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Show of Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege at Logan, who complimented compliment-ed Dewey on his wide knowledge of Western agriculture. Dewey told his Utah audiences that the Republican Party had iponsored the original reclamation reclama-tion act, as well as virtually all ether major federal legislation of particular significance to the West. The Republican nominee called for greater food production produc-tion in order to feed a growing America and keep the United States strong among nations of the world. Dewey .pointed out the vast : agricultural potentialities in ; Utah and the other western states. He said these areas needed DEWEY SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOR IRRIGATED FARMLANDS To farmers and ranchmen in Utah, where Western irrigation was pioneered a hundred and one years ago, New York's Governor Gov-ernor Thomas E. Dewey has promised greater development of the state's agricultural possibilities. possi-bilities. Governor Dewey, the Republican Republi-can nominee for the presidency, outlined his farm program in talks at Cache Junction, Brigham City, Ogden, and Salt Lake City, where he also made a major foreign policy address. At Cache Junction, Governor Dewey was introduced by Dr. Franklin Harris, President of only the "magic touch of water and power" to become the world's most productive land. Typical of the Utah reaction to Governor Dewey's farm statements state-ments was the comment of Julian Jul-ian Huniter, who works on a fruit and dairy farm near Salt Lake City, where he heard the Republican nominee speak. "He talks the kind of progressive progres-sive talk the folks in the West like to hear," Hunter said. "We believe out here the same way he talks, that we are just getting started when it comes to producing. produc-ing. We think, like he does, that our future is ahead of us. That's a typical Western outlook and I'm telling you we Westerners like it and Dewey." Among the prominent Utah citizens who joined Governor Dewey's campaign train at Ogden Og-den and rode with the Governor to Salt Lake City was Ezra Taft Eenson, a member of the Council of Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. Mr. Benson and Governor Dewey became personal friends some years ago when Mr. Benson Ben-son was located in Washington D. C, where he served as secretary secre-tary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. ' |