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Show News Notes j t it's a Privilege to Liv in J : Utah Salt Lake City is the pleasure resort of the West. Saltair, the races at tha Lagoon, and then comes the big Utah State Fair with all its attractions. KAYSVILLE One of he greatest opportunities in the country is offc-rcd in Utah, Davis, Weber and Salt Lake counties to strawberry raisers. These two products are used extensively for canning factories and "cold pack." Utah berries are considered especially fine for these uses. VERNAL Early Saturday morning a frost visited part of Ashley valley. At the official government weather, observeer's station, located a mile southwest of the center of Vernal, the thermometer registered low point at 33 above zero, one degree above freezing. freez-ing. GUNNISON Fifteen hundred baby turkeys, the first consignment of 4000, were received here this week by Byard Tuft, who is embarking in one of the largest undertakings of this kind ever ' started in the valley. The first consignment con-signment will be followed v.-ith regT"-.r shipments until the total number is reached. MT. PLEASANT The third annual community fair of Mount Pleasant will be held September 8, according to the committee in charge. The committee com-mittee includes A. E. Darley, local Smith-Hughes high school agricultural agricultur-al teacher, chairman; Art Frandsen of the local Lions club; A. F. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, president, and George C. Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, secretary of the local farm bureau, and Mrs. S. D. Longsdorf, chairman of the civic lague committee. PROVO Utah's second cherry special spe-cial of the season consisting of six cars, left recently on the Dnver &, Rio Grande Western, bound for eastern-markets and high returns for the state's growers. The third special of seven cars, some of them carrying apricots, will leave soon, according to A. J. Cronin. freight agent for the D. & R. G. W. at Salt Lake. Enough cherries ard apricot3 will be abtain-able abtain-able before the week is- out for 25 more cr.. CEDAR CITY Four loaJs of Ram-bouii'.e'.s Ram-bouii'.e'.s from Parowan were ehipped to Ozone, Tex., recently. Wilford Day and Milo Marscien, who accompanied them, reported uiat one of the Day Farms company rams topped the saie there at S3J5, and J. K. Madsen was a c'.ose Contender for f.r;t honors with one selling at $310 and several a; J'h'O. Range rr.n-.s were high seiiers. Half a d.iZi.n carloads will be shipped frcm rare wan w ithin te r.ex: feiv davs. BRIG i! AM CITY Enjoy peach ("ays as Brigh.mi City on Friday ar.d Saturday, Se rtcm'. cr 1-1 and 15," are the n.r. -ic w ords ef the advertising for Eoxeiiior county's celebration this ; ear. An intensive advertising carr.-e:.ign carr.-e:.ign wiil he waged from now until the peach festival. The attractive fruit ilisp'.ay ef last year promises to be outdo: e in ltS by Carl Frisehkr.echt ar.d his associate?, the decorative dc-tgr.s dc-tgr.s to be outlines and directed by William C. Horsey. The Sntith-Huches Sntith-Huches exhibit will supp'.cxnt the main horticultural displays. TREMONTON The cannery here has op-nod full blast with 120 operatives, opera-tives, ar.d the expectation of canning the largest crop of peas that has been grown in this valley sir.ee the Rocky Mountain Fackir.g corporation installed install-ed its plant here. From sunrise until rear dark, there has been for the past e::y or two a stcaify stream of trucks, loaded wi;h peas, traversing all roads leading to Trcnionton, with the cannery can-nery as their destination. The plant, r. -cording to Superintendent Wads-worth, Wads-worth, will be operated r.ight and day, with two shifts of 11 hours each until th" close of tlic .-c.t.-on. SALT LAKE An increase of car loi'.l.n ts en the Oregon Short Line ii:: i:'.g the ear of more than 20,000 cars over the same period of 1027 is shown by u report isued recently by J. I.. Aiv.os. a.-., istant traffic manager of the I'nion Paeilic system at Sa'-t 1 aho. From January I to June SO, tliis road loaded 107. 105 cars of freight, compared with S7.0o7 during the same six months of last year, according to the report. On the Salt Lake division ef the Los Angeles & Salt lake railroad, rail-road, a slight increase was al.-o shown. During the 102S period 17. U0 cars were loaded, while the comparative figure for 1027 is 17,121 cai. KOCNTIKI'I. Fork will be in Utah this year, judging from the results of t'ne United States department of if! iculture pig survey for the first . i" months ef 102S. released Monday l y V,'. A. Peterson, at the local v f-i.ocs. f-i.ocs. The rcpovt shows a 13-4 pc 'en: gai i in ;he number of pigs saved lb s your as compared with 1027 T l number of sows farrowed this shows a 12 per cent increase us c.-'paied with spring of last year. V. M.:. S --.lee Xevilo nnd Tom Hiil h: .c .'list returned from Mills. Utah, they planted svme tingctbng oo-.v trout in a stream running hi i-;.!i n portion of the Salt 1 " Ft. ion Pacific Athletic club grounds. ' ' v !o-in, many young ducks, which i os 'iei:(r bunting tins year than 1 ' iei.nc. The club has spent co"- - : o' le money this year en its hunt n : ' l lishini: grounds for duck feci 11. S iader ef Mills, who is lookui't or the Intcies-ls ef the club. s. ' r in the mountains iimrby w ' 'ei ens than ev er |