| Show LAND DRY DRY LAND FARMING PROMISES SUCCESS George E. E Howe Returns From Cedar Valley tic Over Prospects Provo Fe Feb b 17 0 George George E. E Howe has has- returned has from front his property in inthe Inthe inthe the Cedar volley valley district feeling reeling that dry land seining farming In that section Is going J to be one of ot tho the best ventures of or orthe the day When that county was selected as state slate land a CI company of oC Provo men purchased Hi 16 sections of the choicest land Jand In tho he old Fort military reserve Last fall faU two tivo experiment stations wele vete made and grain planted on them hem The Thc grain is now six inches high and it seems that lint a n crop crun is sure Tile rite trouble is that hint water In the valley Is hard hald to get set A well has been sunk on the old road front from Fairfield to Mercur but at ata atIL atu a u depth of 1 ISO SO feet they encountered a haul hat pan pait which has stopped the digging dig dig- digging ging for tho ho time being I It Is confidently confidently con con- believed that surface water will vill be reached as soon as the hard hardpan hardpan pan line has been open opened cd up The company company com corn pany PRaY proposes to purchase a a. steam gang plow IIlo and amid go o Into litto tho the dry farmIng farmIn farm- farm lug Ing In on a n. lar large e scale The intention Is Isto Isto isto to have O a large area of the land nd ready for fOI planting in fn September of oC the tire present pres pres- cut ent year carThe car The test for moisture made recently shows s that lint thu tIn soil oit l I is moist to a n depth of or 18 or at 20 O Inch inches Another redeeming redeeming redeem redeem- ing InH feature of or the tIme soil soli oll Is said to be the thc absence of rock In slaking sinking the well to the tIme depth of ISO feet feel it s Wi discovered lime dis covered cO that hat the thc nature of or the soil soli was uniform from Crom rein the thin top tf to lie tho bottom the thc component parts being cia clay and sand which Dr DI J J. A A. Widtsoe says Is Ideal for dry cli farming Mr Ir Howe is optimistic and thinks ho he sees eeoc in iii the lie near future futuro ono one fa field c leI of or waving grain where once lay Iny Idle the tho unbroken sod of lh the military IC reserve r Provo people are arc not th time the only ones onus Interested In that lint section by hy any all menus means All AJl over Utah dounty nunly there are parties who have haw clubbed to together together together to- to gether and nd secured tracts of the he property properly property prop prop- erty erly and not Hot a few rew have ha catered the theland theland theland land by homestead |
