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Show Visiting Produce Men Inspect Milford Valley The Milford Valley can boast bf "exceptionally good land and exceptionally good water," but there are a few major obstacles that must be hurdled before this area can expect f profit to any great extent from the raising of vegetables for the tables of Americas' hungry people. Mr. Clarence Costa and Mr. P. W. Williams, two of Cal-: Cal-: ifornia's widely-known vegetable distributors, who visited here and inspected tire South Milford growing area last weekend, week-end, agreed on the adaptability of this area for producing : top-quality vegetables, and called attention to the steps that ; must be taken to qualify this valley as a vegetable nrdnmcp shipped to Chicago, New York and other eastern points from the California area. He cited the added advantage of this locality being two days nearer the market mar-ket than the Los Angeles area. The group left Sunday morning morn-ing for their homes, after assuring assur-ing Milford Valley boosters that they would return "in a couple of weeks" to give more serious consideration to the future of this area as a vegetable growing locality. area. 1 Traveling by air in a Beech-craft Beech-craft 8-passenger plane owned by Mr. Costa's distributing com-' com-' pany, the group arrived at the : Milford airport Saturday after- noon, and left immediately for the Boston Land Company holdings hold-ings in South Milford. Mr Costa, who heads the company 1 that distributes "Ginger Boy" vegetables, was greatly impressed im-pressed with the soil, climate and mineral-free water. He ' urged the business men of Milford Mil-ford and the South Milford farm folk to "concentrate on vegetables vege-tables especially peas, celery 1 carrots and lettuce." Mr. Williams, who farms a . scveral-thousand-acre ranch near , Oxnard, Calif., as well as heads a large distribution system, stat-, stat-, ed that if the Milford Valley , acres were planted to carrots, a harvest season crew of 500 men, women, and teen-agers would be needed to gather, grade, pack and ship the annual crop. In addition, Mr. Williams said, 40 to 50 families would receive re-ceive year-round employment. 1 The obstacles to be overcome : as stressed by the shippers, in-I in-I eluded some provisions for obtaining ob-taining labor during the planting and harvest seasons, erection of a large processing and packing shod near the UP freight office and some "certain" guarantees of sufficient quantities of ice for icing refrigerator cars, at a reasonable reas-onable cost. The visitors seemed surprised that ice was being ' shipped into Milford for PFE use ' and expressed the opinion that hundreds of additional fruit and vegetable cars would be iced here each year, if Milford had I an ice plant. Mr. Costa stated that any vegetables veg-etables raised in the Milford area undoubtedly would be shipped to the eastern market since produce now is being |