Show I A d F ln ining nga d Mineral Districts 1 j I f cD DiD ca as C I ess o CI osa Q I Ii i Ii ii 1 i 7 r Of rain t 11 1 JJ JJr c t J JI t I r i JM 1 Ur 1 r I IcO I cO f fI v I I II I I ir i 4 i I i I f V rI t t ta 1 I lif a 1 t n 4 I i ji I lii D I S a l iq i J rh 4 r i iI iS S S f S 1 t TN visiting l ono anD cannot cn but IN feel that th t It is an au Arcadia for fOl tho I it a I land of oC In op all opportunity o JUls iv 1 about situated ed In the tho southern end cud of ot Juab Jua v valley lle at a a point about 2 miles south of Salt alt City and aud at tho thu eastern ea tem sIlo side of Juab county oC of o which ft It in hi b tho the county seat scat It lies nt nl tile loot foot o f Mt Nebo u IL towering lowering r peal peak foot feet height which forms forni the tho end cud e ld of oi the grout great It was waa in iii years year after aCter the first of the tho th Salt Lako valley that Timothy 13 B Footo Ifo to entered Juab valley valle to make mako his lIz homo home Indians prowled about tho the coyote ami au the tho jack from font fi the tho trail anil Sr a shad sha scale rabbit bush salt grass fox jo tall tail and a fow othor s sl cle of o annual j in IE i lId over b ct tho tue forbidding Soon oUter other whito men mer camo came J thom being Charles Cha os Sperry Miles Miller MiliCI H i Baxter I Joh 1 William David and Charles Ca Caller Cazier ller zier Hoyt n t and rind Israel Hoyt The TIto first firt mule male white child chillI h b i rif l In the tho valley was WIS Neey Neely H and the tho first female Mrs Ettie Grace GIace P Homes n m s were made mado protective meas provided against the th Indians IndIan whose i hi s antagonism gradually subsided sul a a thriving g village go was as aO assured tred roday Today Nephi from a standpoint ot oI municipal progress nal ad advancement and rind thrifty husbandry vies Alea with any iny city of f similar size l In tho whole region Its re TO resources sources sources S are are fas is varied aa us those thoo oC of any apy IY city in i ir ns they include not n t tonly only farming and manufacturing but also oil bil wells Springs gs Mono tolio quarries mining gypsum tim titu timbering bering I and tho the raIsing Braising and I cattle on an tUi a l extensive scale seale FRUIT PRUIT INDUSTRY S Among tile tho many Industries that are attracting attention InN probably the thc newest s tIle tt e cultivation of ot largo large frUit t orchards Nephi l itself lies lios on oti a IL adelta adelta delta dolta LUc i at tho the foot of oC Mt No Ne Nebo bo ito and at lI o Salt yon The rho region nhong Jlong ho tito base lase of ot tho mountains Isor that fine lino gravely and sanely sandy san y loam texture which adapted ad to the raisins g of ot fruits and berries declared do o lared that the tho peaches grown growl northern part of havo h vo tile tho III st flavor l of any produced pr In ln tile Ui state eLate and ami Early CraWfOrd are Itro the tho varieties usually planted David Broadbent has hits one Ones I st peach in the tho west est In ln one on exception that ot Dr Somber Som Gleason at Kaysville it is It consists of o eight elgh t acres of Elb hes grow i absolutely The secret lies liea in inthe Inthe Inthe the P liI ll autO and disturbing of ot tho v vOther Other Ine who vho aro ar going into the tha th fruit business onan extensive scale are Robert Hob e Orson Cazier L U A ABailey ABailey Bailey Dalley and nd H II E 33 Howell Howett There Thoro is a aGTe great t inclination among the tha farmers lS o Own land close about Nephi lo to et out orchards on account of the fact that t t thel rge ge dry farms nearby enter too keenly Into n In the tho rais raIn raising raisIng ing lag of f wheat it to make mako that Industry hid stry very profitable for tor or the tho owners of tho the themore more valuable v l land It may lay bopf bof be of Interest to many nany to know that tile the large fruit raisers of or Colorado are arc turning their eyes e West ward ivard where th find bet bot better botter betler ter ler lands hanth i at a I much cheaper Cl por price Already Alro dy isome families have h vo d at near n ar Provo and iid moro more are pro property property perty porty n and Spanish Fruit l lands hands In are aro soiling for far forthe forthe the tho extremely ext high figure oC or acre where ground far tal superIor can at present pre at present be b bought baught fot 01 The first coiners eOll rs reap real reap the tho benefits of ot a 0 growing Industry S FARMING Nephi is now no attention atton i m mat of at the tho th world wo orld rid to t Its Ha extensive ope In dry Iann Is an Incident connected with of ot othi U region in this title respect has haa never n yet ot et been recorded rc rd tor liI ether prophecies the Import of It lt was waz not appreciated until tho the fulfillment ful In 11 tho the year Brigham Young Toung was cas just from flom a trip trill into Int southern Utah Ho stopped at and mid though his bitt face faco was much swollen from a gun kick which had from his hIli hI shooting at a I jack rabbit on the ridge south of the tho city ho never neer nevertheless nevertheless appeared before tho the congregation tion of people who hall had eagerly guthi uth ored to hear words of council from front tips lips of their loader or lie Ito expatiated on tho wonderful natural resources