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Show A LOS ANGELES PAPER PRAISES ADVANTAGES IN SOUTHERN UTAH The Commercial -News, a 24-page weekly paper, printed in Los Angeles and devoted entirely to the "Business "Busi-ness of the Pacific Southwest" in its issue of September 30, printed a two column front page article on Southwest South-west Utah and its new marketing as- - sociation. : The article is the direct result ot the recent visit made to that section by Mr. de Brabant, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific rall- '' road and his party. J It is the best boost this section of the country has ever had and it comes from people who are in the .best possible pos-sible position to help develop our 'latent recourses. The article was - 'headed by a copy of a set of resolutions resolu-tions passed by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Formation of a marketing associa- tlon for bringing to Los Angeles as "'' Its market the productivity of four of the richest and most fertile counties coun-ties of Southern Utah and thus an-nexing an-nexing to Los Angeles a new trade i, area of vast wealth and potential1 ity was announced this week, following follow-ing a missionary trip to railroad officials, of-ficials, headed by Marius deBrabant, assistant traffic manager of the Un-v Un-v ion Pacific system, into the Utah ter- ritory. Development of the vast resources of the big island empire of Utah, ' both agricultural and mineral, which v has been engaging the attention of banking and commercial interests of Southern California for several months past was given further impetus impe-tus in the announcement also that - the Union Pacific will construct over , a hundred miles of feeder lines Into t tjie Pahvant and Escalante valleys . names that heretofore have been Ht- tie known of to the commercial inter- ests of Los Angeles but which hold the promise of equalling the fame of the Imperial and Blythe valleys as garden spots of the great Pacific Southwest. New construction of the lines connecting with the main line , of the Union Pacific between Loa An-. An-. geles and Salt Lake will be supple-. supple-. mented, Mr. deBrabant announced. . with the establishment on a large scale of demonstration farms at favorable fav-orable points in this district, sites for two of which have been definitely definite-ly fixed and announced. Following a report of the Utah trip to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, of which Mr deBrabant is a director, resolutions were adopted adopt-ed instructing a survey of the South-. South-. ern Utah territory by the chamber's . agricultural 'department with the view of lending the active cooperation coopera-tion of the chamber 'to the further-est further-est possible development of the territory ter-ritory as a trade area of vast possibilities possi-bilities for the Los Angeles market. ; - Plana of the chamber in cooperation coopera-tion with the railroad that is serving serv-ing the district, include the enlistment enlist-ment of-large financial interests', upon up-on which It has already been at work, , for- "bringing in" through irrigation projects,-, thousands of acres of fertile fer-tile valley land that can be brought under water ct a very nominal cost. With assurances of commercial ;md financial Interests here for bringing bring-ing about .these big future developments develop-ments of a country vast in its potential poten-tial wealth, the Union Pacific system, Mr. deBrabant announced, will pro-'eed pro-'eed a,t once with steps that, of no jess importance, will open to Los Angeles An-geles a big innge of immediate trade possibilities. "Organization of the Southern Ut-r Ut-r h Marketing association Is the first concrete step that has been taken in the bringing together of these 2 "Oinmunitles for reciprocal trade," "Jr. deBrabant stated. "Th's associa tion as now formed Is made up in i membership of the most prominent growers in Southern Utah, comprising compris-ing within the territory, Millard, Washington, Iron and Beaver counties. coun-ties. "This association is not merely an upstart organization formed overnight over-night from a passing enthusiasm within this territory but is the culmination cul-mination of carefully worked out plans which embody the principles upon which California marketing associations as-sociations have met with such success. suc-cess. Not only has the association been launched on a sound footing but markets have already been arranged for in Los Angeles for large quantities quan-tities of produce of soil and orchard to be delivered here daily. To this end we have agreed to keep a refrigerated refri-gerated mixed car open for the association asso-ciation daily at Lund with a rate of $1 per hundred pounds to Los An-! geles. This car will arrive in Los Angeles the next morning A car will also be put on at Cedar City which will give the St. George, Hurricane and Parowan districts, comprising the heart of an amazing productive territory a service that for the first time will open these districts to the waiting Los Angeles market. A shed will be opened in Los Angeles particularly par-ticularly to care for daily shipments from this territory. "Work on the building of an extension ex-tension from Delta to Fillmore, into the heart o fthe great Pahvant Valley, Val-ley, we found was progressing to the stage where all grading is completed over the 35-mile stretch and all that remains now is to lay the rails. The opening of this branch, which it will be epochal to the future of the Pahvant Pah-vant valley district, will mean very much as well to Los Angeles, for it, too, will find its markets here and Los Angeles business houses will find it a most profitable territory for reciprocal re-ciprocal trade. "Besides this extension, I was able ab-le to announce on our trip plans for beginning at once the building of a branch line from Lund' to Cedar City approximately 35 miles, the surveys of which have been completed and approved. "The Escalante valley, while lo-calfy lo-calfy and geographically termed a desert, we found from engineering and agricultural tests to comprise thousands of acres, within the reach by but a few feet of an abundance of underground water that when applied ap-plied to the rich soil will be amazingly amazing-ly productive. Such parts of it as are now being cultivated produce the most wonderful fruits and vegetables of any district of the United States. It is at the two ends' of he valley, that we propose establishing uuder our agricultural department, two big demonstration farms by which we hope to introduce modern methods of farming, packing, sorting and grading of fruit etc, which the pres-1 ent population has had no schooling whatever. Even under present conditions, con-ditions, however, and little known to anyone, celery that is raised in this district is shipped to New York for the epicurean tastes of the Waldorf patrons. "Fruit from this district, of a flavor fla-vor unequaled by districts of less altitude, as well as many vegetables, will be welcomed! in the Los Angeles market because of the fact that they come to maturity at a time preceding preced-ing our present sources of Bupply "Summing up, we found," stated Mr. deBrabant, "an inland empire that has been up to now practically Isolated and unheard of by the outside out-side world, an empire of great present pres-ent trade possibilities an well as fu-t'ire fu-t'ire potentialities, and. lying almost within a stone's throw of our own back door. It Is a country, the chief needs of which are transportation and the financing of irrigation projects pro-jects that are not large in their requirements re-quirements and in which the best of security and unlimited returns are assured. Improvement of their highways high-ways which will not be slow in accomplish ac-complish from now on, will be a great means toward improvement of transportation. Both the commercial com-mercial and the great scenic advantages advan-tages of this part of Utah leaves it today one of the most valuable undeveloped un-developed disetricts without question in the world and one Id which Angeles, by extending its hand in furthering its development projects will reap a reward to be coveted by my commercial metropolis in the ".ountry." In a survey of available tonnage wh!ch the new marketing association will have at its disposal to handle 'he following figures were compiled 'rnm estimates made on the trip from Mob the railroad officials just returned, re-turned, and which offers a fair idea of what this section now has to offer for the local market: Lumber, of which there are virgin stands of the finest quality in this district, estimated available for the market 301,400 million broad feet of lumber. Douglas fir and Yellow Pine 72,275 million; Douglas Fir ties; 2SG.730 million broad feet of Yellow Pine ties. From S00 to 000 cars per year of livestock, much of which It is planned plan-ned will find market through the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards. From 75 to 100 cars of grain. From 2 5 to 4 0 carloads of fresh vegetables. Besides this there is itemized in the survey brought back by the party par-ty large quantities of honey, molasses molas-ses from sugar cane, alfalfa, dairy products, p ultry, etc ' |