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Show IRRIGATION KASINS. When Utah shall have, by the use of labor la-bor and capital, redeemed and watered the fertile lands within her borders, which now lie useless for want of irrigation, she will renew her youth and clothe her valleys with beauty as with a garment. There are stretches of beautiful farming and fruit land couuected with Salt Lake, or nearly so, by railway, whose only drawback is that there is no available water for irrigation. Yet nl along from. five to 10,000 feet above this stretch of excellent land, lirlng springs rush from the cleft3 of rocks through all the summer months. These springs are fed by fountains below and above the snow line, aud these in turn by the never-failing clouds and enduring economy of heaven, which scatters sunshine sun-shine and rain alike upon the just and the unjust, upon saint and sinner. From her northern boundaries to her southtru limits, Utah's fertile valleys run from 300 to 400 miles, enclosed, for the most part, with high mountains, many of them reaching into the clouds and capped with snow. From these heaven-tilled magazines flow enduring streams of water for the sustenance of men and animals in the valley. They rush out in springs by tho mountain side, and, unless un-less caught and conducted by artificial conduits to the homes aud fields of settlers, they pass on to the porous run auu n asii accumulation at ine loot oi the mountains and sink from sight to their subterranean chanuels and reservoirs. This subterranean net work holds the never-failing deposits of L'tah's wealth. This water beneath the surface, and the mineral in her mountains, she can draw upon and without w liich she would revert to the great "American "Amer-ican desert" of which the aueient geographers geog-raphers taiked. The time will come and that speedily we believe, when flowing and artesian wells will reach their long arms into these unfailibg reservoirs and with the flowing flow-ing streams make these now dusty valleys to 'bud aud blossom with the rose." This land, capable with this supply of subterranean water of adding immensely to the permanent perma-nent population and wealth of Utah, must become an object of desirable investment to men of means. Companies can be easily formed with ample capital to secure large tracts of this valley land, buy their own machinery, tap these unfailing supplies and sell laud and water to ehoseu settlers aud thus inaugurate a paradise on a small scale in which each man lives secure under his own vine and cherry tree. Tho proximity of our mining camps, perpetual home markets mar-kets at the settlers doors, makes fifty seres of this irrigated land in Utah worth 100 acres Iu any other uew country. In this connection It may be truthfully said, that as farming land in Utah is today worth three times what it is i$ any of the other territories, territor-ies, the investor may be sure of good returns re-turns from this limited area of investment. |