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Show I'robably nothing serves bottcr to re-ntind re-ntind a man that lio should bo enroful in choosing his investments than tho i Wall street, panic at tho close of 1907, when ilio man . whoso money was in-vested in-vested in r.tocks and bonds was driven ;o distraction, suffered pre.it loss, and in tmtuv instances total failure. Tho man whoso money was invested in land s-Iopt. soundly and after the smoke had rist'n and tho wreck was cleared away the land was still there and the profits Jr had produced were in the granary fl waiting ihe inevitablo riso in prices whkh always follows a period of dc- Wealth is not produced in Wall street iind values are not a state of mind, but 1 tie result, of tangiblo things that tho 1 quotations of a stock ticker do not permanently affect. Wealth comes out i of tho ground and from intelligent la- 1 J.or. And during the year 1907 the agrl- Hj cultural products furnished seven bil- 2ioi!!i of tliifT wealth and no one can fike those seven billions away by bid-dins bid-dins low prices for stocks. These appnrcut facts only go to prove ih;it old mother earth is a man's safest j -axings bank. Evory investment is an jiitorest-bearing deposit. Sho never can-fols can-fols an obligation. .She never tires. in t he service of her depositors. She never loops. She conserves tho principal. Sho cotnpounils tho interest every minute of flic day and tho night. She never fore-rinse?. fore-rinse?. She novcr makes mistakes. Sho 1ays on demand. Her resources are un-1 un-1 limited. - Puro honesty is her policy. Sho guards her deposits with the faith nf the universe. The older sho becomes tho safer she grows and tho moro valu- able becomes the capital intrusted to her. Though her depositors aro legion, H' she is partial to none. The priuco and tlio pauper receive the same treatmeut at her hands, like justice to all. Every blado of grass, evory drop of rain adding interest to their principal and every penny always ready on demand. In Utah irrigation has accomplished T wonders. Hero are somo facts: Hl I State Irrigation Projects, j The stato board of land commissioners j have in hand two mammoth projects one of which will briug irrigating water to 6000 acres of land in Garfield county, and tho other to more than 20,000 acres in equal amounts in Sanpoto and Sevier M, counties. Tho first is the Hatchtowii reservoir project in Garfield county, the H' reservoir to have a storage capacity of 13,500-acro feet, tho water to bo ob- 1 taincd from tho flood waters of the upper sources of the Sovior river, to bo conveyed through an outlot tunnel 1 through the' solid rock of tho dam, properly provided with gatewells and ijteel gates set in concrcto and con-! con-! trolled from tho top of the dam. The waters will be allowed to follow an old H channel down to near the town of ' Tanguitch, whero a diverting dam and Hj canal havo been built to carry the water on the 6000 acres that havo been selected bT the stato board of land Commissioners fpr irrigation. This ! project is to cost $125,000, $110,000 of which has been expended in the con-' con-' struction to date, and the project is ncaring complotion and will be com-j com-j pleted in time for tho irrigation of tho lands the coming season. The other great project is a mammoth Hj one. Its cost will be $450,000 and the reservoir will be in a natural basin in Piute county, ten miles south of Marys-vale, Marys-vale, whero tho flood waters of tfio Sevier river will bo stored to the full .capacitv of 65,000 acre-feet. Work on tho retaining dam of the reservoir has not yot been started, for the reason that tho board has not received any. bids for the masonry that were satis-factory. satis-factory. The proposals will bo re-ad-vertised and if an acceptable bid is received the work will start. This project is being undertaken to ...fnfhish water to 10,000 acres of arable Hl lands in Sanpete county and a like num- ber- of -acres in Sevier county. A tun-ncl tun-ncl has already been driven through the solid rock that will form tho back 1 of the reservoir, through which tho waters of tho Sevier will be diverted - into the reservoir. From thence they will "bo