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Show PAGE THE UINTAH BASIN FAK1IER 8 Ouray t EDUCATION AND FARMING KNOW YOUR I; he NEIGHBOR It wasnt so many years ago that $10 a day during the time that There school. in high spend most people believed that anybody might ) school Letters have been received from could farm. They thought that if are very few boys of high BONETA Work has started on ' Congressman Don B. Colton, stating a man couldnt do anything else age who do it, and the majority soon main part of the Northwester d This is a that a post office inspector will practically waste these years they the he could farm. canal. our fail to put anything aside. The lad Irrigation be in our valley to look over that is hard to fallacy MT. HOME The men here havf befuture mail service. It is the even in these enlightened who is attending high school, on been busy the past few days wort lief of Mr. Colton that post offices nays when farmers have learned the contrary, is putting at least $10 on the laterals. They win sooing cannot be ready to go to the herd of th he and will be established. his a in bitter oftentimes and pocket day long through : Cecil Wilkinson of the Peppard experience that it takes a more than lose it by speculation or accident. ditch. seed Mr. Gowens, and conHAYDEN Eward Jasperson oF Seed company average man to wrest a good living It is his for good, and if he over the creek has moved his family to Farm were relooking inspector, tinues on through college the from the soil. for land They have located on the Hayden. Moore bench, inspecting Farmers of the past were as a ward is greatly increased. owned by E. A. Corfarm certified seed planting. There is another important aspect rell. formerly class ignorant. They used their ; The man with S. P. Dillman of Roosevelt is back hands too much and their heads too to the situation. Melvin HAYDEN on the Dillman farms again. It is little. They scoffed at new and or- an education who wants to farm but of a to the Geo. herd cattle impossible for Mr. Dillman to leave iginal methods they had no use ftr hasnt the capital is in a position to Pearson ranch which they ha scientific farming. Frankly, they secure profitable employment and pioneering alone. j. bought. B. 0. Colton is surveying in the were in a rut and had no desire to thus save money, whereas the unhe The LAPOINT reason must take Irrigaeducated man Thats the any job airplane shears get out of it. valley for the Ouray Valley tion company. tnej occupied such a low position can get and cannot save any appre- have moved from Lapoint up to Jack! I The canal which covers the west in the opinions of many people. To- ciable amount out of the wages he Houstons to shear his sheep. construcC. A. Thompson and' LAPOINT It takes capital to farm. side of Riverview, is under day a change has come about. The receives. and Joel Warner,! tion. This canal will be about four farmer of the present is modern, The farmer is able to secure the Horace Morrill miles long and will reach to Ouray. progressive and educated many of necessary capital more readily than directors of the Whiterocks William N. Stevens is opening up tin m being college graduates. the latter, and is also in a better company, left Sunday for Sal:!, Mr. Steva new store at Randlett. Does it pay a young man who in- position to make efficient use of it. Lake City on business connected in partnership tends to farm and equip himself ens was formerly Boys become impatient when go- with the company. Randlett. of M. E. Chandler before he LAPOINT Guy Samuels of Ver--; with a college education with ing to school and want to quit and Le-oof ovJenkins Bert One year ago, puts on the denim jumper and get a job. They do not realize that nal has moved his sheep into Joel! his strike a upon made lucky eralls and takes hold of the plow if they do so they are making a ser- Warners field. While digging a well, handles for life, or is it a waste of ious mistake and hampering their homestead. LAPOINT Archie Richens ist at fifteen feet water was found, be- time and money? This is a ques- chances in life. They want to make shearing his sheep at the Charley; ing pure and containing no miner- tion that many young men are mull- money, not knowing that they are Taylor place. After the shearings; al. The water was just above a ing over in their minds and trying making two or three times as much done they will be moved to Hayden. IOKA The flume on the hillside, hardpan of slate rock, which prob- to decide. A few facts as brought by staying in school. We regret is which same is the hardpan forth reliable statistics ably by might many things in this life, but we is now finished. This will be a grsa:'; under Pelican lake. It is believed therefore be of interest and profit. have yet to find the man who re- help to the farmers. that this water comes from this lake. FT. DUCHESNE Charles A. Farming is not a gretted the time he spent in school. Mr. Jenkins made three attempts to proposition. It doesnt yield