Show OUR PRICE RIVER VALLEY ALLEY r IS I 1 S GREAT I 1 denver and rio grande red book boosts this section of 4 queen of the west the annual january januar re rev lew number of the railroad red book a monthly publication 1 houed by the denver and rio grande has just appeared this magazine is an exponent of ir irrigated farming in the rocky mountain region and the annual review number contains no less than a hundred and three original ai al tides especially prepared fur for this issue on agricultural mining commercial and industrial subjects including among it contributors governor of colorado governor spry of utah governor miles allies of new mexico ex go governa arnot adams of colorado C J blanchard statistician of the united states reclamation service president lory of the colorado agricultural college judge colburn of salt lake city professor merril and others of the utah agricultural college and W W mclaughlin irrigation engineer of the dopart department ment of agriculture the annual re rev lew number of the red book is looked upon as a aval val able reference public publication aion and chii the sixth issue is considered tho best of the sene thi issue of the rid RW book has a guaranteed circulation of more than twenty five thousand copies below is an article on price river valley in utah by R W crockett editor of the advocate the article carries a fruit scene at the ranch of john jenion jenson at spring glen price river valley there is not today anywhere in the whole intermountain inter mountain west a more inviting locality than anee river valley in eastern utah this is a pretty strong assertion but will bear the closest investigation possessing ses singa a soil endowed with ewry ew ry requisite necessary to produce prolifically immediately water ater is turned upon it price river valley lands stand in class pro pre eminently at the head not only is this true of the soil but the climate contains every element conducive to crop production and maturity the immense coal mines surrounding this valley are a very important ductor because of the fact that the support a vast number of laboring people which guarantees a market for all the crops these ahse thousands of acres may pro produce duee many localities can truthfully boat of their salubrious climates and pre productive soils but they lack either home markets or transportation facilities price river valley is not only surrounded by an exceptional home market but has every transportation por tation facility that may be desired the truest index to the worth of any community is its growth when one considers the wonderful advancement van cement of carbon county during the past tv tw years and of the city of price its county seat which is forging ahead by leaps and bounds one cannot help being enthused the wise man is picking up the land today for from thirty to eighty dollars an acre including absolute water rights while hile the slow individual will come along a year hence and pa a fifty to one hundred percent per cent advance over present prices among the probabilities of the next twelve months will be t the he erection ofa ofa sugar factory experimental 1 peri mental tests in beet raising have proved beyond the possibility of doubt the adaptability of this soil for sugar beets the tonnage per acre this ear car has been quite satisfactory whilo our beets at the grand junction colo factory ha have e tested as good as tho the best that have been received there in the production of honey this section of or utah ranks second to none in the united states during the past two months twenty carloads of honey were shipped from price station lucerne seed ore of nf the surest and best crops ot emery county counts was marketed by one firm to the amount of a quarter million dollars yet it is estimated they handled only about one third of the entire crop and the country only in its infancy i the for forwarding records al alj ali i sho show that hay vegetables ege tables fruits eggs butter at ard 1 I miscellaneous products have gone forth to market in the same proportion it vi a country of magnificent possibilities and in another year or two t 0 our products will ill be computed by the hundreds of thousands of dollars while many man older sections aill still be figuring ring in the dollars and cents column keep in mind the price river valley reached via the den denver er and rio grande railroad |