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Show I News Moles j J It's a Privilege to Lius in S Utah Ogden. Five thousand trout finger-lings finger-lings were planted Monday in the water of upper Ogden valley by Deputy Depu-ty Came Warden W. H. Anderson. Ogden Og-den merchants, members of the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association, as-sociation, donated the use of trucks to haul the fish to Weber county from the state hatchery in Springville. Layton. Superintendent D. D. Harris Har-ris of the Davis and Weber Counties' Canal company will soon have that part of the canal between the two bridges on the state highway and west of the road concreted. This stretch of the canal is located on sandy sail and the concrete lining will save a great amount of water. Salt Lake City. The membership of the Utah State Woclgrowers' association associa-tion at a special meeting at the Hotel Utah approved the proposal of the association as-sociation executive to form a wool financing fi-nancing and marketing association, which will function as a sflbsidiary -to the state association of growers. Sentiment" Sen-timent" at Monday's session might be expressed in these words: "It's time ! for the woolgrowers of Utah to join j hands or the unfavorable conditions of the past in wool marketing and financing financ-ing will continue." Erigham City. Comparatively little damage was done to the fruit crop of this section, according to many of the leading orchardists and fruit dealers. While the thermometer registered around 22 degrees above zero the coldest weather here in several waaks a good breeze swept over the country, coun-try, which aided materially in saving the tender buds of the early apricots and cherries, which were partly in bloom. It is thought that the crop was thinned down a little, but not to any great extent. Salt Lake City. Even the islands iD ijreat bait lake, effectively isolated by briny waters of an inland sea, are not escaping the oil frenzy which has swept the state since oil was struck on the Colorado river early in December. De-cember. Tuesday four oil and gas prospecting permits, embracing several sever-al thousand acres of land on Stans-bury Stans-bury island, were applied for in the local land office. Salt Lake City. Expansion in the tomato industry, particularly in new teritories, is noted in a report by Frank Andrews, state agricultural statistician. The statistician figures new acreage in southern Utah at 150 acres. About seventy-five acres are growing in Washington county, where the season is several weeks earlier than in the main tomato producing areas of the state. Another seventy-Sve seventy-Sve acres are under contract near Moab, about thirty-five miles south of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad in eastern Utah. Salt Lake City. With a drop in temperature to 22 degrees Monday morning, following the snowstorm of Sunday, considerable damage has been done to the apricots in the northern part of the state, according to reports received here, although all other crops are believed to be unhurt. Apricots f.ro the first of the fruit trees to blossom blos-som and therefore usually suffer most from frost. The others, including peaches, apples and cherries, were not far enough along in their development to be injured, according to the fruit growers. Salt Lake City. China's Sophie Tormentra, a young producer in the Jersey herd of W. A. Nnttall of Provo, has met all requirements for the American Jersey Cattle club silver medal by producing 492. SS pounds of buterfat and S120 pounds of milk in 205 days and carrying her calf for 176 days of this time, it is announced from club headquarters. She made this fine record on two makings per day. Salt Lake City. California leads the Ninth corps area in number of R. O. T. C. students enrolled, according accord-ing to advices from the corps area headquarters, the University of California Cali-fornia at Berkeley has more than any other educational institution. There are SC97 in the state, of which number the university has 1G85. Los Angeles high schools are second, with 1516, . while San Francisco high schools are in lliird place with 1121. Among the states. Utah is second, wilh 2261 future fu-ture officers. The grand total for the corps area is IS.Gl. Eerr-er. Ten teams and men left for Milford Friday morning for a carload car-load of s-Td peas contracted for by the local farmers. This, is the first year the farmers of Beaver have signed 'contracts to raise seed peas. It is believed the venture will be a success, as soil and climatic conditions are favorable fa-vorable to such growth. Myton. J. H. Hunkey, H. L. Allrec'., unvicl r-,icholson, J. N. Cooper and William Gentry, the committee np-' np-' pointed by the Duchesne county farm bureau to formulate plans for a see:' rowers' organ i?.at:.-,n. have issued a a'l for a meeling of the seed grower o be held Saturday, April 3, at Itoose-ell Itoose-ell Sprinc-viUe. The muni national an ' xhibit of the Springvi'.le high school vill open on Thursday afternoon, Apr: 1, with a program at 3 o'clock in tb, .lifjh sc.ool auditorium. |