| Show STREAMS fROM MOTAN SNOW fIELDS MAKE HATH'S J ARID WASTES FERTILE AND PRODUCTIVE J II III I A V When hen the Utah farm farmer Carmer er wants want s rain he hr hi his simp simply turns It on and then when fOI for tho lie time lime crops have hn enough water he lie turns It off ore This Is tho the secret of success In iii Utah tah tah farming III In a nutshell water supply supply sup sup- for Cor while man controls the lie ply without walling waitIng on Nature the good 1001 of oC dante dame has done dono tho the rest In the lie way soil sell and atthe ut at Utah lands subject to Irrigation the tho present Ila tiny day aro are less than S per cent centor of or the area of ot the state but the quality of or these lands is not excelled b by an any Inthe inthe in inthe the United States and ancI there thero remains the millions of acres to oe oc taken up by thrifty Investor ostor and farmer and transformed trans traits med formed Into era gardens r Jo n of wealth Instead of vast wastes of or sagebrush and cac cac- tile t Fruit lands of or Utah on the benches benche and plateaus are arc better than tItan t the o fruit fruitlands fruitlands which arenow are arenow lands of western Colorado known price selling nt qt the highest now agricultural land Wheat hent paid for Cor lands hands In tho the all valleys s 's are worth morn more an u acre from the standpoint of productive pro pro- po possibilities than titan lands In an ail any district In iii the other raising grain-raising United States The Tue alfalfa lands hr produce pro western duce moro more of this his distinctively to the tue acre than any other alfalfa crop Is there thelo country in Christendom and anti known to the tho he temperate or not a n crop southern climate of the United States States' In be to advantage that can not grown Utah Great C ro Di-ro t. t Man Many a visitor to Utah and resident inthe In InI remembers the old map of r the state showed show a dotted clotted raph which the tho geography I iron area g-eo g covering possibly half haIr of tho the In Intermountain In- In region which was labelled mountain ter 1 Desert t rt anti In litany were ti The i I tl ireat the n stories t merican I It told id i of ca the vast an anti and waste that was so Indicated In Inthe inthe useless has been discovered dis the tho text lext books Now ow It covered erell that this tItle desert Is really the tho richest land In ill the tho ho world containing all allot of ot the tue essential mineral properties for grain and amI fruit In larger proportion of tho the lands where Irrigation than titan o an any Some ome of this land Included In Included In- In Is unnecessary Desert sert In lit tho the Great Gleat American is now selling at to 1000 an acre of oC the best farms ins In tho ho while many man East can be bought for less titan than an on acre that IH is the tue magic Irrigation This Behold Behold Be Ue has wrought ht tho hue transformation hold I will do a a. anew new thing I will even cven wilderness and the tho In tn make a wa way the lie prophet rivers In the desert quoted rivers d In the lie desert lles rt areto are aro o of old and tho ho to be found today toda leading from front stream farming and reservoir to prosperous com communities i nun i tie s. s of or the Various Illustrations Illustration HIU are arC given I irrigation projects and b by many earliest the credit Is given Iven to tho g Egyptians as successfully success success- to use Irrigation first people their crop In the tue absence ab ab- ali ali- In raising tully fully rain In tho the United States of settee sence and points to Brigham Youn Young history first Americans Americans Ameri Amen an nit the the tue Mormon Mornion pioneers Irrigation by br methods approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap cans to lo apply appl the modern systems and I before herol-e ISo some of of or th tho tue ditches around built Salt Sait Lake I. I still tr traceable arc are begins on on Irrigation Bible authority In InGen edition where e of the family page 3 3 the Gen ls 11 it II 10 10 In Describing told that this are earth rth we garden on thoroughly called Eden was garden And Anda man mun called Adam Irrl Irrigated b by a n river went out of I Iden to wa water lor tho the a r I this ills verse verso of or Genesis garden says Unfortunately the description of at Is not Irrigation project I Adams Adam's famous In terms term of technical 1 description couched host tion that could conid bo he ul used oll as a guide p to later Intel Irrigators and for man many years I marked markell the tho progress o of tho the science was WAg by the pr lC grades dt's in the s school hool of ot I ence C Irrigation In Iii Mm tit States In the United States had bath It ItI Its Irrigation practical beginning a IL few fe hundreds I yards north of oC where the lie 1 Eagle asle Gate I AMERICAN DESERT RECLAIMED Irrigation Is Magic Factor Which Turns Wastes Into Gardens now nos stands st at tt tho the corner iter of I and State streets In Salt alt Lake ComIng Coming Com Corn of oh ing log down clown from the lie mountain pass vass ht that Emigration canyon canon the sl sight greeted the thc Mormon pioneers on the morning of July 24 I 1847 was a strange mixture of oC tle