Show V irk T UK T t r news notes JL not vl 4 its s a privilege to live in UTAH A a 2 GUNNI GU SON saturday and sunday gunnison valley was waa swept by a galo gale 0 of wind win 1 I ot of fifty miles velocity it ended up with snow r and rain lain and a heavy frost sunday night doing much damages t to gardens and fruit CITY alty more moie than 90 per cent of the fruit blossoms in wasatch county wore destroyed by frost recently A heavy fall of snow followed by an allday all day rain terminated in the killing frost garden carden vegetables which were out of the ground and alfalfa has likewise been damaged severely by the frost SPRING springville VILLE A discussion of the plan tor for the fruit and vegetable growers association of springville Spring ville and mapleton to join with other growers of the state and form a cooperative marketing association was held in the first ward with V 0 mendenhall and tom marsh presidents ants of the association in charge PROVO the total cost ot of the new street lighting system which was completed a few weeks ago has been submitted to the city commission by city engineer frank doming deming the jhb cost Is given as ot of this amount the cites portion is and the balance is assessed against abutting 9 property owners HEBER CITY dairy day typifying one of the principal industries ot of wasatch county will 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 dairymen and especially the clubs doing dairy work OGDEN approximately only CO 50 per cent normal potato acreage has been planted in weber county this spring says county agent A L the slump Is occasioned by the low prices in the two previous years few cars will be shipped out this year acreage in raw kaw valley kan is one third less this year the agent is informed GUNNISON GUNN lSON the heaviest may snowstorm in ten ien years and one of the heaviest snows of 0 any winter here of late years visited gunnison and vicinity recently six to eight inches of snow now 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 repairs COALVILLE work on the graveling ot of the lincoln highway from echo to baskin in echo canyon was commenced the past week by bk the construction company ot of springville Spring ville employing about 20 men 10 horses and seven trucks As soon as this gravel has been placed the state road commission expects to begin oiling the new gravel and placing the six mile stretch in condition tor for tourist travel KAYSVILLE 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 received in salt lake laie reports received from parts of davis county indicated that the tomato plants had been damaged to some extent while information was also received that ahat some fruit in the south of salt lake county had bid been injured PROVO frosts which struck this section and utah county following a slight snowstorm recently have done considerable damage to the fruit crops ot of tho the section according to reports coming into the utah county agents office the strawberry straw Derry and tomato crops in the county were quite severely nipped and it is estimated that practically one third ot of the crops will be killed beans and aid other early aly crops a also iso suffered quite extensively PLEASANT GROVE strawberry crop this year covers 1300 acres or about acres less than were bar vested last year the annual strawberry crop report released by frank andrews statistician of the united states department of agriculture shows it if the yield per acre this year la Is the same as the average for tho the past few years 1929 production will amount to quarts compared with quarts in 1928 and 2 in 1927 the reports says CEDAR CITY arizonians Arizon lans ians living south ot of the colorado river are enthusiastic thus thusia lastic over plans for the celebration juno june 14 and 15 of tho the formal dedication tf the tha new bridge over the river at marble conyon in several respects one of the most remarkable bridges in the world the people of the tha sister state will themo themselves elves como come on en mass to the celebration and they are ara looking for a large crowd from utah and other regions on the north as aa well ivell |