taken out through an outlet built in tho masonry of tho dam ar1 cemented so that the How will be un-H: un-H: restricted. Contemporaneous with tho liuilding of the dam the necessary gate-ways gate-ways will be constructed snd the steel gates set in place and connected with H the raising and lowering aparatus on H! tho top oi the dam. Tho plans also contemplate a wide spillway over the dam to carry any excess of water that Hi might result from heavy freshet Hoods. Hji Tho main canal for tho distribution of H! the irrigating waters of this project Hli will bo thp enlarging of twenty mile's of " the existing Sevier valley canal and the construction of thirty -fivo miles of Hi1 'independent canal, beginning north of H' iclifield in Sevier county about two H miles. The point of diversion of tho HT waters from the Sevier river into which Hr thc3'' flow from the reservoir in the ir- 'MM' &m04v 0krWi'H m--m--m I JBf - ..ygai "mi" if . Scenes Along the Stravrljorry Valley l Project. ' rigating season, will be two miles south or Joseph City in Sovier county, and ) on the canal systom will bo an additional addi-tional twenty miles of canal constructed between Richfield and Kedmond, this to be independent canal. The great amount of capital required for these two enterprises is obtained from reservoir land grant fund, which was created under an amended act of tho laws of Utah, approved March 1, 1907, tho fund being buUfc up from tho sale of tho stato lands. The cost of these two projects will bo $575,000, .and under tho authority of the law abovo referred to tho board has loaned to tho Deserct Irrigated Lands company and the Melvillo Irrigated Lands companj', two corporations who aro the grantors' of tho Oasis Land and Irrigation com-panv, com-panv, $70,000; $100,000 to the Prico River Valley Irrigation company and $15,000 to tho Otter Greek Reservoir company, a project in Sovier county. making a total of $760,000 that will navo to come out of the reservoir land grant fund in tho next thrco or four ?'ears. It iB estimated that it will tako hat long to complete tho Piute project, but money will bo flowing into tho fund from the Hatchtowu project next year, and in time from tho Piute project. These loans aro all secured with tho best Price River Valley ! This new project to furnish water to 20,000 acres of laud, lying east and south of; the town of Price, in Carbon county, is not an experiment. For over a quarter of a century tho rich lands along tho valley of the Prico rivor i havo been cultivated by irrigation and i all tho horticultural and agricultural projects of tho temperate zone havo Jbeen produced horo in moro bountiful yields than in any other part of tho irrigated wost. Mr. A. Ballinger, who has been in the valley for twenty-four years and has been engaged in agriculturo and horticulture all of that time, says that ho has grown as fine apples there as he over saw anywhere. Ho came from Iowa, the banner corn stato of tho union, but he has grown just as good corn in tho Prico River valley as he ever saw in Iowa, and the yield per acre is up to tho high standard of 100 bushels per acre, a figure that Iowa enjoyed when her corn lands were young, but much higher than tho an- e nual crops nowadnys, siuco the soil of Wb., , tho older stato has. been exhausted by , K;:t too frequont cropping of iho saino . w. &tJw!'j. Tidwell. who has also been Bpj in tho Prico Rivor valley for twenty- ; . W- t four 3-oars. and has been cultivating .no '1 soil ever siuco ho wont, there, and who f has his homestead at Wellington, a few I miles from Price, says that the bost B soil and olimato that lies outdoors is m ' B tho Price River valley, and that all . V kinds of fruits and orop-S can bo grown H there, with .bigger returns per aero, than H anywhere ho has ever boon. "WogTOW W. all kinds of crops, wheat, oats, barley. , .B alfalfa, lucerne seed, potatoes, corn iiml i B all tho fruits, large 'and small. AN o H yet $1.50 nnd $175 per hundred pound. ; JK; and our oats never weigh loss than fortv pounds to the bushel and grow sovenU - H flvo and eighty bushels to the aero. o iW. cut five to six tons oi allalfa .to tup , acre and get. $11 per tou lor it. an-l i wm lucerne