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Show : News Notes I . . It's a Privilege to Live in Utah - A Duchesne On account of the immense im-mense amount of snow piled in the mountains, and in the lowlands in proportion, pro-portion, the prospects are better .than for several years for a good supply ol water for irrigation for tie lands in the Uintah basin. The last storm, beginning be-ginning on February 12 and'eontinu ing for one week, the snowfall at Du chesne was twenty inches, with a lit tie moro than two inches of water contents. con-tents. The snow in the lower countrj is melting very fast. Gunnison Through a deal which was closed in Salt Lake last week, tho Westview Irrigation company increased increas-ed its water right by purchasing nine second feet of water from the Knight Trust company, of Provo and E. A. Porter of Salt Lake Ctiy. There ara 2000 acres of land under the Westview company. The deal was made possible hrough the efforts of Junius Metcalf, president, and C. II. Childs, secretary of the company. Brigham City Boxelder county is to have a milk condensory within the near future, if present plans under consideration by- the Boxelder commercial com-mercial club and chaniber of commerce com-merce develop, it was announced. The exact location of the condensory has not been fully determined. Nephi The first shipment of purebred pure-bred Lincoln ewes for the foundation of the Juab county Boys' Shoep club has arrived at Nephi, according to report re-port from A. E. Smith, Juab county agricultural agent. Through the co-operative co-operative work of Juab county sheep men, the agricultural instructor of thb Nephi high school and the county agricultural agri-cultural agnt, J. H. Patrick, Ilderton, Canada, one of the leading Lincol'i breeders of the continent,, was induced to send direct from his flocks in Canada Can-ada some of his finest ewes for th.i Utah club. Salt Lake Extermination of rals Li the southern part of Salt Lake couii ty will be the object of a campaign to be waged between March 1 and 10, n, s-cording s-cording to an announcement of Veie L. 'Martineau, county agricultural agent. L. Scott Zimmerman, rodent extermination .expert of the TJnitud States biological survey, will be charge of the campaign. Logan Mild weather has continued tor tho past week throughout the state, according to the report issued by J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau. bu-reau. The report refers to moderately heavy precipitation over most of the state, as being excellent for grains, range grasses and browse. - Lehi Everyone in Lehi is rejoicing over the relighting of the streets which have been in darknoss since last May, following the discontinuance of tho light service of the Utah Power and Light company. The new municipal street lighting plant went into operation. opera-tion. The big dynamo at the power house is operated by a crude oil engius of the Diesel type. The lights are brilliant and steady. While only a portion of the system was put into operation, op-eration, the test is said to be satisfactory satis-factory as far as the quality of tho service is concerned. Moab Purchase of the Moab lamb pool by the Culp & Sons LivestocK company, Salt Lake, was annoucel. The Salt Lake firm takes the pool, expected ex-pected to total approximately 10,000 head, at 9 cents. The contract calls for October delivery. This is one of the important key sales of the seaso a. Last year the Moab pool sold for 1.0 cents, but the lamb market was somewhat some-what stronger than it is this year. Other lamb contracts for fall delivery havn.been reported from points in the Uintah basin. Salt Lake Appropriation of $12,000 to buy a new fire fighting truck was authorized by the city commission Thursday. The amount was set up In the budget for this year, according to Commis?!oner Charles N. Fehr. The machine lo said to be capable of carrying car-rying 150 gallons of chemicals and of pumping 1000 gallons of water per minute. It will arrive in a week or ten days and will be. temporarily placed at central station. Salt Lake Sumary by tho department depart-ment of agriculture of carlot shipments ship-ments of leading agricultural products from Utah to Februnry 13 shows a seasonal sea-sonal movement lower than that for last year. Up to February V., which accounts for perhaps the entire season's sea-son's movement, Utah shipped 42S car loads of apples against 11DS cars moved during the l!)2a-2f season. Ida-bo's Ida-bo's apple movement has been 3ii59 carloads last year. The lowered export ex-port volume traces to reduced prices resulting from a heavy national production. pro-duction. The commercial apple production produc-tion In 1925 was 39,0!t"),000 barrels, approximately ap-proximately 6.000,000 barrels above tht'.t of the previous year. , , Logan Utah fed lambs are going to et.'orn markets on a greater voluma tl n usual this year, it was reported ! on Tuesday by George A. Sccit, region- al livestock statinticlan with the do- partment of agriculture, upon his return re-turn from Washington, where he was called three weeks ago to the annual conference- of government live-'iock j st.itisticlr.ni. On his return trip h( visiled the Ch'r.-.go. Omaha nr.d D- n vct live.ncelt markets. He observer that lnr,;e nun.!;;rs of Utah la:r.bi arc I moving to Denver and if the sirrkct is I 'jr.satisf-ictory they are recous'-ju id '.o 'he middle wst ond east. I |