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Show BIG MEN OF STATE VISIT MINES AND PUMPING BIST. ENTERTAINED BY LIONS Governor George H. Dern; Sec:-tary Sec:-tary of State H. E. Crockett and Attorney At-torney General H. H. Cluff; the mem bers of the state land board with n-j executive secretary, J. T. Oldroyd, arrived ar-rived in Milfordi early Saturday morn j ing on an official visit. They were accompanied ac-companied by Wm. Peterson of the Agricultural college, as an expert on agriculture and the governor's sec-' sec-' retary O. II. Grimes, j Two special cars, one from Los I Angeles and one from Salt Lak-, Lak-, were set out by the Union Pacific '.railroad, for the accommodation orj visitors, who had come to accompany the land board on their tour of in spection of the pumping districts of Milford andl Beryl. The Union Pacific was officially represented by F. IT. Knickerbocker, general manager of the L. A. & S. L. railroad; T. O. Peck, general passenger pas-senger agennt; A. V. Peterson, publicity pub-licity manager of the O. S. L; Chas. Miller, publicity manager of the L. A. and S. L.; Geo. Knutson. of the agricultural department. Feature writers for the Los Angeles and Salt Ln'--;e papers were also in the pariy. The forenoon was devoted to a trip to the mines, follower by a luncheon at the Milford hotel. In the afternoon tl-e vi iters were tnV'-n in aatos and shown over the t-emping district. They saw Mfal'n which bad not t en irrientod for seyen year-, pro-'-H ing tnrce crops of seerl. Th'-y cf.w large growing crops of alfalfa bny. -lT-re irr'gaMen writer wn supplied 1 v purep-. and th.ev large fviri rf eifp'f-i crnwp by the U;0 nf gravity grav-ity wn'er. Won rl .-rf ul gardens, good hnm- s. good cat; anfi prnspr rmv farme- wer rl on display. M'lrh amaemept was r.ypr..- e-1 ' th'1 -nl'tr' Of "n'r.r prodneerl fr i :h mr.: " w--"s. wh -h were jp operation. On farm afier farm the visitors saw the general condition. Rich experiments are being conducted, con-ducted, by W. X. White, hydrograph-ic hydrograph-ic engineer of the United States geological geo-logical survey, in the effort to determine, deter-mine, in a scientific way, both the amount of water annually available ; in the valley ami also the amount of land that may be safely cultivates from the supply. Mr. White's cxperi- meats have included accurate mea-isurements mea-isurements of many of the wells, tt ! determination of the amouut of wa-j wa-j ter lost in evaporation through the jsoil and the amount used in various ! classes of crops. By interesting apparatus ap-paratus accurate records are kept, not only of seasonal variations in the level of the water in the soil and water-bearing gravels, but also ot j daily variations in alfalfa fields, in areas near umps and in areas far re-: re-: moved from any present pumping installation. The feature of the Milford area which mos attracted the atteutiou Oi the official visitors was the fact thai deep-rooted crops like alfaifa, over ja large portion of the pumping aruu, I do not require irrigation except for starting the crops. When the alfalfa is grown for the highly profitable :eed crop, its roots derive all tiu I moisture- needed, from the water-i water-i bearing gravels a few feet below the ' surface. Some areas have been producing pro-ducing thus for many years. A farm of W. C. Cates was noteQ Here 320 acres were planted to alfalfa alfal-fa in the days before the Delta Lane andl Water company, which derived a gravity supply from the Minersvills reservoir, was tier up in the courts where- it still remains tied. The croi got a good start the first year. Tin 11CAL ytiill LUC aiCl clB LUL UJl. J C l. the alfalfa continued to thrive anu now a seed crop is being harvested that, if present prices continue a gross return that runs up into hundreds hun-dreds of dollars per acre. Rich soil, plenty of cheap water, combined with a warm summer cli-t'iae cli-t'iae assures the future of this valley, val-ley, as one of the best undevelop?av sections of the country. In addition to a" the other advantages advan-tages this valley has, must be added the rapid transportation facilities afforded af-forded by good roads and the Union Pacific railroad, connect it with the ever-growing market of soaiheri-California soaiheri-California th- In st market in the world. The Governor and the other members mem-bers of the land board all expressed themselves as favorably impressed' by what they saw and Prof-ssor Wa-.. Peterson said that the future of the area visited was "positively secure" In the evening, following the inspection in-spection trip, a banquet was serveo to the fisitors. v.-bo were joined Indie In-die Lion's rltib members and. other business men of the town, at the Union Un-ion Pacific dining room. The menu and the service were both excellent and the affair was thoroughly enjoyed by the sixty guests present. M. P. Lewi.-, as president of the Lion's club, act' d r'. toast master, and j introduced the speakers. I Karl S. Carlton, in a very f"w I words wf loomed the guests and C. R. Parri-h had charge of the sin"'-g. The speakers werr : Coy. H. Dern. II. E. Crockett. II. IT. duff. !- -' Kn-' Verhoeker. Geo. Knutson, r-r-l Ambrose MrCarry. Tile ypr riM cars wll'ch hroi---p. most nf thr- vi-itor-. wer-- o:'i-:": ' by No. ?. Sunday morning and taken to Beryl. The governor ;n - t rr v-'-nT by a-itn. 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