seed will bring to us Uns yenr ' $75 to $100 per aero. Three tn tour j m. hundred bushels of potatoes to tho acre H is an average yield, and they bring a dollar u bushel in tho market, the coal mines of Carbon and Emery counting H. that consume all thai is produced m tho vallcv. Apples, pears, plums', , IK peaches an'd cherries grow in abundauoo , and the market is right aL home for all JK1 of the product. " WM! Other authorities who know tho soil , B1 and climate eay that tho average wheat ( W crop is fiftv bushels nor acre, but lha ; in some instances ot cultivation 11k mm 3'ield has run as high as sixty-livo Jbusb B el3. That the region produces the bet of all tho fruits m llavor and texture. flW and that it i3 tho best fruit in the ' -'In world to ship to remolo markets, is tli Wmti universal testimony of tho many umn Mmfc- who aro in the horticultural business WBj IrvigatedLands Project. ' MR Tho Irrigated Lands compan3 a cor JlRJ poration that has constructed a storage JtkW reservoir in tho mountains in Carbon . -mr-tMi county, tho reservoir has a storago t-a T'To pacity of 26,000 acro-feet and reclaim" ffisSpd 20,00'0 acres b'ing east and south ' jK,o Price and extending to Wellington. Tin- R5asl company has also twonty-three miles i Ilo canal constructed and the waters of mJ&.i tho Prico rivor were turned into rhi JSW0 on December 19, when tho company ran T1 nn excursion to Prico and Wellington MBLty that carried 200 people out of SaltLakn ( wtS'u and picked them up at intermediate IB&b' points, and theso people wero tho jrucsta wmft of tho two towns of Prico and Wciling JK( ton and were shown tho project in all Wti' its details. flfiV Tho water rights acquired havo been HBtH adjudicated by decree of court and al- ML' lowed by the stato engineer. Under au amended act to tho law?. IK of. Utah, approved March 1, 1907, cm , TM'i ating tho reservoir grant fund, provul- i 'MX! ing ior tho securing of reservoir sites, ( mF the construction of reservoirs for tho ( . jyMi storing of waters for state and other "-'jMCl1 lands, and authorising the stato bqaTd j? of land commissioners to loan tho said gir fund to corporations, whether public or private, for tho construction or complo- wwi tion of reservoirs, the board has niddo a loan to tho Irrigated Lauds company, tho promoter ofvtho CarXon county res-ervoir res-ervoir and the Trice river irngnted lands. This loan, like other similar oncn ' that have been negotiated with tho stato board of land commissioners, bears in- Kf terest at tho rntc of per ceut per KT annum, and is secured by tho property : Bb of tho borrowing company, which hasi R-tho R-tho :projcct practicallj completed, with water now available for all crop3 on mWhk the lauds under the project. flp? Oasis Irrigated Lands Kl Oasis, in the ancient Pahvant valley H in tho central part of Millard county, ' Utah, is one of the oldest of the settle- EL ments established in tho valley of tho Groat Basin. It is the center of iho largest body of arable lands in tho ' state, which is divided by tho channel mWt of the Sevior river, which has an aver-' fiK age flow of 167 second feet and a max-' lmum flow of 651 second feet. Tho land i V thnt has been taken up under tho Carey t act is covered with tho healthiest jR7? growth of sago brush, the best indicn---- Wrr-tion Wrr-tion throughout all tho arid region" of the western states of great fertility and S P a warm, growing, diy climate. M r A number of artesian wells that havo m ii been sunk in this valley havo developed C S (lows of a natural l'ithia water, tho fi fame of which has now spread ao much jm that it is now a commercial product and jllr is bottled for tho trade. It is the pur- fRJT est and best of all tablo waters, and is flffT. a curative in kidnoy diseases! "wJff ' The San Pedro, Los Aneeles & Salt at Lake railroad runs through this vallev, Iv'and and this places the region within a day i IrtV ' of the great markets of Salt Lake and ' If "'. the adjacent mining camps on tho JBsPl1 north, as well as the greater mineral flBrSOli, regions of southern Nevada and Cali- I fiSf a Gtf loraia on tho south. ffiith As canals were built and the summer affl capacity, or low water, period of