Show toast by alex melville at the millard mi hard county banquet at salt lake city 0 oct CA ath alex melville delivered the following toast ladies and gentlemen gentleman in responding to the toast mil i I 1 lards future I 1 shall M licate by delatin relating an inci incident deill nl which chic h I 1 see in in my minds eye occurring in 1920 A young atu rn in by the name dame of will being ambitious like some others you ou may know rd resolved solved to see the world he left fillmore h djs s native city in 1910 and during the next succeeding ten years he heard nothing from brorn his boyhood boy hood town but visited many other cities east and west one frosty october morning while visiting market place in chicago in 1920 he be was astonished to see advertised in bold boid jetters some very choice apples that had had been shipped from millard a rd co utah aurthur inquiry disclosed the fact that mil lard hard county apples in great greal demand in till all the leading n markets in the mississippi valley this fact aroused will s cur dosity and lie he decided to again aguill 0 visit the scenes of his hia childhood f he proceeded immediately to tc the railway office and requested a ticket for souie some railroad point in millard county having 0 st stage connections with the county seat but was vas informed there was no line running into the ex capitol of utah A short pause in the conversation followed and wills mind ind was tilled filled with wonder he was almost dumbfounded dumb founded a few minutes later when informed that a rail road line had been constructed and was in operation on between oasis and kanosh by way of holden bolden and fillmore will hurriedly left chi chicago leago an and d in due dua time arrived arri ved in oasis which instead of being a small railway station was a city of three thousand inhabitants with henry L jackson as its Alf mayor while eating breakfast at the huff hotel now a large brick structure he be met mr G W chopper Ci G topper opper who informed him that all the waterlogged water logged land near hear deseret Desere fc bad been drained and many beautiful beautiful homes and flower gardens could be found thare that hinckley was an educational center that the small i town of burtner had grown to maturity and now boa boasted sted of a population of five thousand inhabitants three bc ban aks its two grain elevators and a live commeria al lub flub that was advertising tile the wonderful resources of that e entire section of the county i 1 ahe I he conductor then crit crud d all aboard for fillmore mr air Ili rhomas omas 0 C callister w was as going goi 0 a n the same t train ai ii with will ind along the route poi pointed n ted out to bo him ehigh th line canal cahal ox ex lending bendin from froin leavington leamington Lea fleamin agton un on the north to kanosh on the south with extensive orchards and un excelled grain fields irrigated from the same also the new city of elbert famous for its pe peaches iches and grapes established 0 on n whiskey C creek plat flat I 1 at holden will met or george nixon who informed him that while oak city still held the lead in fruit production and scipio was still regarded ded as the granary of millard county that holden had become famous for its dairy products af after ter a short stop at 1 holden they proceeded on their way to fillmore the there re was not m much ch i io 0 identify it as n i s being theace place e except crept a few old land marlis marks such as the state house A afi magnificent depot lidid been erect erected eq the little water system established in had become entirely inadequate td for the needs of the eople cople and coples copies cove spring had been piped in there was a large power plant in the canyon which furnished light n for scipio sc holden Fill fillmore meadow and kanosh the county seat boasted of its large department stores and buil buildings din gs it and nd among those occupying the latter were such familiar names as ats dr A N hanson and W E at attorney torney the blate ban bank lc of millard millam go had been enlar enlarged cred and while AL mon hobison was still its president rufus day had become the real head of the institution and there were several other large banks it ir competition with it while in fillmore will met C W watts f from rom Ka kanosh who informed him that the best portion of the country was still fur thur thu r south and the great stretch of country between ifill fillin inore ore omeadow ille adow and kanosh situated east odthe of the can canal al had all been planted to dry grain and that he had recently sold ian land d in that vicinity to home hoine shelters for or 40 per acre which in 1907 he purchased for 80 2 5 50 per acre next morning will arose early earby and went onto the front porch h where he found both the millard county bounty chronicle and the progress review they were I 1 now d daily tily papers contal containing nit ig an abundance of local he was iva s delighted to redd read of the prosperous condition of the mines at kanosh and leamington leavington Lea that a rail road line was in in course of construction from f rom holden to satina salina by way of scipio that the horses and cattle from snake valley brought the he highest tice T ice on the kansas K ansas city market I 1 that the crops at clear lalie lake exceeded in abundance all previous ions years and that the oak ci city ty peaches had been awarded highest M prize at the state fair under the want column he observed that abraham and deseret wanted men to assist in thre ashing their alfalfa seed that oak city wanted a market for its fish that hinckley wanted repairs for its sugar factory and that tle the scipio arid farm co to purchase a steam plow during the fhe next succeeding few days he visited the flouring floering flou ring mills at scipio the dairy plant at holden olden El the canning factory at meadow and the smelters shelters sm elters at ICa kanosh will resolved that millard was good enough for him so he wen went into tinto business and is now on one of the fore most boosters boasters |