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Show l News Notes f It' a Privilege to Live in Utah A T Ogden A number of California, show stock returning from the International Inter-national Livestock show at Chlcajo and the American Royal Livestock show in Kansas City, stopped over in Ogden, Saturday, for feed and water at the Ogden Union stockyards en route to the const. Practically all of the herds will return for the eighteenth eight-eenth annual Ogden Livestock show-next show-next month. Salt Lake One of the mildest autumns au-tumns In the history of the weather bureau was broken early Sunday by 1 "million-dollar" snowstorm which iroufht joy to the Utah stock-raisers and Salt Lake business men. At 7 o'clock Sunday night, five inches of snow had fallen in Salt Lake, and tho thermometer had, dropped to 27 above zero. The temperature was still going down at midnight, when unofficial observations ob-servations placed at 21. The storm-at storm-at that time had lasted more thai, twenty-four hours. Lehi Lehl is to have a white wayr ; according to a decision of the city council and business men at the Memorial Mem-orial building last Friday. The plan calls for the erection of ornamental cement standards to serve as light posts, eight of which are to be placed on each block in the business section. Beaver The first real snowstorm of the season arrived during Monday night, after a light rainfall, which had continued most of a day and night. The entire countryside is blanketed with about three Inches of wet snow. Farmers, stockmen and sheepmen aro rejoicing over the nrrivel of the much-needed much-needed moisture. Duchesne -The chamber of commerce com-merce will recommend to tho stat road commission that the highway the Uintah basin from Salt Lake v a. Heber, Fruitland and Duchesne be kept free of snow this winter, to mako possible the continuance of the truck-line truck-line service which was recently established estab-lished between this city and eastern Utah; further, that the entire stretch of approximately, thirty miles between Fruitland nad Duchesne be put on the commission's program for construction ha 1926, instead of only ten miles, as at present provided for. : Draper The second inoculation fot the prevention of diphtheria was given at the Draper school Tuesday afternoon after-noon by the cooperation of the state board of health, Jordan school district, and the Draper Parent-Teacher association. asso-ciation. Nearly 200 were given the second inoculation, the first having been given last Friday, nnd the third to be given the following Friday. Vernal Jfickrabbits in Moffat county, coun-ty, Colorado, have become so large and numerous that they are stealing r.he hay from cuttle, according to word, received from -the county. Despite the fact" that whenever the farcier boys have u day off they organize a cabbit drive, the pests have multiplied multi-plied until they have become a constant con-stant nuisance. Salt Lake Names of Utah seed producers whose exhibist to the eighth annual International Hay and Grain show, recently closed at Chicago, drew favorable recognitions from the judges-have judges-have been received fr,om Professor J. 0. Hogen3on. extension agronomist with the Utah Agricultural college, who, with E. E. Smith. Bountiful seed grower and show expert, took tha Utah display to Chicago. Utah's, heavy winnings were in alfalfa seed. Entries from this state took ten out of fifteen awards, almost a repetition of last year's achievement of thirteen out of the fifteen. Other winnings were in barley, clover and wheat. Myton- E. D. Samuels, Guy Samuels Sam-uels and .Ren Srmuels, residents of Salt Lak City and Vernal, who are J operating in sheep under the name of , Samuels P.roihers, recently purchased j Ihe William C. T. Mule ranch in Routt j county, 'Colo. The ranch consists of 492 acres, and they expect to make it j the headquarters of their extens'vft sheep business. i" Price Price City now boasts on of the few hospitals that are paying their own way. A financial statement prepared by City Recorder Arthur N. Smith covering the operation from the ' time It started, December IS. 1925, until this month, shows that during the months of October and November. 1926. the institution paid all expenses. Ephraim Of the 25,992 farms in Utah, 7157, or 27 per cent, hold grazing graz-ing permits on national forests, it is reported by the MantI National forest office hero. Of the 504,308 head of cattle cat-tle or. these farms, 1-11,262 head, or 26 percent, have forest range permits, and of th. 2.355,038 sheep owned within with-in the state,' 747,309, or 32 per cent, have similar grazing permits. The farms total $.000,724 acres, or 9.55 per cent of the total land area of the state. Salt Lake The men who hunt predatory pred-atory animals in Utah and keep tha ranges, used by livestock operators, free from those killers have some of the qualities of the romantic northwest north-west monnted police. When the police 1. ake the trail "to get thoir man," a tiie movie subtitles say, they stay on the trail until the villain has been brought to justice, as the subtitles further fur-ther read. Similarly, the predatory animal an-imal hunter keeps after the bear, or the lion, or tho woif until it is trappod of poisoned or otb.-v-wise soai in'o l ' freat bejc"! of deiMrtui' "''eat i oi |