Show Sugar Beets Offered To Supplant Uintah Basin Crops B By J. J F F. F Ho Hoyt 1 If the Uintah Basin is to tobe be a aland aland land and worth living living in tn lessons of the he drought of s several eral years ago and of this year shout hout at us Stop and secure all available all available water asfar as asfar asfar all far as possible Adequate water means cash to topa pay pa- for the projects built and planned banned Other good sites and sources are available Last spring springwater springwater springwater water went over the Moon Lake spillway and down the Colorado river because of lack of storage facilities If the Basin users fail fall to get their claims to water proved up on or fail to secure title to the water needed for the thousands of acres acres' of farm land not now adequately supplied other sections will take the water Water Vater in other parts of the state stat and elsewhere is worth up to to per acre If we are going to live here we can not sit down and say our lands will not pay for water costing 10 to 40 or 50 per acre If we do not get it at the available costs other sections that can get values of 50 to an acre for it will secure it for their lands Must Have Ha Cash Crop I The immediate ate problem is to find ways to get greater returns from our lands to enable us to afford afford afford af af- af- af ford the price of securing and storing storing storing stor stor- ing water In other words we must ha have ve some cash crop We Ve have been trying to make makeshift makeshift makeshift shift by growing growing- cattle and poultry and there is much more can be done with those lines At present practically all our livestock goes out to market as feeder stuff to be fattened by others who get some top prices We Ve have to take inferior prices Farmers outside find it pays to grow sugar beets on their lands which are arc worth up to per acre or more Average yields are 10 to 18 tons per acre Available figures show that Carbon county growers in 1937 averaged 11 tons Cont Continued on Page 8 |