desolation and anti promis furnished th the and anti arid plain Sage age brush picture of ot tlC desolation but two silvery creel creek threads from what Is now City and anti these bordered with green canyon furnished the promise of oC plenty which was Immediately reo recognized n by the pioneers Before nightfall tho lie little band Land had html nta made o Its camp on the banks work worl ol ot stream and tho o of tho little irrigation in Utah began the next morn morn- i In ing it g. g It Is related that this Irrigation consisted con con- of ot diverting a part of or tho the stream ditch that a small entail b by means of oC a 11 so tract planted to corn might be watered I Ia It was then lute late in Inthe the season an and not nota I a moments moment's time was lost In putting Ina In Ina Ina a small tract to corn cot and an wh wheat at so NO o that thata a at t least east tho the acan scanty ty supply of or seed be re replenished replenished replenished re- re brought ht across the tho lie plains might for tor or the tito next year Thus Titus Ir Irrigation Irrigation Ir- Ir In Utah began bel had hull The flu next year the tho pioneers spread out over the valley valloy antI and little gardens grew to farms while the Leis lera learned to bring tho the water from mountain streams amB Instead of ot d depending few before be hOi on rain It was only a a years Ylan fore their system begun bogun to grow so o that dams and res wore were brought Into use and anti the light tight Incidental t to conquer- conquer In lna- lna the tho lie desert was tras broadened In every warfare was wa way until t this his p peaceful soon brought to n a scientific basis basi tl Are Arc r This was tras at nt the time when flue Ihu pioneer settlers rs In some sonto parts of or the w rii states dates 1 were S felling forests and nd I I burning S ilg tho tue timber Umbel and auth then lien grubbing nt Il ln to clear their farms farina uc Desti-uc- Destructive slumps tive tite from Crom tho the very vcr start this method of oC making fat farms w was s carried on en until the forests of oC the I were becoming depleted at an nil alarming rat rate and thc tho United States government took tool a hand of or needless waste at nt preventing pre such resources of oC Ir Irrigation irrigation ir- ir On the lie other oUter hand tho the growth was in iii every sense of or o I the he the lie word a n constructive po policy II t. t Only of Intelligent ont labor lallor W was WI I nOCeS- nOCeS sary to utilize the lie water anti and tuna lana of oC Utah and almost from tho thin first tho ho for- for oste estee of or tho the state have ha been Jealously value a anti and guarded for 01 or their Intrinsic for the lie Indirect value of the tho lie woodlands In conserving the rater witter r supply Walter Waltor E. E In itt his story tory o of Making Mak Making the tho lie reI re- re ing the lie Desert Bloom sums Slims up suit HUlt of or careful cl scientific Investigation of or Utah Irrigated lands by saying The Tho d 11 Hort I is tho Ito most fertile ferUle because be- be I cause it ft itt l I the tue Having hunk bunk without withdrawals Plants need net potash any nn magnesia lime and other food stuffs I Just a as we te need animals and nd plants plant In the tiit Now In the humid land landet such an at failed for states the rains have 1 Eastern thousands thousand of oC centuries and they have wa washed h tl out tho the food of 01 oi tho the plants But HUt i In n th the e ar arid i d lands the rains hat o ha o fallen sparingly or 01 not at all Plants like most people must have food oo The American desert that was Inex Inex- Inexhaustible supposedly waste nasto lands Is an nn storehouse of food Coil for tor the plants of ot thousands o of eal to come conic three times t a.-t containing In places much potash sl six times titles as 35 much mag lung magnesia nesia teen fourteen times as much lime us uJ the humid lands o of the East Cast The desert Is the lie most fertile area arca arcaIn sounds lIko In the United States That It true Where dl did a i yet et is antiquity of the great tl at civilization arise Where but In Jn the fertile doe des Eg Egypt pt Syria Palestine Persia Arabia northern India hahn tho the north coast of or Africa were all arid lands Janus The Tho In Incas lucas in Jem Jertz the Aztecs Mexico reared their civilization upon desert lesert plateaus Tho Tile history of the tho lie Jews Is the tho history o of a desert folk Rain Is 15 all right rig in its place but bul It ItIs ItIs Its Is s a very poor substitute for tor Irrigation Otherwise wh why would the lawn lawns of our oUt cities be sprinkled or Irrigated Instead of t leaving them item to the tender mercies of t the clouds No arid lands are more noro fertile than ordinary ordinal lands and amI Irrigation is ts better than rain fain In tn tho the desert irrigated and antI fertile wo we shall find the public ImbUe domain antI and Ir- Ir Ir Irrigation allon Is Js better than ral raid better hetter That also aliJo sound like a para piira- lox dox but Instead It Is a n trul truism Which much Is S beeter to beeter-to to give a plant Just as needs antInet antI and than tItan It II water and It-id no more Just net when It needs It It or to pat parch It It drown