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Show News Notes;; It't m PrioiUg toJLie in ! j Utah DUCHESNE A cuarter of a nv'l-Ho:i nv'l-Ho:i dollars worth of honey came out of the Uintah bssin during- 1927. SALT LAKE The total valuation of all Utah crops In 1927, at prices paid to growers, has been estimated conservatively at $3i,000,000. The estimated total of acres planted to all crops was 1,120,000. PLEASANT GROVE More than 6000 barrels of Utah strawberries wore "cold packed" in 1927 and distributed throughout the country for u.e In soda fountains and by candy manufacturers. The crop last year totaled 2,544,000 quarts, valued at $305,000. TREMONTON The bulk of the wheat gTown in this section has been harvested, there Laving been shipped from this point in the first month since the first car was loaded, July 11, 101 ears. From Garland during the anme period there was shipped 133 cars, each car averaging1 about 1200 bushels. The Garland shipments represent the crop from Portage. EUREKA Tintio mines shipped a total of 149 carloads as compared with 115 carloads for the week preceding. The Tintic Standard shipped 42 car loads; North Lily, 24; American Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining, dump ore, 15; Empire Mines, 10; Bingham Mines, 10; Colorado, Colo-rado, 9; Mammoth, 4; Dragon, 2; Mountain View, 2; and Gold Chain, 1. Chief Consolidated units: Chief Consolidated, Con-solidated, 7 carloads of ore and 5 of dump ore; Eureka Lily, 10; Plutus, 3. SALT LAKE A total of 3180 acres of land in Utah and Idaho will be open for settlement soon, according to word received by the Associated Press from Washington D. C. The land is scattered scat-tered throughout Custer and Blaine counties in Idaho and in Utah county in Utah. Veterans of the World war will have the first opportunity to file on the land. The land in Utah will be opened August SI, while the tracts in Idaho can be filed on beginning September Sep-tember 14. HEBER Vocational agriculture students of the Wasatch county high school at Heber will be represented at the national ram sale in Salt Iake with two pens of registered Hampshire Hamp-shire rams, including some twenty head of lambs and fifteen yearlings. The boys have set for themselves a minimum standard of 130 pounds for lambs and 200 pounds for the yearlings. year-lings. From a quality standpoint, it will be the best shipment yet made from the students of the school to the national sale. MT.TLEASANT Mt. Pleasant city will soon be protected from the menacing men-acing floods of past years1, as a flood control project is under way two miles east of the city. A. F. Reynolds of Mt Pleasant, who Is in charge of the construction work, has 20 men and teams on the Job. The excavation for the 30-foot, cobble spillway is now completely ready for the masonry work, which will begin at once. The north wing of the dike is completed and the south wing will be finished within 10 days. MYTON The road that Is being Improved Im-proved through the Pleasant Valley district will be completed in a couple of days, so W, E. Broome, overseer of construction, reports. The purpose of this activity is to put it in shape for the handling of supplies, material and machinery for the test well for oil, to be started Immediately. R. W. Gibson, a representative cf the Utah Southern Oil company, is superintendent of the work in this part of Utah, recently workmen bepan making excavations in preparation for the setting up of the derick. RICHFIELD The' Sevier County Fair association reports that extensive training is going on at the fair grounds every day among owners of the race horses. About ten head of race horses are already on the ground from southern Utah, reckoned among the fastest in the state. They also have booked six head from Utah county, coun-ty, to arrive next week, promising the most interesting racing program to be held here in years. The dairy ex-h'bit ex-h'bit is also more promising that ever before, owing to the fact th.it a number num-ber of animals from important herds in Wisconsin and the northwest, have been entered. VERNAL Prospects for the 1928 alfalfa 'seed crop in Utah are 47 per cent of normal compared with 60 per cent a year ago, Frank Andrews, agricultural ag-ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, ann nounced Wednesday. Increases or decreases de-creases from this estimate may result pending arrival of ki;ling frosts, Mr. Andrews reported. Early frosts will bring production lower than estimated and higher production will probably result if frosts are late, the report said. Lack of sufficient moisture has caused the crop to lower from last year's harvest and reports of stripping of blooms1 also have been made, Mr. Andrews stated. MYTON The Upako Flour Mill in Myton, which is operated by C. P. Watterson, has opened for the fall and winter and recently began receiving new wheat About 400 bushels were received in one day, some of which was of a superior quality, weighing sixty-four sixty-four pounds to the bushel. Mr. Watterson Wat-terson estimates the crop for this season sea-son in the vicinity of Myton at 20 000 bushels, which is a marked increase over that of previous years. In addition, ad-dition, he expects te purchase considerable consider-able tonnage from other portions of the basin. |