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Show NATIVE SONS ENTER UPON UTAH LANDS Opportunities Are Found to bo Unsurpassed Unsur-passed In tho Southern 1 Part of State. Dry farming land in Utah is attracting southern California investors. Entries are made dally almost by residents of the extreme sduthern part of the sunshine estate. These entries tako In some of the , best dry farming land In southern Utah. Recently a tract of 3200 acres was located and arrangements arc being made to place the greater part of it under cultivation culti-vation this year- Ten men strongly Identified Iden-tified with California business interests are concerned in the scheme. Speaking of-the filings, C. E. CHno. contracting frolght agent for the Pere Marquette Railroad company with headquarters at Los Angeles, said: "Three of us mode our filings this morning and the other soven will bo along in a few days. We have carefully investigated inves-tigated the land and the soil conditions and are satisfied that we have some of the tlnest dry farming land to be found anywhere. We have secured the services serv-ices of a man who lias had the experience exper-ience of breaking over 30,000 acres of sagebrush land, and who has the latest machinery for such work. We Intend to have every acre of the land broken and soed in before snow comes. This will be easily possible with the machinery machin-ery and methods which we will use. "While our plan to rile on some of the land in this state has been under consideration for a long time. It. was only after we had made a thorough investigation in-vestigation of all tho conditions that we decided to take the step we have taken. "The land in southern Utah was first brought to our attention through some of the publications of the Salt Lake Route. We have learned that the agricultural agri-cultural college of this state is doing a great work to assist dry farming, as well as other kinds of farming. Wc have no doubt as to the future of what our land will mean to us." Mr, Cline, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Sklnk will leave tonight for Los Angeles, .where Hicy will complete arrangements with the other members of the party for the beginning of work on their land at the earliest possible date. |