any Rather, he regretted the fact that gle, supervising engineer of the get water on other farms at Leota. startling income under even the he didnt get more schooling and dian irrigation projects in Utah, lie dug over forty feet in each place best of circumstances. It is a con- thus improved his chances in life. Idaho and Nevada, was in Fort ; and found neither water nor hard-pa- servative business from all angles. It takes brains to farm. It takes chesne Friday in company with . , Reuben Wilson, owner of a But it is comparatively steady and good health, initiative and business James Gwin, who is the newly j e tnmf in the Colorado park secure. Most reasonably good farm- ability. A course in a good agriculpointed engineer for the Uintah j h and above the lake, ers make a five miles someand good living tural college is invaluable to one rigation project. Ward Ireland oif lay has been dig g for water on his thing aside for a rainy day and old who intends to link his destinies the irrigation office of Myton was place. He has dug down 20 feet age. writh the soil. It pays big finan- showing the gentlemen over the and has found neither hardpan or I Surveys of thousands of farms in cially, and the social and cultural ervation. water. Wallace Jensen struck wat- different parts ot the United States effects cannot be Lazellf terms S. E. , in HAYDEN Bastian, expressed er at 42 feet on his place in the show conclusively that the farmer of workect behooves a man Henrie and Bishop Mitchell money. It young lower part of the park, but the wa- with a good education is able to to think twice before one day on the roads last week, fii-away throwing ter wasnt very good. There has cash in on his knowledge. As his v opportunities to attend high ing the bad mud holes. been no tests made for water on the Franklin said, An investment in school and college. chief DUCHESNE There is only R. E. Allan, Brough bench yet. A few cellars knowledge pays good dividends. one time to get this kind of educa- boss of the Knight Investment com--; have been dug in some place and This is true in all occupations, and tion when one is young. But it pany, came in from Provo Tuesday j a hardpan of gravel was found at rather strikingly so in is significant farming. that the is of last week and spent a couple o reward about four feet. The Jenkins well The average farmer in the Unit- reaped the remainder of ones days looking over interests of thet during is the only good well struck up to ed States makes about $400 labor life. I ' company at Knights camp. date. Our experience in digging for income a year. This isnt much, but water has been of great value to it must be kept in mind that he NECESthe farmers. We have found that has a good part of his living in ad- THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER IS are of a great dition. our soils and The farmer with a SITY IN HOME can be with wa- school education doubles this high filled which depth, figter by irrigation when plenty of ure on the average, and the college water is available. Such crops as graduate averages about $1400 a alfalfa, when once established can year labor income, or approximately be watered late in the fall and May three and one-ha- lf times as much in the spring, when high water is as the farmer with an elementary on, and produce good crops of hay. school education. A high school In producing seed, too much water education is worth $6000 in 6 per can easily be applied, causing too cent bonds to the farmer average rank a growth. Alfalfa fields that and it has been estimated that ev1 were irrigated last fall are growing ery hour spent in college yields $10 nicely, and' would produce a good in financial returns. crop of hay or seed with cultivation A high school education is worth Where at least $10 a day to the and no spring irrigation. man fields that were not irrigated in the who intends to farm. In young other words, fall are burning up and are set back he can figure that every day he waiting for water. In starting al- spends in school will net him $10 X With every two years subscription to falfa the seasons are watched and later on when he goes into farmis set when there is plenty of high ing, provided he finishes his high water, and good stands are gener- school work. And he can compute ally obtained. with certainty that if he goes to college and completes a four-yeMakes a Big Difference! course in agriculture that each hour he spends in the academic halls will Teacher: Now, children, how old replenish his coffers $10. These are would a person be who was born in average figures and are the results of accurate surveys, so they may be 1889? accepted as' being reliable. Pupils (in chorus): Man or Only 50 cents a year It is doubtful if the average young man can earn an average wage of ' 1 deep-roote- j. con-tiadi- ct : -' - Pearson-brough- Irriga--tio- t n ta ck Ea-- r In-- ! Du-- n. ap-- 160-acr- ir-- res-- ; f ! A THE sub-soi- ls . Free Free Combination CAN OPENER The Uintah ar in Farmer |