Show enthusiastic for southwestern utah J H Minder held assistant general freight and pic igar agent of the salt lake route is home after spending a in washington iron millard and beiver counties visiting numerous cities in the south ern pirt of state mr manderfield brought back a report of mot prosperous conditions in counties according to air manderfield the fruit crop in washington county and the agricultural conditions in both dry and irrigated sections are more encouraging than ever before and the whole southwestern pirt of the state is undergoing a development that soon will transform it into one of the and most productive utah speaking of hia trip and today mr manderfield said 1 I visited cedar city hurricane lund delta newcastle milford and beaver and from my knowledge of those places and their surrounding territory surpassed every the fruit crop of washington county 13 enormous and the growers thero have holca of being able to market it at a profit some of the peaches are anpo now and the albertas El bertas will soon be reads for the birket one can hardly imagine the development that is going on the southern section and tho popularity that the country is attaining an idea of this may be had from the fact that the milford of the delta land and water company opened only bo days ago is now over half sold out the project w aich is in beaver county comprises acres some of which is already under crop since it was placed on the market ano months ago over acres have been sold and the outlook is that the rest will RO aa readily arf that which has been sold that part of the project thus far sold went to farmers aiom the imperial valley in california 0 o think this speaks highly for utah land and utah opportunities the land has all sold at an acie so there have been no bargain purchases that account for the big sales As a matter of fact there is no agricultural section anywhere that surpasses that in the pirt of this state everything that can be grown adv where in similar climate cin be grown there ted and dry land alike produces wonderfully and farmers are destined to become independent dea arct news |