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Show ORGANIZATION FORMED TO DEVELOP SOUTHERN UTAH'S RESOURCES To develop southern Utah and its resources and thereby developing and benefiting the entire state, is the aim of a newly organized but not yet officially offi-cially named association formed in a conference of representatives of ten counties of the southern part of the state, which met in Richfield Thursday and which is bound to accomplish this aim by concentrated action and effort. To attract tourists and homeseekers; to call the world's attention to the wealth and beauties of the respective u counties; to work for good roads and transportation; to broadcast by every conceivable- means what southern Utah has to offer in scenic wonders and partly undeveloped agricultural and mineral resources, and to work unitedly for such purposes will be some of the instrumentalities by which to attain that goal. Following a call issued in behalf of the civic Organizations of southern Utah by Benjamin Cameron, Jr. of , Panguitch, over fifty representatives ! of the respective counties held a meeting meet-ing Thursday night in the club rooms of the Richfield chamber of comlmerce. Mr. Cameron opened the harmonious and cnthusiatic meeting by explaining the reasons for which it was called an took a roll-call of the counties represented. re-presented. The following responded: Kane, Garfield, Piute, Sevier, Sanpete, Washington, Iron, Beaver, Wayne and Carbon. Distinguished guests who participated participa-ted in the deliberations with sound suggestions were Gus Backman, secre-: secre-: tnry of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce; com-merce; Judge LeRoy Root, secretary of the chamber of commerce of Kingman, King-man, Arizona; H. C. Bigelow, publicist ' ' and feature write of Los Angeles, and F. P. B. Gay of Provo, well known worker for good roads connecting Utah with neighbring states and inter-connecting the national parks of , the area. Tl,e first order of business was "" the perfecting of a temporary organization, organi-zation, which was done by electing Mayor F. G. Martines of Richfield, chairman, and Benjamin Cameron, Jr., secretary. In a caucus of representatives of the several counties, a committee on permanent organization and order of business was constituted as follows: O. C. Bohman of Kanab for Kane county, Benjamin Cameron, Jr., of Panguitch for Garfield county, J. W Robinson of Maryvale for Piute county, coun-ty, District Attorney O. R. Michelsen of Richfield for Sevier county, Dr. P L. Ilolman of Mt. Pleasant for San pete county, Ellis J. Pickett of St. George for Washington county, William Wil-liam H. Lunt of Cedar City for Iron county, William Hurst of Beaver for Beaver county, John Redd of Price for Carbon cfllunty and W. D. Brinkerhoff of Bicknell for Wayne county. While this committee was occupied ' with its work, the meeting -was addressed ad-dressed by Mr. Backman, who brought greeting and congratulations from the Salt Lake chamber of commerce, and assured the southern counties of the hearty cooperation of the state capital; capit-al; by Dr. Harold Crandall of Panguitch, Pan-guitch, who cautioned the counties against petty jealousies among themselves; them-selves; by F. D. B. Gay, who pointed out what accomplishments have been reached in the past ten years in the matter of building good roads, closing his remarks with the prophetic words that southern Utah is just at the dawn of its career; by George Mitchell of Iron county, who emphasized that his county is free from jealousies as to routing tourists over highway "91" and highway "89"; Judge Root of Kingman, who was pleased with the apparent friendly feeling of cooperation coopera-tion with the balance of the western world; by George M. Hunt of Bicknell, who pleaded for a good east-west highway through Wayne county, and by J. R. Murdock of Milford, who brought greeting from his county. In the meantime the committee on organization an order of business had completed its deliberations and offered for adoption a program, as follows: That the temporary organization organi-zation be made permanent for the evening; ev-ening; that a president and vice president presi-dent be elected by the assembly, each of these funtionaries to be from a different dif-ferent county; that the eight counties from which neither the president nor the vice president hailed, elect one director each; that the board of directors direc-tors select a secretary and treasurer either from their own midst or at large, and that the meeting be closed with the presentation and deliberation of resolutions. All of these recommendations recommen-dations of the committee, of which Mr. Cameron had been the chairman and O. U. Michelsen the secretary, were unanimously adopted. William Hurst of Beaver county nominated for president Ben Cameron. Jr., and G. E. Chilton of Iron county nominated F. G. Martines of Sevier . county. Mr. Martines received the majority of the votes, and his election Ii by motion of Mr. Cameron, was made unanimous. For vice president were nominated Mr, Cameron and George Jefferson of Milford, the latter being elected. The following then were elected to represent their respective counties on the board of directors: O. C. Bohman, Kane county; Ben Cameron, Jr., Gar- field county; J. W. Robinson, Piute county; Dr. P. L. Holman, Sanpete county; John Redd, Carbon county; John P. Fuller, Iron county; Ellis J. Pickett, Washington county; Geo. M. Hunt, Wayne county. Several suggestions were made for naming the organization, but the matter mat-ter was finally left to the board of directors di-rectors for a final decision. ' Upon request, Mr. Bigelow talked briefly and impressively on scenery and road conditions in southern Utah and northern Arizona, a subject which he has studied and written about extensively. ex-tensively. After adjournment the board of directors di-rectors held a meeting in which Mr. Cameron was unanimously elected secretary se-cretary and treasurer. Directors Pickett of Washington county and Fuller of Iron county were appointed committtee to work out constitution (Continued on last page) |