Show THE LAND OF AND A DRY HEALTHY The editor of the Utah Independent visited last week and was surprised to in the midst of what is called great a real creek or in which constantly flows water sufficient during every month of the to irrigate thousands acres of The editor also picked ripe figs the trees and had sliced and cream for It will surprise many to learn that the irrigable land on the Moapa river is the best in the and that it produces the greatest recorded crops of lettuce and Forty thousand crates of cantaloupes will be shipped from during the next six The Moapa country was first settled in the year In going from Utah fo the Mormons discovered such an abundance of water in the Moapa in this tropical climate and the level that they began to settle Irrigation ditches were melons and other crops were planted and grew in great More people and more crops were till when it was discovered that the Moapa valley is in Nevada and not in The Nevada people placed heavy back taxes on who were so far from that they immediate-y abandoned their their and their fields of standing Only two or three families and almost all of the l grew up to the canals filled with the t the the he quail took reigned This if affairs continued until the building of the Salt Lake Then the climate and fertility of the soil were and settlers to take and today Moapa valley is filled with fruit cultivated fields of waving grain and Hundreds f husbandmen are now made happy by the products of this fruitful When the Moapa valley was first settled in it took four weeks to go there from Salt Lake The road ran through St. It was a sandy Today you can leave Salt Lake at 8 p. m. on the Salt Lake route and arrive in Moapa at o'clock the next |