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Show I MR. MUIR BACK I FROM PACIFIC I . COAST TRIP ? Mr. W. S. Mulr ana wife havo Just S9 returned from n ten-week trip on tho jB Pacific coast, during which tlmo ho ! made stops at points tn Arizona and M California, spending considerable j(R time at coast cities and Los Angeles. fffl Mr. Mulr reports crop conditions s3j advanced In Arizona, and fLnds It Igj quite a chango to como from a councils coun-cils try where grain Is nearly two feet 58 high to a land where snow ls two 'M feet deep. While in Arizona ho paid M particular attention to tho reclama-ffl reclama-ffl tlon of arid lands. Ho vlsltod one g block of 12,000 acres where wells jffi had been driven for water for tho Ir-3j Ir-3j rigatlon of same. Tho Goodyear 3 Rubber company aro planting 12,-jg 12,-jg 000 acres of Egyptian cotton In one ffl block, to bo Irrigated with water yS from wells, tho water of which Js fi to be lifted with pumps and gasoline aj engines. Mr. Mulr is convinced that w tho same method for socurlng water ' can be handled to advantago In the j arid regions of Utah and especially m In the Itozel and Curlew valleys. If m It can be dono In Arizona, Mr. Mulr WtJmv t spes no reason why It cannot bo done ffiJ in Utah. |