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Show News Notes t It 'a a Privilege to Live in : Utah : - Ephraim The city of Ephraim' has authorized the building of a small reservoir res-ervoir just above the bulkhead of its electric power plant. The purpose of this construction is to store water to be drawn upon d"ring the peak load of the plant. Magna All Magna lacks for a first-class first-class skating pond is freezing weather. A dike for impounding water in the new community t'ond was completed and water, furnished from the Utah Copper company line that ruus near the new rink, is now pouring into the pond. The pon will cover an acre, according ac-cording to representatives of the Magna Mag-na Lions club; whose efforts have been responsible for the building of the rink. Next season it is planned to flood a larger area. Ephraim. A number of lpc'al sportsmen sports-men of this city have been busy the past week on the mountains east of the city in the vicinity of the beaver dams, making ready for the planting of 15,000 rainbow trout. The pond, belonging be-longing to Dave Madsen, has been screened and most of the willows hopped out and burned. Logan Starting on a small seals this year, the bean industry added $35,-. 000 to Cache valley earnings. The farmers received approximately ?17,-000 ?17,-000 for their crop and the factory payroll pay-roll added an additional $18,000. Layton With beet hauling almost completed, and with an average of 1000 tons of beets being handled daily, the fall campaign of the Layton Sugar Company is half finished. Brighton Snow in generous quantity quanti-ty at Bright was repo rted to Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, commissioner of waterworks, by observers at this important im-portant watershed at 3:30 o'clock Friday Fri-day afternoon last. Six inches had fallen, and it was still snowing. The major beleved at least twelve inches would be laid by Saturday morning. Salt Lake Last year during celery week more than 100,000 stalks of Utah celery were sent to all parts of the United States in individual gift packages. pack-ages. This was enough, it has been estimated, es-timated, to serve at least a quarter of a million people. This week it is hoped that there will be even more celery sent out by Utahns in gift packages. This practice is being encouraged en-couraged by the celery committee of the chamber of commerce, L. E. Ge-han, Ge-han, chairman, which is in charge of the Celery week activities. Salt Lake The city waterworks department de-partment began at noon Wednesday to store reservoir water for winter use by closing the gates at Mountain Dell dam. The city commission, which had gone there to inspect the necessity for sealing the corbies, a proposed item in next year's buget was present when the dam was closed to hold the water for the winter, according to H. K. Burton, city superintendent of waterworks. water-works. Utah A balance of approximately $20,000 to the credit of the state fair association was reported to the fair board Thursday by Ernest S. Holmes, manager of the association. This figure fig-ure included a cash balance of IS, 677.-11, 677.-11, with outstanding bills receivable amounting to $3486.50 and estimated bills payable amounting to $2000. Logan Residents' of Cache valley will get their morning Tribune w:th their breakfast under a new plan of distribution inaugurated Thursday morning. Previously, defects in train connections have made it impossible to get the final edition of The Tribune the one which is distributed in Salt Lake into Cache valley homes until 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning. Under the new system, Cache valley subscribers sub-scribers will receive their Tribune almost al-most as early as subscribers living in Salt Lake. Ft. Duchesje First carload shipments ship-ments of turkeys for Thanksgiving are quoted at thirty-four cents a pound, according to shippors' announcements. an-nouncements. Reports indicate that there are less of the fowl than last year in this vicinity. Provo According to a report Just issued by the county auditor. Clifford Wright, the totai amount spent on county roads for the period between January 1 and November 1 is 439.65. The money was distributed in the various districts in the county. The largest amount was expended in the Elberta district. $6.SbS.07. Moab Fishing operations have been suspended on the Frank Shafer No. 1 well on Cane Creek dome, pending the arrival from Casper, Wyo.. of several sockets which will be used in an attempt to' bring to the sur face the tools which were bridged ir Ihe hole when the well blew in s a gusher on election day. Price -Further steps to assure the constitution of a concrete reservoir for til; storage of Price's wat.er-.su;i.lv are bc'.iK taken by the membership council of the chamber of commerce, a committee from which will meet with the city council at on early date and present, dotaib'd plans for consideration. considera-tion. 11. J. Turner, engineer, has pro-pared pro-pared profiles, niiirs ami other information infor-mation on the project, and says that til o object in building the proposed reservoir res-ervoir Is to prevent the pollution rl the present water supply. |