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Show . , . . I MOfVFft bfNDS Moapa Valley is crossed by the Salt Lake Route, and through its fertility, semi tropical climate, quality of products, pro-ducts, and nearness to market lias since the completion of that road sprung rapidly to the front. Land. The ground is a fine texture deep wash soil; in some places a red sandy loam; in others a brown mixture of clay and sand. There is also a kind ef peat land formed from the decay of the toolc swamp growths of past ages. On this soil in spite of the heat splendid crops of grain have been grown without irrigation. If soil anywhere is incxhaustablc certainly it is here. I ' Water. I The Muddy Valley Irrigation Co. I holds perfect water rights of long I standing. Its system now covers I completely the land owned by this company, and crops arc being raised I upon it at the present time. The I maintenance charges arc very light, as the system is of the simplest kind. 1 Climate. The climate of Moapa Valley is ' semi-tropical. No snow falls in the winter, and the frosts arc light. During Dur-ing July and August the days arc very hot though the nights are generally cool. The exceeding dryness of the air, however, makes the high temperature tem-perature far less oppressive than lower low-er temperatures in moist regions. The other ten months of the year are delightful. de-lightful. Men work all winter with- ' out coats. It is a sanatarium for lung trouble and other diseases, and will no doubt be recognized in the neat future as an ideal winter home. Palms, bamlboo trees, figs, pomegranates, pomegran-ates, and almonds grow luxuriantly. Orange, lemon, olive, English walnut and other trees are gVowing, but are not as yet old enough to bear. The I dryness of the air and amount of sun shine gives a rarely delicious flavor to all fruits and vegetables' grown in the vallej . Market. Moapa is 398 miles from Salt Lake, just half the distance to the coast. The Salt Lake Route has been very 'fair in its rates, and this factor with the diminished tin occupied in transportation trans-portation mea: much to the Moap t shipper, Cantaloupe buyers from Chicago were on the ground at the beginning of this season, and the largest larg-est dealers and hotels of that great city openly admit that the flavor of the Moapa melon compels its preference prefer-ence over everything else in the market. mar-ket. TI16 fact that the products arc from six weeks to two 'months ahead of the Rocky Ford and Utah assures the grower of the fancy prices always paid for the first of any kind of fruit or vegetables on the market. Asparagus Aspara-gus brings to the Moapa grower with no greater effort or expense three times the price obtained by the Utah gardener. Following arc letters received by Cannon Bros. Company of Salt Lake City from reliable residents of the Moapa Valley: Logan, Ncv., July 2, 1908. Mr. Joseph J. Cannon, Salt Laki City, Utah. Dear Sir: In reply to your request for my opinion of this valley, and the opportunity of development, will give the facts that I know. Land put into asparagus at a cost of less than $40.00 per acre from the wild state has paid the first year $50.00 per acre, and the second year $200.00 per acre and increases in-creases every year for five or six years. In fruit wc have apricots ripe as early as May 20th, peaches and apples May 25th, tomatoes June 20th, and grapes July 4th. Last year I sold $100.00 worth of almonds from less than one-half acre of orchard. Yours truly, (Signed) H. B. MILLS. Overton, Nev June 30, 1908. George Q. Cannon Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sirs: Replying to your inquiry regarding re-garding the value of fruit farms in the Moapa Valley, I take pleasure in giving giv-ing some of my experience. Two year old peach trees are sufficiently mature to give a good yicld Off a four year old peach and apricot orchard or-chard last year I netted at the rate of $240,00 per acre. The first peaches to ripen were the 19th of May. Off twenty twen-ty young apueot trees this spring 1 have netted $60.00. My vineyard is now three years old. Last spring the croo was of course light; this year it is fair. I expect to net under good conditions $125.00 per acre from my grapes. The larger part arc seedless raisin variety. Our climate is ideal, not only for raising the grapes but for making the raisins. Yours very truly, . (Signed) WILLARD L, JONES. , Overton, Nov., July.2, 1908. George Q. Gannon Association, Salt Lake City. Gentlemen: I take pleasure in telling tell-ing you some facts regarding the Mtoapa Valley and its resources. I have Veen in different kinds of farming farm-ing and find that this climate and soil produce,' I -believe : as -profitable crdps .as jue, grown in the world. 1 have (been 'engaged in raising and shipping peaches. From my best trees I have averaged this season over $1000.00 per acre. The flavor of our peaches has been acknowledged to me by California fruit growers as the finest they ever tasted. Alfalfa is a profitable profit-able crop here. I sowed some new ground on the 15th of November with alfalfa sccdl and wheat. Today I am cutting my second crop. The luccm is two and a half feet high and almost too thick to walk through. I shall cut two and a half more crops this year. Wc get five cuttings a year of alfalfa. My early Irish potato crop brought me at the rate of $96.00 per acre this season. These results I can duplicate. Yours truly, (Signed) WM. L. BATTY. George Q. Cannon Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. Gentlemen: As an old resident ot the Moapai Valley I desire to inform you of some things that have come under my t personal notice here. I have lived in the valley thirteen years and expect to liv here the rest of my life. I havc had twenty-five acres under cultivation and these have provided! pro-vided! me practically all I have. My crops consist of figs, pomegranates, almonds, raisin grapes, alfalfa, sugar cane, cantaloupes, tomatoes, peaches, and winter lettuce, peas, beans, radishes rad-ishes and all classes of vegetables. Last year I took as high as 425 crates of cantaloupes off one acre. I sold all my cantaloupes from $2.50 to $1.00 H per crate at Moapa. I .planted my H vegetables from September to No- H vember and began to gather my crop jH at Christmas. I continued until H spring. From my winter garden of H two acres I netted at least $800.00. ,,1 H believe that asparagus will be a profit- H able crop. This spring I netted $100 H from one-third of an acre. From three H acres I have taken 25 tons of sugar H cane. My success has been mainly H in winter gardening, and I think that ! this work will be one of the most H profitable lines of farming in the H world. H Yours very truly, H (Signcdl) S. O. ANGELL. H . n . 1 |