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Show CLAUDE'S vminmiiA f J Dy Uautle Uitw Took lust week off and spent several clays in Burley, j Idaho with my children, Errol and Brenda Oi ton and their children. 1 really enjoyed my visit in that city, which is the center for the great Idaho Ida-ho Magic Valley, where they grow a lot of things, but mostly most-ly potatoes, for which Idaho is famous; sugar beets, beans, hay and corn and peas, the last two for canning. They grow more crops there accidentally acci-dentally that we do on purpose. pur-pose. Reason, huge, level val-Ley val-Ley (stand in the middle of it and can't see either edge); rich deep soil, good climate, elevation more than 2,000 feet below us, but most of all the Snake River flows through the middle of it. A- 4- r r n Funny though, they grow millions of bags of potatoes, the famed Idaho Russet, but they all go into the preparation prepara-tion plants of Ore-Ida and Simplot, with plants stretching stretch-ing for miles up and down the railroad tracks. I noticed the potatoes in one of the big markets in Burley, and guess what? They came from Og-den. Og-den. If you eat potatoes there they have about got to be dehydrated, flaked, potato tots of French fried, but for more money. The Ortons brought me from j Burley to Salt Lake and then j to Provo on Saturday, and i when we left Burley we must have left the door open, as it was blowing there when we left and was with us all the way to Provo, although any! wind that blows in Provo, has to come from some other place as it never originates there; just ask Eugene Orton, another anoth-er of my sons, who with his family are Provo boosters. j I took the bus from Provo to j Parowan Sunday afternoon, and I sure never want to ride' that bus again. Of all the fool routes; we didn't go through i Springville, Spanish Fork or Payson, just came out of Provo Pro-vo on the Interstate. Then we I also missed Salem and Santa-quin Santa-quin and didn't even get to see Scipio. Of all the assinine ways to came from Provo to Parowan. I'll never come on that bus again. Now I want to thank Foyer Olson and the Forest Service I for the new bridge over the 1 Main Canyon creek at the mouth, of Second Left Hand; it jsure is a nice one and will probably be there for quite some time. Now if the Forest Service will go a little bit further and put a grader patrol pa-trol on the Second Left Hand road for a few days now just ' before the deer hunt, it would help. In fact it would bo a good thing to have that road in good shape all the time. Its a beautiful scenic road up over the top of the ledge land down to join the road from Cedar Breaks down to i Panguitch Lake. From the top of the ledge there is no more beautiful sight than the Dark Hollow basin in the fall of the year, or at any time for that matter. And the upper stretches of the road are easy to maintain, like it used to be. And there is not a road anywhere that traverses two more beautiful canyons than a loop up First Left Hand, past the Yankee and over to and down the Second Left Hand. You can't find more colors and varied rock formations forma-tions in 15 miles anywhere else in the state of Utah.. Now for a complaint: The Parowan ladies who built seven se-ven ef the beautiful floats that made up much of the Labor Day Parade on the last day of the County Fair in Parowan and also the major portion of the Thursday evening eve-ning Parade at the Dixie Roundup, state that a few of the ornaments on these floats were stolen while they were on display on the city park following the parade. Their most serious complaint was of the theft of three honey bees taken from one float, which cost these ladies several sever-al dollars. They were expensive expen-sive and hard to come by, and they would like the person per-son who stole them to please bring them back. Now a note of hope. The Brian Head Corporation is now hauling more lumber and building materials up our canyon can-yon to the Ski Resort, and going go-ing ahead with more building there. That place is growing and expanding every day and , this week pipe is being hauled I up there for what we feel must bo the new water lines. It is good that the owners of the water there is making it available for new growth, as it is probably the biggest project pro-ject going for our benefit at this time. Now there are some who will disagree with this but I still think it is so, and I, for one want to see it grow at a constant rate. |