Show I FARMERS W I I Petition to Legislature for Experimental Experimental Experimental Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Farm on Uintah Reservation ProvO Prove Jan 25 A A A number of the enterprising men inert of ot this tills vicinity who ure ure Int Interested in ho settlement nt of the he Uintah reservation will petition the legislature les for fOl assistance What theyva they want va t Is an n experimental station established es es- es- es an and assistance will vIll be so solicited so- so upon the following grounds lounds 1 It i is a new country countr of whoso whose soil climate an and agricultural possibilities tics ties ver very little Is known 0 11 2 It Is known that the altitude from Crom to lo feet Ceet and also the lie nature an and origin of oC the soil are different dif dlf- C- C I foment ferent from Crom those thase of oC other parts of or the state where experimental data have hac been collected In the time Great Oleal Basin area our soils solIs arc are tho time product of oC deposition while the lands of oC tIme the Uintah Basin are the thc result of ot erosion 3 In eastern an and northeastern Utah I there is a greater area hrca of or oo g-oo good tillable tillable till WI able able- laud that may be be- brought un under cr an and amid more marc df of it il will be Irrigated Irrl- Irrl gated before the tho JC legislature meets again th than n is at al' al ont irrig Irrigated t t d fn in time the whole state of or the time twelfth census census- l' l reports 6 acres total irrigated irr- irr 1 Jah gated lan land in Utah In I 1900 Tho United d tI States Slates Department of ture bulletin No 1 4 a voluminous report on irrigation fl Investigation In In iii Utah Ulah published In 1903 gives I es acres as the estimated total amount of oC irrigated lands In Utah tah I While in the Uintah reservation ulion J Jalone alone according in to our aur state experimental mental station bulletin No 93 there thero are arc approximately acres ol of agricultural lands on there there- arc are no al old settlers experienced farmers Carmels I 01 or other sources of or Information to toI I guide the time new settlers In avoiding tho he I expensive errors that In all probability will arise In u the attempt to use the lie I farming fainting systems that thal mo may have proved pros e ed successful In iii other an and amid totally unlike unlike un un- like sections of time the 1 country |