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Show Thursday, August 23, 1928 THE BINGHAM BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON. UTAH First Link in Detroit-Winds- or Bridge Completed ' ! :vrV'-- ' i ;'; . O festff; ": ";. 2ffiWffl . .tor,-- w General view during the celebration of the completion of the first link In the Ambassador bridge between Detroit j and Windsor, Ontario. Yachts and airplanes took part In the ceremonies. - The Bingham Bulletin Entered as second-clas- s matter at the postoffice at Bingham Canyon, Utah, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ; Subscription Trice, per year, in advance $2.00 Published at 446 Main St., Bingham Canyon, Utah UPWARD A. JARVIS, Editor t News Notes;; t It' a PriviUg to Liv in Utah I VERNAL The Uintah basltt will add to the wealth of west when rail transportation comes to handle the rare minerals found nowhere else In the country. I LEHI Sugar beet production In Utah for 1928 Is forecast at 672,000 tons, according to the report of the United States department of agricul-ture, reissued Tuesday by Frank An-drews at the local office. BOUNTIFUL One of the fine fla-vored fruits that Is making Utah fa-mous In world markets Is the Elborta peach. The state's crop In 1C27 was valued, at 1673,000. Exports totaled 793 carloads. 11KCER CITY Utah's wheat crop In J927 was valued at $5,792,000. Winter wheat, 85 per cent of which was grown on dry land farms, averaged 19 bushels to the acre. Spring wheat, 80 per cent grown on irrigated land, averaged 31 bushels to the acre. S GUNNISON Damage possibly run-nln- g Into the thousands of dollars, al-though a accurate estimate Is not yet obtainable, was caused by a cloudburst accompanied by hall, which swept over Gunnison Wednesday afternoon. The heavy downpour lasted three hours. ' I SALT LAKE Fourteen federal highway projects, costing a total of approximately $1,500,000, are now un-der course of construction In Utah, it is shown by a statement prepared in the offices of the state road commis-sion. Some of those projects are now nearlng completion and the majority of them will be finished before the close of the present year, it was stat-ed. OGDEN Prediction of a record-breakin- g onion crop for Utah is made by Frank Andrews, agricultural statis-tician, in his August bulletin. The bulletin says that indications August 1, 1928, are lor a probable onion crop for Utah of 403,000 bushels in Aug., 1927. The acreage this year is estimated at 970, as compared with 900 last year. For the United State as a whole, the total late crop of onions, Including the Utah crop, Is forecast at 15,178,000, as compared with 17,773,000 In 1927, showing a considerable reduction. KANAB Ranges throughout south-ern Utah from Panguitch and Cedar City southward have received a re-freshing and much needed rain during the last few days and the skies are still heavily overcast. This summer has been one of the dryest for some time, and the ranges are burning up, and in some places barren. The for-est and park officials In Zlon National park and the Kaibab National forest and Grand Canyon National park have been especially alert and have, in the case of Zlon Park, forbidden promlscu-ou- s smoking, allowing It only in cer-tain areas, due to the extremely high fire hazard. GUNNISON Sanpete county Is re-ceiving a great deal of recognition from the state on the highways throufiout the county. On the federal eld project for cement highway to be built in the northern part of the coun-ty, at Fairvlew, Mt. Pleasant and Spring City, A. G. Younj Construction company of Richfield was let the con-tract, being the lowest bidder. The amount, $95,967.03, was within $21 of the estimated cost of the construction as made by the state department en- - glneers. The second low figure was made by the Sevier Construction com-pany at $97,051.17. LEHI Sugar beets, grains and hay in some parts of Utah are suffering from the excessively dry weather, ac-cording to the weekly crop report of J. Cecil Alter, government meteorol-ogist, Issued Wednesday. The report follows: "The weather has continued dry, excepting for scattered showers over fhe southern portion o the state. Temperatures were also abnormally high, conditions being rather unfavor-able for alfalfa seed, irrigated crops not abundantly supplied with water and the grazing ranges generally. Grain cutting is nearly finished and spring grain threshing rapidly. SALT LAKE Registration of fresh-men students at . the University of Utah will take place Thursday, Sep. tember 27, and former students will register Monday, October 1. Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, will be given over to special Instruc-tion periods for the new students. All freshmen will be required to attend. Regular classroom Instruction will be-gin Tuesday, October 2. High school graduates who are entering the Uni-versity for the first time should send a copy of their high school credits to the Recorder's office at least one month prior to registration. Last year 1181 freshmen, the largest number In the history of the institution, entered the Un'verslty. It is estimated that this fall enrollment of first year stu-dents will be even larger. New classes more faculty members, and other add-ed facilities have been provided for the large number of students expected. PROVO H. V. Swenson, Utah coun-ty agricultural inspector, has bnen tak. lng orchard samples of pears and peaches for chemical analysis to deter-mine whether or not thoy are within the spray residue regulations. Many of the big orchards of the county are ' beginning to pick for shipment. Soma ' of the fruit will be loaded this week. ' The fruit is better In size and freer ' from codling moth worms than It has been for a number of years, according to Mr. Swenson, and the grower c( the section are looking, for wotd to u 1 exceptionally good year. I RITZ HOTEL i i J BINGHAM'S CLEANEST, BEST AND MOST MO-- ; DERN BOARDING HOUSE. WATCH YOUR j S CHANCE FOR A ROOM. 560 MAIN PHONE 344 Coolest Place in Town THE OXFORD I I 1 Full line of cigars, tobacco and soft drinks. :j I I 1 American Beauty right off the ice. f 1 3 MWWtitlWWWX I SOFT DRINKS Delicious Budweiser, Cigars and j Tobacco at the o Ko' I Opposite the Safeway j$ CITIZENS COAL k SUPPLY CO. COAL, ICE, HAY and GRAIN AGENTS FOR BECCO Phone . : : : ' : 39 BINGHAM a GARFIELD RAILWAY COMPANY Ship your freight via Bingham and Garfield Railway. Fast daily merchandise cars from Salt Lake City in connection " with the Union Pacific System. USE COPPER Brass piping for $4500 cottage only costs $48.87 more than galvanized iron piping and will LAST FOREVER I T. H. PERLEYWITS, H. L. DAVIDSON Asst. Gen. Freight & Pas. Agt., Agent Salt Lake City, Utah Bingham, Utah Patronize Home People For the Best in Laundry Work Call Murray Laundry ROUGH DRY WORK ONE DAY SERVICE FRIDAY Tax payers of Bingham Canyon George Streadbeck Manager Phone 98 84 Main Street 1 j , ' Use of Packets on Ohio River Is Reviving I f T ; V--i - k - ' - "w. ipjj py f' ' An air view of the Ohio river at Cincinnati, showing the throng of river packets or steamboats clusterea the packets may become the common mode of transporta-tion around the Cincinnati docks. River men are predicting on the river. FOE OF SPOONERS Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant III, grand-son of President Grant, has declared war upon the youths and maidens who select the various shady nooks in the parks of Washington to spoon, pet and otherwise enjoy love's young dreams. Colonel Grant, who lias charge of the Washington parks, has laid down a set of rules for proper park conduct. Solomon's Stables Are Uncovered Ijii 'fc a ffii ,.v,l-r- i Scientists of the University of Chicago have laid bare the famous stables of what must have been a of Solomon and are now excavating the ruins great city of his day. These discoveries were made at Armageddon in Palestine. The photograph shows the south end of the stables. Ancient Timber for "Constitution" rir' I h Above is shown the slab of live oak Umber over 500 J --"J. s ruction of the historic sh'p Constitution. FIRST OF HER KIND ''' ii Miss Clara Seaman, who Is the nrst woman to receive a degree in metal-lurgical engineering and will be the only one of her sex actively engaged in that profession when she takes ui ber work with the Dor company in a New York office. Miss Seaman tool her degree from the Washington Stat college school of mines this summer |