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Show ISOLONS WILL GO TO THE EPHRAIM SWAMP LANDS I The entire membership of the ! LV.ah state legislature will arrivo at jEphvaim tomorrow at 12 noon to ' inspect the swamp drainage area, and seek first band information as to the advisability of creating an 'experiment farm for thi3 project. The 'law makers will arrive on a special train, will impect the project, pro-ject, will gather' in a 'public meeting and banquet, at Ephraim and then depart in the ea'rly evening for the ;:ate capitoL. The i3alpete I.rainiige ! restrict , embraces some seven thoinsand acres of rith peat lands lying between the 'river crossing west of Epbraim and 'extending south nearly to the river brieve west of Mantl. For ages ' past it has been little better than a .huge pasture, and some times uot even that due to excessive watar. The Drainage District was created for the purpose of raising tunds to drain the reaBlO'n and control the water flow. It was held by the proponents of the drainage Ideas, chief among. whom 3s representative Jacob Thompson, that these peat lands are the most valuable lands 'in O'ur valley could the water be 'controlled. I Finally the proponents were ic-torious ic-torious in wunninjg the fight to i create the district and float the I bonds necessa'ry to dig the drain ; canals. Last year an . experimei- tal tract of forty acres wa.3 broken 1 up an seeded. The results were ' or ahead of what the most . enthusiastic en-thusiastic supporters had anticipated, anticipat-ed, and every indication points that , the Ian da once under proper water control will be a vertlable garden spot. Feeling that the state ought to aid in the development of this project pro-ject the Sanpete delegation to the state legislature introduced a bill hy Senator Candland to- appropriate $10,000 of state funds to create and conduct an experiment farm on the project, and it is to secure first hand information about the nrojret that the iaw makera are comi(T tamorrow in mass. Should the present drainage region re-gion fulfill the promises of splendid crop production as it has Indicated there is another large region lying no'rth of it which can also de drained drain-ed and made into a sknular project. Sb .nl d the efforts to reclaim these regions he successful ttey will make room for ten thousand more people in this valley who would be e'va.'ed in truck farming and it would also mean the salvation of our sugar mills and canning factories. fac-tories. The Mant Commercial Club and F.P'hraim Lions Club a're cooperat-' cooperat-' if in taking care of the visitors when they come. But an lnvlta-li lnvlta-li n is extended to everyone lnter-c lnter-c i'ed to be a committee of one to 'nke pant . in the trip to the swamp. Many caira will be needed to take the visitors to and from the drainage area. SentoT Candland, representative Thompson and J. Lawrence Lowry "nd J. D. Stack, general manager the Utah lines of the D. R. G. ft. R. arraged for the special train ni' a meeting in Salt Lake last Tuesday. |