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Show News Notes j i: It. e Privilege to Li Utah j MANTI Heavy morality among rnfT anpete "and Sevier snowstorm w &np . ,t wa3 ' CUnti1 that everaf hundred lambs reported at r an(1 born during the night ambing .tockmen feared that ea y would be almost a total loss. trees are not endangered by the 0Ui0nheaGdun0vaneyere dled b. -to though to Vhat extent Ib not known. SALT LAKE-Directors of the M Woolgrowers' association went-on re wool and offering to make cash ad . vances through the Utah Woo Ma. ket- tag association, to local woolgrowe.s. SPRINGVILL E Another step was taken in the poultry industry here recently when V. Cornell Mendenhall stocked his poultry farm with 3,000 baby turkeys. This is the first large shipment of the "Thanksgiving Birds to be received here. Bern Mendenhall will receive 3,000 more next week, but he will transfer his birds to a farm on the west side of Utah' lake. FARMINGTON Delore Nichols, county agent, said that little or no damage would be done to the onion crop of Davis county by the recent snowstorms. Very few acres of onions were planted in the county before March 15. Most of the onion planting was- done principally in Farmington and tie south end of the county, as the ground in the north end of the county hasn't been ready for planting. BINGHAM Bingham was loaded with 18 inches of new snow recently, and traffic even in the center of town was practically at a standstill. The city was guarding against a snowslide, as the heavy fall of wet snow has provided pro-vided real snowslide weather. The highway between Salt Lake and Bingham Bing-ham was open to travel in a few hours but drifting snow slowed progress considerably. con-siderably. SALINA Early completion of the Salina canyon-Fish lake road is assured, as-sured, according to Supervisor C. A. Mattson of the Fish lake forest reserve. re-serve. Sam M. Jorgenson, W. H. Erown, Max Cohen and former Ranger Ran-ger John Barnhard, representing the Salina Lions club, met with the county coun-ty commissioners of Sevier county Monday to secure funds to match government gov-ernment money to complete the high-Way. high-Way. HUNTINGTON Eastern Utah continued con-tinued to be favored with dry weather during the early week of April storms of central Utah. Favorable, perhaps, from some viewpoints, this spell of dry weather may seriously hamper the ranges and crops, which the early rain so favored, this year. It has been three weeks since any moisture fell, with some hot days interminglid since then, and the plant life is beginning begin-ning to feel the dryness, which tie recent winds have aggravated. SALT LAKE Prospects for spring and summer range for Utah livestock have been improved by snows and rains in March, the range and livestock live-stock report for April 1, released re. cently by Frank Andrews, federal statistician, sta-tistician, declares. For the past four months, precipitation has heed above normal, the report explains. Stock men feel, judging from county reports, that there has been a slight increase in the condition of ranges now m use but that they are still very poor on the whole, the report says. SALT LAKE Complete destruction of the fruit crop in the vicinity of Hurricane, Washington county, lr pre. dieted by the fruitgrowers as a result of the heavy frost which visited that section recently, according to information infor-mation received at tho state agricultural agricul-tural department. The unseasonable frost, the messages said, formed ice a quarter of an inch thick. Hurrincane lrTtl 'V119 6Xtreme southe" Part of the state, at a low altitude and m-dmarily enjoys semitropical clll MYTON-Water was turned into nearly every of the Vlnm ligation project recently under super-.on super-.on of T. c. Guyn of Myton, Pr ect engineer. The canals, totalling" g acresnofe'ln,vth8,8ySte,n' 8erve aces of Indian land and 25,000 acres of homestead land. With the open ng of the system, seventeen ditch riders began work for the season under va. ter Supervisors Will preece ( ,, and C. L. Marble of Whi Rocl T e Engle of Blacktoot, Idaho ? B " vising engineer of the prot. VERNAL Irony marked the bonr dance of the Indians at Whi ! I on that, but during t P , m- N' began March 30 L "Ce' Whi' l-d Postponetnrir c.f T verity of the wrathrr v "a ess, ail ta maidens he r considered themselves V. marriage appeared in tl, """0 white regalia. U0 cust""ar, |