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Show Spotlighting 1 UTAH Centennial of Irrigation Michael W. Straus, U. S. Re-clama Re-clama t i o n Commissioner in Washington, D. C. calls attention atten-tion to the fact that this year is the Centennial year of irrigation, irriga-tion, speaking before a house sub - committee, Commissioner Straus said: "This year is the Centennial of irrrigation as we know it today. to-day. It is just 100 years since Brigham Young, after leading his caravan across the desert, told them their very first task in the Salt Lake valley of Utah was to plant their precious seed in the arid ground and divert a stream of water to it. "The Mormon band harvested their first crop, etc, ate.and survived. is dependent upon the construction construc-tion of an airport in that area, reports Harry Goulding to officials of-ficials of the Utah department of publicity. Goulding, whose activities as an Indian trader in Monument Valley were interestingly in-terestingly told in the March 29 issue of the Saturday Evening Even-ing Post, says the government has allocated $20,045 toward a Monument CValley airport providing pro-viding the State of Utah will match it with 512,825. At this writing, Goulding is after Joe "Their example was followed by settlers throughout the vast dry lands of the west until the turn of the century, when some $250,000,000 had been put into 20,000 different districts, irrigating irrigat-ing in some fashion or other, and frequently intermittently and inadequately, 9,500,000 acres of the United States, and this was all done with private money mon-ey .. . More Movie Making for Utah The filming of at least two motion pictures in Utah's rapidly-faming Monument , Valley within the next three months Bergin, State Commissioner of aviation, in an effort to secure the grant. Goulding explained to the state publicity department officials offi-cials that ' Twentieth Century Fox wants to come into Monument Monu-ment Valley to make movies via cargo planes and insist on a safe landing field. The present landing strip, despite shifting sand, has permitted 18 plane parties to visit the valley this spring. To make an ideal field calls for covering the sand with crushed shale, readily available in the vicinity. Culinary water for motion plenty of water and after drilling drill-ing three wells, two over 500 feet, Goulding has found evcell-ent evcell-ent water at 143 feet, but he will have to pipe it three miles. Previously Pre-viously he has had to haul water wat-er from long distances. Goulding sees great moviemaking movie-making possibilities for Monument Monu-ment Valley because of its brilliant brill-iant colors, spectacular setting, massive monumtental buttes, and Navajo Indians. Director Jon Ford of Twentieth Twen-tieth Century Fox swears by Monument Valley and a certain Navajo Medicine Man. Regardless Regard-less : of what' type of weather the motion picture script calls for, such as cloudy, clear, rain, duststorms. etc.. Ford contacts ! Goulding the day previous, who I transmits the weather request to a certain Navajo Medicine Man, who immediately, goes to work. As evidenced by those who saw "Darling Clementine" , the Medicine Man always pro-1 pro-1 duced. Ford is counting on this I fellow when he films his next i picture in Monument Valley. j ' Plenty of Farm Labor There will be no shortage of ' j farm labor this season, says Morris H. Taylor, state farm su-! su-! pervisor. I Destroys Flanders Poppy A full-scale , drive is being launched in Cache and Box Elder El-der counties by the state agri-I agri-I culture department, county of-' of-' ficers and private land owners to eradicate 2100 acres of Utah's most noxious weed the Flanders Fland-ers Poppy. The attack will be staged from land and air. Indians Demand Hard Liquor Utah's Uintah and Ouray Indians, In-dians, along with other tribes, are petitioning congress for a repeal of an old statute which makes it a penal offence to sell intoxicating liquor to Indians. |