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Show : (Gunnison Valley The ! Granary of Utah. The last issue of "The Railroad Red Book" published by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, has . the following to say of Sanpete and Gunnison Valley : "There is no land in the inter mountain moun-tain country more attractive or of higher quality than this fertile valley along the line of the San Pete or Marysvale branch of the Denver & Rio Grande system. One of the towns of this most productive section of Utah, in an agricultural sense, is the home of one of the west's best known sheep and cattle breeders a man whose stock has been exhibited from coast to coast, and whose herds of famous Ramboulstts have taken first money in uearly every state of the Union. Fuither on south lies that part of the state known as the graniry of Utah, tho fertile Gunnison valley, first reserved in early days as tho Gunnison Indiab Reservation, and one of the first districts settled by the picueerB, This productive valley has been the home of the farmer since 1849, and since 1884, when the land was formally opened to the settler, continuous crops have been raised on most of the farms. The Gunnison Valley Reclama'ion company has acquired mere than ten thousand aoreBofthis valley land, and a large portion of this land is particularly particu-larly adapted for apple orchards and other fruit growing. Grain has been the crop of I he pioneer pio-neer farmer, and surprisiug as it may appear to the eastern man, some of these farms have been in what continuously con-tinuously for twenty years. Last year's average on these very farms showed no less than sixtj-five bushels to the acre. Wheal ruus as high as eighty bushels bu-shels to the acre, svhile alfalfa seed has netted the grower $96.00 per acre. This valley is especially adapted to the growing of alfalfa seed for export. NotwitnBtanding la6t season was considered one of the worst in years, o le Gunnison valley farmer netted sixty dollars an aore from his alfalfa crop, and every farmer netted not less than thirty dollars an aore. Gunnison valley has the soil, an inexbaustafcle water supply, a splendid splen-did irrigation system, good schools and churches end everythiug that g et to make the section attractive. The time is not far distant v. hen this particular district will be one of the leading farming, horticultural and stock raising districts of this great Western Fmpire." |