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Show Newo Noteo i ! Jt'$ a Privihf to Liv in I Utah I 3 Mt tttt MYTON Aceordinf to a recent report re-port April disbursements for the up- keep and construction of highways in imchesne and Uintah counties is as follows: Duchesne, $16,209.82; Uintah Uin-tah $616.29. Substantial wok is being ' done on the Duchesne-Frultland unit of the Victory highway, while at My-', My-', ton the rock crusher is working and ' trucks are hauling gravel, resurfacing ! the highway. ' LOGAN Under the direction of ! members of the Ag club at the Utah Agricultural college, a livestock show I and mock auction sale will be held ' soon on high school day at the Logan ' school. The affair will begin promptly ' at 10 a. m., according to President Lee Cayman. MYTON Under the supervision of Ed Christensen of Spanish Tork, the Antelope Sheep Shearing Corral association as-sociation finished its work for the season sea-son recently. The plant is located eight miles southwest of Myton, and is owned by several of the large sheepmen sheep-men who graze their sheep part of the season In the basin. The work was started April 11, employmnet being given most of the time to about sixty men, in addition to several trucks that have been kept busy hauling the wool to Price for storage and shipment. About 50,000 head of sheep are handled han-dled yearly at this project. MURRAY The world's largest smelting center is situated within fifty miles of Salt Lake. The total value of ore treated in 1925 was more than $100,000,000. PROVO Increase in the steel consumption con-sumption in the United States is growing grow-ing each year and with this growth there will be on increase in Utah's iron and steel industry. PANGUITCH Sheep generally are in good condition throughout the west, but lack of green food nad dry conditions condi-tions in places has resulted in a slight shrinkage in the weight of the animals, ani-mals, aeording to May range and lie-stock lie-stock report of the United States department de-partment of agriculture, issued by Frank Andrews, local statistician. In Utah the growth of spring feed was delayed by cool weather and in portions por-tions by deficient moisture, the report states. Lambing was well under way among farm flocks by the middle ol 'April but range lambing had hardly begun by the end of the month. Shearing Shear-ing began in April in most of the camps and a good weight of fleece was expected, according to the report. COALVILLE Appropriation of $11,950 for participation in betterment of roads in cooperation with the state road commisiaon was made by the Summit county commissioners at tlu May meeting. This money will be expended ex-pended by the state road department in improving and maintaining roads in Summit county. Park City citizens appeared before the board to ask that a building to care for contagious and infectious diseases be secured. This matter was taken under advisement. TREMONTON The Home Economics Econom-ics club has offered the city council s plan whereby the city would obtain, free of cost, and for use as a community commu-nity house, the Waldron building, located lo-cated in the heart of the city. The city is asked to continue to rent a part of the structure for city offices, and tc consent to the continuance of the library li-brary in the structure. OGDEN Manager John O. Hughes of the Nelson-Ricks Creamery company com-pany plant in Ogden announced that the company would immediately expend ex-pend $10,000 for additional equipment at the plant. The improvements include in-clude a plant for the manufacture oi casein, which is made from the curds of milk. It is said that there are only two other casein plants in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country, at American Fork and at Boise, Idaho. NORTH SALT LAKE Hogs Receipts, Re-ceipts, 766, including 13 head for the local market, 192 in transit to Los Angeles An-geles market, 184 to Los Angeles pack ers, 377 to San Diepo packers. Medium Medi-um weight and lig-ht-light drive-ins look lower. Two lots, $.259.35. j Lifrht and medium-weight drive-ins $9.509.75, with few heavy butcher? at $8.00. Cattle Receipts, 30, direcl to local packers, None this market Sheep Receipts, 10723, including- 4 head for the local market, 1287 it-transit it-transit to Colorado range and 9435 , California spring lambs to the Chi-! Chi-! cago market. Small lot 77-pound j spring lambs, $14.50. HEBER The Wasatch County Livestock Show association has launch ! ed activities in preparation for thi? ! year's exhibition, Aurust 16 and 17, I on the county square at Heber. i OGDEN The city of Og-den took .' definite steps to provide a municipal airport when the city commission voted to take a five-year option on a large tract of land south of the Ogdei Country club property after the chamber of commerce, the city engin- eer and others had reported as to its J desirability. PARK CITY Utah produces enough coal to supply her own needs and ships enough out of the state to return an annual revenue of some $11,000,000. OGDEN Ogden's milling industry, which has many millions of dollars invested, in-vested, was given a further impetus by the announcement of J. W. Sherwood, Sher-wood, vice president ami general manager man-ager of the Royal Milling company, that hi company had awarded contracts con-tracts for the immediate construction ! of eight new tanks at the company's J plant on Pacific avenue and Twenty- I ninth street, at a coat of $100,000. |
