| Show interesting LETTER LITT Is RECEIVED sparks nevada 17 1918 editor progress I 1 have just been reading the progress ress and round found a piece that interest y in mo vory very much headed water 1 AA h contentment health I 1 have alced under the arch shaped welcome sign a god many times and my companion and I 1 have talked of how nice it was to see sea such a sign alter after working in the city af 6 modesto for four months months we found that the bl sign ign corresponded with the city and people I 1 have never mot met a more progressive set of people in my travels I 1 will sa a little on the first word of this welcome sign water wo we rented a room from one of 0 tho the good families of this city and they were some pioneers of the place and had bad five hundred acres of land and the just existed on tills this largo large place since the water a rived at their place they have nearly all of this land at a good price arid and the land the have left produces more than they had before I 1 had the pleasure just before leaving modesto to ta go up to the dam which Is sixty miles from tile tho city this dam Is ono one hundred and some odd feet high and cost it Is tit in a very rough place where it la Is hard to got the water fro from M tile tho mountainous country the canal la Is cemented tor for a number of miles at different places to keep the water from wasting by percolation modesto Is a place of a bout nine thousand inhabitants my aly companion and I 1 have visited every homo home twice and we found they had wealth contentment and health wo understood while there that the city cay line has more mora pavement tor for the size of it than any other place in the west tho people travel from their homes to tile tho stores and other places in their cars for the size of the city I 1 have an idea it has more earn cars than any other tit in the west tit th bowater has made this city and its what it Is the things I 1 would like to impress upon the minds of our people in millard county la IS that the land around Alo modesta dIsta Is not any better than that land in our county and some no as good it if water has made this beautiful C city 1 ty what it Is and it surroundings ats ivill w do the ne same me for us its so ao dont v na ay r the opportunity elide clide by I 1 can see a bory bright future tor for millard Cou tinty and wish you all till the blessings of at wealth cont con ement and and health from your brother in tile the gospel and a friend to all ELDER LEWIS SMITH |
