Show Y MOAPA VALLEY best land in the corid what is J being done there and a little bit of its history alic editor of the utah dent muted M moapa nada ladt w ack and is surprised to sec in the of what is called a great 1 a real creek or in flinch constantly hows water lent during every af pf the year y to irrigate thousands of of land the editor also picked ape figs from the trees and hid sliced fig and cream for dinner it ill surprise man to learn thit the ir land on alie moapa is the beat in the world and that it producer tho greatest crops of cantaloupe lettuce and tomatoes x forty thousand crates of will be shipped from moapa dunieff the next SIK j the moapa country was first bet j tied in the 3 ear 1862 in ganir s from utah to california tho mor mona lucli an abundance 1 of water in alio river in this 5 dry tropical climate and tho rich soil that they iegan to settle there irrigation ditches were 1 ande alfilda alfil fa potatoes melons and other crops were cd and grew in great abundance i more people came and more chopa s were jailed till 1868 when it was discovered eliat the moapa valley IA in neada and not in utah the nehida people placed heavy inck t icy on alio bottlers alio were BO fat from any market that alie im their lioma y f arms and their holds of stand K ing grain oab two or three fain 1 illes acm lined and all of tho land up to weeds alie canals became filled debris the alie raccoons the aca i ars and quail took tins state of affers continued until the A building of the aeilt lake loute then alie water climate and fertil ity of alie soil were and settlers began to take and toda muada valley is filed ith fruit tries gardens fields of waving grain and alfalfa hundreds of ire now m ido happi b alie products of tins fruitful alley when the t ddll in it took four weeks to go from salt lake city the road ran through st george it was along 1 hard hot tedious band trip toda you can liae salt 15 p m on the salt lake route and imo in at 8 00 tha nit utah independent |