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Show THE BERYL COLONIZER Page Two THE BERYL COLONIZER| BERYL, IRON CoO., official newspaper of the great agricultural Empire of Beryl. THIS ISSUE 10,000 COPIES Advertising Rates — 50c per Column Inch For Information — THE ESCALANTE Visit the Office of INVESTMENT 520 Ferguson Bldg., Los Angeles — CO., LTD. Phone MUtual 3277 Inspired By A Great Purpose “Necessity,”” someone has said, “is the mother of invention.” Let us add, “Crusades are the mothers of newspapers.’’ | Out of the crusade to save the elf-respect of American husbandmen by leading them back tto profitable agricuture, this periodical, The Beryl Colonizer, comes into being. _. The development and colonization of the southern portion of the Escalante Valley has been the cherished dream of Utah officials for a quarter of al century. Heroic efforts to this end have been made by several groups of intelligent men, eager to afford opportunity to their fellows and to enhance the resources of their native|State. _ | The Escalante Investment Co., Ltd., has been organized to realize the dreams of those patriotic men. The officers and directors of this company are investing their money and their time in this undertaking. They have brought forth this newspaper as their medium of publicity. When Beryl is launched, this [publication will become the official organ of the Beryl agricultural commonwealth. Dr. George P. C lements Careful Studies Reports Of Beryl Soil And Water (We print below extracts of Dr. Clements’ report, which report in full will be sent to anyone desiring it, upon request.) — “In 1928 I made a very satisfactory survey of the Beryl Pumping District of the Escalante Valley in Southwestern Utah. I found excellent possibilities for agricultural productions and a good offering for agricultural colonization. “The Escalante Valley comprises * about 300,000 acres of land and has and sandy clay loam. The greater a water shed roughly estimated at area being comprised of the for7,000 square miles. That portion of mer, “A ismall portion of the valley it known as the Beryl district con- | sists of a great brush-covered plain lying to the south and east of the the larger part of which is very rialroad shows a marked incrustalevel, offering very little expense in tion of salts. The soil analysis, would indicate insuffipreparing for irrigation and culti- however, vation. The land has a fall of about cient alkali to be of any serious to agricultural proseven feet to the mile to the north- consequence duction, as the crust (which repreeasty 2 “The Union Pacific Railroad tra- sents fa sublimation) is easily gotverses the northwestern side of ten rid of through washing and the valley, and the larger portion irrigation. “The top soil of the valley in of the agricultural lands lies to the general is of excellent quality, one south and southeast. “The altitude at Beryl is 5000 of its} peculiarities being its little feet, and the climate is much like content of salt. “One of the remarkable features that of other Utah valleys of kinof this district is the underground dred elevation—an ideal summer climate with frequent showers, a water] occurring in gravels at a ‘well-defined autumn and spring, a depth| from seven to sixteen feet winter, while generally mild and from the surface. From well tests _frequently snowy, occasionally fall- and ekaminations of a number of wells jin different portions of the ing to the zero mark. “The soils of this valley are valley, I am satisfied that there loams, being classed as sandy loam are several sheets of water avail- By LYDIA N. JONES SUNSETS AND DAWNS Every day is a fresh beginning; Ltsten, my soul, to the glad refrain, And spite of old sorrow and older sinning, — And puzzles forecasted and possible pain, — | Take heart with the day, and begm again. Illinois to the Salt Lake Valley. Persecuted Exhausted, braved the unknown sleep, today. Dawn homes in a wilderness of waste lands and desert far from the With signal courage, on July 24,% tion of a new life in Salt Lake The Mormon of today is still 1847, they laid the broad founda- persecuted by the sinister forces of valley. , economic depression. He is driven There are few frontiers left for in large numbers into relief work and the dole. For these temporary the Mormons of today to conquer. securities he pays the highest posThe westward march of empire sible price. He trades his selfhas colonized and developed most of the habitable parts of western respect, his initiative, his ambition, America, from the mountains to and his liberties as a self-sustaining citizen for a jug of water and a the Pacific Ocean. ‘The Beryl Pumping District, loaf of bread doled out by a paterIron County, Utah, is one of the nal government. Without economic last .great poem — _ NEED COSMETICS "Everything keeps its beauty by careful treatment. Health is enjoyed only through obedience to law. Wo-< man's beauty of face and hands/is retained in proportion to the care given fo them. It is her rightful obliga- tion to do her best to preserve the beauty with which Everything in the Beauty Arts. Few Equal and None Excell— EX-CEL-CiS S. Mer. WILKINSON, Bank the love of liberty lan- hew out a home farm in a Greet enthuse Hark! gate And for for