| Show RAPID APt STRIDES Es ARE DEIN MADE IN I IllTA nF fRT tANn INTO 4 P j LARuE UI fERTILE fiELDS u a I. I Jat U U O Only n y seven I one one- onea one half h ha a I lf f per c cn nt t o othe of f the land In Utah Is 19 so located ocate that Itcan Itcan It Itcan th the can bo he Irrigated and according to mot most careful estimates about one half of oC the land that be bo brought ht under cultivated Modern Is now irrigation with engineering metho methods 8 In connection Irrigation work and th the conservation water supply are tending t tp revise re reIso revise re- re the of at possibilities of the estimates vise Iso earl early however or for irrigation n In Utah ties expert Irrigation posted rind the best befit will not pretend to give In Jn the lIe state number of oC acres the approximate transformed from Crom desert will be bo that the next ten teu years cars to Jard garden m In Is certain though and One thing how rapid the that Is that no matter lands of oC the rich farming development It forward Con carried b be state may of ot the tho the point of ot demand will nl never no reach co country un tn Illinois in the Intermountain cultivation up to 00 iO per centor cent is under and other eastern area or of Its total follow tallow closely close close- states wc western torn and middle of oC land which can In th the tho proportion ly Jy Utah with Its estimated estimated esti esti- cultivated so IO be and one half por per cent mated seven what It lacks quality must make ke up in actual producers In quantity t and the enabled to profit by bythe ot of the the- state ar are and demand to the the the laws n 8 of oC supply fullest extent supply of oc land In Utah The Tho available and the being taker taken up Is fast claimed find lI df are ure being h will nut put the tao pin pin- 1 ta at nt t a r rate ate which Will lands In n Utah at ata I irrigated oS of within a a. few row years year C H lIz pared I 1 1 I ted this demand for Irrl irrigated illustrating with which the lands the tho rapiditY the tho tato aro beInG being be- be water within and ami b by ing alcott up a nap map has been prepared prea pre pre- gaLlon Ballon office of the state cn en- en pared In the tho projects large the tho which for tracts the On this map within the thep granted water ater has been who act act- those I last four Cour y to contemPlate tuo ao in Good p ua building or of oC irrigating i ys- ys the he 1 marked marko and anil faith falth ar arom aVe are elj v at cover or 2 the they toms teals om blocked out ut I In r red fl and Jo of or these tracts tract ts somO acres On J ohava haVO been com com- i and and n the dams dam the tile last i twO vo years carH within On others Sop crOl's cl are already ad KW growing ro andS and anel Is P practicallY V next the hl work WorIc orl for Cor the crops ready read S water will be the thC companies others on or- or while wh beinG year ear are oro the operations opera opera- to finance vieW to early cIl with a In iii the region lions tracts are arc ot of I fhe largest lanest and south tile the Green i river comprising west of oC jUver town of Green In i the thc full Of nn 1 thirtY rt Vt u for rights tIghts and gna other other- tho the water to n fl II 11 poole Peale Jand credited ar nrc assigned to the n On the south Ind townships and tOI are there been hL c of oC for for- s aler and nud these the tho included by 1 hillS has watered will bO be tatu tato that I among thin tho tracts AidS Aid AlIl- futUre II H. n near aT In tile the right nIO 1151 townships I rich ii Iii full cull ten for Cor S fOl foi ls r e l tract ot oC have 6 ben been flie fhe n cent to theS the S. S water district adjacent ad or of thc northwest mauie Is rIver In north anI an where John A lel e Jl rights S oL 10 ivator I. I h H full hat lia oll lagie 1 corn com for about fl 4 Desert cent cent- I Ille rights 1 the t l' tn d for fol acres In Inthe P i e lout n of fr fI corr 0 the h i I. I p AVAILABLE LAND BEING IMPROVED Although States State's Supply Is Limited Much Irrigating I Is Contemplated and Alma lma Gre Greenwood and H. H It n. Tanner Tan Tan- ncr ner for or the Beaver Deaver Lan Land Irrigation company have applications for lor water for Cor nearly acres neres In Beaver coun county ty net Ti-net Inice Another lar large o area aren on tho tim map of or progress In the office of oC the state engineer shows a tract forming a semi circle around tho the northern end of oC Utah lake for which at water r will willbe willbe willbe be provided within the next year This tract Is taken u up already alread and the tho proposition Is simply Imply ono one to furnish waters from froni Provo Pro river to the owners o of the bench lands heretofore have hav been unable to get wati-r wati for the lan land This tract round around the base babe of the mountains I is regarded ll as 18 i perfectly u adapted to fruit growing and while work on the lie Irrigating 9 system Stem S 'S tem torn Is now under way the owners of oC the land hand are arc preparing to set out their orchards next spring Completing tho the circuit of oC the tho state there are re tracts in the Duchesne Basin In tn northeastern Utah for which water vater rights ts were gran granted last las t week to l' l F. F II Lott These tracts aggregate nearh nearly near near- i ly h oooo acres and arid the Hw water vater for COI Irrl- Irrl Irrigation gation gatlon will wll be taken trout from the Duchesne river through a 8 system o of ditches on which work will be started before fall fail Further over to the tho western part of ot the state Is a tract along the Colorado state line lino on the Grand river which Is controlled by the Fort Land and Irrigation company Th This Is tract will add materially to the orchard die dla- of oC the state and It Is convenient Rio Grande railroad to lh tin the Denver and With witti till all of ot these tracts representing represent represent- In lug ing every e part of ot Utah the available ble Irrigating lands of tho the state will w be I reduced to a small fraction of their present number within a tow fow ow years and the rapidly diminishing acreage Is used I cards as us ono one of the strongest t drawing by bv tho the men who make a n business of or transforming desert lan land Into productive product product- lye ive farms Canns' anne and selling the land with perpetual water rights |
