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Show News Now ' " 5; I Utah i Salt Lake City. What I H ized as the worst fl00d jA5'5''-?. I of Davis county, exceptin. ,1 of August 23, 1923,'occurrf!njiiSiM the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock M ternoon, when a cloudw,, UlH ing on the Wasatch mou, east of Kaysville swept dow! '' yons leading from either 11 summit and caused a propert, V' fc I estimated at nearly $15 000 ' aai I Myton. The Uintah basin I pecting an industrial mJ unusual proportions this year I ing to impressions gathered cent meeting of the executive ' I tee of the event at Ft. Duchesnf les Walker of Myton, presiaen industrial convention, presided !H meeting. Reports were heard I the chairmen of the program ty grounds and finance comrT M The convention dates this T I August 4, 5 and 6. , I Salt Lake City.-That Utah orch I ists, save for a few exceptions not keeping their apple and peach I chards up to a point where the,- I be depended upon for highgrade I stable crops annually, is the com-' I tion of Harden Bennion, state t0! I missioner of agriculture. "Instead , I are allowing them to overbear un,jt! I favorable conditions, thus glutting ft- I market with inferior fruit when ftp I do product and causing them to goby I ren the succeeding year," ne cot I ments. I Vernal. The executive commits I of the Uintah basin industrial con I vention has practically completed . I rangements for the fourth annual sp- I sions of the convention to be held I Fort Duchesne on August 4, 5 and f I C. W. Walker of Myton is president I and F. A. Gross of Fort Duchesne li I vice president of the convention, wiih I E. Peterson, Ray E. Dillman, W. i I Paxton, Campbell Ditster, Mrs. Jam I Murray, George E. Phillips, Mrs. I George A. Harrison and J. A. Chene; I other members of the executive com- I mittee. Johnny Victor and William I Wash, Indians, comprise the commit. I tee in charge of Indian paritcipatioi I in the convention. I Salt Lake Formal recommendation I that the Duchesne-Castlegate road, i I distance of forty-five miles, be incliii- I ed in the 7 per cent federal aid system I of highways was made by the state I road commission Thursday at a meet- I ing attended by all three members ot I the commission, Ira R. Browning, chief I engineer of the commission, and B. J. I Finch, district engineer of the federal I bureau of public roads. It is under- I stood that Mr. Finch will concur in the I recommendation. I Myton Sumsion & Clyde, contrat- I tors, who are building the Myton-An- I telope unit of the federal aid road, I have located their camps near Myton I and have a force of men and trucks at I work grading the roadbed through the I town. I Salt Lake Decision to continue a- I forcement of the Utah plant and insect j quarantine, despite the fact that tie I supreme court of the United States re- I cently held that the law of a north- I western state similar to that of Utah I was unconstitutional, was reached at I the quarterly meeting of the stats I board of agriculture, which was just I adjourned. I Ogden All previous records in the handling of sheep were broken this I month at the Ogden union stock yards- I Receipts were more than 120,000, compared com-pared with 39,000 for June of 1925. Salt Lake Maintenance of byways by-ways in the state cost ?63,503.S8 during dur-ing June, according to the 'monthly statement of the disbursement of road funds issued by John E. Holden, state auditor. The report also shows that $7115.96 was spent for administrate and $12,370.12 for equipment durrB the month. Total amount SP1 roads during the month was 5205,73---30. The largest disbursement in anyone any-one countv was in Tooele, where 3oJ--911. SI was spent. Five of the counts had no disbursements. Ogden In the midst of one of tie warmest periods Ogden has esp enced in ten years, R. E. Gary, as. -tant district forester, returned to office Tuesday, with the news 'J eight inches of snow fell in the CM, national forest of Idaho, June U a 19 and did much to decrease the Jiazard. Salt Lake-Duv to dry and nnusuj lv warm weather ((urine the past thorughout the state, irrigation is low and rain is badly neede , though most irrigatvd crops are doing well, according to the crop and weather report of J- Cec ' ter, in charge of the local olW weather bureau. A detailed states of conditions is given. Myton Sunday was the -n''1"1' dav so far this year, according record kept at the government in Myton. The thermometer '".j ed H5. The highest ilurinK tlie h t ot June, inn.,, was 92. The 1M; ever recorded In Myton nt tho was 100 on July l.r of last your- Price -With a crew of '" ' 200 men, the eonslnu'lin'1 ')'' ( Ki) new six mile spur of the I,l'"ve ' ,per (Iratulo Western railroad fr"m ,u,corJ-to ,u,corJ-to Price is progressing rnpi'lb- lug to the contractors lu cluuo0- |