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Show Mews Notes j It' a a Privilege to Liv in I Utah ! t SALT LAKE Utah has over 13,000 square miles of coal lands, the largest producing silver mine in the United States, the largest open-cut copper mine In the world. GARFIELD The Garfield Associate team of the A league In the Utah Copper Cop-per club bowling tournament is well out In front with thirteen wins and five losses for a percentage of 722. The Magna Carpenters and Polyglots are tied for second with eleven wins and ten defeats. CEDAR CITY Forest rangers returning re-turning from the east side of the Kal-bab Kal-bab forest last week report the slaughter slaugh-ter of approximately 600 deer. Walter G. Mann, supervisor of the Kalbab forest; for-est; Elbert L. Cox and Carl Haycock, rangers, were assigned to the east side to hunt in South canyon on the Lee's Ferry side. SALT LAKE Continuous cold weather has brought no damage to agricultural ag-ricultural crops as the state has practically prac-tically a continuous snow protection. However there la reported shrinkage In livestock. During the week the temperature went down to 12 degrees below zero at Logan and 6 below at Milford, while St. George experienced a little real winter temperature falling fall-ing as low as 20 degrees above zero. UTAH California depends upon Utah and the intermountain territory for half the meat Berved at its tables, stock buyers from that state declare at a dinner given in their honor at the Newhouse hotel Sunday. The chamber of commerce livestock committee com-mittee and Salt Lake business men were hosts. H. E. Godwin, general freight agent of the Union Pacific system, was toastmaster. LOGAN The December report of the Wellsville-College "Ward Dairy Herd Improvement association was filed with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley recently by Reuben Hansen, tester. There were 451 cows milking and 84 dry during the month. The average milk production per cow was 651 pounds, as compared with 580 pounds for the preceding period. The average butterfat production per cow was 25.52 pounds, compared with 22.71 pounds for November. BRIGHAM CITY Sportsmen of Boxelder county slaughtered approximately approx-imately 3000 jaclcrabbits recently in the Promontoy district in a drive staged stag-ed by the Brigham City post of the American Legion. They left this city at 9'oclock in the morning in automobiles automo-biles and were met at Promontory by a delegation of farmers headed by Lew Whitaker. The hunters were taken tak-en in bobsleds and on horseback into the Rozelle flat, where the rabbits are plentiful. DUCHESNE The state road commission com-mission recently announced plans for the expenditure in Duchesne county during 1929 of $310,000, following a conference with the Duchesne county commissioners. The program cal's for the expenditure of $260,000 on federal fed-eral aid projects, $135,000 of which will be spent on a 5.4 mile stretch of road due east of Fruitland, and the remainder remain-der to be expended on two section projects near Duchesne and Antelope. Two bridges are to be constructed over the Duchesne river and $50,000 Is to be used for connections on federal aid roads. PROVO Providing the necessary funds to pay for the trucking of the animals into the county, can be raised among the sportsmen, two truckloads, totaling possibly twenty-five elk, will be brought into Utah county from the Mt. Nebo reservation, according to L. L. Bunnell of the Provo Conservation association and placed in the mountains moun-tains east of this city and on the western slope of Tiinpanogos, just east of Pleasant Grove. The animals are ! being caught by the government and will be given to the local association. A campaign to raise the necessary i $200 will be conducted by Bunnell. UTAH Scores of persons interest- ed in the work of digging trenches to 1 lay natural gas line pipe, were out ' on the east bench recently to see the i huge ditching machine in action. The ! machine is expected to dig a trench ! to Coalville in forty-five days and crews of pipe layers will follow in its I wake. The ditcher has already dug a I trench the length of a Salt Lake City j biock, more than three feet deep and j approximately two feet wide. Officials ' 0? the Uintnh Pipelire company, which Is laying the mains to bring natural grs into Utah, reported that a mile of ditch a day can be dug. SALT LAKE An increase of more than $250,000 during 1928 iu the fees and taxes collected by the secretary o'. state is shown In the final report and remittance of H. E. Crockett, retiring re-tiring secretary of state, to John Walker, Wal-ker, retiring state treasurer. ELE1XORE The Elsinore sugar factory, according to official announcement announce-ment of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, com-pany, will not solicit beets in the Sevier Se-vier valley, or attempt to operate the factory by the Gunnison Valley Sugar company. The announcement of the Utah-ldnho Sugar company says: "For some years pa;:t the Utah-Idaho Sugar company has found It impossible, owing to adverse weather conditions aM cth'.r causes to secure sufficient beets in and around the Elsinore factory fac-tory to economically and proflablj run thf factory." |