Show CROP CONDITIONS AT MILFORD FINE 3 J. J H. H Crop conditions in the vicinity of Milford Millord and Utah have never no been heen better than the they aro are at this time according to J J. J U. U land assistant general freight and passenger agent for the Salt Lake Route who ho has returned from a u careful inspection of oft t that at section of the tho state Thu Tho trip of inspection was W made in with T. T 0 U. U Peck general company passenger pas paM a agent for the Salt Lake Route who was a n. visitor in this cit city and O Ogden Ogdon Og- Og don den last and who stopp stopped d off at Milford and antI Minersville with Mr Ir to make au nu inspection of I that portion of the Salt Lake LaKo Routes Route's territory As a result of this trip Mr Jr Peck expressed cx ex pre pressed sed himself as bein being greatly surprised sur suit by the and variety of crops and said sai that tho the trip was an II opener eye for him There is displayed in the windows of the thc ticket office of the thc Salt Snit Lake Route Houte a small sheaf of alfalfa grown rown on the tho dr dry farm of Ed Bell a conductor for that railroad This ba hay bay was wa aK grown rown from seed lee that was simply thrown upon the ground last fall aD and has haB hall had no cultivation The hR hay measures a lit Jit- tIe Ue moro more than three and one half feet in in length Mr Ir Bell Ben planted thirty acres of alfalfa this spring an and ninety acres in iii corn The Tho a alfalfa 1 is thriving thrill ill wonderfully and the tho corn is two an and anil one half feet in height Between 1000 and 1500 acres of land is being cultivated cultivate in Milford ord valley val sal I Ie Icy ley this year Jearl JJ Mr r. r says saS Thi is by irrigation The crops aro are equally as fine tine there as those to be bo found in an any other part of the state I The rho experimental farm of eighty eight acres is producing a crop of er e every imaginable l. l form of ot farm produce and antI Jr grain lD indigenous indi to Utah soil oil and climate This is a model farm in ill every respect The crop of grain will be especially good this thie year The Tho farm is cultivated as a demonstration of the fertility of tho the soil of this section and aDd to de lemon demon lOn lOn- i strato strate the best Lest treatment for securing maximum crops crop There is thirty eight feet of ot water in iii the thc reservoir and the dam will wm bo be completed late in Jul July There is one standard sized steam tel shovel and there are three or four small smal locomotives e at work on the project When this lam dam is completed it will wil impound impound im im- pound acre feet of water sufficient sufficient to care caro for the tho acres under th this rr project This is 15 toe the prettiest irrigation pro pro- out of doors Nature seems to have bave formed the whole hole thin thing all but bu the tho dam The soil the natural slope of or the ground and all other conditions arc are ideal It is at the railroads railroad's a division division divi divi- sion point too affording a good mark mark-ct for farm products in ad addition to the market afforded by the tho various mining camps that are adjacent At niI e we saw Sil hundreds o of ofa a acres reg of alfalfa three feet high feet tho the bay baj being rich an and till fun of nutriment Oats Oat anti and wheat raised last t year ear will compare com coinS pare favorably with any an similar grains grain grown rown in any any ni part of the world This Thi land Ian is js farmed fanned by bv irrigation A A. grea great reat deal of grain rain ia is bein being raised raiser this thi year At Minorsville llIe there is a farmer who has bas one arm an and one ono acre of land He lie grows tro berries fruits and garden arden pro produce uce He lie follows intensified farmin farming farm farm- in ing and is a practical and scientific c farmer From hi his one ono acre nere ot of land which bich is is ti tightly fenced he lie crows rows produce pro pro- produce duce duco enough h to make c for himself elf and anti his bis family a comfortable living Ji with a good cooil surplus They ha have e a comfortable home borne aud and have demonstrated the value of brains as a crop producer Tho The possibilities of that part of Utah once classified as desert and waste laud land cannot be understood until they are arc seen |