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Show : News Notes I It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah j Riverton Sixteen thousand feeder lambs will be fattened in this vicinity up until January 1, and Jordan valley, from Midvale northward, will furnish feed for a total of approximately 30,-000 30,-000 Iambs, according to information j Sunday from II. It. Hurren, cashier of j the Jordan Valley bank at Riverton. ! Provo Utah figures prominently in the canning industry of the United States, according to a bulletin just issued is-sued by the National dinners' association, associa-tion, portraying the prodiguous scope of the Industry. The total value of the output of commercially canned foods in the United States, in 1923, was $57.4, 4G5, 398, not including the 6.S95,-747 6.S95,-747 cases of pineapple packedin Hawaii. Ha-waii. The total in 1923 was made up of, vegetables, $187,579,905; fruits, $80,223,510; fish and oysters, $72,75S,-908; $72,75S,-908; soups, $27,134,049; meats, $42,-481,806, $42,-481,806, and milk, 164,702,220. Salt Lake Forecasts on carlot shipments ship-ments of potatoes from Utah and Idaho Ida-ho are made by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. This road forecasts 1000 carloads from Utah, compared with 1109 carloads moving in 1925 and 727 moved in the year previous. pre-vious. I Vernal Seedgrowers of the Uintah basin are planning to institute an annual an-nual seed show in tribute to the big alfalfa seed industry in the basin. The show this season will be held in Vernal Ver-nal in January. Bluffdale A frost heavier than has occurred in September in this vicinity for many years, visited this community. commun-ity. Mondpy mornLng the ground was white with crystalized moisture, while at watering troughs a film nearly a quarter of an inch thick covered the water. The frost marked the termination termina-tion of the tomato crop, and froze potato po-tato plants and the tops of alfalfa. It Is not believed that the alfalfa crop was seriously damaged. The frost, however, terminates the growing season sea-son for potatoes. Myton W. J. Stewart of Myton Is one of the heavy honey producers in this part of the Uintah basin. He is just finishing up the season's work, and is well satisfied with the results. For the season of 1926 he will have 700 cans of Btrained honey and 11000 osses of honey in the comb. All the people who are engaged this year in raising honey report a good crop. Midvale Approximately $150,000 will be expended in improving the highway entrance into Parley's can-; can-; yon arid widening the cement road from Murray to Midvale, the pavement between these two points being only eighteen feet wide, providing the state road commission and members of the county board of commissioners decide that way. Bingham Damage estimated at $1100 was done to a home owned by A. L. Heastonl corner of Main street and Markham gulch, by fire of undetermined unde-termined origin, which broke out Thursday morning. Most of the damage dam-age was done to furnishings of the home and was caused by water. Salt Lake Widening of Highland drive, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second South streets was completed recently. The Sugarhouse business district, along Highland drive, now has better traffic facilities. The work completed com-pleted finishes the widening program for this season, but there are possibilities possi-bilities that it will be continued southward south-ward next year. Space? for the widening widen-ing of. the street has been allowed for in front of new buildings erected during dur-ing the last year on Highland drive. East Crescent Further damage to the Draper watershed occurred Wednesday Wed-nesday morning when a brush fire, which has been burning in a desultory j manner since the original blaze ceased to be a menace, flared into life and swept through a heavy batch of brush. An jmmense volume of smoke arose and for a time it appeared that flames ' had entered thick growths of pine growing on the mountainside. The ; flames quickly subsided, however, and the damage was comparatively small. ' It is estimated that hundreds of acres of .watershed has been destroyed by the fire since it first began about ten ; days ago. Brigham City Boxelder county opened its annual fair at Tremonton with a fine showing- of agricultural and horticultural products, livestock, poultry, poul-try, dairy products and other displays. The fair will continue three days, closing Saturday night. ) Price The entire town of Scofield, ! a mining camp of 900 inhabitants, about twenty-five miles west of Price, came near being wiped out early Monday Mon-day morning when fire of undetermined undetermin-ed origin swept a part of the business -ectijn and was brought under control con-trol only after the entire population had turned out to fight it. ! Price The big Horsley dam in Pleasant valley, near Scofield, -was formally accepted at a meeting of the three directors of the Price River Water Conservation district, promo-tors. promo-tors. Price Improved road projects in of construction, aggregate more than $050,000. according to Ira R. Browning, Brown-ing, chief engineer, of the state road commission, who gave an outline of highway improvement in eastern Utah in answer to an inquiry from the Flics chamber of commerce. |