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Show I News Notes : It's a Privilege to Live in UilEil : ?"' Salt Lake City. Salt Lake will not be without organized baseball this season, In spite of the withdrawal from the Pacific Coast league, it was indicated here by H. W. Lane, president presi-dent of the Salt Lake Bees of seasons past. Salt Lake City. Utah crop values Increased $16,500,000 in 1925 ovei 1924 according to the report o the U. S, department of agriculture through the Utah statistician, Frank Andrews The report lists hay, grain, potatoes and sugar beets as the big producers of crop income for the state during 1925 with pears returning the least. Total values for 1924 were $32,915,-00 $32,915,-00 as against $49,605,00 for 1925. Myton. The commercial club of Myton recently selected H. Blaine as chairman of the road committee, ani empowered him with authority to select se-lect others to aid him. The club, working with the city council and American Legion, expects to gravel and grade Main street. Salt Lake City. The business interests in-terests of southern California are looking to the development of Utah in various lines and that California capital will lend encouragement to that development is the opinion of J. A. Nelson of the Nelson-Ricks Creamery Cream-ery company of this city, who returned return-ed recently from Los Angeles where they attended the sessions of the Pacific Pa-cific States Butters, Eggs, Cheese anci Poultry associatian. Ogden. W. S. McCarthy, director of the Utah Shippers' Traffic association, associa-tion, urged the Kiwanis club to give full support to the Gooding freight rate bill, now before congress. If the bill is not passed and an increase in rates is granted to the carriers, the development of the west will be greatly great-ly retarded, he said. Logan. The Utah Agricultural college col-lege board of trustees has decided that the $500 recently given to the college by Herbert S. Auerbach of Salt Lake will be -used as a fund to provide for the establishment of a special library in history, according to President E. G. Peterson. From the fund books will be purchased which will be known as the "Herbert S. Auerbach Collection in History." Logan. Snow on Mt. Logan is considerably con-siderably below the normal for February Feb-ruary 1 in depts and still further below be-low normal in water content, according accord-ing to George D. Clyde, irrigation engineer en-gineer of the Utah Agricultural college. col-lege. Snow cover at 7000 feet eleva- . tion averaged 28 inches with 6.1 inches in-ches of water content; at 8700 feet, 40 inches of water and at S700 feet, 42 inches with 10.9 inches of water. Ogden. Work will start on the new $65,000 passenger station of the D. & R. G. W. railroad in this city within forty days, and it will be ready for occupancy before the end of the summer, according to the announcement announce-ment of officials of the road, who were in the city to pick out the sito. Salt Lake City. The snow storm, although not deparately needed by rangers or farmers, according to J. Cecil Alter, in charge of the local office of the weather bureau, was nevertheless welcomed by all, and especially es-pecially by the city water department. depart-ment. The fall at the weather bureau office on top of the Boston building amounted to about an inch of snow with a water content of about a quarter quar-ter of an inch. On the benches surrounding sur-rounding the city it amounted to between be-tween two and three inches. The storm extended over northern Utah and southern Idaho generally. Salt Lake City. Hangar and landing land-ing field facilities for the Western Air Express will be provided by local interests, it was decided at a meeting of the special committee on working out this detail incident to the inauguration inaugu-ration of the west's first great commercial com-mercial air line April 1, when daily communication by airplane will be es- tablished between this city and Los : Angeles. Price. An increase of 3601 In 1925 was noted in the circulation of the Carnegie library at Price, over the year 1921, according to the annual report of Mrs. It. Cantrill, librarian. The total circulation for 1925 was given at 24.101. Adult circulation totaled to-taled 11.270, while the juvenile total : was 11XA. Salt Lake City. The number of sheep and lambs in Utah has been in-created in-created by 157.000 head during the past year, bringing the total number up to 2.405.0O0 head, as compared with 2.24M00 h-ad of January 1, 1Ti25. The number of milk cows in the slate also show in Increase of 1000 head as compared com-pared with 1925. There are now H.-009 H.-009 heSd ,n the s'ate, as compared with i7,000 head last year. Salt Lake City Some ea-ly gardens gard-ens have been planted at St. George and roads in that vicini'f are dusty, I showing the n -' d for precipitation in the svi'lirrn j-irt of th'j Mate, according accord-ing to the v f. .-',; ly weotllT r'-pi.rt of J. Cecil AI'-t, i- Imch -: i -. Th? d ' s' ripi icn.s of : roal f--''--T"l fiid Tr':-"t f'fi-i". Myton .' to K".-" v.l: v.-;.:-h '.es r-c -n:Iy approve.-! by th- tw arid r-deral " rf an of public r ::''.s. have been f-ir-nishe'l hc co:;ify oammiHrlnners. The matter has been tars' d over to th couiny af'.rncy I |