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Show I News Notes j X f' a Privilege to Livm in Utah i DUCHESNE A. G. Young & Co., road contractors, are making very satisfactory sat-isfactory progress on the highway from Duchesne to Dead Ox flat. Strawberry has been turned cm Wins-low Wins-low ranch and grading will soon be completed. The rock crusher is being moved this week to within two miles of Duchesne Just east of the first crossing cross-ing on Strawberry. From that point to DucHesne will be graveled first. The pile driver is being moved thin week and will proceed to the construction construc-tion of a bridge two miles west of Duchesne. OGDEN Utah's ' Holstein herd at the seventeenth annual Pacific international inter-national livestock show now in progress pro-gress at Portland, Ore., won third place among the states showing herds In . the Holstein class, according to telegraphic advices received by C. S. Potter, Holstein breeder, from Gilbert. Thatcher of Ogden. Washington won first place; California, second Oregon, fourth, and Idaho, fifth, in the states' competition. MYTON Uintah Basin Seed Growers' Grow-ers' association plant in Myton is beginning be-ginning to fill up, and lately It increased in-creased its force of men and now h's both cleaning machines running. This move is made in order to keep the alfalfa seed cleaned as rapidly as possible. pos-sible. Recently the association had 3000 sacks in the warehouse of this season's crop. SALT LAKE Grazing conditions through the state were improved materially ma-terially as a result of moderately heavy precipitation during the week ending November 5, according to the weekly report on weather conditions, issued from the office of J. Cecil Alter, of the U. S. weather bureau in this city. PAYSOX Little damage was dona to the state roads by the heavy rains recently, it was announced by H. S. Kerr, chief engineer of the state road commission, after receiving reports from various parts of the state. A temporary bridge over the Valley City wash in Grand county, which was put in following the September floods, was taken out, and slight damage was done in the Strawberry valley on a new alignment now under construction, construc-tion, Mr. Kerr said, but in neither case was traffic retarded to any extent MYTOX The dry spell which has covered nearly the entire month of October has been broken during the past few days. Rain has fallen all over the basin, accompained by snow in the upper country and the mountains. moun-tains. On the summit between Duchesne Du-chesne and Price the mail and stage route out of the basin, several inches of snow is reported. PRICE Ray Branch of the Carbon county beet growers states that tha wet weather of the past two days has left at least 60 per cent of the sugar beets of this section in the fields, with the Jiarvest delayed materially. It is expected that when the weather clears, it will be only a few days until the harvest work is completed, for, with the organization as perfected, the remainder re-mainder of the harvest can be completed com-pleted in a short time. OGDEX Cattle receipts at the Ox-den Ox-den union stockyards today were second sec-ond highest in the history of the stockyards, stock-yards, with a run of 5204. This is also the biggest run of the year. The market was active with good steers scarce and she-stock selling from 10a to 15c higher. VERXAL Testing of dairy cattls for tuberculosis in Uintah county already al-ready has resulted In finding the disease di-sease In thirty-three head, most of which were animals furnishing milk. About 2500 head already have been tested. The last time the testing wan done, only two head out of 2600 examined, exam-ined, reacted to the test. This year between 5000 and 6000 cattle will be tested. LOGAN' Ninety-eight per cent ol the 1700 grape starts planted this spring by the Cache County Dry Farm Grape Growers' association has thrived, thriv-ed, and as a result of this success J. E. Hyde of the company expects to plant twenty-five additional acres ol grapes next spring. LAYTOX Improvement In the location loca-tion of the stockyards will be made here within the next, ten days, when the present yards will be moved wefit and north of the present location. It has been the ambition of the town board for some time to got, the (dockyards (dock-yards away from the highway, as It will be a big Improvement to the town. The chance will put. the yards on a different spur of the Oregon Short Line, which will be parroilol to the main line and will make It. easier for the proposed removal of the spur through 1h(; town. MOAT! Farmer in this (lis trirt, have been hit rather hare" this fail by the lorn: dry speii find a number of dry fairnrri have been obliged to reheerj their fleldn. there riot, being enough moisture mois-ture In the ground to germinate th fin.t planting. HALT LAKF. Willi only about M per rent of the I '127 rrop moved, nilgai beef rblpincnM to date over the Hah Fiilc- . i t. ill railroad have equaled last season' entire product! in iicconl IbK to a report frou' A. J. Auder,ico |