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Show ; Letter to Lions Club from : L A. Chamber Commerce The following letter from George j I P. Clements, manager of the Agricultural Agricul-tural department of the Los Angeles I Chamber of Commerce, was receiveci , by M. P. Lewis, president of the Lions club. It is self explanitory. "Lions Club, Milford. Utah, j Gsnt'.emen: Your invitation that I be present on the 12th to meet with Governor Dern and his staff with other gentlemen gentle-men from Salt Lake and Los Augeles, received, and I regret that on account I of stress of business it is impossible, I much as. I wish to aecept. I beg to assure as-sure you, however, that my interest in your wonderful valley as one of 'he great Utah agricultural districts, does not fig, and anything that I have written in the past concerning your district holds good at the present pres-ent moment and you are quite welcome wel-come to make use of any statements I have made relating thereto. ''It is my belief that within the next few years there will be a reau justment of the so-called agricultural acreage of the United States. Every thing tends to substantiate this idea. The cost of agricultural production Li;m i ne narrowing margin ot pronts of a necessity will to a greater part ,-liminate these many million acres which serve agriculture only at tnu j hazard of an off-average rr.incrop at the e::pense of the individual producer. pro-ducer. This is already indicated, since in the present year 25,000,000 acres of this quality of land have been retired. re-tired. "I believe the increased agriculture necessary to meet our increase in population, has been estimated a; 1,000,000 acres a year. Where is this million to come from The experience of the past ten years is undoubtedly rroing to be a decided check upon tnu development of uncertain agricultural agricultur-al lands in the future. The value is acre production. It is hardly conceivable, conceiv-able, therefore, that such an offering in sustaining agricultural acreage such as the great valleys of Utah offer, of-fer, can long remain idle. Another condition, which in our belief will bring to bear upon these splendid agricultural offerings is the awakening of the Pacific Southwest to a realization that due to its geographic geo-graphic position (if we may use the term in this twentieth century isolation), iso-lation), our security, development and expansion entirely rest upon a graceful balance of all those conditions condi-tions necessary to empire building. This great district contains all that is necessary to independence to industry, in-dustry, commerce and agriculture, but that independence depends en tirely upon the interdependence of those political districts which ente. into its formation, and- we must not forget that the greater part of this Southwest empire, particularly pci-tainifg pci-tainifg to its agricultural and mineral miner-al wealth, is measurable in inches of water. With a fast increasing industrial indus-trial Pacific Southwest there must keep pace a stable, solid development of the post-Pacific agricultural districts. dist-ricts. It does not take much of a vision, vis-ion, therefore, to read the horoscope of the great Utah agricultural valleys 's a part of this great Southwest development. de-velopment. "With pleasant memories of my earlier visits to your districts, to Milford Mil-ford and to Beryl, and sincere re grots that I am not enabled to be with you and mark the development ot time, I am, Yours very sincerely, Geo. P. Clements, M. D. Manager Agricultural department. |