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Show ! I News Notes f j It's a Privilege to Live in J j I Utah Salt Lake City. Until 8 o'clock Saturday Sat-urday night, fifty-eight carloads of cherries had been shipped out of the state so far this season by express, according to information received by Paul Kelly, chairman of the agricultural agricul-tural committee of the chamber of I commerce. Until the corresponding date last year, twenty straight car-I car-I loads had left Utah. I Logan. July 3 is the date set for the annual Wheat day on the Levan ridge, located close to Nephi, according accord-ing to an announcement made by Superintendent Sup-erintendent A. F. Bracken of the Nephi substation of the Utah Experiment Experi-ment station. The original date was July 8, but a change was considered necessary in view of the rapidity with which the wheat crop is maturing. j Vernal. At a hearing before -the j public utilities commission Wednesday cn the matter of grantnig a franchise to operate an auto freight line from I Vernal to Salt Lake City, a compromise comprom-ise was effected between the Sterling Transportation company and the smaller trucking companies of the basin, whereby it was agreed between the parties that the former company should operate between Vernal and Salt Lake City over the Strawberry route, and the latter companies would operate from Vernal to Price. Price. For the first time, storage water behind the big Horsley dam near Scofield has been turned out and is being distributed over the dsi-trict dsi-trict through the network of canals. Wallace R. Wayman, water commissioner commis-sioner for the Price river system and Orson P. Madsen, agricultural agent opened the valves at the dam, the simple ceremony marking the beginning begin-ning of an era of agricultural development develop-ment in the Price river irrigation district. dis-trict. Salt Lake City.---A government check for $10,249.47 final federal aid payment on the Fort Duchesne-Vernal project, was received at the office of the state Toad commission recently. Weber county funds amounting to $19,-1S0, $19,-1S0, -which will be applied on the Morgan county-Devjl's Gate project, also were received by the road commission, com-mission, as was a check for $5000, betterment funds for the extension of the rock -wall in Ogden canyon. ( Mt. Pleasant. At a recent meeting of the Sanpete county commissioners and representative citizens of Mt. Pleasant, together with Supervisor J. W. Humphries of the forest service, Commissioners George E. Cook and L. P. Nelson, pledged the support of the board on the road building program pro-gram between Fairview and Huntington. Hunting-ton. Brigham City. W. H. Wattis, vice president and manager and D. B. Pratt agricultural engineer, of the Utah- ham City with the view of inspecting some of the beet fields in this part of the county. Roosevelt The first crop of alfalfa is cut in the lower central section of the basin, and most of it has been in the stack for two weeks. The second crop growths are well advanced. In all of the lower or central part of the-basin, the-basin, for the first time, the farmers are cuting the first crop for hay, with few exceptions, and depending on tho second crop for seed. This is done not only to get more hay, but to better control the chalcis fly and other pest. Salt Lake City. Indications are thath the total tonnage of all fruit crops in Idaho will compare favorably with last year, says Julius Jacobson, ' agricultural statistician for Idaho, in his monthly outlook summary. Peaches Peach-es promise 197,000 bushels, against last year's almost dismal failure of 23,000 bushels. Pears are forecast at 69,000 bushels, compared with 39,000 bushels in 1925. The cherry crop will also be larger, and is now being harvested. har-vested. Last year 115 carloads were shipped and the 1926 figure is expected expect-ed to exceed this total by several dozen doz-en carloads. Salt Lake City. Instruction in citi zenship and millitary courtesy was given to the citizen soldiers at their I training camp a Fort Douglas Wednes-l Wednes-l day. These instructions will be fol-j fol-j lowed by close order drill and lec-i lec-i tures in first aid work. Major John j J. McCormick of the medical corps l will have charge of the first aid in-! in-! struction. i j Monticello. State Engineer H. J. j Kielson, who has the work of survey-I survey-I .ng the federal aid road from Monti-, Monti-, :ello to the state line, reports that the center survey line is completed a dis-i dis-i tance of twelve miles, which brings It from the end of project No. 7 to the ' Utah-Colorado state line. Mr. Nielson j reports the route inexpensive, Salt Lake City. Application for per- mission to abandon its mixed traia j schedule between Utah Railway Junc-:iou Junc-:iou and the Hiawatha mine in Car-Jon Car-Jon comity and between Jacobs and Standardviile was filed with the Pubic Pub-ic Utilities commission by the Utah Railway company. The company sets 'orth the fact that there has been a Jig shrinkage in the passenger traf-.'ic traf-.'ic on the road and that receipts from :his source have dropped from '9 -12-1.42 in 1922 to $3,160.36 in 1925, and :o $429.11 in the first three months )f 1926. |
