Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-07-21 | Page 4 | Spread of the Contagion.

I 1 I J SPREAD OF THE CONTAGION I I Ihen When hen tho the states state's proved that wheat would grow on the dry land land there helo beyond boond tho lie rl ridge ge oth oth- I frs TS rs took up a it t little land and made mad their own trials under tho the advice and direction of oC the tho experts The These e experts ex ex- crts themselves held helt to lo the view ow expressed b by young Farrell who is lt In charge chargo of or tho station Wheat heat ul l grow on cn dr dry iry land lund Business B S Ilten from rom and an nn occasion 1 dating furm started T first to take nd p of or the help the state wa was wala bringing them The valley Is no better better bet bet- ter and no worse than any other part partI I I of oC the state There arc literally millions mil lions of oC acres 1 of oC land in lit Utah fully as sure of as that has been beon proved out out Fh First t. t there thore was vas tho the little E space pace about the Incipient station It might not hot have ha seemed much to tho the searcher for or miracles It wasn't sufficiently swift and amazing But nUL men of ot Judgment realized cd th tho working of or miracles I Is not always alwa's an nn Instantaneous proc process s And the they took toole upland up upland upland land In tho the neighborhood They gave t e tea a dollar and a half hair nn an acre for COt mo most l lor of or it it for Cor four OUI years ar and live five years pars I ago ngo the state land board was waR willing willingto to sell for Cor that price It was the tho best bost the they could get set Buyers took off tho the sagebrush rhe They plowed In III Inthe the Oo spring and harrowed ed and anti In the lie tall fall the they sowed lowed Next summer the they reaped and threshed and got from Crom rain t twenty to thirty bushels of ot wheat Three years n ago o otho tho the state doubled doubted the lie price ot of the land Other men took toole what the they could get at that hint price and ond followed the example of or those who had preceded them TODAY THERE ARE TWENTY TY THOUSAND ND ACRES OF Or GROWING RIPENING YELLOW YEL LOW WHEAT THERE IN IX TIlE THE VALLEY VAL YAL- LEY WHERE HERE SIX YI YEARS ARS AGO THE TItE SAGEBRUSH HELD THE EARTH WITHOUT CHALLE CHALLENGE GE That reads Ilk like hikO a simple statement But Dut it is 19 a n. tremendous s assertion ofa of or ofa orn a n most Important fact act