Show MONEY lONE IS I If Tho problem of or the arid add region iclon is iss t s t the problem of new no ground in an any other othel part of or the nation Elsewhere the e soil was fertile ferUle from rein the beginning A man could raise his Ills food tood from the st. first Hd I could go into the thc the forest forest and clear 3 a Utile little space and produce enough to sustain himself and his 1115 family and his stock through the first t winter Inter Or it if ho he selected prairie land ho could get a crop the first year ear an and with i no more investment than plowing plow plow- ing ing ng But on tho arid lri ground he can not make a crop the first year ear He Ho can cannot not got water He lIe can not live Jive on hit his quarter section while perfecting l his ls title because the th pro production of or subsistence there is an impossibility Arid land Jand desert regions can b he reclaimed b by the process 8 of or dry r farming farm farm- ing lag That has been demonstrated But nut it t can be done only when men with money undertake o the wor work They have e to secure big tracts A whole I Section of six hundred and anti forty acres is small enough They can proceed to better advantage ad with an o even ovon n larger tract They must have ha steam am plows and steam harvesters and threshers hers The They must reduce the time timo of their invasions of at the time arl arid territory territory ter ter- ter- ter to tho the minimum The They can canin EO EOin o oIn in and plow with the tho help of or thir casU costly machinery turning over o many acres a da day seed it and then get out an and await the maturing of at their crop Then Then they can go in again carrying all all' their subsistence an as an army would have to do in a a. hostile countr country And AndS S 1 thus the they can harvest and thresh their grain and secure a n profit No o small tract of ot arl arid Jon land would warrant them In the tho big Investments In the they have havo to make mako to secure success with dr dry farming That is wh why Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Smoot has hils asked permission that larger tracts bo be sold to applicants and that residence on the land while whilo perfecting per por- title be not demanded I That Is wh why the land Utah will ask fr from m government promises so w well lI If IC the state secures some romo millions of acres of that lan land and can con sell It In large tracts attractive o to farming dry companies tho the desert can bo re Va- Va claimed The TIme productive power Ir f Utah can bo doubled And the value aluc of or tho the millions of acres of or government land mIld will be increased immeasurably And out of ot tho the proceeds of ot that sale Utah can build a no statehouse and a system of or good public roads |