Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-28 | Page 5 | Says Utah is Ideal Granary

SAYS UTAH IS IDEAL GRANARY Californian Declares Intermountain Intermountain Inter- Inter mountain States Can Supply Supply Supply Sup Sup- ply Nations Nation's at s Wheat ro To make the Intermountain states and the northern part of oC California the wheat producing centers of ot the United States t Is the ambition of J. J S. S Hartman Hartman Hartman Hart- Hart man of Los Angeles who bo Is In the city after an n inspection trip In the tho southern part of I Idaho aho He lie sas says that with proper development and cultivation cultivation a tion the fields of ot tIme the Intermountain states can be made the most productive tive tic of or any in the western country He points to tho lie fact that the middle west has always produced the tIme greater part of the wheat ral raised ed in the United States and a asserts that hint tho population has Increased there while th the acreage devoted to the growing of oC grains has decreased He lie takes the position that the intermountain states are In a po position position position po- po to gain control of oC the tho wheat markets of ot this country In Utah and Idaho IdL I saw some Rome of or ortho th the tho best wheat Lt I have e seen In many years said Mr lr Hartman The Tho stubble fields showed that th the grain had grown thick and tho the results of oC the show a full head In the tho irrigated ted sections the wheat crop was the best ever but althou although h there wa was plenty plent of rain during the summer tho ho dr dry farming sections fell behind in production Uon due mainly to faulty methods methods meth meth- of oC cultivation I am interested in iii grains and In Ingrain grain land Jand For several years cars I have hp n int to tn iro o h Utah and ni I Idaho d ii ii and ci select land n d which li ch will be adapted to tho the growing of ot wheat wheal and place farmers on it who know lenow how to farm and amid who iho know how liow to plow To Tosa sa say that we Intend to gather up a great acreage of ot land and and- irrigate would not be true true- AVo Yo hope that by hy making maiming Investments In wheat lands Inthis in inthis inthis this state and In Idaho that our suc- suc cesz will cause aise men who have money to finance ne necessary esSarY Irrigation projects Dr Dry farming Is all right If Ir the farmers know pow how ow to do It it but the hard work ork on dry farms does not tend to keep the farmer full tull of oC ambition In iii Utah there are thousands of ot acres in the valleys which are arc adapted to dry dr f farming A large number o of California people have settled In the southern valleys Many tan have havo planted their winter wheat To my mind the train grain problem of or the country will be solved with the development o of the wheat industry In the s states