Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-09 | Page 15 | Fillmore Invites Whole State to Celebration

FILLMORE I INVITES INVITES' WHOLE IDLE STATE TO CELEBRATION TION Elaborate arrangements are being made by the tho people o of Millard county for the entertainment of several hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred visitors who will participate in inthe inthe inthe the Well Days Days' celebration at af Fi Fillmore mor June Jun 1 2 and 3 the program to mark the discovery of the wells which now supply the once arid lands with wit water water wa wa- water ter for irrigation and which have made possible th the turning of barren desert lands Into fertile ferUle fields The program Includes besides besides' numerous speeches an extensive card of sporting and so social social social so- so cial events J. J H H. Manderfield eld assistant general freight and passenger agent for the Salt Lake Route has accepted an Invitation invitation invitation tation to attend the celebration and itis it itIs itis Is expected that other officials officials' of the road including T F F. F A A. Wann H II C C. C Nutt Frank Strong and H. H E. E E Van Housen also will wUl attend Millard l county has Issued an invitation invitation invitation tion to the people of the whole state to attend the celebration Discovery of ofa a subterranean flow of water in the valley was made early this year and since that time thirteen artesian wells have been tapped and ar are now supplying sufficient sufficient sufficient water to irrigate thousands of acres of lands la It has been found througH extensive development work that the artesi artesian n belt extends a a. distance distance distance dis dis- tance of twenty miles mUes along long the Pah Pah- vant slope and from Kanosh to Oak City a distance of about fifty miles mUes and holds sufficient water to irrigate acres of land There Is every evidence that the supply supply- of Jf subterranean subterranean subterranean water is practically inexhaustible tible