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Show t News Notes I It's a Privilege to Live in Utah 4 Gunnison Ed Cox. ranger for the Manti National forest, reports the show in the watershed in the east mountains is about eighteen inches below be-low normal. The measurement at the sawmill at the head of Twelve Mile canyon shows one foot of snow, while last year at this time there was two and one-half feet. The snow thus far, however, has packed well and coudi-lion coudi-lion will be splendid for the December and later snows. Mr. Cox says there should be no alarm at this time concerning con-cerning the water supply for next summer. Bountiful A graveled road replaces street car tracks between the two concrete con-crete strips through the. main street of Bountiful. The rails were recently torn up and have been removed. The state highway department graded the old trackbed and installed a covering of gravel. The road will receive additional ad-ditional gravel and will be graded again in the spring. According to Mayor E. M. Madsen of Bountiful, there is little prospect for the paving of the erstwhile car line roadbed dur-I dur-I ing the coming year. Salt Lake Ways in which the pro-ductivitv pro-ductivitv of the great cattle and sheep ranges of the west may be maintained J JnnnmhQ VlV tllP COT or mcreaseu aie ucoumu .. est service in a bulletin just issued. Recommendations made in the bulletin are based on studies made at the Great Basin experiment station and in other grazing belts in the Wasatch mountains in Utah. The bulletin included in-cluded a discussion of the forage types on the ranges of the Wasatch. Farmington Reveling in a carnival of blood, three coyotes Friday night k'lled or incapacitated fourteen sheep in pens belonging to D. L. Rice, a mile and a half southwest of this city. One of the beasts fell before the pistol of Mai Rice who was attracted to the scene by the unusal commotion among the sheep. The wounded coyote es-capted, es-capted, however, when Rice weapon jammed, and a second coyote, which he chased managed to keep just ahead of his horse's heels. Manti The first year of the imperial imper-ial Poultrv farm near Manti, organized organ-ized about a year and a half ago by a number of Sanpete county poultry men shows the high production record possible in Sanpete flocks. November 1 last vear, the farm began a years trapnest record with 550 pullets. The records have been checked by poultry specialists with the Utah Agricultural college. Salt Lake Victories in two important import-ant rate cases during the year will be celebrated at the annual meeting of the Utah Shippers' Traffic association, which will begin at 12:15 o'clock Monday Mon-day afternoon in the chamber of commerce com-merce building. Details of the double triumph will be recited in the annual report of J. S. Earley, secretary of the association. Total saving obtained for Utah and the intermountain region by the rate decisions amount to nearly ten millions dollars a year, according to Mr. Earley. Murray The Murray power plant at Granite, which was put out of commission com-mission Saturday by a break in the "Y" connection, will not be in opera-1 opera-1 lion acain for about ten days, it was reported Sunday by Bert Proctor, chief operator at the plant. Mr. Proctor said that when the weak spot snapped the pressure was so great that it broke open fourteen inches of concrete floor. The plant has been completely drained of the water, but it cannot be put into operation again until all of the electrical elec-trical equipment is dried out. Another An-other item that is delaying matters is a new "Y" connection will have to be shipped from San Francisco. Cal., bo-fore bo-fore the plant resumes operations. Myton--Smith brothers, who own and run a large number of sheep in the Uintah basin, have purchased three carloads of shelled corn. 00U sacks to the car. and are having it hauled to' Myton, where it is being stored for future needs of their flocks. The raising of corn in the basin to meet this demand is being urged. Farmington - With an additional hundred head of swine inoculated Thursdav. the hog cholera epidenm which has been prevalent in this coun-i coun-i ,v for the past siN weeks is practically I .i,ier control according to W. J. i Thavne. county agricultural agent for Davis county. The outbreak reached ' its peak Nt week, and since that time 1 the effect of wholesale inoculation of I hogs in the county have K-eim t" show. La v onThe Lr.yton town hoard has : K,u work on the sidewalks which i rp to be constructed on the eaM side of the Mate highway from Five point" allrt i.in on the cenv-nt walk at tne Mori ison Merrill lumber pal. 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