tho tom 61 river was found insufficient, it bcc6ia Tlflryt necessary to resort to tho method pur- i Sboi sued by the government and build stor- tl5- ago reservoirs in which to conserve tho T-; ' Hood waters of tho early part of tho f m season for use during the months when livlain irrigation, was necessary. And this bo- t v Proje came an imperative necessity when tho j ?pridi area of the cultivated lands in this val- V ley oxrianded at tho rate they did. Tho j f. iriJl first of theso constructed, now owned M'Iiq by tho Desoret Irrigation company, ia 'fli located about three miles from Oasis, f feet , and has a storago capacity of 14,000- j ; iigi acres foot of water, and it servos tho ' Stra-j ' I ,-s J. - ' 4-M .--V I iG .,- - ' . . I . ml v.:'-c of Piute Eo.-crvolr, ten " souu of JV-V'S, la Pluto county, in couteo of conatructlon, to oont, with tuna el an-7 v 'r. ciW tiA0,QOot and to havo a storage capacity of 60,000 acre feet of water from tho flood -watora of tho Sevier river. h Mssa 'ft Vjjf I" ' lower part of tho valley south and west r of the lands to be irrigated by the i Oasis Irrigated Lands company, -JL. At one time in tho geological history Bfl""' tu0 state tho Sovicr river flowed l ; north into tho Great Salt Lake. But U tho erosion of tho river in the high lands of its course-first formed a deltfi,- H and then tho channel changing, tho' H stream "was deflected to tho south, and HT ' now empties into the Sevier hike. It Hfr was during this period that tho rich Hi poil of the Pahvant valley was depos- I itcd, and it is nearly level for nulcs, Hm t lie fall being about ten feet to tho jt mile, making an ideal proposition for ft irrigaliug, Tho fertility of lands so ESii doposited nover is exhaustod, and tho cultivation of irrigated lands enriches Hft them automatically, for tho reason that Hft the streams that carry tho irrigating HB water carry quantities of silt and other HH organic matter and this flows into the H irrigating channels and ditches and is Rn deposited on the soil every season. HHy Tho sourco of water supply of the HW Oasis project is tho flood waters of the HI: Sevier river aud such waters as are HHl not used for irrigation during other HHUi larts of the year by canal companies (HU, and individuals having water rights ac- 'JHHIi iiuirod prior to the Dcsoret Irrigation HI company and tho Melville Irrigation HJ. company, the grantors of the Oasis iftgHJl Land and Irrigation company. tfgjHt Impounded in Great Reservoir. MSW These waters are stored in tho Sev- mHJ ier Bridge reservoir situated in Juab -iHI and Sanpete counties. This reservoir, jHfll 'ie largest in the state, has.au area of TOHI 2790 acres at present, a drainage area IfeeHm 6 square miles, and a capacity of HJU SS),2S0-acre foot of water according to .kjjHJI tho figures of the state engineer. The t'4j!iHJI dam is 7G4 feet in length on top, 336 ;jH feet wide on bottom and 66 feet in vv3Hr height. It was constructed under the ?H( most favorable conditions, that its abso- tHI lute safety and pormauency might bo cjjHJI assured. It is the highest type of eon- Hl st ruction for dams of 'that character, . sH! and has withstood, without the slightest $mjA ; injuries, the severe tests of the Sevier ,HJ( flood waters since its completion, as- I 'lfl suring its usefulness and permanency. VJSM The provisions made by tho engineers tHI or e fl'scuarCe tunnel the spillway r,aiml I Penn't of tho washing out of all ' ''mEm n.c rcservo'rs on the river above it j Wjtw without in any way impairing the safe-i. safe-i. tv and cfl'icicncy of the Sevier Bridge 5f dam. The overflow spillway was cut A out of the solid rock, six feet deep on ; , B . one side and twenty feet deep ou the i I jL other, with a width on the bottom of J W 120 feet. By reason of tho facing wall C ; 1 of the dam overlying the top of tho i dam this wastoway will carry six feet ijffijf?m oi' water in the 320-foot wide channel. Im ; For tho purpose of drawing off the Mj water from the reservoir during the U irrigation season and to provide for an Mj t oxcoss of flood waters, a tunnel seven feet high, thirteen feet wido and 425 J feet long has been driven through the ' bolid rock through the center of the