| Show ROM several visitors give talks of inspirational nature A goodly turnout turn out of members and I 1 interesting te resting and encouraging 9 talks ay py several visitors tois marked the meeting of the richfield lions club held monday day evening at the johnston hotel no program of entertainment was presented but the evening proved thoroughly enjoyable and profitable president H 51 called upon A B darby representing the hurley Alac machine bine company for a talk mr darby stated that as a traveling salesman he has noticed a pronounced upturn up turn tum in business prospects during the past month and expressed his firm opinion that the backbone of the depression had been broken at last he cited the recent gain in wheat prices the up trend of the silver market and the increase of 40 per cent in the price of navy beans over what they were at this ti time e last year the next visitor speaker was mr parker of the globe mills at ogden who announced that his company had opened up a branch mill in richfield for pur chasing grains and distributing flour feeds cereals and other re lareed products he stated that they had chosen richfield because of its central local and wide drawing powers W D fitzgerald of richfield has been appointed local representative for this company mr parker declared that tile the worlds wheat crop this year is is one hundred million bushels short russia and china having practically lost their crops crop R rye e is taking the place of this loss with consequent rise in in prices of almost all grains flour b he said would soon folo follow this increase chris larsen of richfield made an appeal for signers to the petition that is being circulated in sevier and wayne counties on behalf of the proposed road from escalante via boulder to teasdale and torrey averal lions supported this appeal explaining that it will be of inestimable Iene benefit fit to southern utah as a whole and to richfield in particular inasmuch as this territory to be opened up by such a road would use richfield as the logical trading center the loop thus formed would be highly scenic and would obviate the necessity of visitors to wayne wonderland having to retrace their steps to get out and on down to the bryce and zion canyon country boulder utah it was pointed out is the only town in the country which has to have it its mail delivered by mule back this petition was addressed to the U S forest service since most of the construction would aull come under this department th the e lions club voted to authorize their president and secretary to sign the petition and also urged individual members to affix their names A summary of the detailed report of tile the race meet was read by the secretary approved and accepted by the club with a vote of thanks for the splendid work lone done by the committee |
