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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In . UTAH j PROVO Iastyc apple production produc-tion in Utah amounted to 880,000 bushels, valued at $704,000. DRAPER In no other section ot the "nited States Is celery grown more crisp or of such fine texture as in Utah. NEW YORK The population ot continental United States increased 14,299,000 to reach a total of 119,-306,000 119,-306,000 on July 1, according to estimates esti-mates of the national bureau of economic research. The bureau figures that 39 per cent of the population pop-ulation is gainfully employed. LOGAN A total ot $1279.95 was collected in the recent annual Red Cross roll call in Cache county, John A. Hendrickson, chairman o the Cache chapter, reports. This drive was much more successful in bringing in funds than any at- tempted since the war. SALT LAKE Utah received ?40,-005. ?40,-005. 6S as inheritance taxes from foreign and local estates in December, Decem-ber, it is shown in the recapitulation recapitula-tion issued by the attorney general's gen-eral's offic recently. rihe taxes received were on property valued in the aggregate at ?2,148,874.74. OGDEN That the Ogdeu livestock live-stock show is gaining wider recognition re-cognition each succeeding year is evidenced by letters received by the show management froir various organizations interested in the growth and development of the in-termountain in-termountain country. BR1GHAM CITY According to the 1930 budget for Erigbam City, which was passed after a public he'aring recently, the estimated revenues of the city for the new year are $123,696.26. The estimated expenditures as fixed by the budget bud-get are $121,977.88. WASHINGTON Two and one-half one-half billion dollars Is the stupendous stupend-ous Income realized annually in the United States from tne livestock industry, according to a new study which has just been completed by the bureau of agriculture economics econo-mics of the United States department depart-ment of agriculture. The figures are based on actual sales In 1928. LOGAN Water users and subscribers sub-scribers of Cache county interesttd In the proposed $1,600,000 federal reclamation project in this valley voted almost unanimously recently recent-ly to ask the Utah water storage commission for an additional extension ex-tension of time until January 22 in which to rais ' subscriptions tor the purchase of water from the proposed reservoir above Hyrum. SALT LAKE The planting of suitable trees and shrubbery along all highways of the federal aid system, where such growth can be maintained, should be regarded as a necessary eventual step In the improvement of the system, says Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads of the United Unit-ed States department of agriculture. agricul-ture. GUNNISON Operations at the Gunnison Valley Sugar factory, for the 1929 ser.son, ceased recently. recent-ly. The tonnage of beets sliced and made into Bugar was the largest, excepting 1925, since operations opera-tions were stated ten years ago. The sugar content was slightly below be-low normal, but the tonnage per acre was heavy. Nearly a half million mil-lion don rs was paid to the growers, grow-ers, f WASHINGTON The bag limit for ducks next year will be 15, and after a man kills four geese he will be through for the day. Secretary Hyde announced recently that the changes in federal regulations would go into effect after the present pre-sent hunting searc and that the possession limit would be reduced to 30 ducks and 8 geese. At present pre-sent the 1 ag limit nnder federal law for ducks is 25 and for geese 8. VERNAL As part of the 1930 program for the Uintah county farm bureau E. Peterson, county agent, is suggesting the formation of a wool pool on a scale which will permit the pool to become a member of the Federal Wool corporation, cor-poration, being organized under the sponsorship of the federal farm board. The proposed federal regulations reg-ulations grant representation to a pool that will produce 500,000 pounds of wool, and Mr. Peterson say3 that much wool is yielded by Hocks in Uintah county. VERNAL In his annual report to the district forester In Ogden, A. G. Nord, supervisor of the Ashley Ash-ley national forest, gives the number num-ber ot buck deer killed on that forest during the recent open season sea-son as 104, a decrease of 50 per cent as compared with 192S. When the deer hunting season opened last October no storms had occurred oc-curred in the summer ranges of the deer and as a consequence few deer had migrated to the lower tall and winter ranges, which regions comprise the principal huntlng fields of the forest. |