Show PLAN IMMENSE V VV I UTAH DRY D RY FARMS V Nearly Acres of Land Already Taken T ken Up in inV V Cedar Valley SALT LAKERS INTERESTED COMPANIES WILL BE ORGANIZED TO TO RAISE WHEAT V Special to The Herald Lehi Lohi Aug 27 Lehi American Fork and Pleasant Grove parties have taken up and purchased within the last three weeks over acres of land In cedar valley Salt Lake Lako and Spanish Fork par parties parties parties ties and a few Provo Prove citizens have taken up probably acres more making about acres which have havo been ro re recently either eith r homesteaded or purchased from rom the state This vast area will vill all allbe allbe allbe be devoted to dry farm purposes and in all ill probability within five years this will willbe willbe willbe be the biggest wheat district in Utah as dry farm wheat will be bo almost exclusively exclusively tho crop raised r Will Adopt Modern Methods Several uveral companies will be organized by the purchasers and the most modern methods of ot farming adopted Steam plows headers etc will be used so that the crops can be bo produced with the least expense The Tho valley is at present cov coy covered covered ered erect with black sage and white WhitO sage SEge and Is probably the most level of the large lare lar fertile tracts of land Jand in the state The rhe valley is miles mUes long ong and about seven miles wide Dry farming arming experts say that practically every foot of the acres is first class wheat land Made Public by Congress The lands prior to a few weeks ago have lavo been embraced within the old Fort Port Crittendon reservation and the only way that title could be obtained was to live on them for five years and then pay per acre to the government The last congress placed the reservation lands on the same basis as other public lands which accounts for them going so fast as they may now be purchased from the state at per acre with ten years ears earsIn In n which to make the payments |