H dam on a level with tho bed of tho A stream. Near the middle of this tun- H ; nel the gates which regulate the flow nj nf water are located, and they are .A . raised and lowered' in a gate well by ;m hoisting apparatus. There are throe of jVAk these steel gates, each being threo and oji i s i half feet, wido and eight- feet high, f ir and having a total weight of twelve MfBr - tous. They are set in concrete and a Hf house covers tho gate well, aud they rHf are in the charge of a keeper. The Ht water, after being drawn through tho discharge tunnel, follows the old chan- ,H. nel of the river down to a point near Riverside, in Millard county, where a diverting dam has been construct od, and from this tho water is diverted into tho caunls. .lust below the Sevier Bridge reservoir reser-voir tho company has secured titlo to eight' acres of land lying along the river, -which will be irrigated by a six-inch six-inch pressure pipo set in .concrete on the level of the steel gates in a gate well and from that point will follow the tunnel and will be carried on to the land at a few feet elevation abovo the river. This farm will bo prepared for cultivation, and will bo in charge of tho caretaker of tho dam, affording him occupation, and the products of this farm will pay all the costs and expenses ex-penses of the watchman. The locality is .particularly favorable for the growing grow-ing of fruits and vegetables, aud there is a market near at hand for all that can be produced on the tract. Eivorside Dam. This dam is S00 feet long on tho crest and has a maximum height of thirty-sixj feet abovo the bed of tho channel. In connection with the reinforced re-inforced concrete spillway over tho top of tho dam. there is a rc-inforccd concrete con-crete tunnel built through tSe center of tho dam at the level of tho river bed, having a width of four feet, a height of eight feet and a length of 200 feet. This will serve to provide for an excess ex-cess of flood waters and to wash out the sand that is deposited in tho reservoir reser-voir from tho river. A concrete gate-well gate-well has been provided and steel gates with bronze fittings have been placod in control of the waters. There are also set in this gatewell a threo-foot steel pipe aud a four-foot steel pipe, through which water will bo carried from tho dam to be used in generating electric power by moans of turbine water wheels. These turbine water wheels will be directly connected with electric generators in a concrete power house constructed on and made part of tho dain and spillway. About 500 ! electrical horsepower will be generated, and it will be transmitted to Oasis aud other points on the property of the company. From this diverting dam water is conducted through a series of steel gates at the head of tho diverting canals. Main Carey Oanal. This being the main diverting canal, has a width of 24 feci on the bottom, with an. average depth of six feet of water, and tho canal is fitted with four steel gates to control the water, is iivo miles long, aud follows tho general direction di-rection of tho main lino of the Salt Lake Route. Tho main canal is constructed con-structed with a grade of about one foot to the mile and has a capacity of 300 cubic feet of water per second. About 15 miles of canais havo been constructed 15 miles of canals have been constructed and tho work is going forward as rapidly as possible. All the difficult and expensive construction of canals has been completed, and remaining canals and laterals to bo const meted are in the valley where the contractors aro making as much as a mile a day of new channel, assuring the early completion of the entiro irrigating system. Tho land under the canal S3'stem of the company comprises somo 43,000 acres and in addition there are several thousands acres of .patented lands which can bo acquired by direct purchaso from the state of Utah. There is scarcely any variation in the quality of these lands iu this vallej- and whatever varia-tiou varia-tiou there may be in the prices of these Scenes on tho Prlco Elvor Projoct. j special tracts will bo dno to their proximity prox-imity to railroad transportation. . However, tho splendid roads of tho