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Show MARKET ASSN. FOR 4 COUNTIES The following letter, has been received re-ceived at this office for publication. It is self explanitory and is of great importance to the farmers ana merchants mer-chants of this part of the state. Milford must be well represented at the meeting to be held in Paro-wan Paro-wan next Monday. "Through the efforts of certain wide-awake citizens of Beaver county, coun-ty, working through their Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau organizations, or-ganizations, Mr. T. M. Sloan, general freight agent for the Union Pacific, has promised this section a very material ma-terial reduction in freight rates to Southern California points on their road, for our farm produce, particularly particu-larly dairy and poultry products, dressed veal, etc, in stratigh or mixed car load shipments. You will appreciate what such a reduction mean to our locality; It simply means that we can place our produce on the California markets now in competion with other localities, locali-ties, a thing we have heretofore been unable to do. You will also appreciate, asdidthe Beaver people, that no- one locality produces sufficient quantities of the stuff mentioned, to ship in carload lots to take advantage of the rate, and that cooperation of several communities com-munities at least, is therefore the only solution. At a meeting here on Saturday last at which the matter of Parowan's cooperating with Beaver county was presented to a few of Parowan"s boosters by a delegation front Beaver the idea of these four Southwestern counties, (Millard, Beaver, Iron and Washington) cooperating and organizing organ-izing a marketing association was conceived, a date and a ploce was selected se-lected for a meeting of delegates from those counties to effect such an organization, and a commtttee was appointed to arrange the details anf; to send out the call for that meeting. Parowan was selected as the most central place for the meeting, and Monday, August 21, at 10:30 a. m. was the time appointed. It is our plan to eddect an organization thru which we market cooperatively, encourage en-courage and stimulate greater production pro-duction of the things mentioned, to arrange for the partial loading of cars at Delta, and then have them opened again at Milford and at Lund, the other two main shipping points for ened a general store in Kemmerer, a small Wyoming town. In the first year of its existence it did a business of nearly $29,000. This Spring, says the New Yo'-k Times of July 22, the the counties mentioned, to work for the application of the reduced rate to otner produce, possibly including livestock, and possibly to place a man at the other end of the line to dispose dis-pose of our shipments. Until we can ship in car lots, we are promised the use of the refrigerator refriger-ator cars which pass the shipping points mentioned each Tuesday and Thursday. We are counting on you as one o! the boosters of your county to be at that meeting and help to put the thing over, and we anticipate with pleasure, meeting you on Parowar: on the date mentioned. WTLFORD RAY, Chairman of the Committee. |