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Show : ii News Notes ;j 1 i f m Privilege to Lit) in Utah " UTAH The Western Pacific railroad rail-road spent ?1,739,766.41 in Utah for operating expenses during 1928. PARK CITY The intermountain territory produces annually more than $260,000,000 worth of manufactured goods, while the value of minerals is in excess of $100,000,000. SALT LAKE The population of the Intermountain region is 60 per cent rural, while 40 per cent of the people live in cities of more than 2500 persons. per-sons. CEDAR CITY Because of the cold j weather this spring, sheepmen fear the approaching lambing season, as many of the lambs will die unless the weather becomes milder. The same applies to the sheep, as shearing has already begun. One sheepman is reported re-ported to have lost about 500 sheep out of his herd of 3000, an unsually large proportion. JACKSON The stage line between Jackson, Wyo., and Victor, Idaho, the nearest railroad point to this isolated Wyoming town, is experiencing considerable con-siderable difficulty in making the trip over the 8000-foot pass. In view of the fact that six feet of snow lies on the road troine over the Teton pass, it is necessary to transfer the mail and freight from truck to wagon and from wagon to sled. VERNAL Shearing of range sheep has started at the plant at Jensen, fifteen miles southeast of Vernal, with 16,000 head scheduled to be sheared at this power-operated plant. No sales of wool have been recorded from this plant, although several buyers have been in Vernal during the past few days sampling wool. Favorable weather continues to attend the shearing shear-ing operations in Uintah county. ST. GEORGE Washington county mohair growers received a price of 45 cents and 48 cents for mature hair and 58 cents for kid hair. And two carloads car-loads of fleeces left Cedar City recently, re-cently, consigned to Boston. Local growers two weeks ago refused offers of 46 cents and 56 cents, and since that time approximately 85,000 pounds of mohair has been stored in Cedar City under guard awaiting final disposition. AIRPORT Under the favorable weather conditions of the last few days, the city, under direction of Harry L. Finch, commissioner of parks, is making a determined drive to complete laying drainage tile on the center run--o ti .nniiinptinn with this miase . of field improvement, graders and levelers are engaged in smoothing off the entire acreage. The object is to make the whole field available for landings and takeoffs. At present, the main runways are cinder surfaced. " ' LOGAN Reuben Hansen, tester of the Wellsville-College Ward Dairy Herd Improvement association, has filed his monthly report with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley. The average aver-age milk production per cow during March was 760 pounds, compared with 660 pounds for February. The average aver-age butterfat production per cow was 27.91 pounds, compared with 24.50 pounds for the previous period. One hundred and twelve animals - gave forty pounds of fat or more during the month. MANTI The blacksmith shop at Mayfield has been busy the past several sev-eral days preparing "gopher probes." These rather dangerous, looking instruments in-struments are five or six feet long, with three-quarter inch tubing at one end, and a rake tooth at ths other. The sharp point finds the gopher hole, and the tube is used to deposit a nice little breakfast of carrots therein. The mere fact that the carrots carry strychnine in quantities deadly to gophers is in keeping wih the general appearance of the probe. RICHFIELD Digging through snow from two and one-half to twenty feet deep for a distance of four miles, N. B. Cook, chief deputy state fish and game commissioner, nine deputy wardens and eight men engaged by the Richfield Lions club and the resorts opened the road to Fish lake for the purpose of planting fmgerlings and obtaining fish eggs, Cook reported recently re-cently on his return. The gang occupied oc-cupied sixteen days in opening the road, digging to earth so that trucks carrying the fingerlings might get to the waters. About thirty-five truckloads of these fish are going into Fish lake, and the crowded condition of the hatcheries made it necessary to get them planted imediately to make room for those yet to be hatched. BOISE Boise had its first touch of spring recently when the sun remained re-mained out during the entire day and the therometer mounted to 67, a temperature tem-perature equaled only once this year, on April 2'. SPANISH FORK Utah's poultry industry brought a return of ?5386,-392 ?5386,-392 to the producers of the state duri-ing duri-ing 1928, a survey of the agriculture booklet committee of the chamber of commerce under the direction of J. J. Porter shows. This is an increase of nearly $2,000,000 over 1927, when the returns totaled $3,679,753. The production of the state as reported by twenty-two shipping and marketing agencies follows: Eggs, 464.6S2 cases valued at $4,414,004; poultry, 1,770,-428 1,770,-428 pounds valued at $460,411, and turkeys, 1,528,589 pounds valuted a1 $512,077.. |