Show SALT AL T LAKE WILL ILL WORK OWN ON FARM FARIA OF FIVE HUNDRED ACRES IN CANYON Park Department to Grow Hay Which Will Effect I Large Saving to City Ci y Salt Lake City Is la to have a n municipally municipally municipally pally owned and operated farm farm of ot Its own The farm consists conIs 8 of ot about acres of ot the choicest land In City Creek can can- can ci- yon on It Is near water will wUl b be entirely subject to irrigation and is expected to yield iel the eft city a large revenue In later years after repaying the first cost The city has owned the farm for tor torome some ome time but has hag made mado no attempt to manage tho the place Formerly the big hl- tract has been leased but hut the tho leasa has now expired The park department will have avo charge charo of the tract and Commissioner H H. H. H Greene will have o the overseeing of oC tho the place Arrangements are being completed for the hiring of a foreman to oversee tho ho work on the place and It will be bei i worked entirely by hired labor The proceeds from tram the city farm will wilt go Into the tho cit eft city treasury It la is planned to run it as a a. hay and grain farm tarm during the first year of ot I Ita existence as a municipal farm and it itis it Is thought that no cattle will be main main- It formerly has been planted with wh wheat at and hay and has yielded rich crops to Its leasers Such farms are aro sometimes used to provide work for tor prisoners but this year no prisoners will win be used on tho the place It Is IR remote from town and the tho handling of at prisoners would be bo costly and Impracticable according to the tho opinion o of Commissioner Greene |