Show THE UINTAH BASIN the basin comprising a good portion of wasatch and uintah counties Is an empire in itself there them are vast stretches of fertile fert 11 and an abundance of gatei the climate la IF mild and extremes in temperature are unknown the legion suffers suf feis fels of course from lack of transportation facilities but we ae to not see how this handicap can continue in view of the wealth of minerals and agricultural products to be found there there are stretches of bad land of course this Is the case in en aery ery irrl gated valley of the west aest but there is enough first class land there to maintain a populate i equal to that now maintained on the irrigated land 0 of the balance of the state the conditions there justify alli almost lost any please of 0 farming fruit growing will proe profitable since in ash ley valley practically tle ally all varieties les of commercial apples elberta peaches etc succeed as well as in utah val ley the dairy industry will NOR au succeed aeed because pasture grasses ard alfalfa find here congenial soil and climate and conn seems at home As a matter of fact the writer firmly bellen believes es there Is as much corn giov gi owing ving on the lesen lation this year as in hi all of the rest of utah olie ode almost feels that he is 1 oer r lit in nebraska or missouri as he rides through these splendid corn fields poultry P raising hog production the breeding of fine horses or sheep aad any or ar all of these industries al aie e prof hero here so that one need inot feel tilt lie he Is limited in ins his choice of specialties it if lie goes to the resena tic uon unfortunately Unfortunate li alc aie some diac bacab with all th eliise e baio fa sociable able condi thois flo aiom obber duong it lb is alpar f ent that there is going to be consider 0 lder able trouble nith v ith alkali unless great precautions are taken is the use of ft N ater we haw haie no doubt that in many in stances they ill have hanf to resort to in order to remo ethe kind of ofal kall that these soils contain cont 1111 the tolls boils axe are ry much like efio thoe e found in carbon anjul count le lufti there will b 1 I countered on th the vintah lUson at atlon loll 1011 0 r irrigation oi 01 th p injudicious gusej water is going to bring these alkali ealta to the surface indeed this Is already accomplished accomplish ci in some iastan ces there is a tendency on the p u t of r ome rome of the fai nuis to 0 apply wate to excess we in one in instance tance between alaton and roosevelt one ona fanner who hai bf lien ell continuously irrigating his ground it be ing apparent that the hariw han aw or cul livator has never been used on this farm the alkali Is already alicade accumulate ing on the surface constant h mow ing and culah with the application of two or three in I 1 lations would hane hae given far better results and would havo prevented pie vented an accumulation of alkali salts these soils possess a high fertility and with cloper seeding and cultivation methods will yield abundant abunda int crops the gleat need in III uintah basin today in our Is for trained experts who would live alth the farmers and instruct ansti act tl ani in the proper use of water unless this i 1 done and the warning heeded thele theio Is going lobe to be serious difficulty on the reservation alof pi of L A MERRELL in ill deseret farmer 0 |