OCR Text |
Show What Los Angeles Thinks of Utah (Editor's notes: The article I below is reprinted from the Los Angeles Herald and shows the deep interest soxithern California Califor-nia has in the industrial and j agricultural development of Utah.) I The new $20,000,000 blast fur- i cultural uses in three or four years of about 40.000 acres of land in Southern California, which has been subdivided into residence and industrial lots. But the new country coun-try will more than make up for the withdrawals here. Immense Ranges. In addition to the many thousand acres of agriculture lands, there I are immense cattle ranges, from which thousands of cattle are 1 shipped to this market, and the iron mining and smelting industry, only now getting into productive operation, opera-tion, are confidently counted upon to greatly assist toward the stability stabil-ity and balanced prosperity for which the Greater Los Angeles association as-sociation labors. To people this country a reverse movement in colonization soon will be made by the Union Pacific railroad. rail-road. Heretofore colonization has ever been moving westward. Now I he railroad is coming to t he ev-treme ev-treme west to seek colonists for lands to the cast. Eastward Excursions. Beginning April 11, and each Friday Fri-day thereafter through the year, tho Union Pacific will run homeseekcrs' naces of the Columbia Steel company com-pany at Provo, Utah, are now in operation, op-eration, receiving daily hundreds of tons of iron ore from the immense deposits in Escalanta valley and i shipping its product of pig iron to the company's steel mills and manufacturing man-ufacturing plant at Torrance. This fact is looked upon as the beginning of the "steel era" of Los Angeles industry. But. it is only a single item in the development of the great "back country" of this city. Industrial development de-velopment there is as much a part of the program of the Greater Los Aygeles association as industrial development de-velopment within the metropolitan area. Nevada Resorces Sought. The new association of business and civic leaders therefore and the chamber of commerce and allied organizations, or-ganizations, are greatly interested in a movement promoted by Marius do Brabant, assistant traffic man-aer man-aer of the Union Pacific railroad, to bring into productive uses the immense resources of Southern Nevada, Ne-vada, in the neighborhood of Las Vegas and the site of the projected Boulder canyon dam on the Colo- excursions from Los Angeles and all California points on its lines to all points between Los Vegas Nov., and Lyndyli, Utah. Tickets will be sold for the round trip at greatly reduced re-duced fare, with a 15-day return ! limit. The object is to encourage residents of Los Angeles and the other population centers on the coast to visit this big interior country, coun-try, become residents and help in the task of development. Townsito Selected. The site for the new town, to be known as Beryl, on the main line of the railroad in Utah has been selected, se-lected, and in May will be formally dedicated, when excursions of business, busi-ness, men from Los Angeles and Salt Lake City will meet there for a grand opening celebration. The 1'n ion Pacific is now const met ing a large station and probably will build a hotel. Beryl will be made a central shipping point for the Ks-ealante Ks-ealante valley and the surrounding ca ! ? le and sheep count ry. 1 D'1 Brabant has worked long o j perfect I lie plans for the coloniza-! coloniza-! 1 in n and development is iovemf m 1 1 ' now to be in-mu-urated. He bebN ! it as vab-rd,!,- ., Los An-.'.-les. f-id ; r -.;,;:.'- Jh's urnif b.-u k ef.an-jtry ef.an-jtry :i lo srrnre. faories for jiie radti river and of Southern and j Central Utah, in the Escalante and Pahvant valleys. .While the Greater Los Angeles association has not officially adopted adopt-ed tbe Nevada and Utah movement, its1 members, nevertheless, give encouragement en-couragement to tho enterprise, he-cause he-cause of its close relationship and anticipated beneficial effect on the business interests of the city and Southern California. The chamber of commerce practically prac-tically has made the movement its j own, having sent parties of its officers of-ficers and members into the coun-t coun-t ry, followed by export s, to study the resourses and study the plans for then yearly development. Dr. George B. Clements. a::ri"Hlf ural expert from the ch;i aib'T. describes I this hinterland of Los An-.vles as i the "last best, west." i I M. ( "ienv:it s r-ays t he di' net ! about Los V- 'as rr A the two rtah valbys are we.:ti::--d t" s"pi'Iy ' deficiency in .-e.Tindi nra! p'edi'c! ; caused by withdrawals from agri- |