| Show I 1 HOW GRAND VALLEY LOOKS the cisco utah correspondent of the denver post poet says that samuel N king who is just in from the la sal moun aln ain country says quite an immigration is going in there this season A new raad is being built from cisco on the rio grande to moab a distance of thirty eight miles from grand junction to cisco the distance is fifty four miles making the entire distance from grand junction to moab ninety two miles by the new route ten miles from cisco the road crosses the I 1 grand river where a good ferry has been established and from there the road follows the river to near moab the latter town is the county seat of grand county utah and contains a population of or it is three miles from the a beautiful valey dotted with farms orchards gardens and comfortable homes the val aey is three by twelve miles in extent Lix tent and is watered by the grand river together with several tributaries tributa ries it Is one of the finest valleys in the world with a soll soil of marvelous fertility nearly tons of freight went into moab last year and the country to Is i growing business buel nese Is increasing and the mountains are teeming with latent mineral wealth 4 in the blue mountain country sixty five miles almost due south of moab stands monticello the county sest seat of san juan county utah these settlements are prosperous and comparatively self sustaining and independent the people in general are mormons cormons Mor mons but they are honest industrious and have an abiding faith in the doctrine of the latter day saints they are making makin these cozy valleys bud and blossom like a garden wherever they kave have planted their footsteps and established their th air homes the te soil is giving up its rich increase they have their churches schools newspapers dally daily malls mails operative cooperative co stores store and they do sot rot experience the aggressive and intense life struggle that af afflicts filets the masses in asses in more densely populated IUd places the grand valley is looking liko like a a garden this thin season n seasonable V rains have fallen and luxuriant vegetation covers the face of these meoas and plateaus as if they were adored with emeralds an unseasonable enable frost nipped some of the early pesch peach blossoms the more advanced and tender vegetation but small fruits apples pears plums grapes apricots and other varieties will be bountiful all the streams axe are flush and the melting snows are a re just beginning to aad their volu volume me to the grand am aggregate pate the gestern slope promises a beautiful harvest of the fruits of the earth orchards and alfalfa fields a are redd redolent lent with bloomard blo omand the bees are a filling their homes with honey boney the great irrigating ditches dit ches with hundreds of laterals literals late rals WO are distributing water over thousands ot 0 arable acres everywhere the grass gram to in luxuriant and cattle horses and sli sheep keep have straightened up the kinks have gone out of their backs and their old coats have disappeared the winter was unusually severe on n but b st nature is now compensating ne f 1 former I dr severity verity ae Us Is vaney ey extends from palisade to erulia Er ulta A distance of thirty miles and la Is ta te to meen miles in width it emu braces an area of over acres trel nearly rl all of it susceptible of cultivation probably acres are under ditch and the laterals literals late rals are being extended and the area increased yearly A great ditch to Is contemplated by smith struthers to be thirty miles in length and cover acres it is to start in at the upper end of the valley and terminate near fruita considerable work has already been done on it and when the financial conditions are ripe the enterprise will be ve pushed to completion A few years hence and this magnificent valley will be densely populated and its arable acres will all be under a high state of cultivation the soil once quickened with water its fertility ab magical and marvelous it is estimated that over fruit trees have been set out in the valley the Jre present season an athe farm and garden areas are being extended in every direction the grand valley is carrying inches of water fk feet a minute that tha t Is about the volume and velocity during irrigating the gating season |
