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Show FARMERS VISIT FROM UTAH CO, A company of about 100 belonging to the Utah County Farm bureau, on a tour of the southern counties reached Gunnison via of Manti yesterday yes-terday morning about 9 o'clock escorted es-corted by County Agent F. W. Reunion. Reu-nion. After a short stay in the city the party went south, piloted to the bevier Co. line by Mayor Knighton accompanied by Hons. N. C. Soren-son, Soren-son, William Metcalf and J. II. Mace, Messrs. W. II. Gribble and Js . Gled hill by the courtesy of June Metcalf m his new 7-pasenger Chandler. The party seemed rather hurried so that little time was availabe for any extended explanation of the oppoi-tunities oppoi-tunities Gunnison valley oilers for the farmer. But a stop was made just south of Centerfield and again out near Axtell, where Mayor Knighton spoke to to the visitors telling them or the advantages here for the home-seeker. home-seeker. "And out along there," pointing to the stone quarry head at the diversion dam of the Gunnison Irrigation company's old field canal, 1 is where we contemplate putting our new sugar factory ready for the coming year." The visitors made a number of inquiries about the price of land and water and expressed their surprise at seeing this valley so abundantly covered with bounteous crops of grain and alfalfa. |