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Show PROMINENT INDIAN IS VISITOR IN ZION Rai Bahadur ITanak Chand Combines Business With Pleasure in Trip Around World. Hai Bahadur Nauak Chand, lately pensioned as minister 0f Indorc, India, which position ho had occupied for seventeen years, is in this city on a trip around the world for combined business and pleasure. Ho is accompanied ac-companied by his secretary, M. Gupta, and is staying in the Jlotel Utah. Tho distinguished visitor also holds titles from the Indian government, they being be-ing companionship of the Star of India and companionship of the. Indian Empire. Em-pire. When seen in the hotel last night Mr. Chand said: My business is to study farming conditions hero and to gel ideas regarding the extraction of cottonseed cot-tonseed oil. In my country we raise immense crops of wheat and cotton and depend to some extent on irrigation, although the form is entirely different from that used here. The rain begins there in .Tune and somotimcs lasts until the middle of September, and wo get it about all then. The I average annual rainfall there is 35 inches, and fully 30 inches falls during July and August. In order to conserve the supply for the dry season the country is dotted with small roservoirs. The' arc filled by the heavy midsummer mid-summer rains, and sufficient water is stored to supply the needs through irrigation and othor uses. I shall go east tomorrow, as T havo to sail from New York July 17. I shall spend two days in Day- ton and two in Cincinnati, where have been promised the privilogo of inspecting tho cottonseed oil mills. |