Show NOT MUCH J FAR FARMING M I N G Per Government Go Figures Utah Iho Pioneer State in iii Irrigation Has Hns Less than 2 21 Vz acres per Capita of or Irrigated Farm Land Is It But fellow citizens our state does not produce crops on two acres of irrigated land per annum I or less than acres of such crops for over people I I Why Is this low in Utah while Idaho has about six acres or three times as much There is isa isa isa a good re reason son for it or several an and it wont won't hurt to mention it I viz Utah leaders Utah money Utah I ian an power have been so involved with making Salt Lake City and Ogden the commercial hubs for Idaho Wyoming and much of Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada that our own state has been sadly neglected Does anyone I doubt this simple statement Will anyone deny it Is it not time for Utah brains money and men to develop Utah after atter waiting about forty years i his paper is not afraid to sa say that it is time to stet to com com- mence to begin Utah When the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar no Go started to drain that Tre Garland-Tre- monton tract about thirty years ago A peculiar feature of that pro proJect project project was and is today there to testify to it that many of the farmers who took those barren alkali al alkali al- al kali kaU lands were perman German or Dutch 1 They were not Utah tah people as a I dule Irrigation in Millard county I using Sevier river by the Juab reservoir was started on a big scale Utah money did id not promote it even though a Utah man lead out and almost fathered it Many other phases of this peculiar ar manner of neglecting our state while we ha have ve developed other states may be observed |