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Show UNIVERSITY MEN VISIT SOUTH-EAST Professors Merrill, Cottam and Morris Make Tour in Southern Utah Laval S. Morris, professor of horticulture; hor-ticulture; Walter P. Cottam, professor profes-sor of blologj- and Harrison R. Merrill, Mer-rill, chnlrmon or the publicity committee, com-mittee, all of the Young university, returned Saturday evening from a trip through Grand and San- Juan counties where they went in the interest in-terest of the Brlghum Young university. univer-sity. During their absence from Provo they visited Vernal, Moab, 'Monti-cello, 'Monti-cello, Blanding and Bluff, and organized or-ganized local chapter of the B. Y. U. alumni association In Moab, Blanding and Monticello. They report that the southeast Is replete with scenery of unusual interest in-terest and that the southeastern towns are prospering although fears of continued droughth are expressed. ex-pressed. The cattle on the southern ranges are in much better condition than the cattle men dared to hope they would be. The spring round-ups are now on. Hundreds of beef cattle will be shipped to the markets within the coming week. Garda Gee Adams was made president pres-ident of the local chapter of the alumni association of the Brigham Young university in Blanding, with Rlchnrd McAllister as secretary. In Monticello, Mrs. Kate Hanson was made president and L. Hardy Redd, secretary ; in Moab, Russell Mc-Conkie Mc-Conkie was made president and Mrs. William Hammond, secretary. Professor Cottam is of the oplh-lon oplh-lon that the Navajo trnil which runs through the southeast will certainly become of the choicest routes for Utah tourists, owing to the wonderful wonder-ful scenery which may be found in the two southeastern counties. |