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Show BERYL TS IDEAL FAMTRICT Summary of First Three Years Crop Returns Shows Surprising Surpris-ing Results Achieved There Ben S. Lemmon, representing the Beryl United Colony Farming Association Associ-ation of Los Angeles, which is exploiting exploit-ing the Beryl district, between Modena and Lund, was in St. George Saturday for a short time while on his return from Los Angeles to the colony. This company contracted to buy 20.000 acres of land embraced in the Beryl district dis-trict and in turn is disposing of their holdings by selling units to individual farmers. The land lies in the Escalf-nte valley, val-ley, in Iron county, the southern tip of the project reaching to within a few miles of Newcastle. Water for irrigation ir-rigation is obtained by pumping, ajid an abundance is secured at shallow depths. At present gasoline power is used, but negotiations are under way between the company and the Dixie Power Company to extend a line into the district, probably from Enterprise. According to Mr. Lemmon the Beryl district consists of a great plain, the larger part of which is level, offering but little expense in preparation for irrigation and farming. The land has a fall of about seven feet to the mile to the northeast, but as a whole the valley slopes gently from the mountain moun-tain slopes. The Union Pacific traverses tne northwestern side of the valley and the major portion of the land lies to the south and southeast. One of the remarkable features of the district is the underground water occurring in gravels at a depth from seven to sixteen feet from the surface. sur-face. From well tests and examinations examina-tions of a number of wells in different differ-ent parts of the valley it was found that there are two sheets of water available for pumping for irrigation purposes. That these underground lakes are of great extent, underlying much of the high slope lands on the margin of the valley, is indicated through wells in which in nearly every case the depth of water level indicates the elevation of the land above the bottom of the valley. The whole location would indicate indi-cate that the upper and lower water strata are integral, being walled off by an impervious layer of lime conglomerate, conglom-erate, the upper sheet being seven to 16 feet below the surface of the ground and the lower thirty to forty feet. The principal crops grown at the present time are wheat, alfalfa, potatoes, pota-toes, cabbage and garden truck, and unusual Tesults have been obtained, especially es-pecially in wheat and potatoes. |