the dawn, don’t over sunsets! the lark at heaven's sings, Phoebus "gins arise, steeds to water at those Springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: lady Arise, sweet, Arise! lost forever. new, undeveloped inland empire in Iron County, Utah, not far from Salt Lake City, the heart of Mormonism, offers again an op- portunity to the pioneer, who is unafraid of hard work and personal. hardships. Brigham Young urged ae followers to till the soil, build homes. and invest in lands and agriculture. His advice and counsel are as worthwhile today as in the early history of the church. It is the opportunity for individual economic freedom. It offers signal opportuni- ties to emulate the spirit of thrift, industry, self-reliance, initiative, ambition and enterprise which made the Mormon Pioneers great and eminently successul. With everything that pretty is, My are This of opportunity. arise! IDEAL sleep’s anaesthehas begun, when visions, new garnew thinking, ev- SEATING CO. 2202 South Vermont Ave., Los a. Phone PArkway 7938 J. — FRANZ FISHTER, Manager “Specializing in Church Seating” Beryl district will supply at least needed increase in ward controlled abundance, called on farmers today to “fill up storage bins” diminished by two severe drouths. “Another drouth might reduce reserve food and feed below the safety point,” Secretary Wallace said in explaining the shift of emphasis toward immediately increased production. “I don’t like the way the weather has been be| having lately.” Wallace estimated drouth would cent increase for the result in a 10 in food prices. pumping for W. be Cheminant — MORTUARY — 1936 per irrigation| purposes. I am fairly well satisfied In the Conservation of Beauty, Ex-Cel-Cis is the product of A. freedom, the Editor’s Note: This article, clipped from the Los Angeles Herald and Express of January 28, ts indicative of the grave concern with which the Federal Government views the existing food shortage in the United States. The development of the able God has blessed her.” the His The administration, in a shift to- YOU land Hark! RAISE MORE FOU) NEW DEAL APPEAL a part of the production. ) WHEN to Awake! we're or wash to the soul? Why grow old, when dawn invites us to get into stride? to give us—our palms are stretched upward in supplication to receive instead of downward in despair. A glow comes into our being, we have gained balance, faith, vision, and coming back to the ready to write a dishes! Why be under sia when day there await new dens of beauty, sire new is life’s eternal. merely realities open tra, time for the realities, friendships—precious minutes but morning that we face life, all empty to receive whatever it has work—to frontiers the hopes for indepenMormon of courage, foresight, and guishes, ambition, who-is still dominated by dence are thwarted, and the sterthe spirit of pioneering and the de- ‘ling pioneer qualities die out and renewal, Like the flowers, we grow best in the calm of morning. It is in the day’s privations, outposts of civilization. with the dawn, refreshed, we rise ready to begin work and the heavy tasks of yesterday seem such little ones prairies, faced hardships, the horrors of Indian hostilities, the unknown, foreboding fastnesses of the Rockies and the hazards of establishing waited and first gray we and driven from — their homes, they sought refuge in. the heart of the Rocky mountains. In search of peace, happinesss, prosperity and the right to worship God in their own way, the Mormons streak along the horizon, delicate tints of pink start blooming in the sky. There is a distinctive, fragrant odor of flowers, wet leaves, a freshness, a listening silence, experienced only with the dawn. Birds add to the beauty—one calls to its mate and then bursting from numberless gifted little feathered throats comes a hallelujah chorus heralding the miracle of a new day. Sometimes when the sun has set we are all tired out and think we have started more than we can finish. 1937 Brigham Young and his hardy Mormon pioneers blazed the trail of a Western empire in their trek from Missouri and It takes but little effort to see a sunset and to enjoy its glorious riot of colors. It takes sacrifice to greet the dawn, and yet dawn holds the keynote of the day. Dawn is the promise; sunset is the benediction. Have you ever gone into ithe garden very early in the morning— just before dawn—and listened? After the 15, Brbham Young’s Courage Would Fashion “Paradise” On Beryl’s Virgin Lands GATHERING FLOWERS UTAH OFFICIAL ORGAN |OF THE ESCALANTE INVESTMENT CO., LTD. To be issued periodically for the present and later to become the March of America HUNTINGTON PAR JE-0691 5 ildi . CALIF. ‘also that these sheets of water moving water. In other words, they represent a brimming cup, excess of which is flowing over rim. “The Beryl district offers to are that the the the farmer and investor, incomparable advantages. It offers sub-irrigation, natural drainage, good rich loamy soils, fertile and productive, good irrigation waters from the natural reservoirs underground, and ideal climate, rapid railroad transportation, and an ideal alfalfa seed producing district by subirrigation.” Dr. George P. Clements. W. D. 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