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Show I'" PRICE RIVER VALLEY: With the opening of the new canaj on the Price River and the filling of j the Mammoth reservoir some 20,000 r acres of choice agricultural land is added to Utah's quota of agricultural lands. The writer had the pleasure , through the courtesy of Manager W. D. Livingston of the Irrigated Hands Co. of witnessing the opening of tjiis 1 canal. The occasion was a delight- fM" fajfrgnc the splendid entertainment furnisnettabythe company, the R. G. W. railroad "ancl tlic good people of makes' a "iSf H g be remembered .. . -guests of the occasion. m Especially. notable was the welcome given by thcfold pioneers at Wclling-p Wclling-p v ton and the splendid banquet given byvthc good citizens there to the visi tors. The project there is a splendid one and the opportunities opened to 1, homcbuildcrs here can not be excelled I anywhere. There is ample evidence right in the valley itself of what can be accomplished by the aid of water. I The dairying and fruit growing (cs- ij pecially apples) possibilities can not I be excelled in this western country. 1 Wc look with confidence to the rapid I settlement of these lands and believe u that that section is destined to be in the not far distant future, one of the U garden spots of the state. , Q . O |