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Show EMERY COUNTY AND ITS RESOURCES To partially satisfy the many inquiries 0f home seekers regarding our eounty we are pleased to publish the following carefully selected facts regarding our wonderful resources: There are but few counties, indeed, that can boast of a more productive aojl. With careful cultivation and irrigation irri-gation a failure is almost impossible, and there is sufficient water supply tu irrifrate ten times as much land us is at present under cultivation. Land and water is comparatively cheap and easily obtained through the Carey act. This act permits individuals or companies to make application to the state to secure from the government the segregation of certain tracts of desert lands, and file the necessary maps of survey, field notes, evidence of wa.er rights and any information to enable the State Board of Land Commissioners and the State Engineer to judge the practicability of the scheme. If the project be approved bv the board of commissioners ' and department de-partment of the interior, the state will enter into a contract with the applicant in which the maximum price1 at which the applicant may sell water right is fixed, and the state agrees to sell land at fifty cents per acre to purchasers of water rights. No entryman can purchase pur-chase more than 160 acres. Land and water can be paid for on the installment install-ment plan. The Buckhorn Irrigation company, under whose proposal the state has secured se-cured 29,839.87 acres of land segregated in Emery county near Price on the D. & R. G. railroad, will soon be opened for settlers. Arrangements have been made for letting contracts and work will begin in the near future, Emery county has four excellent reservoirs, twelve canal companies; length of canals 193.4 and the number of acres, cultivated does not exceed 63,700, while there are 339,700 acres surveyed that is available for agriculture agricul-ture and 1,909,105 not yet surveyed, most of which can be used for cultivation which makes a total of 2.308,805 acres yet to be redeemed. Land that four years ago was sold with water right near Castledale, Utah, for $15 per acre is now selling for $125 per acre, an increase of 800 per cent or 200 per cent increase in value per year. Forty acres costing $600 four years ago i3 now worth in the neighborhood of $4,000. This land has been broken up and part of it sowed to grain while the rest was sowed to alfalfa. This ought to be a large enough per cent of interest for anyone. Our soil will raise anything from a turnip to a pumpkin; wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, sugar beets, sugar cane, tomatoes, fruits of all kinds, alfalfa and a hundred other things" not mentioned. The great coal beds lie right at our door, and althuugh they have scarcely been opened yet, a man can haul a load of coal in half a day and it will cost him bat $2 per ton. Thousands of acres of coal land has been filed on and as a result re-sult wdl develop their claims sooner or later. The average precipitation for Emery county in the last thirty years at our altitude of 6.260 feet is .83 during spring and summer months and drops to 42 during December. Our public schools compnre very favorably with any in the etate, and we have an excellent academy located lo-cated at Castledale where our young people can get a high school education. In short, we have anything and everything every-thing that goes to make up a fortune and happiness and we will do anything in our power to encourage any settlers, business men or farmers who are home builders. |
