Show Let BI t fe The f Tr Truth m m Shine I BH Why Hesi Hesitate F I i Misconceptions False or Erroneous I Statements Play Havoc With Face FacY Factors Fac Fac- Y tors Imperative to Uintah Basin e of 7 Progress J In one of our larger cities theother the theother theother other day a man spoke to us about like this Well you basin people need help alright but I see no way of getting you financial aid for agricultural development until we may really take care of the farmIng farmIng farming farm- farm Ing lands we have Wi With th large surpluses of products why should you expect development of more new lands It made a peculiar impression on us because this same statement statement statement state state- ment approximately may be heard right here in the Uintah Basin and the same idea has been given out cut year after year for twenty years If it were something something something some some- thing new perhaps it would be something like news but the fact is is it is old very old perhaps centuries old There has never been a new land opened up wherein where where- in new homes have been built and agriculture made a leading business business business busi busi- ness that has not met this statement state state- ment i iTo t tTo To a Utah man one concerned in its increase of homes surrounded surround surround- ed with trees gardens and earths earth's best products on hand this old and false enemy of development seems truly tried weighed and found wanting Especially is this true when we consider the fact that thousands of native n iy V Utah I people leave the state each year to seek homes elsewhere and in inI I 1932 the steady stream of Utah manhood and womanhood going to make homes in other states will continue Utah people in colonies may be found do down near the mouth of the Rio Grande not far from Brownville Texas in Northern Wyoming in Montana in Canada in Oregon and in many other states even down in Old Mexico Utah People have been for several several several sev sev- eral years going to California which is perhaps now taking the largest single allotment each year Everyone who goes takes some Utah money too He may return spend a little in the old home state but as a rule during the remainder of his life he never returns re- re returns returns re re- turns to Utah as much as he took away in wealth in cash Aside from this phase of Utah's Utah s progress this agricultural business business business busi busi- ness deserves attention from another another another an an- other angle Does Utah actually feed itself With less than two acres per capita of irrigated land may the state do so BO when we consider the livestock too Certain sections have crops for shipping out But ButIs Butis Butis is it not true that most counties I I ship into their communities as much or more food than they produce produce pro pro- duce that is if we leave out mut mut- ton Examine this false doctrine frown another angle viz Why did our state back Boulder dam Did Utah's leading men not know that the big project Would put I into cultivation ample new land H. H u 1 that mat Will win produce more crops in III one year than Utah now produces in two or three years And that this new land is down in California California Califor Califor- nia A Uintah Basin paper is obligated to diB discuss this business and it is justified in doing so on the front page Coming right here to our own basin farms we see the foolishness of the old enemy It is likely true that not one farmer may be found in this big section from the Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch mountains on the west to the Colorado line on the east who has for ten consecutive years had hada a fair supply of wheat hay and nd potatoes for sale February 1 1 who is il IR not independent nf Ono One of nf the J. three essential products may be cheap now and then but a reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- able supply of the three has been for twenty years insurance against failure EOn i- i iOn On the average it is likely true that we import into this rich farming fanning country each year as much of the total products our farms should produce for us as we grow and use for ourselves Likely the answer to the why of this condition may be made into the following statements 1 Our storage for produce is quite inadequate 2 Farm products are arc all ail placed on a local market about the le same time and without storage prices drop discouragement results and naturally the ensuing years year's efforts efforts ef cf- ef- ef forts are modified 3 Plowing and cultivating are altogether too much spring work done without that thoroughness demanded Cultivating Is a spring and summer job but plowing should be more a fall business 4 Too much time is spent in watering crops that is water is used too many hours on the same land at each period And often oftentimes oftentimes oftentimes times the water is ice cold the theland theland theland land cooled down equivalent to toa toa toa a ten day shorter growing period The net result of these conditions conditions conditions condi condi- weaken us Even our alfalfa alfalfa alfalfa alf alf- alfa is often irrigated for three days steadily the same land and that injures the plants grass grows under such conditions the alfalfa becomes sick Again returning to the original origin origin- al subject we should see that Utah needs this new land and has the surplus population each year ample ample ample am am- for handling it This basin truly needs more farmers as well as better farmIng farmIng farming farm- farm Ing methods With about two million million million mil mil- lion acre feet of water at our command with desert acres for forthe forthe forthe the water and our deepest soils and na our long ur longest st gr growing Wing season season- country almost untouched an awakening is due It must come Pessimism despite these times that are trying us must not disrupt disrupt disrupt dis dis- rupt us us must not disrupt the procedure procedure procedure pro pro- whereby and wherein this Inland Empire may have seen another people Another people is equivalent to the thereal thereal thereal real OPENING Utah needs this land in productive use just justas as much as California needs the Colorado river Is it right for Utah to wait while other states grow and actually help the man manpower manpower manpower power to make malte homes in these other states while her own acres her own rivers remain silent witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses to the process |