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Show I News Notes ! ' a Privilege to Live in 1 I Utah- Salt Lake An analysis of Utah roads from a compilation of bureau of public roads and state statistics shows the following divisions: Grand total mileage, 23.3S1.1 miles; unimproved and earth partially graded, 1S.437.9; earth to establish grade and drained, 19S9.6; total miles of surfaced road, 2953.6. A similar tabulation for Idaho shows this proportion: Grand total mileage, 34.S1G.3 miles; unimproved and earth partially graded, 11,217.9; earth to established grade and drained, 12630; total miles of road surfaced, 10.96S.4. Myton During the past week at the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' associa, tion plant 500 sacks of alfalfa seed haj been received, making a total of 1035 Friday evening. William Lowe, manager, man-ager, estimates the crop to be handled by this organization at 1,000,000 pounds. The plant of George Tingley & Sons is also filling up in a satisfactory satisfac-tory manner. Salt Lake Since the success of the early pioneer projects in irrigat;on, agriculture ag-riculture has been one of the ch.ef industries in-dustries of Utah. The developme.it of its possibilities has been a sourcO of wonder to those who have made a study of rural life in the United States. Provo There will be a normal cror of turkeys for the Thanksgiving anSj Christmas trade this year, in the opinion op-inion of Albertus W'illardson, vice president and fiield representative of the Utah Poultry Producers' Coop-ative Coop-ative Marketing association. Supplementing Supple-menting this supply of turkeys will ba a materially increased production of capons, according to this authority. Price Ira R. Browning, chief engineer engin-eer of the state road commission, spent Sunday in Price completing arrangements ar-rangements with Superintendent Cyril B. Cluff of the government operated star mail route, for the repair of the state's road equipment in the postoffice garage. Salt Lake Four more carloads of livestock arrived Sunday night to puzzle puz-zle a supervisor already worn from trying to get all the entries in the limited lim-ited barn space. All four cars came direct to Utah from the southern California Cal-ifornia fair at Pomona. The e-thibitors represented in this late shipment Include In-clude Floyd T. Fox, Silverton, Ore.; Reick Brothers, McCleay, Ore.; Cass Nichols, Monroe, Ore., and Winoerton Brothers, Charleston, Utah. Tooele Seven thousand bushels of sweet Valencia onions from eight acres is a record cio.imed by E. M. Clark of Grantsville. The onions were grown on the J. Reul'in Clark farm. The onions are remaft'Vble for their unusual size and for their uniformity. "There weren't any culls in this patch," Mr. Clark said. Delta A total of $4000 has been made available by Millard county residents res-idents for improvements on the road from Delta north to the Juab county line, Frank Paxton, chairman of the Millard county commissioners, informed in-formed the state road commission Tuesday. More money is available, he said, if that amount is insufficient to complete the work. West Jordan Practically every line of agricultural endeavor in this section sec-tion has benefited as a result of Wednesday's Wed-nesday's rainfall. In beet fields, where the crop is almost too light to make harvesting remunerative, the rain has softened the ground to an extent that digging beets is facilitated. The rsin will have a tendency toward hastening the ripening of potatoes. Tooele Two miles of road on the Victory highway, in the vicinity of Mills junction, is now being resurfaced by a crew of men under the direction of William Russell, road supervisor. The highway is being graveled and graded. Wednesday's storm aided materially in hastening the packing down of the newly repaired highway. Salt Lake Snow on the mountains and much-needed rain in the valleys resulted from the storm which co-ered co-ered northern Utah and southern Idaho Wednesday night. In Salt Lake there was a precipitation of .95 of an inch. Draper The season's first snowfall extinguished a fire in the mountains which for the past two weeks has destroyed de-stroyed an enormous area of watershed. water-shed. Snow fell to a depth of several Inches Wednesday night and effectively effective-ly quenched the flames which have been waxing and waning for a long period. Beaver The fiirst rodeo that haa ever been held in Beaver county proved to be a thriller. Such crowds of people never afsemhled in Beaver before nor since the big home coming event in 1314. The rodeo opened each day at 1 o'clock with an immense crowd in the grandstand and in every conceivable sight seeing spot. Bingham Cyprus Hall, a dormitory erected by the Utah Copper company for its office employe-, which was completed early in S'-ntember. is now almost compl"! r-!y occiipk-'i. The dormitory, dor-mitory, which has twenty-four rooms, is occupied by unmarried men who work at the offices. Salt Lake Dunns lf25 the S.-.Il Lake union stockyards hanoi-'-d 1.111,-f-TS head of cattle, hnjrs and sheep. In the same period the local packing -lants slaughtered 151,912 bead of cattle, hogs and sheep. |