with which NIhl Nephi was wan blessed and finally iii In speaking of the tho country which lIes Hen lI between and Lean the end ond oci or 0 orthe the valley ey 11 south which at that time was vas covered with blue gra grass grassa s sa a yard IUa high said Homo of you Oll will live to see the day Jay when tIm the land laud between bet arid and a L an will wilt bo ho ono one continuous wheat hell Held Some of you ou may ma be he concerned about tho lack of water wItter Never mind tho the water wat l i go ci ahead ouch and nd cultivate i 1 Il l lay tho th prophesy Is fulfilled and arid where wh re once was grass end and all now how no is thriving wheat Holds Dry Iry farming in has reached Its present stage through an au extensive series serles of experimentation carried on onby onby onby by experts exp und and government go officials It tt ia Is considered d without douht tho greatest g dry dl di funning farming district in tho th state and rind consequently tho th world This year your bushels of wheat wore raised on u the Loan Lovari ridge south of the city It sold for all nil or of which went vent Into tho pockets of o tho the prosperous plO citizens or ot Nephi The rhe average production Is 20 bushels to the acre though Some onie havo mo produced as all a high as ns 43 all of course without ir It irrigation Irrigation Only abut half of oC tho the available laud laudIs S is under lindor cultivation as yet ot and t V Is Is I why Nephi Is the th realization of tho the dream his hula Arcadia In Inthe n ii nOie tile the western w part of the county there thero are aro about acres some Home of It i mount mountainous some somo semiarid but all usable U I tho the scientific methods now nov em employed m This Tills land lurid can be o purchased from rein tho the staLe at per acre utora while dry raveling farming land IlInd near soils sells at from front 10 to 25 according to location and tho the of tho the soil soll sollA soilA A state experiment exp farm of 40 acres has been established o for f r sonic sonio limo on the Lovan Levan ridge south of the city anti and recently when tim the government desired to put pitt in an experiment sta Sla station thou tion also and it was vas found that thero was not enough land on on the me state farm fann for both purposes county co nty bought 55 acres more moro and presented Its use uso to the tho government nn mt for experimental purposes The two together const constitute tute tile the finest and best conducted experiment nt station in the tha west WORt Of OC course cOUlse on the Lovan ridge tho the wheat crop Is II varied with such sueh pro products products products ducts as pumpkins beans and which grow row as tho wheat without water and yet Iet seem scorn to rest tho the land hand In for tor fall wheat sowing HUGI I DRY FARMS The rho Grace Graco Brothers who about SOO 00 acres In tho the vicinity are arc getting wealthy from their dry farm They are arc able thrifty t men who aro are alert enough to advantage of the lat hat latest latest est eat successful experiments J 3 W V Pax Fax man a It prosperous farmer has hall about a thousand acres acre Brothers between botven three and ml four fO r thousand thou Others who deserve men inca mention mention tion along with these theEo are arc ar Brothers rs James P Anderson Andor on Edward Edwa Ingram Ingrum J Joseph s ph E B Irons ns Alfred Altred Lunt Shed Lunt Heber Hebar B Ockey Wn C COckey COckey Ockey GeorgeH q Et Robert C G Stephenson Charles Charle Wilson Samuel R WInn and JOB Jos F Wright each of whom own land hand In Ill amounts varying from from acres to at amount of ot produced from these thi th e farms Is moro more than U an tho the two tW local loca flour mills can nn handle l by running both night and day daS so ao any one ne do de desiring siring a good goo Investment would do well w ll to build another flour mill at In 10 miles mites west of No Ne Nephi phi Isone isono of f tho the largest private farms farm farmIn In the country e It is known as es the tho arm nr company c and controls about abo t acres eres l Dr Widtsoe oo TJ rIF F Merrill B D It F and other Utah Utahn n iti have havo control cOI r l of tho tim enterprise company Js Is probably tho only one In iru Utah that does its ploughing pl with IL Bt am engine arid and 1 nd its threshing with an anti combination bar har h r i vaster Grace Brothers at Nephi have havo a IL plow Illow and harvester hu eto which they the run iun with 12 or 01 moro more span nt ot otI horses horae It certainly is a fine to lo losee tosea I see sea a 11 harvester culling tho the grain and threshing It at the same inane as ae It goes along Fifty acres cnn can bo ho cut and threshed III In tills thu is manner in ono clue day d J J W V Pl uses a attain plow These ma machines s are aro areso so much better botter for pool overworked nine man that thele in hi little doubt that soon oon most must oC of the tho large farms in III Ow t ho lit will begin to use steam engines ARTESIAN WELLS YElLS The rho state hits has ha recently contracted for fOl forthe forthe the staking sinking o of two artesian wells one in Dog Do valley yally 10 miles mile west WUL of Nephi the other on oil Iho tho Lovan Levan Uio ob oh object object being to demonstrate the thud ability of getting 4 water on out tho the dry farming a lug districts