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Show UTAH COUNTYD SHOULD I 'fILPIER I Cecil Alter Sees Wonderful possibilities in Mosida- Elberta District rFCORDS OP BUREAU HELPFUL TO INDUSTRIES "limatic Conditions Here Compare Favorably With Any of Western States n ail climates throughout the iilliscd world Utah furnishes the optimum conditions and conization coni-zation to be found, declared J. yil Alter, director of the U. S. Mtber bureau at Salt Lake City, ' , addressing the monthly membcr-1 membcr-1 p moctlns of ie Provo Chamber (Commerce at the Hotel Koherts pW. Oscnr A. Spear, president I the chamber, presided at the Kling. Mr. Alter gave many points of ' lW9t with regard to weather con-lions con-lions and pointed to the value of sping accurate records in the buna. bu-na. He told of how his office is ".inched daily by men of affairs t, wish to use the records as a i;dc (or future development. As I example, he declared that long ,1m the Columbia Steel corpora-H corpora-H decided on its plant site, engl-frs engl-frs compiled statistics giving the initio conditions of this locality iring the past few years. In comparison with climatic con-lions con-lions of the great fruit raising iters of the western and inter-nmtain inter-nmtain states Utah's climate its with the best, the speaker dared. "All frait wherever grown flour-I flour-I largely as a result of favorable niatlc influences, an optimum ubination precipitation being ileas essential through the years suitable fertility of the soil," Alter pointed out. "The fruit i requires an immunity from iierkilling that results from ex-tively ex-tively cold weather of long dura-o." j Utah offers, all of these comhl- lions, and yet as an apple-grow- - state It ranks low in comparison ! 1 lb other surrounding states. Its : I curs ranke only with those 1 pied from New Mexico; which is j one-sixth as many as shipped I t'olorndo; one-seventh as many sre grown in Idaho ; one-eighth 1 many as Oregon and one-fifth many as are produced in the te of Washington." If more thun a dozen mnjor pro-. pro-. I under contemplation by vari- i interests of Utah the Mosida- rta project offers greater op-(unities op-(unities than any of the.others, h the possible exception, of the t Uke Basin water project, in I "pinion of Alter. The climatic I wll conditions are right for the tin? of a wonderful fruit-bearing irict Across the lake, Mr. Alter tous. He' predicts for the dis-t dis-t a brilliant future, and believes t wale day some one will lift it "f the non-productive class into "t the largest shippers of apples te iotermountain region, i Npenklng of Utah's climate i factor In attracting outside ntlon it would have to be sold luovelty. This, the speaker de-can de-can be done with as much as many other sections. Its giving qualities are equal to of nmny other states, he af- w), and as an example called " "tion to Utah's Dixie. i conclusion, Mr) Alter declared he is an ardent advocate of by i nir senson climate, , $ 1 Rives me vigor and puts red d Into my veina. I like its erf Hi-promoting Qualities." he said. |