Show wm GREAT GRAIN SECTION people up plymouth way rather discount the statement that promontory is the granary of utah they are willing hn to admit that it may become that but at this writing they can just about produce the evidences that old square town flat has got anything in gox box elder county beat as a grain producing area when iben one rides over the ground and sees just what has been done this year up in that section it is really an eye opener and brings the individual up standing because of the wonderful harvest that has been garnered by the farmers up there riding north from fielding an immense in landscape golden in color stretches away to the east north and west yea even to the south tor for across tile river on the hill east of col linston land that but a few years ago grew sage Is now covered with golden stubble whose heavy growth evidences a bounteous yield time was when plymouth or square town as it it was designated tor for many ciany years was just aboud about on the outskirts ot of civilization and the few families who located there were looked upon with pity and sympathy by their acquaintances down don in this end ot of the valley in tact fact the same can be said of all the first settlers on the fielding bench but plymouth is the oldest settlement and so the people there have been enjoying the sympathy longer than the others how flow they struggled and sacrificed in order to get a start dry farming was then understood to a very limited degree and the good people perched up there on the dry hillside with the acres and acres of arid and lands stretching away in every direction blistering in the sun were truly worthy objects of sympathy they had to depend entirely on the kindness of providence in getting sufficient moisture to grow anything and in those days rain was not very plentiful so they more than often lost their crops or garnered only a very scanty harvest but they sat tight despite all the discourage discouragements ments and now they are in the midst of one of the most fertile tracts of land that lays out of doors along the fence lines where the husbandman has tot not rooted out the sage rage stands the most magnificent evidence of the quality of the soli soil for practically every division fence is composed of barbed wire and a hedge of 0 isa sage g e brush which stands higher thaia OR ordinary u MPH ban asea ase a and i is is as thick inick u asea ase a is thru th ru at the you base as a young 9 tree I 1 in I 1 the beginning the entire country was cohered with sage just like lik e that and to tol anyone at all acquainted with the nature of the soil la in this mountain country it Is a known tact fact that where a luxuriant growth of sage is found there is good soil the ranker the growth of sage the better the soil this fact act was evidently understood by the settlers on PI plymouth mouth flat and today they are like the proverbial 1 I told you so BO who has demonstrated a fact perhaps in no section of this entire county can stubble be found that is heavier than that found anywhere on the flat between the river and the mountains on oil the north it Is astounding and the yield tills this year was as high as 45 bushels of wheat to the acre oats and barley yielded much greater than did the wheat and the result is that all the dry farmers in that section had a very profitable season an impressive feature of 0 the agricultural activities all along thru that section of the country which forms we cue opening into the gilad milad val valley ley s the spirit of progressiveness exhibited rhines are no longer done in a haphazard way but according to the bat est methods of agricultural science T the ile fathers fat liers have learned the lesson doubtless thru experience and their sons soils have had the benefit ot of scientific training in tile the schools ard colleges so th that at farming with them is no longer a means ot of just simply gaining a livelihood h but it is a profession in which they can apply the very best thought and understanding from a scientific tiac basis the understanding of thes s things has made it possible tor for the reclamation of lands on the hillsides hill sides which are inferior to the rich acres lying on the flat and gradually the farmers plow Is rooting up the sage and the rocks high up on the mountainside darivin t the he coyote and jackrabbit jack rabbit fp dier alier and farther back from the haun haunts t tt of civilization and the farms are not the oi only aly evi dentes of 0 the progressiveness 0 of f the people substantial and modern homes are replacing the dirt root roof cabin commodious school buildings comfortable churches and splendid amusement halls supply the needs needa of the people in those lines while warm barns ot of immense ammen e proportions and big hay sheds filled to tile the bursting point make glad the hearts hearts of tile animals plymouth is rapidly coming in to her own fielding on oil the south of lier her is already a bustling center distinguished by the profusion of trees which shade the homes and line the j avenues fielding is under tile the canal and with the water from the ditch can make the land produce anything the great stretches of sugar beets on one side of the canal rather sets oft off the picture when viewed from the hillside at plymouth tor for it relieves the golden landscape and heightens the color of the scene wonderful is the flat thirty years ago the most pronounced optimist could not have pictured what is dis played before the gaze of man up there today it simply goes to show that the almighty has not bestowed stoned be all his blessings upon oue one place but has scattered them over a wide area and man today Is gathering them to himself and Is basking in the benign influence of a kind aad and merciful eathela Ea thera tare tare at least lea st this is the condition of those who reside on plymouth flat as it is the condition of all the residents of this great real county j |