| Show Farms Produce 3 Million Worth The men meu and women who settled the vast acres that is San Juan County Utah were of necessity ranchers and cattlemen They settled the land in La 1880 and they met and conquered every obstacle obstacle ob ob- stacle from ruinous floods stubborn stubborn stub stub- born crop searing scaring winds to Indian uprisings as recent as 1923 and marauding marauding- outlaws They were without mail service doctors or medicines and their supply post was at ManJos Man Man- los Ins Colo miles away from which food and all necessities had to be freighted in wagons over trails to Bluff These pioneers began began began be be- gan their farming operations by cultivating acres of croplands near the San ian Juan River In 1950 which are the latest figures available there were acres of land under cultivation cultivation tion only 93 per cent of 01 the county's county's county's coun coun- tys ty's area Wheat land occupies more than acres while there is an estimated total of acres of bean land There were 9 acres of irrigated farms in 1950 but the rest are dry farms' farms The approximate value of all aU farm larm products sold in hi 1950 was The number of cattle calOe and calves reported in hi 1950 totalled totalled totalled total total- led head while there were head bead of sheep and lambs All AU livestock and livestock products products pro pro- products ducts sold brought hi in There were farm homes In hi San Juan county in 1950 Of the homes 93 had telephone service service servo ice had electric power In hi 1954 REA extended power lines to 10 that now approximately farm homes have electricity had electric washing machines 72 had bad grain combines farms reported reported re re re- ported haying baying trucks farms reported having tractors tractors tractors trac trac- tors farms were on improved roads farms hired farm labor and their combined payrolls totalled totalled total total- led However it is the uranium oil on and gas interests that is burgeoning burgeoning burgeon burgeon- ing the population and producing the intensive industrial activity |
