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Show THIRD OF MILUON IS INVOLVED WaaaaaaaaaaipaaaaaaBaBM Big Increase to Utah Business Busi-ness Promised in Recent Land Sale. f Representatives of the Jewish Agri-enltural Agri-enltural and Colonial Aaaoeietioa of Philadelphia who kav just closed on of th biggest bond deals of the summer sum-mer ia I'tsh by purchasing 8000 acre under the Piuta irrigation project, will establish homos during the next few months for 200 to 500 Phildelphia families on this tract. The purchase of this lands which was made on the day the tract was ODened by th Utah board of land eammiesioB-ers eammiesioB-ers was engineered by Ben jamin Browa and 1.. A. Flax, president and vice president respectively of th Philsdel-phia Philsdel-phia association and the land, selling for $38 to 40 an acre, involves approximately approxi-mately (310,000. Negotiationa for the sal of this tract i opened by the Commercial club publicity pub-licity bureau of Salt Lak City and ' thi Vtah DeT'lopment Jeagtm have been1 continued sine last April sad th sale was made after th representatives of tha association had Tiaited Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona and other states of the west. While representative of tha agricultural agri-cultural association were in Utah three months ago they Inspected tbe arid irrigation project in company with representatives of the I'tahl Development Develop-ment league and the state board of land commissioners and their report to headquarters at Philadelphia waa sup-plemented sup-plemented by com pl.t reports on weather and rainfall conditions, oil analysis and engineering reports on the irrigation system which has been constructed con-structed under th direction of th state land board. Trained la Faroinc. Th Jewish Agricultural and Colonial Colo-nial association which is directed by wealthy and influential Jews of Phila-dlphia, Phila-dlphia, in eonaectioa with tha na- tional farm school has roused th inter-eat inter-eat of factory and shop workers of Philadelphia in th "back to th soil" movement in a systematic manner. Th children of hundreds of families have received supplementary educational training ht the national farm school, where . agriculture in - its various braaehee is taught, and at th same time the familiea have been saving systematically and oontributiag to th funds for th purchase of th colonisation colonisa-tion tract. Within th seat few weeks party of carpenters, masons, laborers and artisans arti-sans will be sent to Utah to lay the foundation for th coming of th flrat 200 familie of th colony aext spring. Bv that time a large part of th tract will have been cleared of sagebrush, laterals for tha irrigation ayatem constructed con-structed and temporary home erected for the families to follow. . Extent of Project. In the Pjte Irritation project tha Mat of ITtah Ira selected In all 10.000 acres of land west of the Sevier river. In Has-pete Has-pete and Sevier countiea. Th stat ree-ervolr ree-ervolr constructed to eupply thin land will also furnlah water for about M.WO acre of orlvalely owned land under the ayatem. The reservoir will Impound approximately ap-proximately M.oOO acre feet of water on the Sevier river In Piute county, and the eupply will be ample to furnlah at least 1S.O00 acres or good bench lands, having hav-ing an altitude from frooo to tsos fact. The lands are on the Sevter Valley baanch of the Denver Rio Or ode railroad rail-road and extend through the valley In a norur and aouth direction between th towna of Mantl and RlrhfleJd. and ar also near th town of Bailna and Otin-' nlaon. These town range In population from 100 to 1000. A tract of " acre In Sanpete county was offered February 11. 1S11. and th remaining tract of 100 acre taken by the Jewiah Agricultural and Colonial association practically m-rludea m-rludea all of the elate lande under the project. " Included n the Utah exhibit at th second annuel Omaha land show will ne sn Interesting collection of Irrigated farm producta from ths Gunnison valley, from the parts of the Piute Irrigation project already under cultivation. |