Show r WILL REDEEM THE DRY L Li LA DUtah JD D D. D Utah people of the present and of tho the future will thank Senator Smoot for foi securing favorable favorable- action l y tho the senate on his lila bill for or tho reclaiming of or arid land It Is to be hoped the house will decide In like lito 0 manner and ind that the measure mB may become a l la 7 at tho the earliest possible moment Utah has hns a great deal of ot land hand which is Impossible of ot Irrigation It is fertile fer tile Ule as has been proved by man many dry farming experiments in various parts of the state But Dut the impossibility of ot getting water to it even in quantities I needed for domestic uses will prevent Its ever being reclaimed under tho the present laws Jaws By Dy the terms of or Senator Sena Sona- tor Smoot's Smoots bill citizens may mar take up three hundred and twenty acres of or such land an and b by cultivating a portion portion por por- tb tion of it perfect title to the whole whole- and this without the nce need of or residing on the laud Dr Dry farming has bas proved that wheat wheat and ln other grains root crops and even trees ma may be grown upon this arid hand and It will be e possible b by encouraging encouraging encouraging aging men of means and small companies com corn panIcs to reclaim every e acre of the state that is capable of plowing at all aU It t mean a a. vast increase in tho the productivity tI lt o of Utah land It means an addi add tIon lon to the taxable property of the state tale And Anti it means a vast ast increase of f opportunity for tho the people of tho state tate Just what will ill be the effect of this tills extension of vegetation into the desert no o one oue can now tell teU But arguing from rom analogy there 1 I 15 reason to beeve believe be- be lieve eve that after some somo years ears of successful successful success- success ful ul tillage of the new arid lands there thero will be an increase of moisture and that hat the desert ill Vom indeed blossom that hat foliage and grasses will adapt themselves to those c conditions and I flourish as wheat ca can be made matle to thrive after a few years oars of persistent selection an and planting And In that J I I Ida Iday I da fay day the 1 homes om s will follow the plows There will wIn be settlements In the land Jand that hat Is now desert There will be eel col- I of homes and a permanent I conquest of the tho wilderness s will have hare been achieved i I None of these better belter conditions can be he realized with the laws as at present pres I ent so that the new ne law which Senator Sen ator Smoot expects soon to have perfected per per- per I v. v will ihl certain certainly reclaim much of the now waste land of the state tate and make it productive but it makes possible the transformation of the tho whole surface of the state An And this Is a definite service to the people |