Show VALLEY THE LAST BEST WEST continued from bonx last issue L by dr george P clements man apap department lly liv angeles chamber of commerce by permission wo we aro are reprinting from tho the arrowhead magazine another article from tho the january issue bauo sauo of at that magazine vur ing the baat two weeks we ran the loading leading article of tho magazine zino written by a millard county man mail joseah F anderson this next article la Is written by dr george 11 clements a LOS log angeles angelea journalist holding a prominent posit lin in the entire pali pah vant valley and alid was waa so impressed with what he bo saw flaw that ho he has hag written his Impress llna lins for a number of publications licati ons besides being a journalist lie ho la Js an expert agriculturalist and since hta his tour of at the valley lie he hns has been a powerful booster tor for Pa livant valley ilia his article lit in full follows all ot of our count rys traditions our development expansion au an subsequent quent wealth lix in commerce la Is built up on oil husbandry and the availability of oe cheap agricultural lands had our forefathers sprung directly from agricultural ri tead of coming in the greater part of at tho the craf crafts to anspro fea foFi ilono sione wo we would not even at this lato late date be known ap an the worlds most moat reckless spenders of old earths bounty bo dinty or the lands of the now eng land and south Atlant lu states bo be to dv almost as profitless and barren in production as tho the untamed amerlean american deseret this Is no empty charge for no matter in what state or in what district within that state the kula husbandman bandman first turned tho the sod and his descendents lived upon tho the land there you yon will find tile the most product iya portion of america all tho the world revolves around a loaf of broad bread OY ov a mess mesa of pottage yet it LB is only at this late day in our amerlean american history that wo we are beg ginning to loam the true value of husbandry and any real attempt being made madd to bring the abo money mad pleasure mad mad sons of tho the soil back to their heritage berl tago tile the thought paramount in the th eminda minds of choso who t i V ag f 41 As A U 14 X V X A W 4 N JI T artellan Art eglan well in Pa livant ville flowing nearly 3 second foot feat stream from 12 inch pipe banner of civilization into tho the wilderness it was this won tho the and made america tho the greatest agricultural producing country in tho the world rough roads followed rough trails and railroads later followed rough rods roads mado made necessary by tho ibo coina commerce created by these empire building forefathers of ours there wore were many isolated bodies of 0 pioneers who had bad pushed far beyond the tha march of civilization and one ot of the largest lamest and most prosperous was the mormon colony under the leadership ot of hrie larig barn young which in 1844 stalled its ita weary trek to found the state of cros acres in this district a four season seabon country where all crops possible to a temperate zone do well a dairy country second to none a general farming country without compare and where fruits and berries are proven ropa hero the sugar beet altal IA potato corn void and small grains hol halt rom lewd d yields and all types of cultural math eda are applicable thoro there Is an abundance ot of land under irrigation abundance possible of irrigation la ir a aroyan artesian belt and cheaper laud land and those who tear fear Is to got tho the poo peo plo pie back to the boll a soil no longer er cheap in III price but only cheap in quality tho the result of 0 years at 0 taking and novel never giving all men lye husbandmen husbandman at heart and when land was cheap and acres acres acrea plentiful when soils were new and rich in productive value tile the earth gave up tip her bounty freeley trealey tre oley and from the atlantic to tho the brockles the american people picked their way rarely IL ge generation spent in ili one locality and tile the german polish bohemian or swedish peasant followed in hla his wake and became fixtures and the section farm was cut into quarters and the quarters into SO 80 and 80 into 40 ap as time passed and values raised from homestead illing costs to hundreds tho the aero acro as tile the tiao aldo gathered strength until today thero are more of americas ang to lo baxos descendents breaking new ground in mountain valley and desert of the great semiarid semi arid west than are abiding in tile the hotness chomoa of their tore fore fathers they have been tho the pion ears tho the tamers ot of the soil boll and tho the skimmer of the cream and their children liko like sparks from the steel on oil tho the anvil have scattered to tho the four winds and constituted the coln coin deseret that in became a mom ito by president fillmore in alit lit tile lle formation of the terr Tan tory of utah b ta 11 I 1 in 1869 1860 tho the union pacific railroad was completed tho the first colonizing railroad built in america which linked up these scattered settlements and drew a I 1 band of steel across the continent in its connection with tho the central cantral pacific it Is a strange coince coincidence that through the absorption of tile the los angeles san pedro and salt lako lake arili catl tho the union rail road load lias has lia s once more taken up tho the standard of colonization colonl coloni and invaded what once onca constituted tho the choicest upon which sustaining ning crops such as grain and traits may bo be grown without the aid of irrigation hero Is tho the paradise with range alfalfa and grains tor for tat fat stock product tion tho the ilog hog is 3 destined to bo be king in III tho Pa livant valley for tho the market Is eager today los angeles hag bag to go to tho the missouri river for her bar pork park and much of her beet the un ion stock yards at los log angeles have insured a competitive market to the stock producer los angeles offers a in aco the business art letters and science ot at the nation today these pioneers are at the limit ot of their world thoy they have reached tho the shores shares ot of the pacific they havo have broken ground and aad broken broad the full length of the continent they have shorn the country of timber and their guns havo have de populated or extor mina ted the natural food animals and birds today those men who made tho the nation those these men who have blaz od oa the way tor for the emigrant those these men man who never know knew tile the true moan mean till int of homo home and the sacredness ot of BBS ass edition are confronting a crr isla there are no more vast territories to COU conquer QUOr they must turn husband men or go to the city and perish parish tho tha one ona la Is as foreign to their habits as aa the other and behind these men are corning coming yoa yes they are already here the sons song of the sturdy peasant whom they left behind hungry for a of at land home makers homo homa builders food producers tho the bulwark of the nation no wonder our cities aro are full of the discontented no wonder statesmen statesman and leglIa tors financiers and logicians lie awake at night pondering upon tho the agricultural bloo bloc there ore but two ways out one Is th rough reclamation and extended national credit and the other through the fore forsaking aking of the ithe so called amerlean american standard of living and a return to those things which realy count in life contentment tho the dignity of labor and the fruits of to those who aro are real husbandmen this latter path pa th acers no qualms but won derfl cos to own a little plot of sustaining ground to be independent to bo be tree free it was this dream which brought tho the Pu puritan and alid cavalier to america while they represented the two ext reams in tuo conduct of lite they wore were united in the desire tor for freedom and Indo ludo pend enco ence in the po possession session of at home it was this dream which prompted the pioneer to push over on bearing the treasure of young and the cormona tho old mormon capital of fillmore oven even to the very holy of holies and flung open to tho the homo home seeker those treasured acres of mill ard county and abu valley to choso who have tho the heart of the husbandman I 1 know of but few places in america more rich in offering than this hero hera land Is cheap and virgin still rich in organic materials material with a climate much moro more tempting than the great valleys of tile the ohio mississippi or missouri offered their forefathers i or tho the great colorado arizona and an mojave deserts under reclamation offer them today there are above A 9 m k A N i V io A 4 VA vf J M boys pig clubs in millard county aro anro coming to bo be largo factors in producing olgs for market shipment ready market for all utah can produce and can supply ut utah all with rill all tho the manufactured material mator lal she can demand if you are a husbandman it you are a son of the if you ca can in forsake the tha flesh pots of the city which like tho the lorelei but beckon to destruction truc tion go to the Pa livant vallor valley a and nd work out your y a ur d destiny est I 1 n Y this will be followed by another I 1 article in our next issue |