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Show News Notes 1 Utah PROVO-Since the blast hrT the Columbia Steel plant atT" has been relined and new stalled at the iron mine, an 2 b seventy-five tons of iron a dav. I" mg produced, L. F. Rajns eke' of the company, said on hi, ? from the Pacific coast recent! T Rams visisted both the Tornn. , ' at Los Angeles and the plant at P burg Calif. He said he with the condition of both. Ho -the increased production of theTi'i plant is the most important devA ment of recent months, Mr Rain as increased production lower. ? cost of making a ton of pig jron Kt MYTON-Under the supervise ', T. C. Guyn of Myton, reside" eer of the Uintah irrigation pS water has been turned into nearly ' of the canals on the reservation whi 1 . are under governmental control i ' ' 15, the date set for the opening f tk fl irrigation season, found everything readiness for the season of 1928 T payroll of the project has been i creased. VERNAL To encourage better I care of fruit trees in Ashley vafe the Agriculture club of the UinU I high school, under the direction of H M. Lundell, Smith-Hughes instructor is giving demonstration in spravin. ' and pruning, and for that purpose' has i taken over twelve orchards. Last yea- e and pruned. This season the club ji i more than 1000 trees were spraved I prunning and spraying trees for 0. ' ley aphis and green apple aphis. 0n 5 of the orchards inspected, out of sixtr ; trees, fifty were found infected iti : woolley aphis. i. LOGAN At a special meeting of '-directors '-directors of the Cache County Fair as. ; sociation at the chamber of comme-ee ; recently the dates for the fall fi-were fi-were moved up one week. The ever: ; will be held September 18, 19 and 20. The following new off icers were elect- ' ed: George Dunbar, Logan, president- ' John T. Q'jayle, Logan, first vice president; pres-ident; T. M. Maughan, Welsville second sec-ond vice president; C. C. Harris. RicK ; mond, third vice president; B. T. Car-don, Car-don, Logan, treasurer, and M. hVev, 1 Logan, secretary. VERNAL Report made to fe ' Lions club by the state road comrdj. sion of the work to be done on tie Gushe' -Roosevelt road this summer, a ten-mi'e federal aid project, brojj':: much favorable comment by members. i with the unanimous adoption of i res-olutior. res-olutior. that Lion President James E Wallis be instructed to convey to H-r-ry H Blood, chairman of the commission, commis-sion, the appreciation of the chb for its courteous treatment. , SALT LAKE Heavy shipments o! Utah wool have started to move to the eastern territory, according to railroad rail-road officials. Or.e carload was shipped ship-ped to Boston recently and five cars were moved over the Denver i Rio Grande Western for St. Louis ar.i Bos-ton shortly after. Shearing has begun in practically all the early wool sections of the state, it was announced by James A. Hooper, secretary of the Utah State Woolgrowers associatior. Approximately 90.000 pounds of the Jericho woo has been sheared ar.J more than SOO.000 pounds are yet to be taken off the sheep's backs he saii. PROVO According to member? of the Utah county fair board, a r.ew building will ,be erected at the fair grounds to accommodate livestock or exhibition. Work will begin immediately. immedi-ately. A number of other improvements improve-ments were decided upon by the boarc. including the leveling of the race track for an athletic field. HEBER Measurements of ths snow at the head of Provo river sho that it is fully up to normal, a::d of splendid water content. COALVILLE Progress in Marei on the various features of the vrors on the construction of the E-'lio da." and the building of fhe now railros-ami railros-ami highw ay grades arourd the reservoir reser-voir was handicapped considerably bad weather conditions, according to the report of Construction Engineer F. K. Smith. VERNAL Sheep shearing at the Watson, Bonanr.:i. Jensen and R.m-? shearing plants began Thursday o. last week under favorable weather conditions. Each plant employ twenty-five shearers. All these plants machine operated and the shearer? handle from loO to 200 sheep In Uintah county proximately l-.11 sheep will be sheared, and the teta. for the Uintah basin will bo that number. COALVILLE Closing up the first year's business with a net prelit 11 ?rr0. the Coalville Poultry Troduo-' romVatiy starts the coming year the construction of an additional U''' foot unit of crop nnd the securing loot) White Leghorn h:by 'lrV. planning on moving into winter l; ing (niai'ters in the' fall with nrf1' mutely ;!000 laying hens ami viill'- KlCHKlKI.n -Indications !intte larger water supply on the nni1''1' 'SfV' ior river this year than in ,1::' cording to data compiled by '!l"'t' Bride, water commissioner on t'"' N vior system ami .submitted to t"vls' M. Bacon, stale cmvinecr. 5'1'- ; Bride also calls attention to the 'x' that las! fall was one t'no w-lct records of p'o.-.pilaiio'i him'' kept in Ur-,1. and that :''' ''j. waler In the x.iow on the " ' ' ' J ill not soak into tlu gro'i"'' 1 R e.ar ai';e, |