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Show 18 Basin Stockmen Leave Sunday On Tour Of California Eighteen Duchesne County farmers and stockmen will be among the three bus loads of Utahns who will leave Sunday morning on an 8-day agricultur al tour of California, which is being sponsored by the Commercial Com-mercial Bank of Utah in cooperation co-operation with the Utah and California Extension Services. According to Wesley Dicker-son, Dicker-son, agricultural consultant for the banking firm which operates oper-ates offices in seven eastern, central and southern Utah cities, ci-ties, there will be men from Millard, Mil-lard, Juab, Utah, Wasatch and Duchesne counties on the tour, which is slated to leave at 3 a. m. Sunday, Feb. 24, and will return March 2. They will travel trav-el in three Greyhound buses. Itinerary of the tour finds the group spending the first night in Reno. The next day they will arrive in Sacramento for lunch and then go on to Davis, California home of the University of California, where they will be directed on a tour of the campus by the California Extension Service. From there they will travel through various parts of Central California, visiting vis-iting famous ranches and livestock live-stock feeding and breeding farms. They will arrive in Los Angeles on Feb. 28. where they (Continued on back page) California Tour . . (Continued from page 1) will spend the night. The following fol-lowing day they will visit the million dollar L.D.S. welfare farm recently' purchased from Louis B. Meyer, motion picture producer. They will also tour the Los Angeles stockyards and other livestock farms and feeding feed-ing operations in the Southern California area. The tour will leave the Los Angeles area Saturday for home, traveling via San Bernardino, on through the Imperial Valley and Las Vegas, arriving home sometime some-time Sunday. Those from Duchesne County on the tour will be Oscar Nelson, Nel-son, Upalco; George Fisher and William Jessen, Altonah; Tom Gilbert, Arcadia; C. D. Brother-son Brother-son and Parley Lambert, Bon-eta; Bon-eta; Johnny Lambert, Mt. Emmons; Em-mons; M. H. Christensen, Tal-j mage; Rex Gardner, Neola; Wil-ford Wil-ford McConkie, Wayne Malin, Paul Nelson, Alma L. Wills. Angus An-gus Anderson, Raymond Eld-redge, Eld-redge, Bruce Fitzgerald. Louis A. Jensen and Mr. Dickerson, all of Roosevelt. The group will leave the Commercial Com-mercial Bank office at Roosevelt Roose-velt at 3 a. m., arriving at Duchesne Du-chesne at 3:30 and at Hebcr at 5 o'clock. These two groups will meet the Southern and Central Cen-tral Utah: buses at Salt Lake's Greyhound bus depot at 7 a. m., where they will all leave for Reno'. |