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Show STARTLING FACTS ARE MADE KNOWN ON FUTURE OF VALLEY DEMAND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CALI-FORNIA FOOD SUPPLIES UNLIMITED PLANT 1,000 ACRES Great interest is being manifested at this time in southern California concerning southern Utah, and the Milford valley in particular, as a great potential agricultural section. This fact was brought out at the Lions club meeting this week by Ray Barton Bar-ton and Dr. C. R. Parrish. I Dairy Market Unlimited Dr. Parrish has just returned from a trip to Los Angeles where he marketed mar-keted a carload of hogs and investigated investi-gated the market for dairy products. He stated that all the butter that could possibly be made in this valley could be marketed in Los Angeles now. "I could dispose of tons of it there if I had it," he said. While in Los Angeles, he visited six creameries and butter outlets. In five of, the six, they were cutting up Utah and Idaho butter. The country around Los Angeles An-geles does not supply one-tenth of the butter consumed there, according to Dr. Parrish. And to Utah primarily, not' Idaho, is where Los Angeles is looking for its future dairy supplies. At several places visited, this valley was mentioned in particular, said Dr. Parrish. Dealers in Los Angeles are waiting for this valley to attain its development. Distance makes the Idaho field too inaccessable to southern south-ern California. Parrish's hogs drew a cent and a half higher price than Idaho pork, he stated, although Idaho hogs on the market there were undeniably un-deniably better. "This is not a hog-raising hog-raising country due to the fact that is too far from the corn belt," said Dr. Parrish. But he declared that skim milk could be used for feeding hogs on a small scale with clear profit to the farmer. He closed his optimistic optim-istic talk by stating that the people down there know the name of Milford Mil-ford valley, hut are wondering why we don't develop faster. Spud Growers Put in 1000 Acres Ray Barton's talk was even more startling. He shifted the scene to potatoes while the Lions were still endeavoring to grasp the meaning of Parrish's words. He made announcement announce-ment of the fact that nine hundred bushels of potatoes were planted here this week. With these seed potatoes planted, there will be two hundred acres under cultivation. At three hundred hun-dred bushels to the acre, this will mean two hundred carloads of potatoes pota-toes shipped from here this fall. This was just a fore-runner of what Barton Bar-ton really had to say. He said that .1. T A.. 1 T3 t .i Iprturore1 A Q- sociation was taking over a thousand acres of land, in addition to what is now being planted, and will use it to grow potatoes here. Ten dollars worth of fertilizer will be expended per acre of land. "Watch the development develop-ment of this valley," said Mr. Barton. '"r''iis is only the nucelus to begin on; just a hint of what presages to follow." fol-low." Demand Supply Source Al Cline brought out the informa- . tion that he is in regular receipt of literature from the Is Angeles Chamber of Commerce, in which it is constantly stated that southern Utah, agriculturally, could be the back door of southern California. Invite L. A. Men to Visit It was decided at the meeting to extend ex-tend an invitation to the L. A. Chamber Chamb-er of Commerce for members of that organization to take a few hours to Commerce for members of that organization or-ganization to take a few hours to look over Milford and the valley on j their tour, which will be made up this j way in the near future. |
