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Show v i n i l I HLOU noOUOIHIIUIl S GUESTS OF NEPHI THREE DAYS E 'J08 QjyEN ,N8,TE T0 PRO-ilatlon of Juab county Is 0,871, of lD N1 A ON;U?!? 4,140 live in Lm'nB'commu- AND JUAB COUNTY, tl? If you want, to loom anything i NephI, Juab County and tho hos un- ity of tneso UP antl !lnR people . ask tho editors of any of Utah co uy papors for thoy havo Just roti tho from a threo day convention In ind county seat Tho convention oj oa. on Saturday and tho business soe closed on Monday. Somo twont newspaper men and their wives i a In attendance and If a group of p let woro ovor ontortalnod this crowd at tho hands of tho Nephltos. '. Wasn't a sparq moment, that moe were Tiat in sosslon, that thoro tu' n't somothlng going on for thol tho tortalnmont. :mt A short buslnoss session of int. mombors of tho press was hold . urday afternoon, Posldont W J Epporson and Secretary R. T. : mado their reports, and a genera or cussion of tho affairs of tho ai 308 atlon took placo. Addrossos of k como woro mado by N. J. Roes o half of tho Nophl Commercial 3nB Kiwanls clubs, and Mayor T. C. ' an- greotod tho editors on bohalf o iny city. Hon. Henry H. Blood ol ro stato road commission gavo 'a prohcnslvo analysis of the state's teu program. nK- Saturday ovoning tho membo In tho association and their escorts 3so tho guostB of tho civic organlzn of tho city at an olaborato bai at tho Forrest hotel. Georgo tno mond was tho toaatmaator and a tho thoso responding to toasts woro for Brankon of tho government ag nu. tural oxporlmont station, Pros . W. P. Epporson, William Whrn In'" tho Poultrymen's association, Q ors o. Sporry, Jr., of tho Nophl school, Tom Burton, well k Bnr attornoy-at-law and R. T. Porto. , "Tho oxtont of this u stretches to tho Nevada horde tho west, a dlstanco of about en- miles; on tho north wo havo si icn miles of concroto pavemont tou , the Utah county lino; to tho on miles which connocts us with ox' poto, and on tho south tho M lino at a dlstanco of 25 mllos, tor plained Mr, Bracken ln an lllun t tag rovlow of Juab county an 'resources. "Multiplying tho my by the longth, our county covoi tro- area of approximately 3112 si mllos, or moro than 2,000,000 in vf land. Of this largo domain about 35,000 acres havo ,or" .brought under tho plow. Tho bo anco of this area consists of r xo, tain and dosort lands of valuo inK for rango purposes. Tho total -rni inuus. iao numDor or larms .total 1410. "Tho livestock Industry in this ibout county Is ono of our blggost agrlcul-pltal- tural assets. Just "Noxt to tho stock industry of this untry 'county tho famous Lovan ridge, no-jrned no-jrned ted for tho production of grain of that excellent quality, is another ono of loned kour big agricultural asaots. Eleven slons thousand acres of whoat land produo-y-flvo ing a total of 150,000 to 250,000 woro ibuahols each year has moant much ooplo 'to tho agricultural development ot 1 was this part of tho county. Forty yoara rhoro ago tho rldgo was covered with bluo itlngs, grass. Later, duo to over grazing was- 'sagobrush canio l.n Now this beau-r beau-r on- tlful area of .land is a waving whoat Hold. Somo ot tho mon who did tho the Pioneering on this virgin soil woro Sat- looked upon with suspicion as to p. tholr sanity. David Broadhoad, who Porto still oporatos his holdings, was at 1 dig. ono tlmo lodged in the county Jail jsocl- t Provo with a chargo ot purjury wol- fr Bwoarlng that ho could grow n bo- crops successfully on this barren and wasto. Under tho limited annual Winn rainfall of only 4 Inches, and with t tho nn evaporation from a froo wator t tho eurfaco ot 48 Inches from April 1 to ocm- Novombof 1 It would scorn almost road lmposslblo to grow crops successfully without supplementing tho proctplt ra ot nt,on with Irrigation. Such is pos-wero pos-wero stble, howovor. I havo soen C? bushol itlons of Turkoy Btrlko tho canvas of a nquot header on tho, Paxman farm, a record Hay- for BUCn a ,ow proclpltatlon. James tnong Mommott ln 1021 had 200 acros ot a p Kofod whoat glvo a yiold ot ovor ri'cul" 7000 lusholB. Whllo 11,000 acres la Ident tallowed for tho noxt crop. Such a or 0f system is necessary under arid condl-eorgo condl-eorgo tlona for host results. What would jjllj this 22,000 acres produco it it wore nown PPl'ed with water? This Is tho next development for Juab county. When aunty this hnppona tho stato of Utah, ln fact ir on I daro, say tho west, will havo no finer IH boot Holds and no better alfalfa patch-xtcen patch-xtcen ca tnan thoso oa tho Lovan ridge, chlng "Situated on tho crest of tho rldga ist 14 lB tho Nophl experimental dry farm. gan. Since I havo tho honor ot bolng su-illard su-illard Porintondont I feel rnthor modest In " ox- tolling of its achievements. Estab-ilnut- llBhod in 1003, It etands ns ono ot tho d Kg oldest stations ot Its kinds in tho width world. Its results aro known whoro-m whoro-m an ovor dryland crops aro grown. Stu-luaro Stu-luaro (HTnts from Africa, China, and this acres yoar ono from Turkoy havo studied only the results on tho farm. In addition, boon Dr. J. A. Harris, with an Intonation- unl. al roputatlon, has had chomlsts at noun- work studying somo of tho funda- only mental reasons for drouth reslstanco p0pu. (Contlnuod on pago 4) - |