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Show f News Notes j ! It'a a Privilege to Liv in I Utah I LOGAN Oregon fir trees, which were ordered by the merchants' committee com-mittee of the Logan chamber of commerce, com-merce, arrived here. The trees, which re to be used for Christmas street decorations and are of uniform size, will be placed in the flag receptacles along Main street. These, together with colored festoons, which will be itrung above them, are expected to make the business section of town very attractive and also stimulate parly Christmas shopping . OGDEN Members of the county commission discussed with Ke"nneth C. Wright, district state road engineer, the hard-surfaced highway program of the county for 192S. For this purpose $70,000 has been set aside in the budget. bud-get. Mr. Wright said that the state road commission would be willing to pave the two-mile stretch from the terminus ter-minus of the present hard-surfaced highway in Ogden calley to Huntsville. PANGUITCH Fifty thousand dollars dol-lars is the estimated value of the certified cer-tified seed potato crop of Piute and Garfield counties, according to Morgan McKay, county agent for the section. Although many will be kept for seed, approximately sixty carloads, valued at $36,000, will be sold from the section sec-tion before spring. JUNCTION Land totaling approximately approxi-mately 120 acres at Koosharem in Sevier Sev-ier county near the Piute county line was set aside for homestead filing by the government for use of thirty-four Indians who have been living on the property for several years, according to Eli F. Taylor, register of the United States land office in Salt Lake for the district of Utah. OGDEN Actual construction on the hangers at Holther field, Ogden's aviation avia-tion depot, was begun under the direction di-rection of Ora Bundy, contractor. With the prospect of good, weather, rapid progress on this work is expected, and within a few days most of the work will have been completed. DUCHESNE Several bridges were washed out, headgates and irrigation ditches damaged and a number of ranches inundated when the new embankment em-bankment of, the Farnsworth Canal & Reservoir company's reservoir, seven miles below Moon lake, gave way Bending a ten-foot wall of water down Lake Fork river. LOGAN At the commencement of the winter quarter a new four-year course in forestry will be introduced at the Utah Agricultural college. Through cooperation of the United States forestry office at Ogden the course was made possible. OGDEN Ogden will hold a big celebration cel-ebration on December 17 in observance observ-ance of the opening of its new white way. The celebration is being sponsored spon-sored by the chamber of commerce. The new triple lighting system extending ex-tending from Twenty-second street to Twenty-sixth street on Washington avenue will be turned on with appropriate appro-priate ceremony at that time. SALT LAKE Wednesday morning's fall of snow in Salt Lake and vicinity brought the total depth for the two days of storm condition to 8.2 inches. The storm, which broke in the early morning hours, was strictly local in character, according to the United States weather bureau in Salt Lake, with only a trace of snow reported Bouth of Salt Lake and on Provo bench, and one-half inch at Pocatello. DUCHESNE Federal aid in tha construction of highways in the state, amounting to $27,797.49, was received by the state treasurer Tuesday from the bureau of public roads. Of this amount $17,053.41 is to be applied on the highway from Fruitland to Duchesne Du-chesne and the remaindrr for bridges in Grand County. John Walker also received from Iron county the sum of $50,000 taxes for the current year, and also -$11,532.32 from the county of Millard Mil-lard for taxes for this year. SALT LAKE: Plans for the thirty-ninth thirty-ninth annual Utah poultry show of Utah State Poultry association, to be held In Salt Lake from January 16 to 21, were formulated at the monthly meeting of the association, held in the city and county building. It was deckled that during the last two days of the show an auction will be held similar to those which conclude the various stock shows. OGDEN' With the issuance of the 1 most complete premium lint In the history his-tory of the association, the Weber Poultry association announced- complete com-plete plans for the seventeenth annual exhibit to be held January 7 to 12, Inclusive, In-clusive, in the huge coliseum In connection con-nection with the ninth annual Ogden livestock show. LOGAN Approximately 10,804 acres of winter wheat were harvester In Cache county in 1927, according to the report of the bureau of agricultural economies' of the U. S. department ol agriculture. Of that acreage 18,193 acres were not irrigated and 1011 were Irrigated. The county also had 8474 acre of spring wheat. UTAH Construction will start within the next, month on a $30,000 plant, for the Pacific Const Products company In which will be maniilao lured a medicinal oil, developer by J. p. Jensen, mining engineer of Sail I Luke, during bin research and fx per j Imenl.il work In the production of , imoklec.M rue). Mr. Jemion )in Hold his I onlenlK to the product to the Pacific Omit Products company, which Is financed fi-nanced by Lou Anglos capital, but will supervise both the construction or tiro building un'l the operation or tin plmit. |