Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-09-02 | Page 4 | Fifty Thousand Acres More

FIFTY THOUSAND ACRES MOREl MORE If you will stop and calculate for a moment you will realize re that it means a good deal to add fifty thousand pro productive productive productive acres to the field of Utah And that is what the men of Weber and Davis counties decided to do when they agreed to organize the new irrigation district at the tM Tuesday meeting We e regard it as the very perfection of good fortune that the work can be bedone bedone e edone done so easily If the th people shall shan unite they can raise every dollar needed for the bringing of ample water to their acres And the consequent in increase increase increase crease in value returns them far more money than has bas been invested Under such conditions it should be easy for other communities to follow the excellent example There are other places where schemes as aa ex extensive extensive extensive as that decided on at Lagoon wait walt the initiative of the land owners They risk nothing and they certainly add to their holdings Besides which is the fact that they make mak wheat grow where only sagebrush has grown in all the vanishing eras of the past Fifty thousand acres B of good land made productive in this one region relon of o 0 Weber and Davis counties will be a liv living livIng living ing example to men in every other county in Utah And that way will be followed to the reclamation of a limit limitless less lees tract of now idle soil and its ad addition addition to the productive areas of the thesta state sta tee and to the swiftly increasing wealth of inhabitants That Tuesday meeting at Lagoon is isa Isa Isa a thing to remember with ith pride and hope hop It should have the best possible effect on land values everywhere