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Show News Notes! i It' a Privilege to Live In X UTAH j LAYTON Utah farms prbduce 500,. 000 bushels of onions annually. OGOEN At a late hour Sunday sight more than 60 members of the Ogden chamber of commerce had packed their grips in preparation for the start tor Idaho. UTAH A total of TS0 cars of peaches, valuted at $470,250, will be shipped out of Utah this year, it is estimated by railroad officials following follow-ing a recent survey. KAYSVILLE In the last four years there has been an average of 540 acres per year planted to tomatoes in Utah for shipping purposes. The average production in 1928 was 230 bushels per acre. . VERNAL More tban 10,000 colonies of bees were lost by Colorado and Utah beemen last winter, mostly due to starvation. To avoid another such loss during tbe coming winter, beekeepers bee-keepers should be sure and leave enough honey in tbe hives to provide sufficient food supply until the first honey flow of spring. 8 ALT LAKE The first unit of extensive ex-tensive additions to Airport lighting was turned on Wednesday night, wltn Commissioner Harry L. Finch aiu Charles J. Reading, police signal system sy-stem head, present to Inspect the lighted circle, 100 feet in diameter, in the middle of the landing field. The circle Indicates the exact center of the field to pilots landing day or night GUNNISON Headway in getting Gunnison valley's famous cauliflower on the market throughout the United States is being made and to date some 12 cars have been shipped, according to Leslie Hancock, junior member tt tbe firm of Smith & Hancock, Salt Lake, wholesale dealers In produce. Representatives of the Pacific Produce Pro-duce company are also shipping for their company. RICHFIELD County Agent S. R. TJoswell reports that the farmers of the county ere beginning to fill their silos for the winter's feeding. In the southern part of the valley, around Monroe, sheep feeding has grown into one of the main industries. Experimental Experi-mental feeding, under the direction of the state experiment station, will be conducted during the winter by the Monroe Sbeep Feeders' association. HEBER The turkey growers of Wasatch county made a tour of the valley recently accompanied by Professor Pro-fessor Byron Alder, poultry specialist special-ist of the Utah State Agricultural college. Professor Alder complimented compliment-ed the growers at the places visited on the high quality of their birds. He advised the growers to keep "Developing "De-veloping mash before the turkeys continually con-tinually and to feed them all the barley bar-ley that they could clean up as well." LEHI Construction of a switch control con-trol house new to the west is under way just south of the present Denver & Rio Grande Western railway station sta-tion in Lehi. The new station will house the controlling apparatus for 42 signals and blockades and 12 switches on the D. & R. G. W. R. R. single track line between Provo and Midvale. It is claimed this introduction introduc-tion to western railroading will make It possible to handle two-way traffic along virtually the entire line The new system will be in operation early In November. LOGAN Cache valley fair, which this year enjoyed the best weatber for several years, ended its seventeenth seven-teenth annual exposition recently. This year's fair broke all previous records rec-ords for attendance, while no figures could be had, it was sure of a sew record. According to Auditor J. W. Crawford of the fair association broke all records for fair attendance, when 4775 paid admissions were clicked through the turnstiles. Of these, 1733 were children who took advantage of the school being let out for a day to let tbem attend. OGDEN The football schedule as lined up for the schools are as follows: fol-lows: September 27 South Cache at Preston, North Cache at Davis. East at Logan ; October 4 Box-elder Box-elder at Rear River, South Cache at Logan, Ogden at Davis, Preston at North Cache; Oct. 11 Ogden at Box-elder, Box-elder, Weber at Preston, North Cache at South Cache: Oct 17 Preston at Bear River, Weber at Davis, Logan at Ogden; Oct. 25 Boxelder at Logan, Bear River at Weber, South Cacbe at Ogden (tentative); Nov. 1 Boxelder at Weber, Preston at Logan, North Cache at Bear, Davis at South Cache; Nov. 6 Preston at Ogden (tentative); Nov. 8 Davis at Boxelder, Bear River Riv-er at South Cache, Logan at North Cache; Nov. 11 Weber at Ogden. LOGAN Through the American Legion post and the chamber of commerce, com-merce, Logan is planning to make a bid for the proposed disabled veterans' veter-ans' hospital, which the Utah department depart-ment of the American Legion will ask the government to build In the state. It was brought out in the state convention con-vention in Ogden that there are now two hospitals of this nature In the mountain district, at Boise and Helena, both of which are boused tn old forts or army barracks belonging to the war department, which will be subject to call at any time from that department |
