Show WILL STARVE IF GATES I ARE CLOSED 00 U. U P. P OFFICIALS DECLARE ESCALANTE ES CALANTE VALLEY CAN AND WILL PRODUCE FOOD FOR FL PL- TURE TUBE USE OF MILLIONS OF r LOS IOS ANGELES PEOPLE 00 I Lo Los Angeles Examiner Described as the last frontier of sources of Escalante and valley val ley of Utah Los Angeles' Angeles new back country were pictured to members of the Commercial Board of Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles at a luncheon yesterday at the Biltmore Hotel Marius de Brabant assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific system declared these two valleys are large enough to produce all the foodstuffs required for the millions that will ul ultimately ultimately ul thrive in Southern Califor Califor- nia It is a well recognized axiom said Mr de Brabant that no metropolis metro polis polls can continue to grow and prosper pros per unless it possesses and develops a large area of productive back country country coun try from which to draw the essentials necessary for its material civilization and I dare say there are few metropolitan metro politan districts in America that possess pos sess a back country richer in mineral resources resource raw materials and agricultural agricultural tural products than the territory which is tributary to Los Angeles I hae often been asked if the Union Union Un Un- ion Pacific people believe in these valleys The best answer is that we have recently built two branch lines in the very heart of these valleys ata ata at ata a cost of about that we have erected in the district five new stations any anyone one of which would be bea a credit even to as great a cit city asLos as asLos asLos Los Angeles and that our 1924 budget budget bud bud- get two additional stations in Escalante Valley S. S A. A Gre Greenwood a native of the Valley and a descendant of the Forty rs said State lines are wiped out and obliterated in the new scheme of things thins which links the great States States' States States-of of the Southwest South west into an empire known as the Pacific Pa Pa- Southwest Brigham Y Young ng discovered the back country of Los Angeles but it was rediscovered rediscovered rediscovered re re- re- re discovered by the Los Angeles Chamber Chamber Cham ber of Commerce seeking a source of food supply nearer home than the Middle West stated Dr George P. P Clements manager of the agricultural al III derailment department of the Chamber I The bulk of our food bill of f 1 1923 23 was spent in the Middle liddle West Vest said Dr Clement We are never ever going to be greater than we are an now agriculturally We must mustI I look to Utah for our future food sup I ply If the gates of our back country I are ue closed we will starve to death |