fflH A Twig of Fivo Peaches From a Thrcc-year-old Orchard, Grocu Eivor, Utah. district, due to tho exceedingly light rain-fall, givo the farmer oasy and quick access at all seasons of tho year to Oasis, tho shipping point of the district-As district-As stated before, tbo lands of thin valley val-ley aro extremely fertilo and their wealth of plant food is inexhaustible, and this is not all. The climato is such that the plants grow rapidly, and thcro is no bugaboo of summer storms to dc-str03 dc-str03 ripening crops. Tho valley is rapidly settling up. The Abraham Irrigation Irri-gation company sold moro than 10.000 acres iu ono year, nearly all of which wero plowed and put into cultivation as soon as possession wns obtained by the purchasers. Tho district is also peculiarly favor ablo to tho livestock industries and there aro oven now largo oxportat.ions of sheep and cattle from Oasis every year. Thcro is also a great industry being conducted in tho breeding of thoroughbred thor-oughbred horses, both draft and coach, and many of tho horses aro sold in tho Salt. Lake market for fane' prices. The new settler enn make a specialty of breeding the '-best grades of cattlo ami sheep, and every farm 'house has its graded Jerse3's. Thcro are also many necessities in other farming districts that can be dis- pensod with here. For instance, tho question of barns. These aro not a necessity ne-cessity in tho Fahvant valley because of tho absence of ill-timed rains and .the universally mild winters, and the good fattening qualities of tho alfalfa a"y 'he grains, the sugar beets and . othc roduote, make it, tho ideal place for . t- fattening of live stock for iho j market. It also possesses the very btst soil and climate for the growing of all the fruits of the temperate zone, and apples, foachos, pears, plums and prunes, enn-cloupcH enn-cloupcH and melons can be. grown with flavor and keeping quality scarcely oqualled by the -fruit of any eastern region, and certainly superior to the California Cali-fornia product of tho same varieties. Under the authority conveyed by the legislature on tho State Board of Land commissioners to loan money out of the Eeservoir Land Grant fund, tho board bss loaned to the Deseret Irrigation Wgrpany and tho Mellvillo Irrigation tojptpauy, tho sum of $70,000, and those rjffc ompanies are the grantors to the Obf "jand and Irrigation company, the latt company having finished tho Sevier Bridge reservoir with the money. Tho loan draws five per cent per annum an-num interest and is secured by the entire en-tire Sevier Bridge reservoir, valued at $500,000, with a storage capacity of nearly 90,000. acre feet, and additional security consisting of an undividod four-sevenths f 4-7) of the Gunnison reservoir in Millard county. ' Green River Projects The Green River valley is located 1S6 miles cast of Salt Lake City on the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande railway and is the lowest point ou that great system between Salt Lake City and Denver. Its elevation is but 4080 feet above sea level and is 105 miles west of the famous fruit districts of Grand Junction and Palisade of which it is a continuation with somo added attractions, being protected on tho north and east by the Ftatcly Palisade range and on the west by the San Rafael I mountains, and in this sheltered neck 1 lies tho Green River valley, fifteen miles long and fivo miles wido and possessing a soil and climate that is not oqualled anywhere for the cultivation of peaches and melons, especially the canteloupc. Through this valley flows tho Green river, having its sourco in northern "Wyoming, eighty miles cast of the western boundary 'and flowing southward south-ward until it .ioins tho Colorado, still in Utah, and, with that stroam. was the agency that cut the grand canyon of tho Colorado, and finally found its outlet out-let in the ocean waters of the Gulf of California. In the south cud of is little valley that has an irrigable plateau fifteen miles wide, lies tho town of Green River, until a year ago a hamlet of 100 population only, until the reclamation of 1000 acres of the most fertile land that lies out doors, with a' southern exposure ex-posure and miics