Show x XO NO 0 FAH FARM Plit ti I LOAN N MONEY I IX SIGHT l k The following letter which is self self- explanatory was handed banded us for pub- pub the first of ot the week b by Wm m. m fr 5 N. N N Gardner Secy of ot the P Pah- Pah ati- ati h. h vant vant Farm Loan of ot Delta Berkeley Cal April 19 1917 Mr W. W V. V N. N Gar Gardner ner Delta Utah My dear ear Mr 11 Gardner Gardner I I am am very verr sorry that I could not keep my promise to pay a visit to Delta However However How How- however ever as an evidence of ot good faith that I intended to keep that promise I purchased a return ticket by wa way of ot Los Angeles but stress of ot business hero Is such that it was to return from Logan at the earliest I possible date and I therefore had to surrender the ticket and get onet one i t direct to Logan And ml return here as soon as I closed my affairs It IB is impossible to advise you ou when money for tor your association will m be available We Ve have requests on n file amounting to approximately eighteen eighteen eighteen teen millions of ot dollars and the physical task of ot appraising this property property property prop prop- erty and checking over the abstracts is such that it has to proceed ver very slowly Under the most favorable circumstances It will be mouths months before before before be be- fore all of ot the associations will be served We are doing the ver very best we can a by long hours and diligent work to organize this institution and begin the immediate task that lies before us All that we can do is to ask the farmers to exercise patience and sometimes we fear that that patience I will be taxed longer than we would like at the same time nee we e feel that as the months pass b by we will get to toa toa toa a pol point t financially where we can meet the requests of ot the farmers promptly and effectively I am well aware that the needs of or your our district are great and anel urgent and I assure you OU personally that whatever I can do to relieve the situation situation situation sit sit- I shall always be ready to do providing you keep me advised Yours very truly GEORGE THOMAS THOMAS' r Tr Treasurer The Federal Land Dank flank Dankof of t Berkeley |