Show -- 9u school building including a gynnarsium These additions added ?15Q0G to the value of the plant The school was caring for approximately three hundred and seventeen children in 1935 Under the capable direction of Superintendent violas the high school department Iran been given the rating of a standard four year school In 1932 the Benvood 1 state high school basketball championremarkable in so far as the players were Virden school ron the ship Tills vt a s concerned ns they had never played on a hardwood court fore competing in the district tournament be- virtue of inheritance the majority of the Mormons are farmers It is therefore natural that the members of the Hew Gila Land Comp any should be farmers The Gila river proved to be a valuable asset ae it furnished water for the excellent irrigation system constructed by the Mormons The lowlands are fertile-- in comparison with the table lands which begin Just beyond the confines of the narrow valley The By latter are used to advantage for erasing dairy herds Though the lands have proven unproductive with merely the annual rainfall they have proven bountiful when irrigated It must not be thought that the Virden people planned to confine their economic activities strictly to forming for as early a s 1920 a very considerable portion of the total in- - of the ccrvrunity was derived from the dairying industry The location of markets for the dairy products was a problem os-- a |