Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-11-20 | Page 4 | Fine Potatoes from Dry Farm

I : ' ' i . j ltz'. ' j H!"l"."ct'C-"" " z ii Cl:::r.D Valley; Vhit-irp Vhit-irp Ferrer 7cr.:5. ' ' According to William JIanni cf Uia-tab; Uia-tab; county, dry fannirg is an eminent success in the valley of the Duchesne river... Mr. Hanna, who is a nepheW of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanaa. is visiting r-alt Lake for a few days, and brings with him a substantial proof of his contention! ; ' '. ' . ,,-This ,,-This is in tbe. shape of a dry farm Fotato, which is a wonder in its size, t weighs three pounds and looks as though it would make a' meal ior a large faniilv. . , ' Mr. Hanna said: "Tbis i only a fair sample from a-crop I raised wuich averaged 400 bushels to the acre. - As they are, they avirs;e twsity potatoes t the bushel, or three poar 's apiece. "Tbey.were raited entirely watiiont irrigation, which rroves that the Du-ehen Du-ehen valley is adapted for this kind of faming. For quality, the dry farm potatoes cf the Duchesne river valley ara unsurpaisd. ' They are not watery, but mealy and .full of substance.' Mr. liana says that dry farming of all kinde is being practically demonstrated demon-strated ia kis locality. Great crops of wheat and oats . art being produced without irrigation. Arthur Maxwell, for instance, raised, sixty bushels of wheat per acre on an average, and seventy-Bve bushels of oats per acre, without irrigation, oh bis ranch near Farm creek. i 1 - According to Mr. Hanna, the lm-chesne lm-chesne valley is a favored locality. The climate ie distinctively wanner than on this side, of the ridge,' and the land is proving exceedingly productive. The' ranchers njoy such natural advantages ad-vantages as coal, which costs them only the labor of shoveling it into a wagon. Mining activity ia attracting attention, atten-tion, especially of late. A silver-lead proposition on Sand, creek, just opened np by James Lewis and Epnraim Lambert Lam-bert of. Woodland, Utah, is attracting considerable attention. .