Show news notes note si its a privilege fo live in UTAH pro PROVO V 0 postal receipts during january show a 37 per cent increase over january last year according aing to a report submitted by postmaster J P the total receipts were compared with in january 1929 LOGAN in making mailing a report on his monthly survey of the mt logan watershed waters lied february 1 george D clyde ol crt the utah experiment sta station tion reports that in only two years yeara sinca 1921 has hag the snow cover been us as light as this year the other two years were 1924 and 1926 OGDEN though mild temperatures pera tures accompanied by some thawing of the snow layer prevailed in utah during the past week the grain in most sections Is still safely covered and livestock on feed are doing well according to the weekly weather livestock and range report issued by J cecil alter federal meteorologist LOGAN porty forty two indies inclines of snow was reported january 28 at the tony grove hanger itinger station according to the report issued by george 1 D clyde of the utah experiment station on february f the regular monthly survey was made at mt aft logan and showed an aver ago decrease at all elevations of 44 inches of water over that on the same date last year HEBER at a meeting recently of the wasatch county livestock association it was decided chri ahr august 21 and 22 should be the daes dobe tor for the show this year subject to the schedule drawn up by the utah state association of county fairs at salt lake city A A delegation of officials ot of the loial loi al show will attend a meeting to to hold held in salt lake soon KAYSVILLE utah potato growers expect to plant acres to their product this lear ear r frank andrews statistician tor for the united states department or 0 agriculture in utah said recently eighteen thousand acres were planted to potatoes in utah last year growers of the 35 late crop states expect to plant acres to potatoes in 1930 last year acres were planted HEBER CITY the program ot of the national marketing corporation merles merits the support ot of all ers era whether their annual clip Is 1000 1000 to pounds fays mr air hooper the plan under which this wool corporation the second marketing unit organized under the federal farm arm board Is 13 setting out to do something worth while tor for the gets at the very root ot of the wool marketing problem PRICE alter after three ot of Ws his sheep were killed silas young owner of 0 a ranch on coal creek near price investigated and found that a huge mountain lion was responsible young set a trap tor for the marauder and succeeded in nabbing him for or a little while the animal escaped and young tracked him to the mountains close to his ranch As lie he was down resting young spied the lion about a rod away and killed him PLEASANT GROVE the acre in the ground in utah tor for the crop of 0 1830 1930 is estimated at 1300 or the same as were harvested in 1929 a report issued recently by the local government statistician reveals for the united states as aa a whole the acreage in 1930 la is compared with a year ago the late crop states have acres this year compared with age of commercial strawberries now in 1929 OGDEN tho the value ot of livestock in utah was on january 1 according to the report ot of prank frank andrews on january 1 I 1 1929 ad livestock in the state was valued at the number ot of cattle in the state at the be inning of 0 the current year was estimated by mr andrews as with a valuation ot of compared with in 1929 there were milk cows valued at or cows more mora than last year at the same time SALT LAKE nearly 30 tracts of 0 grazing land in various parts ot of the stats state on which conflicting ap licati locations ons had been filed were leased recently by the state land board to the highest respective bidders the payments called tor for in the leases ranged from 6 to 61 cents an acre per year several applications tor for purchase at prices ranging from to 1050 an arce were also granted by the board most ot of the land Is in state school sections and the individual tracts contain as high as acres PRICE priced 0 W jorgensen field director tor for the springville maple ton sugar factory has been in price the last several days looking over the prospects ot of sugar beet raising hers here and contracted tor for acreage lie reports that thus thu tar far he has been ible able to secure acres in carbon county with prospects for or that many more and expected to have about in emery c county it has been estimated that to guir antee a sugar factory in carbon county that at least 1000 acres must be cultivated |