district it In I n this Ihl iii Is manner ncr in insufficient sufficient Sri I ii nun Ii I y for fill fo I t ni i uc and auth gar garden ga r den dell use UMe It Is Ii expected that It will riOt not be bu lIe to drill lower than titan GOO COO feet a Ii hit which lu if iC I f realized real will vIl I immediately cause tin tilO In ill Dm thi district to follow suIt sult Tho rho experiment uncut ment men t has never yet ct heel been tried THE TIJI lH J NEW N OIL OU FIELDS I II Ono One of or the most nH Bt promising indus industries In s tries which have hao recently sprung ip In III Is the new lIew oil nit project to it miles mills south of iho city Shale eon con containing ai 11 per cent of paraffin base hase oil has long bug been heon known to in Iii tho thu vicinity it having comb within notice nolice of oC many loony of ot tho Iho local farmers that the thu rock near hear Juab station would woul w burn for hall half a when t with a match mutch The fito district has lias hen been 1 by l JiVe JI vo or ti six men loan Who report r every er indication of ofa a high grade of oil oJ Of OC course couro halo containing only emily seven Heen per lieu cent paraffin fin base hll o oil all has hits been lie en retort ld with great profit r I in thee and lUll an d places in Europe butt but here herc In the tho West Vest where railroad facilities s tiro 1111 not tho leSt best and tIme the population is scat scattered cut cat the retorting process cannot ent r Into competition cor with tho tIle great oil ells pt pf different states slates i 1 Oil was discovered In hn the Iho vicinity 16 miles south of NOl hl by Stephen Steh H and George Georgo B 13 Hobbies A A com company pan pany was organized known as The Juab Oil company aH owned largely largel by lIy byJ byj J H Burtner anti and H H Bullfrog Clark Clarl A drilling apparatus was wall as in iii installed Installed stalled and a well sunk to a depth of or foot feet ri l n mile and n It half halt southwest of Juab station Unfortunately Unfortunately the Iho site of the tho well is I in inthe Inthe inthe the lowlands and a largo large Slow How ot of water was encountered which so encumber encumbered ed cd the tho flow of oil that the tho well has Ims been beell abandoned James Janies P I a expert representing California is ilow In the Held malting making an extensive pro jwo prospect sp et of the district on tho thi west side of the valley Tho he company ho ro re is known mown as the Iho Juab Oil and Natural Ga Gaff Co and among Its board of directors ate are J W Vaughn treasurer of the Accidental Life LIfo In Jn lIn I C 1 il I r i Angeles rl h 1 G 0 Brown Dron a San Francisco attorney attorn y Harry C Bowers Dowers a Los Angeles wholesale paint manufacturer and A AL AL L Ii This ThiN company was in tho the fleW field last t year but hut was delayed by the tho financial stringency The Tho latest development work worle is l going golnA on oui at the Ufe west side of the ho valley valloy on the hillside instead of In tn Inthe the Iho lowland This will 1111 do IO away with any trouble with water which caused the Iho ot of tho the The Thai Juab oil field has ha been huen pro pronounced pronounced flounced as am largo large und anti as us good In ap ito appearance ns as as any uny oil Held field In America was vas prior to drilling 1111 II ng All the thin ox ex experts ports In the th world cannot determine tho the extent of any all deposit hundreds of oh feet teet In tho the ground In Iii the Juab fields there Were are tire also in indications of natural gas In the thc soil though It If discovered dl coel It would very r like likely likely ly Iy have on on uncontrollable force duo to the rapidity with which It 11 would per por colato through the tho soft tott oft sands to the theo outlet o The 1110 fields holds near are n o not nol yi t In Inthe Inthe inthe the producing atago tago but thoro thorois Is every thing In their favor m hl ll all about Utah why wb hy not in II Utah ual Last year there thero was vas about abol t tonn of petroleum produced In tile tha thoI I United States Stales the Iho rank of the th 11 pro elates tatos being rig as s follows fall Cali California formula fornia Texas Ohio Kansas Indian Territory and Oklahoma Vest Virgin Virginia la ia Indiana Pennsylvania Louisville L Kentucky Tennessee T Now New York Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado rude Illinois and aund Missouri California the first on the tho list produced about 25 per pir c cent nt mt ot of tho thus total production Colorado Color about 28 20 per imor cent antI and Wyoming about 00 per perc percent cent c nt It scenic Reems therefore t lc reasonable r l to lo suppose suppo e that a n had and Colorado Extends across Utah and ami Arizona cad and gees g JOg Into h to California where wh ro re It has a ti tt production pr which amounts to o of that thua of the whole hohe country S Furthermore oil fields have havo havea a IL location l c lt n as favorable fai as any In mu the World Suit Lake elt City with voll burners JoV on n i the thu th railroads would exclusive of ot the ou Cul in the smelters where whore s ry can an now bo be Installed U d use ue u it a total of As II o machinery U lS sibie the tl use of cit oil in Hie smellers olle I the th demand d d bo double d uble tiling in iii favor f of the Juab fields |