounced Monday by II. S. Kerr, state engineer. The roads have been closed more or less of the time for the past three weeks anfl are In bad shape, Mr. Kerr reported. Construction work on the canyon highways was abandoned when the snow became deep, but this will be resumed as soon as they dry up a little, the engineer said. Myton O. P. Watterson of Myton, who has leased the Upalco flour mill located lo-cated here, is urging the farmers to plant more wheat. Mr. Watterson says he will be able to handle 50,000 bushels this fall. He advises farmers to plant hard wheat varieties, in pref-ernece pref-ernece to soft wheat, as the hard wheat, he says, brings a better price and produces a better grade of flour. Ogden Ogden City's operating deficit de-ficit for 1926 is $12,843.39, as compared with the estimated deflicit of $39,835.20 set up for the city by the 1926 budget, which was prepared in December, 1925, it is shown by the annual report of Mrs. Mary E. Farley, city auditor, which was submitted to the city commissioners. com-missioners. Provo Report of the Telluride Power Pow-er company of Provo for the year 1926, filed Monday with the public utilities commission, shows a balance of $25,-uOO.81 $25,-uOO.81 transferred to surplus at the close of the year. This amount was $13,893.47 larger than the balance transferred in 1925. Operating revenues reven-ues of the company in 192G amounted to $204,257.71, with total operating expenses ex-penses of $139,962.11. Spanish Fork Utah county's annual livestock show will open at Spanish Fork. Wednesday, for four days. Jacob C. Hansen, president, and Dr. George C. Taylor, manager of the show, report re-port that this year's exhibition will have more entries than any previous livestock display in the county. Moreover, More-over, -the stock will Represent more branches of the livestock industry. Kaysvllle The 1927 outlook for canning can-ning crops is not particularly bright, according to J. G. M. Barnes, director of the National Canner's association, and former president of the Utah Can-ners Can-ners association. Over production of tomatoes, peas and corn during the past two years Is responsible for the condition, he avers. In 1P25 and 1926. millions of cases of tomateos, peas and corn have been sold at less than production cost. Ephraim The Sanpote county commissioners com-missioners have arranged to secure tho use of a steam shovel for the widening wid-ening of the Fr.irview-C.'.nyon road, and expect to start work within ten days. The letting of the contract for the construction of the upper Gooseberry Goose-berry reservoir has made it necessary to got immediate action on this project, proj-ect, since the road will have to be widened wid-ened before part of the machinery necessary nec-essary can be taken to the proper site. Brigham City The large flour ml!l. machinery nnd stock of the Brighum CityiRollcr Milling company was burn-, burn-, cd Friday night of last week shortly latter 9 o'clock. The mill was located on Boxelder creek ut the mouth of the .canyon, and a heavy east wind aided ' tho fire iu its rapid destruction. The loss is estimated at about $30,000, cov-! cov-! ered with $16,000 insurance. Park City Thomas Blyth, president of the BlytLvFargo company, and Ly- I man Fargo, vice president, were in I lin k Ciiy to aid insurance adjusters following tho $200,000 lire which do-s(i'oc(l do-s(i'oc(l Uio company's etoro. The smoldering ruins made auy attempt at fixing tho loss impossible. The j huge sal'u was too hot to open nnd the i adjusters returned to Salt Lake to come back later. 1 Price Carbon county commission-era commission-era are planning a meeting iu tho near future wilh the state road commission anil tho Utah county commission tit 'Provo, with the purpunu iu view of j making sonic kind of arrangements to ' improve the loud over Soldier summit. 1 Ephrnim John Armstrong, woo grower, recently marketed 1000 lambs ut. Kansas City at $11. 90 per hundredweight, hundred-weight, toonlug tliu market for Unit d.iy. These lambs nverr. j:ed !S pouluK .villi no eti'.Ia. The lambs nette,! hi'.u betters than $2 a head more th:n tho best ofer ho received for thorn locally. Salt IjiIio Ciiy- Flint .llmmy .InmiM oslnhltuhed a now fl i i 1 1- record from Los Anjv'lon li L-',ilt Luke when, he covered cov-ered th. i f.O milen In four hours nnd nine miniue-., si.viecn mlnuio-j better Ibioi his own mark anil tii d by Maury Grain, m. lie carried nearly .;;ip )Hinud of mail. |