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Show Gunnison Entertains Salt Lake Visitors A most wonderful valley," "truly progressive citizens," and 'great possibilities for the future," and "full of hospitality and pep," were a few of the expressions made by Gunnison's guests yesterd"1 morning just before they departed for the south. This city enti . tained the members of the "Back to the Farm Special" at an elaborate ela-borate breakfast, and never has A bunch of boosters gone away better satisfied than the forty members of the party which is makin.; a tour of the principal towns of Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne countie... I he caravan wheeled into the city on schedule time and a committee received them and bade them welcome. As a preliminary the big crowd erf visitors, numbering forty, was taken to the poultry exchange where the plant was minutely examined. ex-amined. Breakfast followed and then the visitors were shown about the city. The Elite bakery, the business houses and other point3 -.vere visited and then the "boosters" were taken to the Gunnison Valley Sugar company's big plant at Centerfield. The time allotted for the visit to this city and valley was limited, an hour and a quarter according to the schedule of the itinerary. More than an extra hour was consumed on the visit and every minute was a busy one. Not only was the entire time busy, but each minute will prove valuable valu-able for the reason that every member of the party expressed themselves them-selves individually as being highly impressed with the great possi-Jbilities possi-Jbilities of Gunnison and the Great Gunnison Valley. The caravan of visitors wheeled into the city on schedule time and were received by a committee frcm the Gunnison Valley Development league. To facilitate matters, and in order to be able to show the visitor-as visitor-as much as possible during the brief stay, a visit to the poultry exchange was made upon the arrival of the boosters. At the exchange, Manager Bert Willardson gave a brief history of the organization of the institution, institu-tion, and explained minutely the system sys-tem of grading eggs, storage of eggs and the caring of chickens. The system proved new to the visitors and was highly commended. With keen appetites, the city's guests were taken to the Gunnison hotel where an elaborate breakfast was served. The menu consisted of the following: Utah Strawberries on the Stem Utah Baked Potatoes Gunnison Valley Fried Spring Chicken Hot Biscuits Coffee Preceding the breakfast, Mayor Jones, in a few well chosen remarks bade the visitors welcome. Briefly Mayor Jones stated the wonderful resources re-sources of the valley and the great possibilities ahead and implied that with a few more settlers this valley would be second to none in the west. W. H. Olin, of the agricultural department de-partment of the D. &. R. G. W. rai.-road, rai.-road, in behalf of the visitors, replied with a few remarks impressing the fact that all must work together for a bigger and better Southern Uah by cementing the efforts of all, mo e colsely. Following breakfast, visitors with some twenty members of the local business organization and citizens went to the Gunnison Valley Sugar company's plant. The visitors were taken to the roof of the million dollar dol-lar factory where a splendid view of of the entire valley can be had. W. Harvey Ross, president of the sugar company minutely explained the great possibilities of the valley. He emphasized the fact that no other valley in the west gave a brighter future and that no other section could offer a better place for homeseekers. President Ross piloted the visitors to the big storage room and then presented each visitors with a ten pound bag of Gunnison Valley sugar, the compliments of the Gunnison Valley Val-ley Sugar company. The visitors said good-bye and continued con-tinued their jouney south. The caravan car-avan was in charge of Albert Merrill, of the Merrill-Keysor company, a-d 'ably assisting Mr. Merrill was J. H. Manderfield, general manager of the Salt Lake Union Stock Yards and B. W. Robins, assistant general freight agent for the Denever & Rio Grande railroad. |