of cnnals carrying water from the navigable Green river, with a climate moro oven than in auy region of the intcrmountain country. the demonstration was mado that, here peaches could bo grown of larger size, superior texture and of better flavor than had ever been produced anywhere by irrigation. Green River now has a population of over 1000 intelligent and cultured immigrants from the east- era and middle states, who have pur- HH chared small tracts of land and are HH confident, of returns from the planting H and cultivating of peach trees of not HH alone a livelihood, but as well oi a HH competence. In five j'cars this popula- Hl tion will have increased very largoly, for the assurance of the wealth and re- HH sources of the valley hayc already been HH proven, and this assurance is an nttrar- H lion to people of moderate or ample H capital for investment. HB Grccu River is a freight division point on the Denver & Rio Grande, aud it HH has greater railway importance con- H fronting it. The railroad system has H plans of running a cut-off from the muiu HH line at Green K'tver to Saliua, in San- H pete cqunty, and this, vith the increased HH acreage ihat is put into peaches and other fruits every year, will make it HH an important station. The growth of H the fruit industry will of necessity call HH for the- erection of packing plants and HH icing facilities. The latter is even now HH in operation and fruit trains are iced H at Green River, the industry consuming Hl twenty tons of ice every clay through HH the fruit season. The town is up-to IHb date now. There are good modern Hl school buildings, fino churches of all Hfl denominations, modern and well stocked jHJ mercantile houses, newspapers, a Com- SHb mcrcial club and an oncra bou.se. iHl Not the least important industry is HVAj the cultivation of the canteloupc. Thin HJ is done in the open spaces' between tho HJ growing fruit trees and this, the first. year that it was attempted, one hun- Hfl drcd carloads of tbeso melons wero HH harvested. So great was their fame IH for superior flavor that they wero HJ shipped to the eastern markets, and in jHJ Xew York, Washington and Philadel H phi a brought a dollar a crate more than tho Rock' Ford product in tho samo' markets. In the middle of the stream of Green t river, only three-quarters of n mile from the town, is an island with an area-of area-of 220 acre3. and heavily wooded. Tim was secured b' purchase by the Island Orchard company, the personnol of the company being the promoters of the Pcacharosa and other cntcrprir-es at Green River. Of this., 160 acres have been sold to intending orcbardists. jH These lapd6 are now being cleared pro-paratory pro-paratory to the spring planting ( off Elberta peaches, and the remaining' sixty acres are not for sale, but will bo held, cleared and planted by the orchard company with Elberta peaches as an earning pro.iect that it is expected will pay big rividends. In this section of God's footstool there are no extremes of climate. There arc 300 days of sunshine in everj- year, and there arc but thirty-five days out of the J5G5 on which you may expect rain HI showers. The winters arc soft and HI balmy, spring opens in February and HJ by the end of that month all the gar- HH den truck can be planted. Tn the sum- HH mer months the days are hot mid the HI nights are warm, and this ideal climato HJ is the acme for the growing of vegeta- HI tion of all kinds aud varieties. HI The dry climate is exhilarating and HI is unsurpassed in tho United States. HJ There are few deaths and these few have never been cases of disease, but are the result of old age or accident. It is couglllens, non-asthmatical and bronchitis, pneumonia, consumption and tuberculosis are known only by name in this desirable valley. Frosts have never affected the peaches here, and last spring when the crop was nearly a total H loss in the fruit regions of Colorado H from late frosts, .the Green river valley (HJ had none of them, and their crops lH ripened and colored in the warm sun lH and air and brought the highest prices iH ' in tho markets or the country. , IH H A Three-year-old Peach Orchard at Peach arosa in Green Etver V alloy, " j |