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Show ilEAIIS ilUCEO UTAH If It Proves a Success' Hundreds of Tlicusands of V Acres cf Fine Farm Lands Vill Be Openei " Work on the State experimental well that Is to be, sunk near Fillmore, Millard Mil-lard county, and for which $18,000 has been appropriated will be commenced in a few days., ' The contract was let to Gus "Westphall at the last meeting of the Board of Land Commissioners and work on the well was to have commenced immediately. immedi-ately. The contract called for a ten-inch ten-inch well to be cased.- ' No ten-inch casing could be obtained in Salt Lake so an order had to be placed with an Eastern firm. The pipe Is on its way here and is expected to arrive daily. "Everything is In readiness to commence com-mence drilling,' declared Land ' Commissioner Com-missioner Bullen today at the Windsor, "and the work will progress rapidly as soon as a start Is made- The ground is in a fine condition and in another month we expect to have reached a considerable con-siderable depth. , "We are anxious to get this proposition proposi-tion started for, there are a great many persons comirrg West looking for home sites Just now and there will be many more in the spring. If this well proves a success, and we have every reason to believe that It will; it will mean a great deal to the State. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land lying Idle in Utah that is Just as good land as can be found anywhere." AH that Is needed to make -'this land capable ' of 'raising good crops is water. .. "In Millard county alone as - far as the eye can reach there lies a vast expanse ex-panse of ground now covered with sagebrush. sage-brush. It is good land and with a few good . weU it could easlly.be developed into one of the finest farming- districts in the State. The climate-is such that anything grown in any part of the State could be grown right there. A great number of; wells would not be needed for I believe that one good flowing well would supply abundant water to Irrigate Irri-gate a section of land. "I tell, you the irrigation question is today the most important issue before the people of Utah. The successful solution solu-tion of the water problem will' add millions mil-lions of dollars to the wealth of this State. Of course this well, the first step toward the solution of this irrigation problem, is as yet merely an experiment but should a quantity of water be struck it would only be a matter of. a very short time before that whole section sec-tion of country would be producing fine crops furnishing support and homes for thousands of - persons ' and . materially increasing the wealth of the State. "We have no agricultural land ' for sale now, most of the ales being of hill land for grazing purposes." |