Show JOERN DERN FAVORS FARM STATION Urges Fund Be Bc Provided for Work at Ber BerTI Beryl TI Pumping Tract SALT LAKE March 4 In 4 a aletter aletter letter to Chairman J 1 W Peters ot of the tho Joint appropriations commit commit- committee committee tee teo of ot the tho legislature Governor Dern urges that provision pro be made to carry out the tho experimental farm tarm project at Beryl Deryl In tho the southwest southwest- southwestern ern ceo corner of ot Utah The Tho letter of ot the governor to Chairman Peters follows I have Just been Informed that has hu quoted mo me as saying that lt I have havo lost interest In the tho proposal I to establish an experimental experimental mental farm near DerI Beryl as 5 per the made In tho the supplemental budget I hasten to Inform you ou that I have not changed my views on I this matter and nd that I still think i this 4 ins 4 4 Is 1 not t onlY an 3 is 3 w 3 3 w usia V p UJ meritorious but extremely Import import- important Important ant I do not wish to deprecate the importance ot ot of the other two pro pro- proposed proposed pro proposed posed experimental farms for which special bills have I been In- In Introduced In Introduced but In my opinion the theone theone theone one at Beryl contains the greatest possibilities It is Ie estimated that there thero aro at least OOOO acres ot of choice land hand reclaimable In Iron and Beaver Deaver counties by pumping underground water I tor for IrrigatIon purposes Such a development would of ot course b be of ot vary vor ver great groat Importance not only to that im- im immediate Im Immediate mediate sed section 1011 but to the whole state I A number of ot years ago an at- at attempt attempt attempt tempt was made to reclaim this I land by means of ot dry farming but buit it was a 0 total failure The Tho aban- aban abandoned houses which still dot the alle are mute evidence nce of ot tile tragedies that cro there enacted when families lost host the savings o of ofa ofa a lifetime In an effort to snake homes tor for themselves Now ov that thaL another attempt is being made In Inthe inthe the tho same direction by means menns of pumping underground waters r I hope the tho settlers may b be given some come scientific direction so o that their efforts may be along safer saler I lines I 1 cannot retrain refraIn from urgIng your committee to Include In the appropriation bill hilt the item for this experimental farm farni arm ns as recommend recommend- recommended recommended ed td In the ct budget no In |