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Show News Notes ; : ; It't a Priviltg to Liv in ! I Utah i! ' Salt Lake City Is the pleasure resort ot the West. Saltalr, the races at the Lagoon, and then comes the big Utah State Fair with all Its attractions. KAYSVILLE One of ht greatest opportunities in the country is offered in Utah, Davis, Weber and Salt Lake counties to strawberry raisers. These two products are used extensively for canning factories and "cold pack." Utah berries are considered especially fine for these uses. VERNAL Early Saturday morning a frost visited part of Ashley valley. At the official government weather observeer'i station, located ' a mile southwest of the center of Vernal, the thermometer registered low point at 23 above zero, one degree above freezing. freez-ing. . , GUNNISON Fifteen hundred baby tiirkeya, the first consignment of 4000, were received here this week by Byard Tuft, who i& embarking in one of the largest undertakings of this kind ever started in the valley. The first consignment con-signment will be followed rith reg.!nr shipments until the total number is reached. MT. PLEASANT The'third annual community fair of Mount Pleasant will be held September 8, according te the committee in charge. The committee com-mittee includes A. E. Darley, local Smith-Hughes high school agricultural agricultur-al teacher, chairman; Art Frandscn of the local Lions club; A. F. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, president, and George C. Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, secretary of the local farm bureau, and Mrs. S. D. Longsdorf, chairman of the civic lague committee. PROVO Utah's second cherry special spe-cial of the season consisting of six cars, left recently on the Dnvcr & Rio Grande Western, bound for eastern eas-tern markets and high returns for the state's growers. The third specjpl of seven cars, some of' them carrying apricots, will leave soon, according to A. J. Cronin, freight agent for the D. & R. G. W. at Salt Lake. Enough cherries and apricots will be abtain-able abtain-able before the week is out for 25 more cars. CEDAR CITY Four loads of Ram-bouillets Ram-bouillets from Parowan were shipped to Ozone, Tex., recently. Wilford Day and Milo Marsden, who accompanied them, reported that one of the Day Farms company rams topped the sale there at $325, and J. K. Madsen was a close contender for first honors with one selling at $310 and several at $300. Range rams were high sellers. Half a dozen carloads will be shipped from Parowan within te next few days. BRIGHAM CITY Enjoy peach days asp Brigham City on Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15," aro the magic words of the advertising for Boxelder county's celebration this year. An intensive advertising campaign cam-paign will be waged from now until the peach festival. The attractive fruit display of last year promises to be outdone in 1928 by Carl Frischknecht and his associates, the decorative designs de-signs to be outlines and directed by William C. Horsley. The Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes exhibit will supplemnt the main horticultural displays. TREMONTON The cannery here has opened full blast with 120 operatives, opera-tives, and the expectation of canning the largest crop of peas that has been grown in this valley since the Rocky Mountain Packing corporation installed install-ed its plant here. From sunrise until near dark, there has been for the past day or two a steady stream of trucks, loaded with peas, traversing all roads leading- to Tremonton, with the cannery can-nery as their destination. The plant, according to Superintendent Wads-worth, Wads-worth, will be operated night and day, with two shifts of 11 hours each until the close of the season. SALT LAKE An increase of car loadings on the Oregon Short Line during the year of more than 20,000 cars over the same period of 1927 is shown by a report isued recently by J. L. Amos, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific system at Salt Lake. From January 1 to June 30, this road loaded 107,105 cars of freight, compared with 87,057 during the same six months pf last year, according to the report n On the Salt Lake division of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, rail-road, a slight increase was also shown. During the v 1928 period 17,140 cars were loaded, while the comparative figure for 1927 is 17,121 cars, j BOUNTIFUL Pork win be in Utah this year, judging from the results of the United States department of agriculture pig survey for the first six months of 1928, released Monday by W. A. Peterson, at the local offices. of-fices. The report shows a 13.4 per cent gain in the number of pigs saved (this year as "compared 'with -1927 'The number of sows farrowed this spring shows a 12 per cent increase as compared with spring of last year. MILLS Joe Nevile and Tom Hill have juiit returned from Mills, Utah, ' where they planted" some fingerling rainbow trout; in a stream running thrjugh a portion of the Salt Lake Union Pacific Athletic club grounds. They found many young ducks, which assures better hunting this year than ever before. ;The 'club has spent con-siderable'money con-siderable'money this year on its hunting hunt-ing and fishing grounds for duck feed. W. E. Snader of Mills, who is looking after the interests of the club, says 'he deer in the mountains nearby are numerous than ever- : " |