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Show MILLION DOLLAR FILM TO BE MADE NEAR HERE-LASKY PICTURE Jas. Crews, film director, representing repre-senting the Lasky Film corporation, arrived in Milford last Saturday morning and was met by Otto Meeks and taken out to Baker to look over the location. The first film to be staged is to be Emerson Hough's latest story, entitled, entit-led, "The Covered Wagon" which was run in the Saturday Evening Post last summer. It is the story of a wagon train, crossing the plains from Kansas City to Oregon, and depicts Indian raids, buffalo hunts, ox teams and stampedes, stam-pedes, with all the things which go with such a story, such as mule skinners, skin-ners, bull whackers, Indian scouts. Kit Carson, and pretty girls. It is to be a ton reel show, all of which will he staged near Baker, ex- cept the Buffalo scene. That will be staged on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. The party returned to Milford on ,3unday and Mr. Crews took the train immediately for Los Angeles, to get the people ready for the production, while Mr Meeks went to Salt Lake to make arrangements for the properties prop-erties for the stage settings. It is stated that preparatiry work will commence with in ten days and the actual work of taking the picture pic-ture will commence about October 15th About 300 Indians, 1000 whites, 1500 cattle and 500 horses and mules mul-es are to be used in the production which is estimated to cost about $1,000,000 and to take about 75 or 80 days to complete. |