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Show THE CITIZEN 10 i inand Munier as the theatrical im- -. presario, Noel Leslie as the uncle of Mamzelle, Arthur Loft as a candy butcher, and others in other vital roles. . Mamzelle will be presented every night next week with matinees Sunday, Thursday and Saturday. The Wilkes will then be (Closed until late in August. OUR BENEFACTOR PASSES ON U. S. Epperson, who probably did more than anyone throughout the entire history of Salt Lake Valley, toward reclaiming the expansive flats west of Salt Lake City, has passed to the great beyond, as announced iii telegrams received from his home in Kansas City, Mo., during the week. His funeral service brought together some of the most distinguished of the Middle West He was nearly seventy years of age. The passing of Mr. Epperson is of interest to every lover of vision and empire building ; for the faith he placed in the development of the flats west of the city, totaling more than fifty thousand acres, electrified land developers for more than two decades. He developed, tile drained and improved a tract of 6000 acres, lying between Salt Lake City and Saltair. Millions of people have seen it. On the road to Saltair one passes through more than two miles of the tract. It was back in 1911 when a group of Salt Lake land investors tried to reclaim the flats, but unfortunately underfinanced, found themselves holding nearly $80,000 of bonds, destined to become of little value unless a huge sum was expended to wash salts and alkali out of the ground. Mr. Epperson was asked to take over the bond issue. Without seeing the land, but fin-ancee- rs knowing something of the ability of Utah farmers and their integrity he wrote his check for the bonds and then came out to Salt Lake City. For a week he walked, over the tract. Some tried to discourage him, but he studied every inch of the land he held and concluded that it had great possibilities. During one of his long walks over the fields he came upon the late E. W. Senior at his summer home. Having developed large tracts in the flats he found the latter competent to understand his hopes and together they started to work out the problem of reclaiming the western land areas. Mr. Senior was engaged as his. land attorney, having specialized in land law until at the time of his death he was known as the nations outstanding land counsellor. Almost immediately he set out to buy more land for Mr. Epperson until the purchases totaled an area of nearly ten square miles. Realizing that the tract would have to be watered and tile drained he engaged the late C. E. Dodge of Omaha, drainage and irrigation expert, to superintend the mammoth reau of the Department, of Agriculture checked up on Mr. Harts findings, confirming the report of comparatively recent date. Since that time the government has decided to perfect an irrigation and 0 drainage system along the entire acres, which may cost in the neighborhood of $14,000,000. Work has already started this project by the development of the Echo Canyon federal dam. That is the result to date of the activity started . by Mr. Epperson when pessimists tried to tell him that his venture would not be attended by 50,-00- very much success. Mr. Epperson, through association of several years, is known to practically every engineer, lawyer and agriculturist and banker in Salt Lake and they learned of his death with deep regret. In Kansas City Mr. Epperson started out as a packing house worker. He soon discovered that he had ability at developing land and his enterprises have grown until at the time of his death he commanded a fortune estimated to have been in excess of He was the sole owner of one of the important fire insurance $10,-000,00- 0. cies, that within a month after duction into office, Secretary Mellon left him in charge of the depadtmeni as acting secretary during a three weeks visit which Mr. Mellon made to Europe. Perhaps no better summary of the estimation in wh'.ch irr. Mills is held in Washington can v8 mads than by quoting a letter whlcn Secretary Mellon wrote to be read at a testimonial dinner recently given to Mr. Mills in New York. In speaking of him, Secretary Melon said: He brings to the Treasury no: onsy his great ability and untiring energy but also a thorough mastery of many of the problems with which he has to deal. His profound knowledge of the fundamental principles of taxation was shown in his debates and in h;s work on the Ways and Means committee during his service in Congress; and, in the passage of the Revenue Act of 1926, he played a most important part in securing the enactment in- to law of many needed reforms of the tax system. Throughout his public