| Show Governor and State Officials Support Basin Dehydration Plant at Roosevelt to Limit Project Must Go Through Says Governor Maw In Meeting with Basin Citizens Excavation of one of Three Potato Completed Week A conference was held last I Friday in the State capitol build- ing between Governor Hebert B. Maw and A. S. chairman of the Stale Publicity and Development pertaining to the dehydration industry i for the Uintah at which time county commissioners and interested business men and farmers of the basin laid all the information before the state officials and asked for full support in securing a government loan in order to completely equip the dehydration After all details were gone into both Governor Maw and Commissioner Brown gave the project their OK and declared that they would give it their full support and would leave no stone unturned to secure a government loan in order to get the plant fully equipped and in operation this Cit zens Must Help Now that we know we are assured of material help from the We feel that our local business men and especially those who have a potato crop ready to harvest should purchase as much stock in the company as is humanly Such an industry established will not only furnish a yearly cash crop for the it will also furnish a sizeable payroll for seven months out of each year to our local it will reclaim hundreds of acres of farm land and increase the value of every farm in the Potato Crop Proven Professor Aaron B. extension agronomist of the Utah State Agricultural after making a complete survey recently of the potato fields in the Uintah spite of the fact that the farmers of the Uintah Basin have not grown potatoes the condition of the crop in many instances indicates yields will be as high as any in the state The extension agronomist predicted that this introduction of a cultivated crop into the cropping system will transform the agriculture of the Principal basin crops in the past have been hay and Attend attending the meeting Friday in Salt Lake city County Commissioners Floyd L J and former commissioner Lyle Mayor George H. J. V. Bishop Horace J. Heber T. James Dan Mitchell and C. J. After thorough investigation of the possibilities of the dehydration all of those men came back to the Basin with the determination oi putting this industry They feel confident that the government will do its and with the assurance of the Governor and A S. Brown that they will go the coupled with the support of local business men and the Uintah Basin will have the first dehydration plant in the Business The dehydration business is one of the coming industries of the For the duration of the I war the will take the entire and several of the largest food distributing concerns of the United with offices all over the world have sent letters to the Roosevelt Food Products asking that they be given a to handle and market the full output of the plant after the government is They are willing to sign up long term contracts at the present With these facts it looks like the future of the dehydration business is here to |
