Show Swamp Land Demonstration tion Draws Hundreds I The object of of the Swamp SwamI Day effort was iwas to to bring prominent and expert people from up tip state and prominent citizens of or the tho county together to lo view the thes demonstration lion crop TOP effort on the bhe swamp drainage e earea area west of or Ephraim and also to hI tug rug more moie before the people t he the wonderful potential force lin lying at our very door I ITo To days clays program consisted consisted of or several hours spent on the demonstration demonstration demon demon- project by the large crowd crowl A mass 1 meeting leeling was wa's held in the tabernacle when the party return ed cil from the swamp It is estimated that eight bundred hundred bund hund I red I people eople joined in iii the excursion to the demonstration area on the J swamp and attended the meeting in the Ephraim Tabernacle Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur I da day of last week Following the j meeting a banquet was served at atthe atthe at atthe the Snow College for all invited invite guests to the other participants a luncheon served at the Taber Taber- nacle t The special visitors in iu attEndanCe attendance 4 w were ere Governor George H. H Dern Derri Director Win Vm Peterson of the tho A C. C and State Engineer George M. M Ba con on accompanying the governor Others of the Agricultural College faculty acuity were Dr Geo Stewart agronomist Prof George D. D Clyde ClydEl Irrigation engineer Prof Alma I Wilson Vilson superintendent Davis Coun Conn County I t ty experiment farm W. W W. W Owens state county agent leader A. A E. E Smith coun county agent of Juab County Coun Coun- ty and the local count county agent w W Walso walso also J in ill attendance Mc Mc 1 might be made of a few of the I citizens of Sanpete count county who were in attendance as follows Senator W. W D D. D Candland President S. S M. M NIelson Ex mayor mayor Ex I R R. R H. H Hinckly Editor Burke McArthur Mc Me- I Arthur L L. L P. P Nelson county com com- missioner all of Mt 1 Pleasant Geo E. E Cook county countr commissioner Ft Green N. N G. G manager mana mana- manager ger gel Peoples PeoplE's Sugar Co Moroni President L L. R R. Anderson Ex Com P. P P. P Dyreng Mayor Inor Andrew Andrew An An- drew Judd Superintendent ent E E. E T Reid all of 1 Nanti anti Juno Metcalf county commissioner President A A. E E. E Park John DI M. M All o ot of Gunnison The following gives a brief sum mary of the tho talks given at tho meeting Director William illiam Peterson I I am interested In home and community building You have a potential possibility in this swami of a new community The peat land of the area offers great possibilities poss poss- possibilities but it also brings its lems The area is worthy of seri serous serous ser ser- i ous thought ought and effort of resident I citizens and should not be I ed ed by an any land promotion concern inor nor foreign labor jut Gut should be of of by local ens Jacob Thompson History of the District It was 35 years ago when I first began the agitation to drain the swamp Then 8 S men tried to drain acres half way lay to MantI on the west side Failed because canals would not hold water Grasshoppers would como come and take small crops then grown Later it was seen that the whole tb thing ng would have to be handled as a unit Later drainage law came and I then repeated efforts were nero ere ma made and failed Two years ears ago wo we got drainage law changed an and steps taken to organize a district here First meeting no opponents were present voted to organize Then Thou began There Thero were 28 23 majority against draining then wo we bought out some opposing inter inter- ests Decided anyhow to call a abond abond bond hond election and It carried Drain north end as an an- experiment This converted a few tew more Finally votes stood 7 majority In favor i Most ost men are now none pleased I Dr Geo Stewart Agronomist U. 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C I Continued on Page Four Swamp Land w Demonstration Continued from Crom page one The College cannot tell how to all these poat peat land problems I but wo we do know how JIOW to sot set about In obtaining this The heat peat lands are the tho last to be bo de le developed In the older states and so lure In Utah Your problem Is a worthy worth one I Alma Wilson Nilson It Is a hopeful sign to note you ou people have a hopeful outlook I fon pI the future You have liae Hies' Hies and you ou must fact the tho problems problems' lem lems' lems to J that enterprise 1 W r Governor Dorn Derr This particular t Is is new now in the experience of all ofus of us It scorns to me that it holds greet great possibilities Thero are ro too many new problems to bo ho solved b by experimentation which should be taken up in an intelligent wa way This is a very err desirable project Inman in inmany inmany man many w ways ays ars This will be a permanent permanent perm permanent perm perm- anent reclamation development pro pio and a yer very worthy sort of oC one a sit is adjacent to already alread de le developed lands It will bo be the tho basis of oC adding comfortable and pleasant homes built up from Utah people Man Many of your tOur surrounding states have havo been populated b by the tho s arm Ing of the Utah Utah hue hive This project pro pio- will help us keep our young people here in the state We Vo must come como more moro and more to raising specialized crops in Utah I I This will help us to come cometo to this basis in cropping Wo We had celery for luncheon from lom your project and it wiss s as of tho the finest quality You Yuu must find out what you jou can raise raise- and then sh study dy the markets for tin an outlet Agriculture can call help holp itself best by such Buch intelligent in- in in intelligent stud study and work and co co operation with consumers and not depend on legislation for a solution I am very Aery much Interested Inthis Inthis in inthis this project and I want aut to toO assure you I will do all I can to help you 1 point the way to proceed on this project It will help to to raise the general standard of ot prosperity in 1 our state We Vo must have an un int interest rest in pooling our boosting for our own Utah and her products and help holp build up Ui the kind of or state which we weare weare are bound to become President L. L R. R Anderson y u 10 1 I i I nui Lope o this LUIS oc Ul marks U lU J io turning point of the tho industrial situation situation situation sit sit- n County We Ve have been constantly sending out a stream of school teachers to other m parts of tho the state Wo We have havo ox es plotted plaited our ranges rangeR and have developed dove devel our water resources so that jour our possibility Qt of expansion Is in intensive farming poultry raising dairying canning and truck truel crops production We Ve want to find rind homes for our young people hero in III our ourI I splendid valle valley Our school programs programs pro pro- grams should bo he bent to tho Mio educatIng educating educating pro pro-I ing of or our bO boys B and girls along the home making Ond agricultural lines I Geo M. M Bacon State Engineer I 1 I have a warm spot in my heart henrt i for or Sanpete as I 1 did development develop develop- ment work worl in this part of C tho the state 25 years ago The best woy wOr to build hund up the tho state slate is to satisfy tho the individual We Ve should no longer look to the development of tho tho mammoth reclamation projects but hut should see seo to it that the Irrigation Irrigation irrigation tion and tho the individual farms wo we already have havo close at hand are aio made bettor better and hi ought brought to the fullest state of productivity It |