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Show a en eA-e- ,t News Notes ! It's a Privilege to Live , I Utah ! SALT LAKE Resurfacing 0f two important highways at a cost of more-than more-than $50,000 will be recommended by It. T. Dahlquist, county commissioner of roads and bridges,, to the county commission at the Friday morning meeting. The roads on which ths project is believed necessary are Thir. ty-third South street, Seventh East to East Mill creek, and the seventy-sec. ond highway, generally known aa Seventy-second South, east from the turn to the Cobblecrest inn. MT. PLEASANT Mayor Joseph Seely of Mt. Pleasant said shortly af. ter midnight that it looks now as if ! the Sanpete Water Users' a6socia-I a6socia-I tion's project for the bringing 0f 4 supplementary supply of water from the Colorado river basin is satisfactorily satisfac-torily subscribed. This, however would not be definitely known until after a meeting to be held at th North Sanpete bank at 9 o'clock this-morning, this-morning, when subscriptions will b checked up. LOGAN Seven thousand five turn-dred turn-dred automobiles passed over the high., way in Logan canyon during the per iod from June 3 to June 24, inclusive, according to a register which has beea placed on a bridge near the mouth of the canyon at Owens camp. AMERICAN FORK Utah Poultry I association officers will give a banquet and dance Friday in their new egg plant and. warehouse in honor of the-city the-city council, Lions club and commit tees which helped make poultry day a. success. They also desire all poultry association members to be present Poultry day will be an annual affair. BEAVER President H. H. Bloo4 and Road Commissioner Jacob Parker, with State Engineer H. S. Kerr, met the first of the week with the county commissioners at Beaver to discuss a route for the new road project run-' run-' ning south fi om Beaver to Iron county. DUCHESNE It is estimated tha the total a-nount of gilsonite in th Uintah basin is close to 50,000,000-tons. 50,000,000-tons. The deposits of this substance are the. largest known deposits in the world. Gilsonite is used in the manufacture manu-facture of paint, phonograph records, telephones, etc. CEDAR CITY This year's lamb-crop lamb-crop in Utah is smaller than that of last year, but it is in splendid condition, condi-tion, according to George A. Scott, U. S. livestock statistician, who returned re-turned Thursday from a tour of the sheep sections. Mr. Scott made visits to Utah, Juab, Millard, Beaver, Iron, Garfield, Piute, Sevier, Sanpete and Wa'satch counties. The sheep are just beginning to go to the summer ranges, he reports. PROVO Contract for the paving of 1.8 miles of country highway between Provo and Pleasant Grove via Lake-view, Lake-view, was awarded to the Wasatch Grading company of Provo, according to A. O. Smoot, chairman of the board of county commissioners. The contract con-tract was let on a figure of $33,709.SO. The only other bidder in the field wax the Christensen & Gardner company of Salt Lake City, who figured the job at $36,585.50. SALT LAKE Sales of state lands remaining m force at the close oi isu in eluded some 3,243,537 acres, the sale prices of which aggregated some $7,923,S66. BRIGHAM- CITY Most important of the road improvements to be made in the northern part of the state this year will be the oiling of the state highway from Mantua, in eastern Box-elder Box-elder county, through Sardine canyon to the paved highway in Wellsvill, according ac-cording to K. C. Wright, district engineer en-gineer for the state road commission. PRICE With damage to growing crops between Price and Castle Gate estimated at thousands of dollars; bridges washed away; traffic on highways high-ways and railroads tied up; Castle Gate's and Price's water supplies cut off and five homes demolished at Castle Cas-tle Gate; Helper's streets and basements base-ments flooded the menace caused by the .rainstorm which started Monday is still growing. MT. PLEASANT R. Kishi, T. Shim-oyama Shim-oyama and Y. Saneyoshi, representatives representa-tives of the Japanese government, an K. Katsuya'ma of Nosawa & Co., ot New York City, have been in Mt-Pleasant Mt-Pleasant during the past week looking over the leading Rambouillet flocks and purchasing sheep for the Japanese Japan-ese govenment. OGDEN William Parry, formerly general foreman of the Union Pacific shops at North Platte, Neb., will be general foreman of the new roundhouse round-house at Ogden. He will be under J. I Gogarty, division master mechanic at I Green River, Wyo. One hundred and ! forty machinists, helpers and other ' employees will begin work at the ne shops'Jirly 1. At 12:01 o'clock Friday morning the Southern Pacific shop' will cease doing the Union Pacific repair re-pair work. ROOSEVELT Recent heavy raiw have been a great value to fields, pT dens and ranges in the Uintah basin The protracted dry weather.. extending over a period of more than t months, was endangering vegetatio on public domain and private lands o which irrigation water caiwiot be rea ily placed. PRICE A half inch of rain Ml,1" Price Monday in the 'heaviest rm storm to hit this section of ,ll0.s:lr, this year. The downpour came ine J mittenlly throughout the day. tlie la delugo falling early lu tho evouinS- |