Show PRODUCTS our farmers for abo past two years hao been greatly with bood crops the heavy snows of winter piled and picked up in the topmost peaks and gulches have afforded an abundance of water for irrigating purposes which has produced abundant crops of cereals and vegetables stock has also fared sumptuously and grown fat upon the feed found on the hills and IB the val leys not occupied and tilled by tho industrious dust rious and faugal husbandman all the of the soil has found ready markets and well repaid the farmei the stockman and the fisit grower for their labors utah alone could not con sumo the immense surplus and profitable markets have been found in colorado and along the line of tho union pacific and in montana for tha surplus yield of tho farm tho orchard and the stock lange 1 his demand upon utah and and ready response are evidences tint as a territory wo are pios and but little it any difficulty is experienced in procuring markets for all our surplus food As time moves on the foreign as well as tho local demand inci eases to meet these growing demands farmers aro increasing and improving impi oving their facilities while many new farmers are coming hither and bi poking the virgin soil nearly all the land available to ater is now dundei cultivation w hile millions of acres cf rich soil must remain uncultivated until artificial means are employed to make it productive settlements are dotted in all the valleys and are prosperous many moie will some day occupy the lands now vacant because of the lack of sufficient water and means of pi ing it at the present time to make he land fruitful in this connection then it is necessary that immediate step be taken towards supplying this great deficiency experiments in various perhaps would not bring about as good and permanent results as the sinking of artesian bells congress Con giess in the spang of 1880 recommended that artesian wells be sunk on the waste and barren lands of colorado as an experiment peri ment to test the productiveness of the soil which in ita then barren state produced nothing eo to speak much of that land was known cars ago as tho great american and as it is not located for irrigation by mountain streams it nas thought best to sink ai atesian wells and if they proved successful in making the soil productive daoro would be sunken and thus place a lai po tract ot land on the maikut which would soon become occupied in utah we kloft her soil is rich water makes it yield stock pick good livings upon lands where the plow has never disturbed it and it will demain unproductive as long is no ef foils are made to handsome returns so long as irisia known fact that water only is needed why not a company of dinners pet together and sink wells that will produce water the year round for their benefits in san pete county such a movement is on foot and shoud band together for the same purpose and push the work along not as adny but as a permanent institution to the the welfare cf themselves and lands in general |