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Show place where the Mountain meadows massacre took place. . Some of the richest gold ore ever found was taken from adjacent hills. Tbe old trail from southern California, by which early argonauts came into Utah, passed close by. It Is now well settled by farmers and orehardlsts, who have had their homes there for many years. Be cause of the climate they are raising some of the finest runs grown in America. One other survey crew Is now working work-ing in this district In the Amargoaa valley, in southern Nevada. With the opening of spring and with the usual allotment, there will be six or seven crews in Utah and several In Nevada. -Hhould the special appropriation go through congress with the backing of Utah congressmen, there will be twenty crews working In the two states. GOES TO MAKE laud son irrsouTH Federal Engineer Takes Crew ot Six Men to Washington Wash-ington County With orders to survey 0.000 acres In Beaver Dam wash. In Washington county, the Dixie of Utah, James O'Brien, cadaxteral engineer of the government, departed today with a crew of six men to Inaugurate trie survey sur-vey program In this state for 1921. Defore the season. Is closed It Is hoped that at least (00,000 acres will have been added to the surveyed area of the state. "Although we got over less than 500. 000 acres last season with our usual allotment of 150,000, we will do much better this year, weather conditions condi-tions permitting, with the same amount of money," said O. D. D. Kirkpatrlck, assistant supervisor of surveys for Utah and Nevada. "If we get the special spe-cial appropriation of 1100,000 we will be able to survey nearly 200.000 acres and help Utah to eaten tip in the procession pro-cession of surveyed stales. We will be able to get over more ground this year because of the fact that the surveys sur-veys called for cover open ground and we will not have to bojher with fractions or resurveys." The public land surveys In Utah are six years behind, according to the officials. of-ficials. Applications for the survey of mors than 1.000,000 acres are In. At the usual allotment of aurvey money It will take six years to get over the ground. Irrespective of new applications applica-tions that come in. For several years these have been coming In l ister tban the surveys for each y-ar. SCENE OF MASSACRE. The crew now taking the field will cover historic ground. The Beaver Dam wash lies to the west of 61 j Ueorge and is In the vicinity of the |