Show H BE E TALKS UC OF 0 F ARID FARMIN ma 1 fi 6 former sheriff william hill discusses ir SE ii ties of carbon county and eastern utahn general at zion n f wilfird I 1 hill ex sheriff of carbon oaty w wee at salt lake city last Sk talking to toa tribute rep tall abe Reat leinan sadden illy that he came west in to aw add for ft a number of eara ears hae fiat been a t ot of eastern eastorn utah t asked it this waa was oot not an a unusually wet so far and if be he LN 1 A s think the seasons sea sona vet vers becoming more humid in IR this arid bo be replied t of bouw there 6 more humidity humid ity in 1 the atmosphere than ID in pasi 1 ara aare aad and this humidity in my judgment u bae kas ame to stay iwo denra ago yeu remember retHe niber the frers of tho on colo redo rado river overflowed and mad made what ie Is celled the iton sea it wao was nut not loag loog until thia this aea rus over feet deep and covered an area of 0 two hundred and fafty tifty square mitre laft lurt gearhe farmers in a this arid region wore successful in a raising fine crops of wheat by of what ii billed dry try earming tar mIng there ie to no auch a thing awdry farming it la Is simaly toll culture cul tun within tb past C year in ther arid region which wh lo 10 cludia parta parts of arizona and lower and slid all of utah there has ba noted A growth ot of verdure or pasturage pAstur ngo that waa was never known before ore 16 year the inflowing water had increased tho the drea area of ajla salton sea until tavo hundred equale or dupre are submerged merged the ov evaporation apola dionot of this anter la lis estimated to be ten fact feet per year which la in carried la in the nil all mr over the arid re glon an an art illustration of its influence v on I 1 will via ll 11 cite you to the tho mountains lu the tho Mary avale in county which ie Is about 6 0 portion or odthe the mauu lu in utah oa on the sides of abeso mountain Bounta tn last year tear the erase grass grev long enough to cut out nith a reaper but for vis lottah rocky condition 0 of the tile surface and to a the early mornings morn laga there thare aras a heavy on a tho the grass A ek condition nerr heretofore known la 10 thai part of tha 19 country herat another fu about years ago thoro there was such a IMAM tream ol 01 auter in Suan creek viat their draa in hand it and tho stream wa w well with flab gab A few year years iatter the water waters eded L A jn Js the creek until it became a dry rash two joara ago the utah fuel company waa was compelled to pipe water over the mountains from bango creek a al an expense of over ever eighty thousand dollars for use I 1 tc c the steam boilers illers lu and for or culinary dul luary durpos ee in to the coal camp no sooner was this water brought over io be used in the boilet dot of their engines than it waa as found that the springs in Sunn av elde creek eo to long dry began to fl and the water has continued toffic io bow w over albee aa at I 1 have stated it ie Is estimated that fu the cobrae of a year teo tio feet of water iq 10 tho the salton sea bes has evaporated and spread over the area of utah parts of arizona and lower oal califor I 1 for ola nia the air Is so laden with anole m acre that in 1 passing over this arid region P V does not absorb the colfi moisture turo from the earth aa as a dry hot aroos phare auld vi mid and the result ta is that th at vegetation springs up and grows aa as never before known on the drywat of our moun and deserts this 9 la Is due to the tho humidity which la to not drawn out of the earth by the dry at moa phere as agin in ears past this ao so counts for the bucce as which has eifim eded the experiments exper ime 11 ts duade in dry farming especially during I 1 with wilh ue us I 1 handl ed wheat bet fall which was scratched into the ground tho the sar before ot ou dry land near price which went seventeen bushels to the acre the ground wan not even ploughed it ft 1 19 coin computed buted thatus that ut the fifty two million acres of land in utah the thora r Is 19 only 4 per cent of it under cultivation and that bv the conserving 7 of all the waters by and canole canals 11 per ct c t of thie this oret was all possibly bo be cultivated by irrigation this would leave 89 9 per cent CO ID t to be benefited by tho humidity abiang froot from the altoe sea I 1 am experimenting inen dogon on eoll wil culture or dav far arm ming and baa hava planted differ ent of forage plants plan on tho the big springe springs dairy farre farm eighteen milea from price I 1 am gm going to grow thie s forage without irrigation and entertain no doubt thattie experiment will be ba adful I 1 expect ie 8 eee 0 the plateau of castle valley made the wheat heat granary of utah ae at the result of proper sol oll c culture without HOD tion 11 I 1 M I 1 1 p 7 |