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Show DRY FARMING ABOUT MODENA Wonderful Results Are Now Seen. All Sorts of Products Are Grown in That Region. Re-gion. Locust, Box Elder and Enlm Trees" Transplanted Which Are Thriving. Special to The Tribune. MODENA rah. June 27 a trader who recently passed through southern rial, and who had crossed many miles of the Gscr.lante desert, remarked that tht re were sufficient evidences of vitality in tho soil to Jnsure successful cultivation of many thousands of acres now coveted by sagebrush and wild flowers provided Water could be obtained for Irrigation W In 11 informed that it was possible to get water in manv places at depths not exceeding 100 feel be said: "Well, It mav not be In my day but the time will como when some syndicate will own thousands of aires of this desert, and, by means of storage n servolrs filled from artesian wells will supply enough water to make this a productive agricultural country " Had this trae!cr visited the farm of a ' W Fllnspach. four and a half miles distant from Modena. on the Btateltne road, when- ther. are J2i .1, res of land Inclosed, the greater portion under cultivation, culti-vation, his faith In the agricultural pes I Sibllitlea of this country would have be. 11 considerable strengthened, for he would have seen a number of ncres 0 rye rap-!dl rap-!dl maturing and lots of garden truck In S thrifty condition. The onlv nvdstur. wllch lh.se crops receive In addition to the rainfall Is from the seepage of water from the numerous springs which this farm contains. Five minutes' walk from the station wculd have br .tight the traeler I., the settlement of R L Nolfe. had any one directed his sl. ps thither 11. -re h- would have seen sufficient evidence of successful success-ful till...... r.r .v... .... .- v.. ,.,uk 0 ,110 nun 10 nave removed any doubts that he mav have entertained In regard to its productiveness. Mr Nolf. who took up forty acres of the unsur-yeyed unsur-yeyed land adjoining the town about a year ago, has about an acre adjoining his residence under cultivation Nol knowing the possibilities of the soil, his work this season Is more In the n.ituri of an .-xp. i-Imtnt. i-Imtnt. but he Is highly pleased, as well as much surprised, at thu rapid growth mad- by Borne ol the vegetation Sarly In the spring he removed from the ranch about two miles from Modena formerly owned by Thomas Lynch, the well-known milling man of Tonopuh. a numb, r .. box elder bulm and locust trees and transplanted trans-planted them near his residence They ure now affording him considerable shad I in addition to those there were sevaraJ cedar, plno and tamarack trees truns-pladted, truns-pladted, all of which nre still living. This would be .. remarkabl. record In tree transplanting In any country, but particularly so In tin- s.ml-nrid i-cgiiui, when it I- considered that some of th." box elders and locusts were from fifteen tO eighteen y. ars old All of the garden truck plant.. I has done remarkably welli the potatoes especially, which were plunted on May I'-i and w-hl. li began to bloom June 22. It Is not believed be-lieved that a much better record can be shown than this anywhere In the United States. Potatoes on the vine lu twenty pine days from planting. These potatoes were planted lr..m seed obtained from Pinto Washington county, and were not supposed to bo a particularly early va-rletl va-rletl In this same garden mav be Been cantaloupes In bloom, peas i.-ady tor the table and sugar coin two feet high together to-gether with a number of other .ei.-.bles some wat.-rm. lons and peanuts all showing show-ing a vigorous gi-owlh. All of these piunts wero Irrigated bv water obtalu.-d from Ihe overflow of the San Pedro water-tank. There are thousands thou-sands of acres of unsurveyed land In this vi inlty w ith soil simiiai to this garden plat, and there Is apparently no reason why equally as good results could not be obtained W hy rush to the l intnh reservation res-ervation when such good hind can be obtained ob-tained by squatting upon It? |