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Show I f HORTIGULTURE UTAH VALLEY, UTAH. H I wish lo express my appreciation of your recent articles dealing with H conditions in the great Northwest, H and later the contributions frorro wcll-H wcll-H qualified men in our own fair state, ' H Utah. But I wn somewhat surprised H and disappointed to know that you H 1 ad passed almost without notice the one district in all the West where all the conditions which make a perfect fruit country arc combined. Where climate, soil drainage, water supply, market and transportation facilities arc absolutely right. Where, in favorable fav-orable years" and in bad years; in years of frost or years of drought, there is always a perfect crop of peaches and cherries. I refer to Utah Valley, in the heart of the state of Utah. Elbert Hubbard has said there is. no other place in the American continent con-tinent which offers such beauty and majcety of scenery; such perfection of climate; such diversity and abundance abun-dance of agricultural products,' and such opportunities for future greatness great-ness as docs Utah Valley. And this is true. It occupies a portion of the eastern depression of the great basin, and through ages of erosion and deposit has been wised to an elevation of about 4,400 feet. The mighty escarpment es-carpment of the Wasatch mountains, showing their structure from archaic granite to most recent sedimentary deposits, rises to the cast. Through the rugged sides of this immeasurably old range, the mountain streams have torn d cp and marvelous marve-lous canyons; and these same streams have carried the disintegrated matter into the valley and there deposited it in vast alluvial fans which conform to the various 1 vcls of the once great Lake Bonneville. In the western depression of this - valley, which is about fifteen mites wide, lies a sheet of clear, pure water, Utah Lake, which covers fully one-half one-half of the entire area of the valley. Between the lake and the mountains on the cast is a plain of amazing diversity di-versity and wonderful fertility. The lowest plain, which represents the latest level of the old lake, is almost perfectly level and is generally from t n to twenty-five feet above the prcs- m cnt level of the lake. The soil is deep and heavy and is admirably adapted to the growth of apple trees. Some -of the finest specimens of Jonathan, $ Rome Beauty and Wolf Riv r varic-" tics ever grown in the West have been J grown here. t 1 The area of this vast alluvial plain i is greater than the entire irrigated j portions of Grand Junction, Palisades I and Green .River, combined. This ' land requires but ittlc irrigation. 1 Rising one- step above this plain is I the first "lake table.! This is the gar- den spot of. the state. .No other place in the West can produce such bcr- 1 rics; such vegetables; such small I fruits, such sugar .beets as this "lake table." It is on this level that all j the more important towns are built. j The soil is lighter, the water further from the surface than on the lower level, and the drainage for cultivated land or city purposes is perfect. Another site on the cast brings us to the great table land or bench known as the Provo Level of Lake Bonneville. This is the peach coun- J try. I challenge any person to show I any other section of qual extent where peaches can be so pcrcctly grown. The soil is deep and from light loam to gravelly in character. There is no mineral, no "adobe," no underlying hard pan. It is irrigated by streams of pure mountain water in gravity canals. Pumping plants arc unknown. The air drainage is perfect. And above all, there is one district on this elevation which can boast of thirty consecutive peach crops without a failure from frost or "1 any other cause. This is Maplcton, near Springvillc, Utah. Would you like to know the sec- s ret of this? I will tell you. The deep canyons which pour their life-giving life-giving streams in the valley, act also as giant bellows which keep a constant con-stant current of air moving over this J country, thus preventing the terrible frosts of late winter and early spring f t from settling on the tender buds and tiny fruit which results in a crop fail- urc. And so' when a regularly re- ' ., curring intervals entire orchard dist- : riots are'" devastiated; when Grand t Junction and Palisades, and Brigham City, and almost every other peach j district in the West was without fruit, 1 Maplcton and other favorably locat- 1 W cd places on our great table land M have full crops. M These conditions arc just beginning jl to be appreciated. In the last two 9 years large areas have been planted B to peaches and sweet cherries. And E while choice land is still cheap when W compared with the cxaggcatcd prices L of "pfiach land in Grand Valley and otlior widely advertised sections, the m price ,is steadily and rapidly incrcas- ing. Eastern investors arc coming m fn and the resident farmers arc awak- II . a eying to the fact that here is the j ideal spot for fruit culture and home buildings j T. R. KELLY, Springvillc, Utah, t. In the Fruit Grower |