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Show 4 News Notes : V i It's a Privilege to Live in J ! I Utah V Salt Lake City. "I am fully confident confi-dent and have been assured that the proposed legislation regarding the title to school lands in Utah will be enacted into law at the session of congress in December of this year, and will direct my efforts unceasingly unceasing-ly to that end, realizing what it means to the stafe and to the public and common schools of my state, as well as to the other Western states. Salt Lake City. Utah's tomato crop, for which the state has been so famous fam-ous in the past, will only be a trifle over half of what it was last year, according ac-cording to a report issued by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural statistician. statis-tician. The acreage this year for tomatoes to-matoes for canning is only 4000 as j compared with more than 700 acres last year. Salt Lake City. Crop .nd range conditions in many of the counties of southwestern Utah are better than they have been for many years, M. S. Winder, secretary of the Utah State Farm bureau, reported Monday. Rains will be needed badly in that section as well as other parts of the state during dur-ing the next few weeks. Salt Lake City. The acreage of tomatoes to-matoes for canning in Utah is but 57 per cent of what it was last year, according ac-cording to a report issued recently by Frank Andrews, Utah agricultural statistician. The 1925 acreage was 7000 acres, hence the 1926 acreage wguld be about 4000, the same acreage as was planted in 1924. Myton. Tourist travel through the Uintah basin over the Victory highway high-way has begun. So far the larger numbers are traveling eastward, many of them having spent the .winter months in California, and are now on their way to their homes in the middle mid-dle western states. The different towns in the basin have suitable camping camp-ing grounds arranged for the accommodation accom-modation of the tourists. Salt Lake City. Chairman Henry H. Blood of the state road commission commis-sion said last Sunday that the highway high-way west of Salt Lake is in good condition con-dition and will remain so for the visit of the caravan, June 12, barring a possible heavy rain at that time. Construction Con-struction has gone along steadily, Mr. Blood said, and the highway to the Nevada line is practically finished. Myton. Many of the' ranchers in this part of the Uintah Basin are harvesting har-vesting their first cutting of alfalfa hay, while others who have been grazing graz-ing the land where they raise alfalfa seed are irrigating it for the first time. Logan. Due to an unusually early season in this locality, farmers are busy cutting their first crop of lucern and in a number of cases strawberries are being picked. Because of rains during April and May, the fall wheat crop looks better than for many years. Myton. One nursery has delivered 900 fruit trees this spring in the Uintah basin. It is reported that thirty thir-ty farmers will set out commercial orchards this season. Climatic conditions condi-tions are ' believed favorable for the production of excellent fruit in this part of the state. Myton. The Commercial club and business men of , Roosevelt have accepted ac-cepted the invitation of business men of Vernal to join with them in the cel-i cel-i ebration of the sesqui-centenni'al on j July 5 and 6. An excellent program is being prepared. In return, the people peo-ple of Vernal will join with Roose- velt in the observance of July 24, Pioneer day. Spanish Fork. The local plant of the Utah Packing corporation began canning the first peas of the season j Friday. While a comparatively small i force was employed, it is expected the : plant will be running at full blast before be-fore the end of the week. Peas are maturing rapidly and a good crop is expected. The new warehouse of the ; company is completed. It is expected that a much larger force of women will be employed this year than was last season. I Salt Lake City. The Utah-Idaho Central Railroad company was grant-' grant-' ed a certificate of convenience and i necessity to operate an automobile ! stage line for the transportation of i passenger and express between Logan I and the Utah-Idaho state line, and in- termediate points, by the public utili- i j ties commission Thursday. j Brigham City. The comissioners j of Boxelder county are arranging for I the building of a new ? 10.000 county ! jail, to be erected east of the present j county jail site in this city. The lo- j cation is just south of the county ! courthouse and north of the Mahannah i hospital, the ground having been pur- ; chased from Dr. D. L. Mahannah. Salt Lake Good growing w-eather still prevails throughout Utah and the crops generally are far ahead of the usual stace of development at this sea-pen sea-pen in previous years, according to the weekly crops report issued Wednesday Wednes-day by the weather bureau branch of t'r,3 department of sericulture. Og'ien,. The canning of p?as will bp tinder way in nor;hern Utah, and particularly Weber county, center of the canning Industry, within a few days, officers of the Utah Canners' association announced |