Show few news 15 notes its is a brivil privilege to live in ir laah UTAH ueail the western pacific railroad spent in utah for operating ex expenses during 1928 PARK CITY the intermountain territory produces annually more than worth of manufactured goods while the value of minerals is in excess of SALT LAKE the population of the intermountain region is 60 perci per cent int rural while 40 per cen cent bof of the people live in cities of more than 25 2500 I 1 0 persons I 1 r ons CEDAR CITY because odthe of the cold weather eather yv this spring sheep men fear the approaching lambing season as nany many of the afie lambs lamb swill will die unless the weather becomes milder the same app applies lies to the sheep as shearing has already begun one is reported to have lost about sheep out oi of his herd of an unusually large proportion JACKSON the stage line between jackson wyo and victor idaho the nearest railroad point to this is isolated wyoming town is experiencing considerable sid erable difficulty in making the trip over the foot pass in view of the fact that six feet of snow lies on the road going over the teton pass it is i n nac caspary cas sary to transfer the mail and freight fr c i agh tirom from truck to wagon and from wagon to sled VERNAL shearing of range sheep has started at the plant at jensa fifteen miles southeast of vernal with head scheduled to be ba sheared at this power operated plant no na sales of wool have been recorded from this plant although several buyers haye have been in vernal during thelast the past few days sampling wool favorable weather continues to attend the shearing 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 of fleeces left cedar city recently consigned to boston local growers two weeks ago refused offers cents and 66 56 cents and since that time approximately pounds of mohair has been stored in cedar city under guard awaiting final disposition AIRPORT under the favorable favor ablo 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 runway in conjunction with this phase 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 Hi hansen alsen tester of the ahe wellsville college ward dairy herd improvement association has filed ills his monthly report with county agent robert L wrigley the average milk production par per cow during march pounds compared with pounds for february the average butterfat production per cow was 2791 pounds compared with 2450 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 days pre preparing baring gopher probes these rather dangerous looking instruments st are five or six feet long with three quarter inch tubing at one end and a rake tooth at th other The sharp point finds the gopher hole and the tube is used to deposit a nice little breakfast of carrots barrois therein the mere fact that the carrots carry strychnine in quantities deadly to gophers is in keeping with 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 Rich richfield fiela lions club and the resorts opened the road to fish lake for the purpose of planting fin gerlings and obtaining fish eggs cook reported re bently on his return the gang oc A aupied sixteen days in opening tho the road digging to earth so that trucks carrying the fin gerlings might get to the waters about thirty five truel loads ads of these fish are goerg into ino fish lake and the crowded condition of the hatcheries made it necessary to get them planted immediately to make room for those yet to be hatched BOISE boisa had its first touch of spring recently when the sun pan remained out during tho the entire day and the thermometer the rometer mounted to 67 a tern iem pera ture equaled only once this year on april 2 |