| Show EXPERIMENTS IN ALKALI LANDS What Government Experts Have Been Doing West of the Jordan AIJE MIOUT11AIX fltCOJ 11dloorisear lain IIII aside 1 11 1 4 b Cable lowered Prewar 11 Deals Thomson I Mean 1 and 11 t Oirdner exPerto l In the Mill Calvinism o the de Hirlinenl or agriculture al WhlnI I ho Arrived 1 here toot July with Innlruc and lo rrniilucl a anrlen 0 etiwtlmenU on the nature or the want alkali lands weal or the Jon river have com pletetl about oneliK o lh prescribed work Mr 1 Mtara was oMere1 lo nieeley Colo Shortly after their arrival ar-rival here and his place was fllleil by Infewor John Stewart chief observant or the Utah agricultural eiperhnenl eta lion The primary object of this InVMtlt lion of the nature of the ami la to aecer IAn the kind of aalla that Inside the propagation of plant life th ono preaent In the wit and law moat pleased bit plan 0 rlMlna It 0 the deleterioua substance M that the landa may ba reclaimed re-claimed and made ueeful to airtoul fur luTh The Present connected of Inveatlirallon reinstate n looking frequent battered In the Poll lo a depth of Six feel and then determining the percentage of alkali In each foot of aull flown the mjrfee u > th bottom of tire Ivrlnc and when Silvia able that rrenlaire o black alkali or carbonate will 1 loo I determined The borlnn are made al Interval uinclinlly frequent lo enable the In veetlvaloni tn prepare I o underground map i > f the entire > district Heal nt the Jordan river In I addition lo thin a map ln1l doing the tenure of the oil will be outlined In lad relation lo the reolalmlM of Ihe land the Kill map is I especially lmorl > n < I Phower th eaa o dlflloul ty Will h whlih I water will percolate Ihrvuah the mail nl carry away aolu ble aalla In Ihe dralnie Io Nearly Near-ly I all lh aalla found In alkali trade does aoluble The tnenluble nneo work no Injury In-jury to pant o vegetable lite T will are varied In nature nd a Imte or lea 1 abundant Carbonate of = eta I preaenl In I Almost every locality lout aodlum chloride predominate Car Indent of lime Ia I preamt and althouih not very soluble Is harmleae There are aipi preeent many other metallic el s nent > but they are anldom con ld reil hi alkali tirvblem The preeent analy ri la lo etartnlne the iiiutnllty not the mallly That la I the total 1 amount 0 motto that mi Into olullon when the anil I Natural Is l determined hut n attempt I a made 1 to Identify the motto tirept In lh cam of wi llum carti mnta nhtch U itrtrmltu11Kh as to quanllly find iiullly The ul melhoil world In nuking the ever Vey t known aa tile electrical method of determining aoluble aaJtl I was devUed at Wahlncton by the dltUInn of aolla departineM and to I UM > In the 1144 l A new method of drainage U I uaed by Momersom Gardner fears and prewar 0 rise tormersot merfore ot rotportmenti rill continue until OtntiT nl1 Mean and lnlner will then return In Vn > hlri ton and romplele the ltoro ory exwrlmel road The reault of thaa = will two nboilled In a 1rtnO1 ul IlIo and tin out i en140 will to watched with great Inter mt UP It handed 1 J the rrraalmlng I of all river the I alkali land ormt of the illaaourl |
