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Show 40 YEARS AGO .... From the Files The first annual session of the National Irrigation Congress in Salt Lake City was a great success suc-cess in both attendance and timeliness time-liness of the topic discussed. Millard county was well represented repre-sented and among those present were the editor, noted Mayor Daniel Dan-iel Stevens and wife, Attorney W. R. King, Nephi Anderson and wife, Henry Anderson, Mrs. Roy Dame, Sheriff P. T. Black and wife, Attorney At-torney Melville and wife, Bishop Ashby, Jeff Finlinson, James A. Melville and wife, George Finlinson, Finlin-son, William F. Pratt, and wife, John Hutchinson and wife, H. F. Wright and wife, Abe Roper, Mrs. Ruby Ray, Milton Moody and wife, John Ashman and wife, John E. Steele, E. R. Marshall, Hyrum W. Knight, and Mrs. Grace Hopkins, the maid of honor from Millard county Millard county also won the prize of a silver cup for the best and most descriptive float in the parade on Monday night. John Loveless and G. T. Webb were in Salt Lake City last week and completed arrangement for a new industry for Millard county. They intend to go into the manufacture manu-facture of kalsomlne on an extensive exten-sive scale. The raw material, known as kaolin, is found in a-bundance a-bundance in this vicinity and the tests made by the Smithsoian Institution In-stitution at Washington show it to be of excellent quality. It will be made of every variety of color. Salt Lake dealers have expressed expres-sed their willingness to handle It 'and it will also be placed on the shelves of local dealers. They state that it is equal to anything on the market, having tested it with other popular makes. It will not rub off or streak oven with a wet cloth. They will have their first lot of 1,000 six-pound cartons ready for the market in a short time. They ought to do an extensive exten-sive business as it is a standard preparation and Utah is partial to Utah- made goods. State Fair The state fair this year was better than it has ever been before. be-fore. The exhibits were larger, especially es-pecially in agricultural products, and the attendance was much larger. lar-ger. Millard county made a better exhibit than ever before, and carried off one first prize, that for alfalfa seed raised by Edward Bushnell of Meadow. The Keystone Ranch in Delta had a splendid exhibit ex-hibit of corn, which was a surprise to many who believed corn could not be brought to perfection on new land. Ezra Bunker showed some splendid rye. A. M. Roper of Oak City showed some fine tomatoes. to-matoes. J. A. Wright of Hinckley showed some mammoth carrots. |