Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-14 | Page 2 | Contestant Would Redeem Desert Tell What You'd Do with $100,000

Contestant Would Redeem Desert Another Would Ease Life of Parents Tell What You'd Do With 1 Peace and love or I home and parents Is the I struck in the letters incident to today's today's to- to days day's instalment of letters In The Telegrams contest on What wo would ld YOU do it If you OU suddenly acquired 1 In ha the tho letters reaching reaching- the contest con con- test teat editor Monday morning the writers s ran tho gamut of leasure self self-In philanthropy music I art business ss love lo hate and nis t ry Those whose efforts draw 1 each wrote ns as fOllows 4 I Gods God's Own Country I IFor For seven se years I have ha known exactly what I would do with I would use It to help 1011 create I 8 IS little farming Continued on page e 6 6 i LETTER LETTER CONTEST WILL CLOSE ONS ON ON- S t.- t. FRIDAY NIGHT S C Continued from page 1 Community in a beautIful scenic S section down in Utah's Dixie Under tinder the rim o of th famed Hurricane Hurricane Hur- Hur ledge stretching stretching- southward S from Hurricane town lies a vIvidly colored bench of alluvial desert soil S composed of just the right proportions of weathered red limestone limestone- and volcanic ash Jj III that brilliant DIxie sunshIne it needs only the magic touch of water to produce five lve crops S S of f alfalfa In one season Or two twoS S Crops of grain Or grapes peaches S figs pomegranates and fruits of a size flavor and sweetness not quite equalled by best Cotton grows there too and cantaloupEs cantaloupE's cantaloupes canta- canta loupEs loupE's and sweet potatoes S WIth a cooperative organization or- or like that which built the flourishing Hurricane Irrigation system system- in that same valley could S stor the high water o of the Virgin river Iver and put it on thIs now empty emItt d desert sert S This is' is no idle dream The town of Hurricane shows what can be 5 done And this project has been beenS S Surveyed and app d by competent compe- compe S tent engIneers It was not taken up by bt th the United States r reclamation clam servIce for the reason that itIs It-Is not big enough for a government project 5 PossiblY all I would get out of it would be a lot lotof Of work hard a small amaH home with orchard vineyard garden arden and chickens chickens' growing S thIngs to tend and chum with And Anda a peaceful place to spend my old bid bidS bid'S S age But just to see the thirsty 5 land drink that water to watch S homes orchards vineyards and andS nd farms take shape arid and to know that S men with famIlIes were being helped S to secure a these living would be bemore beS bemore S more than value fOr the money S THOMAS E Dresden Avenue S