Show IN Mn A. College of Railroad Red e orld at large is-very much pinion that Utah is only area of mountainous d inhabited only by and This i fallacious and due large-e quiet unconcern with ie good people of Utah n the opinion of the out-d. Settled in 1847 by the of tie the Moral has quietly been f org-e front in all lines of now it ranks well up tance with the other far of the people of followers of the faith ed by Joseph and ens by The news of Utah suffered in their farming The soil was dry as ie summer sun was and the methods of had been practiced tes from which these pio- would not answer un-w had to be ked desert soil had to f and these sneers corralled the breams and led their tie thirsty and so Nation of the great fc of the e influence of these fields blossomed never these fields yielding most wonder- the few acres Hi St the each year V J now i under the kie of the Paid erPs stock in 1907 har vested from the desert soil-a crop of wheat bushels per while the fertile fields of Illinois in the same year produced an average of 18 and the famous golden grain of Minnesota gave but 13 bushels per The wheat crop of Utah in that year consisted of a yield of hush-els and paid the farmers of the state in good hard Utah is not looked upon as a great corn producing but in 1907 there were acres of corn yielding an average of bushels' per acre and putting into the pockets of the farmers of the The barley and rye crops of that same year covered an area of yielded a harvest of and produced an income of While grain crops are of great importance to the farmers of Utah and are each year covering a greater the farmers make their spending money from sugar In the year mentioned beets were harvested at the rate of 12 tons per acre from which represents more than a million and a half to growers and were worked up by five sugar factories of the state into pounds of If this could-have been distributed equally among the people of the United States it would give to each boy and a little more than a pound of clean granulated It represented a value of The people of Utah grow their own In 1907 there were bushels harvested from and represented a cash income to the farmers of In the same year the farmers of the state owned valued at and mules worth an average price of per or These same farmers owned which furnished for 52 2 and about 25 cheese The luxuriant bunch grass ranges were being grazed head of cattle and nearly which represented a value of The washed and unwashed wool-clip to U- amounted of that year when marketed as produced an income of To feed these immense of ve stock during the snowy win-ter months acres of the fertile valleys of the state produced tons of hay worth or at the rate of per Ever since the first settlers came to fruit has been and with the continually increasing population state is becoming one of the important fruit producing sections of the Fruit has been shipped out of the state for several years and the quality is such that it has gained an excellent reputation in the market centers of the the last few there has been a great awakening among the fruit growers of the state and there is a corresponding growth in the interest that is being taken by them in the increase of the Last year more than a half million fruit trees were set out upon the well-irrigated lands of the and fruit growers of experience from other states are coming into Utah and investing in 7 fruit districts suitable for fruit production arc being opened up each Green on the eastern edge of the where the Denver Rio Grande railroad enters is a district which gives promise of rivaling in peach production the long famous section at Grand At Price another large area of fruit land has just been reclaimed by In the great valley of the Bear River there are increasing thousands of acres of apples and while Cache Valley boasts that of one of its many thrifty apple orchards covers A scene is presented in Utah through which the Denver Rio Grande trains pass on their way to Salt Lake Here the traveler from the East gets his first glimpse of the magnificent orchards of the Seven thousands acres o peach and prune orchards spread out before his Four thousand of these acres are in and the past summer produced carloads of 75 cars of pears and and on page FARM PRODUCTS IN uj from page I about cars of apples market of the b grow everywhere in the stateS are rapidly converting sunshine and irrigation to substantial bank accounts-M The of Utah are to the fruit grower's The spraying of fruit trees jS vines for destruction of H gus insect pests is made The future gives large returns from fruit and with the awakening hand Utah will soon be the Iw of the fruit producing wealthy m |