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Show I News Notes I It', a Privilege t0 LiVe k j Utah Salt Lake City. The 192(5 beet acreage in Utah lg al) BUnf same as last year, but ia I(lahC0Utih,he is a reduction of approximated ia!" acres, It Is noted In the sugar ' forecast issued recently by Frant draws, Utah statistician with th partment of agriculture. The 11 acreage this year la calculated at 000, acres, the area harvested last t , Idaho's 1926 crop will ms froia , L 000 acres, whereas the 19'5 a "'' was 88,000 acres. " reas9 Salt Lake City. Plans to do b terment work amounting to ah j $5000 to cover the expense of the t was received and the work will t ! at onca. It Is planned to widen? road In Boxelder canyon. The ' counting department also received" check for $2565 from Boxelder count' to cover its portion of the cost of constructing the bridge on the Bri ham-Mantua project. Myton. The annual meeting 0 tin stockholders of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association of Myton will b9 held Tuesday, July 13 at 2 p. m. The election of officers and other business of lmportaince will come up. Over l(o seed growers are members of this 0t. ganization, and for the year 1923 about 2,000,000 pounds of seed was handled in this plant. William Gentry of Ioka is president and William Zowe Is secretary. sec-retary. Salt Lake City. RangeB In rjM, have for tho most part declined In con-ditlon con-ditlon since June 1 and lack ot moisture mois-ture and stock water is reaching a serious stage in places, it Is indicated in the July range and livestock condition con-dition report of G. A. Scott, regioni' livestock statistician with the depart ment of agriculture. The condition o( ranges is given in this report as 93 per cent normal, compared with SJ per cent June 1 and 96 per cent July 1 of last year, and 72 per cent the same date two years ago. Salt Lake City. The revised estimate esti-mate of commercial onion acreage in Utah fs given as 800 acres, compared with 500 acres In 1925, in the truck crop news bulletin of the department of agriculture. Yields were exceptionally exception-ally high for onions In 1925 and Hie carlot movement amounted to 559 cars. It is expected that between 700 and 800 cars will be needed to move the Utah onion crop this season. Logan. Reports of production records rec-ords for June have been made by three of the four cow testing associations associa-tions in Cache Valley. In the Wells-ville-College Ward association 451 cows were on test with 20 dry. Tie Central Cache association reported there we're 578 cows on test and 44 not j milking, while the Hyrum Paradise association had 372 cows on test and 27 dry. Salt Lake. Coming at a time when parched crops thirsted for moisture, a vigorous shower, believed to have been general in its scope, followed closely upon the heels of local storms that were accompanied by considerable consider-able damage. Value accruing Irom the storm, however, more than offset the damage that had been wrought. Wherever rain fell, farmers rejoiced, excepting those whose hay was not In stack. Salt Lake Photographs eight feet high and eight feet wide of some of the waterpower sites of Utah, made by a camera that weighs thirty tons, may be on exhibition soon at the stati capitol and the Salt Lake chamber of commerce, according to Rolf R Woolley of the water division of the United States geological survey. Mr. Woolley is now negotiating for the negatives from the department ' Washington Garfield. A cloudburst at the bub-mlt bub-mlt of the Oqulrrh range west of this town shortly before midnight Wedues- 1 day night caused a torrent to rush 1 down gullies on the hillsides and over the state highway leading from Salt Lake to Tooele county and the st A short distance from the end of the pavement at the Salt Lake-Tooele county 'line mud covered the pavement to a depth of eighteen inches or more. It was mixed with boulders said to w as large as two feet In diameter a"0 became impassable for automobiles-Pleasure automobiles-Pleasure seekers who had come lr Tooele to Saltalr were held up K, and some cars that attempted to Se-through Se-through the mud were stuck. Kaysvllle. Kaysville and the cow try to the south and east were visit? by another flood Thursday evening the first time in the history oft community that two floods have be suffered within three days. The sto' which caused the flood broke In canyon, southeast of Kaysvllle, a 7:30 o'clock and reached Its cres the mouth of the canyon an hour la Ogden Northern Utah was dreocJ ed Thursday night with a rain cai lated to benefit argiculture in sureably. Reports reaching V were that the rain extended in joining counties and was heavy e to do great good to the pnrched lands. It is believed that the m responsible for a landslide I" '' canyon a short distance Hermitage park and ''"""i !e ' west of the place of the tmnien( t last year. Dirt covered l)0"' UJ.0 1 feet of the paved highway, but ' biles were f hlo to pass |