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Show AGRICULTURAL EXPERT STUDIES IRRIGATION Prof. L. A. Merrill Believes Pumping System Used in California Can Be Operated in Utah. Prof. L. A. Morrill, agricultural expert for the Salt Lake route, has returned from Willows, Cal., where hc has been studying the science of Irrigation by i pumping. When seen In his offlco yesterday, yes-terday, ne said: I found men irrigating there with the aid of pumping systems at a cost of $2.05 an acre. Thousands of acres are being made productive and experts ex-perts there predict that within five years the amount of land irrigated In this way will exceed that watered by the gravity system. T see no reason wliy the system cannot be used with great success In Utah, where tho land is now practically without valuo. During my absence I also was In consultation with officials of our rall-wuy rall-wuy company, who have their headquarters head-quarters in Loa Angeles, regarding tho eslabllnhment of a model demonstration demon-stration farm in Utah. A citizen of Los Angeles, who has land in Beaver county. Utah, has offered to furni9h fifty acres of land for hucIi a farm and to give $500 toward equipping It. Our plan Is to have the railway company, com-pany, state, county and private individuals indi-viduals Join In molting tho farm a success. |