Show agricultural possibilities of parowan carowan valley by wm win T morris moms parowan carowan has haa generally been rated among the poor door towns of utah not on account of a lack of plenty plenty of as good got soil a as ever I 1 lay Y 0 out t doors but because as ag was wag said her supply of irrigation water is 13 so ao limited that no very cry great portion of the one hundred thousand acres of rich land in the valley could be use used d but c conditions 0 n editions are changing and 1 poor old parowan carowan Pa rowan is about to come into her own ono in 1879 the first attempt to sink bulk an artesian well in parowan carowan valley or iron county for that matter was made b a company of men composed of hyrum A hendrick hendickson son J M gibson Z etland Mi mitchell daniel S pendleton and magnus johno johndon the location of the well was near the spring known as moss mom springs and is located on the farm now owned by george W decker A 12 inch auger was used in boring this well and a flow of 10 gallons per minute was secured at a depth of 56 feet which flowed all that summer but eventually caved in and stopped the flow this demonstrated the fact that there was wag sub aub tera tora neanor nean or artesian Nater aaker in the valley later geo S halterman Halter mao and martin george each made attempts with better success and a number of 2 inch pipe wells are developed ve loped some of which are still flowing fling after a lapse of 20 years or more later the idea of using larger pipe and going down to greater depth was wait conceived and 3 inch pipe was used with better success finally S A halterman adopted the plan of using 4 12 1 2 in pipe to the first good flow then inserting a 3 in to the next and un coupling that at the bottom of the 4 12 then finishing with a 2 in inside the 3 and un coupling at the bottom odthe fifthe 3 in pipe this method has been the most successful and considerable irrigation water has been developed in this way later the idea of pump ing the water to irrigate lands near the water belt but too high for flowing wells was advanced and several plants of that kind have been installed with varying success most of them however being successful and will be more so when the waters of center centar creek are harnessed and used to furnish the power to operate these them plants and a still larger area will be brought under cultivation but the at ai atesian water does not solve the problem in all its phases there is thousands of acres of fertile land which it will be impossible to procure water for sufficient to irrigate and some other method of farming must be employed in order to make that land profitable and the natural conclusion is that and farming is the only way in which this class of land can be utilized about the year 1903 the matter of and or dry farming was brought to the attention of the people of this vicinity by professors professor J A wid laoc and lewis A morrill and few of the people took up the idea while the majority said it cant be did some of those who had faith in it showed that faith by going to work and clearing the sage brush and breaking up the land and pre paring it for seeding crops of U rye and wheat were sown suit and to the surprise of the people crops were harvested in quantity sufficient to pay fair returns for the labor and means expended and for the pot 8 org or 9 years crops have been continuously ay raised on some farms without artificial irrigation sone some years the crops have not been so go good but bu t where the proper method of cult cultivation have been used no failures failure have been reported and the experience I 1 of those who have tried this method of farming sas that it is the cheapest way of raising wheat water is too valuable to be used in raising wheat in a country as well adapted to raising it by dry farm method a as ours is last year has bas been acknowledged by all to be one of the drnest ever experienced in this country and yet turkey was raised in paying quantities and of such quality that one farmer sold bushels to one man for seed at 1 75 per nun hun dred at the bin and still there are people living here who do not believe it can be done no now w let us take a trip across the valley and visit some of the farms w we w will 11 go down the road to the old dalton ranch and near that place we find one of the oldest settlers in the valley as far aa the development of lands outside the fields proper go this is the farm of H S hyatt and he has lived here for years and rals rais ed ad a large family and is now situated so that bims himself elfand and wife can come to town in their auto and it is for too we next come to J L lowdena Low dera ders far farm mr lowder was wait one of the first to io attempt the use of large pipe and succeeded in thol development of considerable water for irrigation purposes and has gone into the raising of alfalfa and alfalfa seed we will next stop at the farm of hon wilford bifford day our representative mr me day has had faith in dry farming and has been success successful fu 1 in raising crops of wheat corn etc he has also installed a pumping P plant I 1 an t to irrigate some of his land and something will be doing in the near future john T mitchell located on the solon lyman place has installed a pumping plant also but john thinks gasoline is too expensive and looks for the day when electricity can an be used S A halterman alsol also has a pump mg ing plant which has been running successfully for two years and the flow has haa not been diminished matheson bros have a pumping plant up near the bottom of the north field and considerable water has been developed 0 M lyman believes in the milling business and is preparing to help keep the mill running he has 63 acres of fall wheat planted and has some of the best beat flo ing well in the valley J clayton mitchell believes that the farmer is one of the best friends of the banker so he is enlarging his bank account by bv owning one of the best places in the artesian water dis act and is going into the business of raising blooded cattle bros well failed the last two years but they raised a lot 0 of f good wheat without them hem t connell bros have a 4 12 1 2 in well and have considerable land cleared wm win T morris is the guy who believes that dry farming can be made a success in parowan carowan valley be because use he has demonstrated the fact for 10 years year whose place is this oh G W deckers he was as for many years principal of the branch normal school also county supt bupt of schools for ft a number of years he has some of the best artesian wells in the valley but he believes in and farming and sas aas he dont think WP we need to use water for wheat in 1914 he had a crop of fine wheat which was wait sown on ground just cleared therall the fall before he fie watered the land before sowing the wheat and that was all it got some said he ought to water it in the hot weather but he said it can burn and go straight up but I 1 wont water I 1 it and he but he reaped over 30 bushels per acre I 1 1 I 1 win A eans now owner of the north part of the culver place and a member of the board of county commissioners ha has a a large acres acreage ge bearge of line fine alfalfa an and I 1 is in the 1 live I ve stock business in 1914 he raised 52 bushels of wheat acre by one fall watering F L culver believes in dry farming with a lot of water so he has spent a little fortune in developing the water on his place and has been successful to is raising crops of hay and grain but he was a little taken back when his hia neighbor raised 23 bushels bushel of wheat without water while his irrigated wheat heat went 19 space will not permit a visit to the other tine farms among which are J F J K Pa paramore ora pres pre L N marsden maraden J C robinson jr wm win roberts of Miners minersville ville and many others suffice it to lay ay that the amount of gram erain a and d hay raised in P carowan parowan h has nearly doubled in ta the past two or jears ears and the end is not yet |