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Show JA LIDS BEING BROUGHTTO FRONT Commercial Club Secretary Will Aid Local Men in Publicity. gait Lake "business and commercial interests in-terests are confident that within the short space of five years tlie Delta, country in Millard county will be one of the richest in Utah. To encourage those now doing the pioneer work on the development projects. Secretary J. David Larson of the Commercial club leaves Tuesday to coaler with the Delta Commercial club on ways aucl means of expending' the limited lim-ited publicity fund which residents and local interests have raised to bring settlers set-tlers into that district as coon as possible. possi-ble. Several thousand settlers are needed at once to be on hand to carry on the developments de-velopments in the susar Ind ustry, and those owning- land are inakinsr every Inducement In-ducement to prospective settlers by offer-ins offer-ins their land on exceptionally low rental ffguresXor a term of years. Jji H. Manderfield, manager of the Lake Stock Yards, stated yesterday ffnat within five years he confidently believed be-lieved that one of the largest and richest com muni ties in the state would le that in the Deita district. At the present time land owners are engaged in listing every possible acre of rentable land in the district. There are already 1800 acres listed for rental to incoming settlers. According to information received by Secretary Larson and other Salt Lake business men interested In this section, the Delta farm bureau has selected local committees to work with the central committees com-mittees of the West Millard farm bureau. The standing committees are as follows: Membership and finance. A. P. Wallace. Wal-lace. H. E. Soule, Archie O. Gardner. ! Publicity, H. F. Alier, R. F. Crum, J. : A. FauPt. i Excursions, fairs, socials, J. H. Mel- : vl lie. A. S. Workman, Jr. ' Project committees Feeding project, i clocking up the farm, R. S. Bishop, II. E. j Soule, W. E. Bunker; feeding, Abner Johnson. E. L. Lyman, Jr.. A. O. Gardner; Gard-ner; marketing, Willis Lyman, George A. Faust, H. F. Aller; good roads project, W. H. Pace. N. S. Bishop, C. K. Stewart; control of farm pests, Piatt Taylor, Edward Ed-ward P. Cnristensen, M. H. Workman; control of animal diseases. Dr. William A. Stephenson, J. W. Starley, E. F. Bishop; sugar beet project, C. A Ashley, George S. Boyack, Einer Bjarnson; dairy projejt, James M. Taylor. Lorenzo Christensen, A. P. Wallace; boys' club work, J. A Bishop E. E. Gardner and James M. Rigby. A special committee has been appointed to look up prices on seed oats and potatoes po-tatoes for spring planting. The members are E. E. Peterson, M. M. Stapeley and A. P. Wallace. How the Delta country developed from a greasewood desert into a producing territory ter-ritory in a year is shown in the figures prepared by County Agent Bates. In 1916 there were shipped from Delta lSfi cars of sugar beets. 9S cars of hogs, 107 cars of hay and 1"5 cars of wheat. |