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Show Wmfah Basin h Toured By Utah's Farmers "The Union and Uintah Chapters Chap-ters of Young Farmers have sponsored the best state tour thus far," stated Orval Gilleii, area director of Young Farmers at the close of the annual Young Farmer tour held here August 22 and 23 This year 157 Young Farmers from all over Utah gathered at the Vernal Field Museum to launch the 1952 tour of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin. Theme of the tour was "The Central Utah Water Project." Feature attraction was the showing of the documentary, ' film of the Echo Park Dam which has been used in congressional congres-sional hearings recently. Stops on the tour in the Vernal area included the Jensen oil field, the Dudley poultry farm, the asphalt as-phalt plant, and an irrigation sprinkling system. Saturday morning the group started from Union High School and toured the Hi-Land Dairy plant at Roosevelt, the Regional LDS welfare farm, and the S F. Mortensen farm on Nort:i Myton Bench. After lunch at Roosevelt City Park, stops were made at Edward Ed-ward Keller's farm sheep flock, Arcadia; the Hartman farm in Mt. Emmons; Ned Mitchell's dairy set-up in Mt. Emmons; and the Bernard Winkler farm in Bluebell. Mark Nichols, state director of vocational education, praised the tour for featuring a project that can do so much for our state, and commended those responsible re-sponsible for the tour. He was very pleased with the hospitality hospital-ity of Basin people. |