Show THE WESTERN DESERTS even since the mormon pioneers entered these valleys the deserts west and south of the great salt lake have attracted the attention not only of residents here but of travelers who have looked with wonderment on the vast stretches of gently undulating land spreading out before them only one thing to is lacking to transform these regions into an immensely productive area and that one thing is water cedar valley which is almost the same size as the metropolis of england contains only from to persons while the city alluded to has a population of nearly of course that city is the great market of the worlds commerce and for purposes of com comparison paxison may not be properly mentioned further in this connection but it if an effort could be made to secure artesian water in cedar valley of which there must be a large supply as it springs from the ground near the old camp of johnstons army and this were conveyed in pipes and distributed tri buted in that way being conducted to orchards by sub irrigation met methods hodo the valley could be made to produce an immense amount of sustenance for both man and beast while mercur and other mining towns would afford a ready market for any surplus A sample of what could be done is found in the waterworks water works system from ophir to mercur and sunshine which has its water supply brought to it from the first named place through pipes running over mountains and through ravines and furnishing an abundance of water for many hundred people and this through a tour four inch pipe while a two inch pipe supplies sunshine if this can be done in one valley it can be done in another and thus instead of families having to go hundreds of miles north or south to find abiding places they could populate the land nearer home will not domn one make the move once the thing is started other communities win will readily follow suit |