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SALT LAKE ROUTE LOS ANGELES & SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY Office of First Vice-President Salt Lake City, Utah At Los Angeles, September 15th, 1916. Mr. J. Ross Clark, Second Vice-President. Dear Sir: Noticed article in the Salt Lake HERALD-REPUBLICAN dated July 15th, 1916, indicating that Industrial Agent White has gone east with two hundred copies of the Arrowhead Magazine for the pur­pose of placing same in the hands of investors and homeseekers. This calls to mind our conversation with reference to the expanse of country lying below Milford. If a study of that country has not heretofore been made disclosing its soil as well as water possibilities, together with the difficulties confronting the few settlers who have gone into that section and whose experience might be valuable as information that would lead to assist or direct others past mis takes made by those who have already pioneered the country, do you not think it would be time and money well spent to send a suitable man into that district to make a thorough canvass of the situation. If so I would suggest that it be a man who has had considerable experience in development work', and if it is your opinion that this would be a good move to make I have to suggest for your consideration Erancis L. Sellew, who was Government engineer in charge of construction of the Laguna dam above Yuma and who developed the Yuma'||ottoms by canal systems and directed the farmers in various ways who settled in that territory. He is a man of wide experience and unquestioned integrity, and the last I knew or heard of him he & H. V. PLATT, First Via-Pnsident