Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-04 | Page 42 | Val Verda Acres Yield Rich Returns

, j Val Vcrda Acres Yield Rich Relurns j i . j This photograph shows a row of bearing English walnut trees located on land immediately adjoining Val Verda, seven miles north of Sait Lake. I Tiiat everv acre hoinositc at Val Verja, the Ijeautit'ul tract of property located seven miles north of Salt Lake on the ( 'enterville car line, which has recently been placed on the market by the Kctt ilyon Homo Builders company, will be in the hands of private owners within tho next few months, was tho prediction made yesterday by V. A. Bettilyon. Mr. Rettilyon declares his prediction is based on the number of acre home-sites home-sites already sold at Val Verda and the intense interest that is being manifested manifest-ed by the scores of men and women who have been quick to understand and appreciate ap-preciate the unusual opportunities, that are offered at Val Verda for the family which is tired of living on a little lot in town where living expenses cat up everything the man can earn, and where there is no opportunity for using spare hours to get ahead. Many acre homes have already been sold at Val Verda to men and women in exactly these conditions, and Mr. Bet t ilyon reports that arrangements have been made by several of the purchasers pur-chasers to begin immediately the construction con-struction of their new homes at Val Verda. Mr. Bettilyou states that despite the fact that the entire fleet of Bettilyon automobiles is at the disposal of all who are interested in Val Verda, scores have gone to the property by street car. Representatives of the Bettilyon Home Builders company will be at Val Verda today to show interested people over the property. "What can vre do with our acre of ground what can we raise and what can we sell our excess fruits and vegc- j tables for?" is the question that is j being asked the Bettilyon company j most frequently regarding Val Verda, j and, in discifssing the monev-mak ing ; possibilities of an aero at Val Verda for the man who wants to move his fam- ily to a new imme m this property :unl f-Kt tho halun'-e of his wn- urnler intensive inten-sive i-iilrivatinn uiM still continue with his work in town, Mr. Bettilyon said yt'st-'nlay : ''To (jt'in with, wo have spent thousands thou-sands ui lo!Ia''s in providing a s-plemiiJ, modern and adequate waterworks system sys-tem at Val Verda. A fine mountain stream and two springs supply watr for the new reinforced eonerete reservoir, reser-voir, whieh we have constructed with a capacity of ."'''MO gallons. From 1 1 is reservoir water is piped, under a pressure pres-sure of '- pounds, past every acre home on the tract, so that all residents will have plenty of water for their houses and irrigation. ' As to wdiat can be doue in a nioiiev-iiiakiu' way with an acre of this ground can best be told by men who own their farms adjacent to Val Verda on the north and south. George Wood owns the farm immediately adjoining on the south, and he has thirty acres of grapes which lie says net him .4.10 rn acre, lie ets .V0 "crates of grapes to the acre, and they average 00 cents a crate. Mr. Woods states that some of the most profitable features of his farm a re his rows of English walnut, hazelnut and almond trees. He states he takes two bushels of shelled nuts from one almond tree and gets lit cents a pound for them. These nuts will run thirty-two pounds to the bushel, which gives a. profit of more than $10 a tree. Mr. Wwod has twenty acres iti watermelons, water-melons, and last year got on an average aver-age of 4-30 melons from each acre. These melons weighed on an average of thirty-five pounds apiece. One, of Mr. Wood 's sons states that from an acre of ground, just over the fence from Val Verda, he made ft 600 net in corn one season. And these are only instances of the splendid fertility of the soil at Val Verda and its unusual productiveness. Every sort of fruit and vegetables imaginable im-aginable tv ill grow luxuriantly, and there is always a splendid market at Salt Lake or near-by towns for all the extra fruits, vegetables, milk, butter, eggs and chickens that a man can produce, pro-duce, above what is required for his own table throughout the year. . Present Pres-ent prices are very low, with easy terms. ' '