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Show - ney Being Made Of :hranagat Valley ration Possibilities 'ainary surveys looking to- the possible rebuilding of "ligation system of Lincoln Pahranagat Valley, one ; 'Nevada's most fertile agricul-areas, agricul-areas, are now under way to U. S. Soil Conservation 'ice. ; rtaken at the request of .agat Valley Soil Conser-district Conser-district supervisors, the y will outline the work L39 to make the desired Wements in the water dis- i system. If the farmers ; w valley then approve, the , twill be carried out with L ,So'' Conservation service 'mg the work. valley was recently approv-f approv-f ' U. S. department of r t:wtlire as a water facilities which it is believed that i-,mav be conserved most va e'y by the proper use of . wr, Cecil W. Creel, chair- the Soil Conservation advisory committee for V : ; a' said in making the an--anient. ; ' Jh Creel, who is director of .,'versity of Nevada agri- , y, pension service, on the !C j0ry commiee are S. ' ultii ?lrector of tne Nevada ;': Geo exPeriment station, "i;'ator Hardrnan. state co- i ;:service SoU Conscrva 1 ? Sanford of the Soil ' h1 is in'nu serv'ce, Caliente, i m charge of the survey, ' ;T u "p 7ek' that through vHl : ,ot water from Hiko, l'; rani Ash SPri"gs. farmers k?e ers in the valley will 'Hnd-A!ake better l,ce of from th t0tal continuous 3soconHS?f three springs is (T? feet of water. ContinIirtistribulion svstem uva on page six) LOOKING BACKWARD Tweny-Five Years Ago Various county correspondents tell of donations made in Spring-dale, Spring-dale, LaVerkin, Hurricane, Toquer-ville, Toquer-ville, Washington and St. George for a proposed road to connect Zion Park with Grand Canyon and with the railroad at Lund, Nev., in order to make these scenic centers more available to travelers. Springdale We have had five groups of tourists in the Zion Canyon in the past week. All speak in the highest terms of praise of the grand scenery. Overton Everybody is busy these days in the Moapa Valley. The melons are ripening nicely, This morning's shipment consisted of six carloads. Bloomington Friday afternoon Vill Fullerton, Ed Foster and George Lamb were coming down Rock Canyon when a flood caught them, taking their rig, one of the horses of their team, a riding horse and saddle with it. The boys barely escaped. Hurricane H. J. Doolittle came in from Lund and met with the Hurricane commercial club and members of the Utah-Dixie Fruit and Produce company July 7, when subjects relating to the shipment of fruit, the Grand Canyon road and our present mail service were discussed. Hurricane Water has been more plentiful for irrigation purposes pur-poses at Hurricane than ever before. be-fore. In St. George the program listed list-ed for the celebration of July 24 outlines a full day of events beginning be-ginning with the daylight salute and hoisting of the Flag by Brig-ham Brig-ham Jarvis Sr. There was a grand parade featuring the entrance of the pioneers into the Salt Valley, with silver and &. bands. The living pioneer ' lead by Dilworth M. Siw ; , Heber Cottam im'; -Erastus Snow and Orson There was Utah and her - J on one float, Uncle Sam o- -a Cabinet, a volunteer tea-. resentatives of the Pn " group of local Indians. Appearing on the I-, program at 9 a.m. Stillman Woodbury ar.c C. Allen, Edward H. Sr.o;: phine J. Miles, Metta Car :E Samuel Bleak, and HeW":. and Edward Nelson. . ;; three with the silver ano -bands supplied the m;. bers, with the others p prayers, orations and tr..- , The afternoon sporb - races for young and on contests and tiltm&. -f |