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Show j News Notes j 1 It't a F rioilege to Liv In I UTAH j GUNNISON Saturday and Sunday Gunnison valley was swept by a gale of wind of fifty miles Telocity. It ended IP with snow and rain and a beary frost Sunday night, doing much damages to gardens and fruit. HEBER CITY More than 90 per cent of the fruit blossoms In Wasatch county were destroyed by frost recently. re-cently. A heavy tall of snpw followed by an all-day rain terminated In the killing . frost Garden vegetables which were out of the ground, and alfalfa al-falfa has likewise been damaged severely se-verely by the frost 8PRINGVILLE A discussion of the plan for the Fruit and Vegetable Growers' association of Sprlngrtlle and Mapleton to Join with other growers grow-ers of the state and form a cooperative coopera-tive marketing association, was held in the First ward with V. C. Mendeu-hall Mendeu-hall and Tom Marsh, presidents of the association, In charge. PROVO The total cost of the new street lighting system which was completed com-pleted a few weeks ago has been submitted sub-mitted to the city commission by City Engineer Frank Demlng. The cost is'given as $11,213.14. Of this amount the city's portion is $189.50, and the. balance Is assessed against abutting property owners. HEBER CITY Dairy day, typifying typify-ing one of the principal industries of Wasatch county, wiU be celebrated June 7, at Charleston. The program, which is scheduled one of the best arranged during the last eight years during which the citizens of Wasatch county have turned out to do honor to their dairyman, and especially the clubs doing dulry work. - OGDEN Approximately only SO per cent normal potato acreage has been planted in Weber county this spring, says County Agmt A. L. Christiansen. The slump is occasioned by the low prices in the two previous years. Few cars will be shipped out this year. Acreage in Kaw valley, Kan., Is one-third one-third less this year, the agent ia informed. in-formed. GUNNISON The heaviest May snowstorm in ten years, and one of the heaviest snows of any winter here of late years, visited Gunnison and vicinity recently. Six to eight inches of snow weighed the trees, already in foliage down to the ground, and broke many branches. The electric light service was put out of commission, and It may take some days to complete com-plete repairs. COALVILLE Work on the graveling gravel-ing of the Lincoln highway from Ecjio to Basktn, in Echo canyon, was commenced com-menced the past week by the Sumsion Construction company of Springvllle, employing about 20 men, 10 horses and seven trucks. As soon as this gravel has been placed, the state road mmmUninn pxriprts ta beein oiling the new gravel end placing the six-mile six-mile stretch in condition for tourist travel. i K AYS VILLE Farm crops in some sections of this state are reported to have been damaged by the frost which covered a large portion of northern Utah recently, according to Information Informa-tion received In Salt Lake. Reports received from parts of Davis county Indicated that the tomato plants had been damaged to some extent, while information was also received that some fruit in the south of Salt Lake county had been injured , PROVO Frosts, which struck this section and Utah county, following a slight snowstorm recently, have done considerable damage to the fruit crops of the section, according to reports re-ports coming into the Utah county agent's office. The strawberry and tomato crops In the county were quite severely nipped, and it is estimated that practically one-third of the crops will be killed. Beans and other early cropa also suffered quite extensively, PLEASANT GROVE Utah's strawberry straw-berry crop this year covers 1300 acres, or about 10 acres less than were harvested har-vested last year, the annual strawberry straw-berry crop report, released by Frank Andrews, statistician of the United States department of agriculture, shows. If the yield per acre this year is the same as the average for the ' past few years, 1929 production will amount to 2,340,000 quarts, compared wltb 2,800,000 quarts in 1928 and 2,-44,000 2,-44,000 in 1927, the reports says. CEDAR CITY Arlzonlans living south of the Colorado river are enthusiastic en-thusiastic over plans for the celebration, celebra-tion, June 14 and 15, of the formal dedication of the new bridge over the river at Marble conyon in several respects one "of the most remarkable bridges in the world. The people of the sister state will themselves come en mass to the celebration, and they are looking for a large crowd from Utah and other regions on the north as well. CEDAR CITY The Zion-Mt Car-mel Car-mel highway, one of the greatest scenic roads In the world, now under construction in southern Utah, will not be officially opened until May, 1930, when prominent men from all parts of the country will be invited to participate in the dedication. Horace M. Albright, director of national parks, said here recently. "We plan to make this one of the biggest celebrations ever to be held at any national park," he declared. "The highway will not be open to tourists this season and when it Is we expect to draw more tourists than ever before." |
