Show good progress report from dixie land owl orn t E H snow president of st george stake is in the city attending the convention of school officers and the good roads convention mr snow says the people of washington county are responding nobly to ahe call of president wilson for larger crops the last two vear aare the only years since the settlement of the country that the people have raised enough wheat to make their own bread the dry land farms have made the change this year there is an increase of more than 80 per cent in the average of crops in washington county mr snow says the dry farms in the vicinity of the big plain ought to yield an average of 17 and 18 bushels to the acre on the more than 1000 acres of wheat there more than are planted to corn and acres to beans the second crop of alfalfa has been cut and the yield wai unusually good the fruit crop will be a large one and to conserve what has heretofore largely gone to waste the people of hurricane and vicinity have built an 1 will operate a 20 ton biily orator plant the towns of hum cane la verkin and toquerville are installing a joint water system A L woodhouse and associates are installing an electric power plant on the santa clara and are running lines to most parts of the county for the purpose of furnishing light heat and power three new school buildings are erected the people in the last five years have donated more than for smaller shippers to points farther away dally panels published in salt lake in the afternoon reach st george the next afternoon winter the people of st ceorge santa clara and washington donated in work on the roid e n stgeorge and the state line th crying need just now mr snow emphasized is a good road from enterprise to the county seat connecting ahe western part of the coun with st george and the east enter anse is comma to the front as a producer and of hay dairy products and potatoes mr snow is a good roads enthuse t he thinks a good concrete road agan to st george would in a fait apan ypan kiy for itself in tho de th it would follow des ya 1 A |