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Show Great Opportunity Offered In Valley "Gunnison valley, with its broad acres the ahundant supply of water, the climatic conditions, the high class soil and the future possibilities, are appealing to me, and after visiting portions of Nevada, California and Oregon I am content to live in this valley, believing that its future is just as bright, or even brighter than any of the places or sections I visited visit-ed during my absence." Thus spoke Chris. A. Peterson, the well known farmer and sugar beet man to a News man yesterday. Mr. Peterson only recently returned from Nevada, where he has been for several months past assisting Fred Hinze at the Fallon, Nevada, sugar factory. His large farming interests in the valley demanded his attention and he expects to remain here indefinitely, indefinite-ly, looking after his interests. "Nevada, California and Oregon, particularly those places I visited,'.' continued Mr. Peterson, "are prosperous pros-perous and the crops generally are good, and the farmers are looking for splendid returns. But the Gunnison Gunni-son valley will outclass any of them when it comes to production,. What the farmers need here is more knowledge knowl-edge in handling the soils. Through years of 'cultivation ,oj! grain the lands have been run down, and through this are in a low productive state. Rotation, I have found out, is one of the best methods of restoring re-storing the soils to the high productive produc-tive state. . "During my absence and, too, it is a well known fact, pea culture is proving one of the great elements in renewing the soils. In many of the districts I find where the farmer plants a run-down stretch of land to peas he soon has it back to the producing state. Not alone do the cultivation and growing of peas restore re-store the lands but the product puts money into the farmers' pockets. Gunnison valley offers a splendid opening for a pea factory, and nothing noth-ing would prove better than to install in-stall one here. It will result in the establishing of a factory, supply lots of work for the idle, the forage is splendid feed and a factory here would speak well for the thrift of the valley. "Not alone is a pea factory a plain possibility, but there are chances here for other canning industries Tomatoes, To-matoes, can be successfully grown here. It will require knowledge and care for the successful growing to the extent to supply a factory, but it can be done, and if the enterprising citizens of this section will awaken to the many opportunities here the Gunnison valley will compare favorably favor-ably with any in the West." Marching in line with forty-six other states of the Union, Utah can claim its share in the remarkable progress that has been made by the farm bureau movement during the past twelve months, according to a membership report just issued by the American Farm Bureau federation. On June 1, 1921, this report shows a. total of 1,052,114 farm bureau members mem-bers in the United States, a gain of almost 100 per cent since December 1, 1921. |