career, Mr. Mills has shown a conspicuous ability to master not only the ladge outlines but all the intricate details of the most complicated problems. It is this quality, plus a capacity for hard won, that na senabled him, in a comparatively few years, to accomplish so much in a constructive way and has made him such a force in public life.1' undertaking. In 1919 Mr. Dodge, acting under companies of Kansas City. the direct supervision of Mr. Epperson, had organized a large working crew and purchased Austin draglines, A HANDY MAN backfillers and trenching machine, Holt tractor, trucks and farming tools man to SecreServing as right-haninof until the tract became a hive tary Andrew W. Mellon is a pretty imdeveldustry, rarely equalled in land TO HOLDERS OF portant job. Fortunately, however, tne opment in the west. For a number man who fills the place measures up SECOND LIBERTY LOAN BONDS of years the work was vigorously proto the position, according to H. O. secuted and it is said that Mr. EpperBishop, who WTites interestingly in the son expended more than half a milcurrent issue of the National Republic EXCHANGE OFFERING OF NEW lion dollars on the tract. concerning Ogden L. Mills, the present TREASURY BONDS Tile drains, said to be the most under secretary of the treasury. Few men, Mr. Bishop states, have ever complete in this region, were installNotice ! given of a new offering of ed, water was carried to the tract gone into a position better qualified UNITED STATES TREASURY BONDS. dated June 15, 1927, and bearing interest to hold it than Mr. Mills. During 113 from the Jordan River in a huge canfrom that date at the rate of Si per cent. The bonds will mature in twenty al. A big dam was constructed north six years in Congress he was known years, but may be called for redemption of Fifth South street on the Jordan. as an expert on economic affairs, and after sixteen years. Second Liberty Loan bonds will be se- An elaborate house, sheds, root celSpeaker Longworth said of him, He in exchange at par. Accrued in- cepted lars and barns were built on the tract has the best knowledge of the fundaon terest the Second Liberty bonds of- for fered exchange will be paid as of and it was enclosed in more than mentals of national taxation of anyone June 15, 1927. in either house of Congress. miles of wire fence. twenty-fiv- e Second Liberty Loan bonds have been called for payment on November 15, 1927, Mr. Mills has been a hard worxer, During this period it was discoverand will cease to bear interest on that date. Holders of such bonds who desire ed that the flats west of Salt Lake in school in theh law and in politics to take advantage of the exchange offer and he has never been afraid to pun were capable of growing the best alfshould consult their bank or trust com- at once. The exchange privilege pany alfa seed in Utah and that the land, his share in the harness. He served will be available for a limited period only. and may expire about June 15th. after being drained, would produce in the American aimy in tne World Further information may be obtained the highest sugar content beets in the War and during two terms in confrom banks or trust companies, or from any Federal Reserve Rank. country. It was also discovered that gress was chosen to lead the fight for A. W. MELLON. the land was susceptable to the rais- the Mellon tax bill. Continuing, rsr. Secretary of the Treasury. ing of the best garden truck known. Bishop says: So quickly did Mr. Mills obtain a For a number of years Mr. EpperWashington, May 31. 1927 and of poli treasury operations son lived at the Hotel Utah, when he grasp held extensive cpnferences with drain5 age, irrigation and agricultural engineers including George F. McGonlgle, t, former state engineer, Henry irrigation engineer, also plant experts and a number of governPurchasers of ment engineers were inspired by the GOLD, SILVER LEAD AND COPPER ORES activity of Mr. Epperson. R. A. Hart, formerly senior engiConsign All Shipments to neer of the drainage investigation of the United States department of agri& Refining Company American culture was directed to leave no stone unturned in checking up on the flats Ship Lead Ores to Murray, Utah. Aided a west of Salt Lake. by large Ship Copper and Siliceous Ores to Garfield, Utah. to crew of experts, Mr. Hart went Send Bills of Lading Direct to Plants. Address Correspondence work and found that the flats drained and Hand Samples to 700 McCormick Bldg., Salt Lake City, contained plant foods, second only to Utah. the Delta of the Nile. The soils bu for only $00 Why postpone having the . advantages of gas service in your home, when all it takes is eight dollars. 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