mown It It according to the whim o of the tho clouds buds i In the tho last tow fow ow cars has grown lown experts and and of or Irrigation to 0 bo be a state ot oi of having the tho experience In n addition to Irrigation men who were the tho nr first t to of tho hit from front dependency break reak away ny un vagaries of nature in furnishing moist moist- moisture moisture ure ire for their crops the resources of the state slate In iii agricultural lines have drawn en engineers and trained ruined experts by the lie hundred These men come to supplement the have ave divert diverting Ins Ins- ditch with Its limited supply of f water h by iy building vast ast storehouses where for fOI 01 tho tue waters of the mountains Instead of oC allowing thorn thom to 0 rush tush off tl re h tl on Ii their way 8 to the sea sen Y He from Cram rot rot-n springtime until midsummer or nC nr aru and then thon lien released on only I an as wanted of or Thus where the lie early succeeded In iii making one blade of grass gra 3 s where none grew before the lie hydraulic hYdraulic hy hY- row grow engineer with the tue backing of ot capital anti and enterprise Is making a thousand thousand- tons of alfalfa lra grow row the he little plat Illa flou nourished flourished Th The grow growth th was s simple i mp l e an ana d t tile h e li oo d whit which of springtime gave t the lesson was to hold the lie freshets In Imm Immense n o or r reservoirs so o that in the lie streams from front which the w Irrigation Is he drawn ml might ht the supply during tinning th the summer be bo kept uniform through the growing instead of oC letting tenths nine-tenths season of oC the water WI go to waste in III freshets times when It was WIlS not needed b by tho tile at growing crops In Inthis this manner a tiny stream which In summer would supply made to tu is hundred acres acre few tew only a n of ot thousands of acres acre serve C hundreds hundred hun of oC the availability I In considering land for or Irrigation the investor or farmer must consider several several sev soy prospective eral oral Important features among Hmong which Itt arc soil soli climate markets and l per per- r- r mancy maney of or water SUII supply In all of features Utah stands foremost amon among the t states of at tho ho hoost West Yest The fhe arid lands landa of oC Utah show a variety of f soil noil that Is suited for Cor every nory known branch of agri- agri As AH bore outlined It Is fertile I with the mineral minerai products which ag agos s 's sI I ugo ago have hn been washed nl lod out of ot the tho humid lands o of the tho lie East Climate offered In Utah ranges front from that lint of Maine to that of 1 Florida In tho lie on Three SPARKLING STREAMS FROM MONTANA SNOW FIELDS MAKE UTAH'S ARID DESERT DESERT DESERT DES DES- ERT FERTILE AND PRO PRO- Continued from froni On Omie O East ERSt and the products of ot tho the state show a 0 like range rang In the big Irrl Irrigated tracts In the northeastern part of the tho state there lo Is the climate tp of or Minnesota with Its rigorous winters and warm sum sum- mers mere Snow Is plentiful with Is protecting protecting pro pro- mantle In winter which furnished fur fur- ur- ur the time water for or the tho summer crops while during the growing season tho percentage of ot sunshine Is not exceeded In an any state In tho the Union Coming back to tho the portion of or tho the state directly north of Salt Lako there Is a LL vast fruit and grain region where tho the average temperature Is hI cold enough to produce I the tho finest fruit truit In the world which In comparison of or flavor Is la so much more to bo be desired than the southern grown fruits II Hero Here re on the benches or plateaus along the mountain side Bide tho the peaches l pears ear appl apples s apricots and 1 plums are protected from frost by the updrafts from the tho valleys and time expanse of ot tho the Great Salt Lake Lako adjoining Through the tho middle section of or tho the state conditions for Cor grain lJ annul and nel alfalfa ate uio Ideal and In every portion of or Utah there are aro th the benches which are arc unexcelled unexcelled celled cUed na nil Dixieland cotton coHon oranges early and semi tropical semitropical tropical fruits grow In abundance I I fur for In considering markets one ono need only to call attention to tho the fact that with the tho growth of Irrigation In the last five live years The Tho cities of Or the the- and the hundreds of or mining camps ar are all an In linn line for foT farm products of or o every r description and waiting to pay good grood prices at points within easy reach of ot the producer Nevada furnishes an additional market to tho the West Vest and tho the demand for tor Utah wheat from both East and West would use uso every bushel that tho state could produce If tho the homo home minors millers would allow it to get ct away Utah Is 18 a a. state of ot well paid workingmen working working- men who live well wall and ana create creato a demand for tor all food stuffs of or a higher grade grado than Is used by the middle classes of the East Tho The water supply harbored In tho tine mountains Is a never falling source of ot wealth to the farmer who bu buys s his water rater rights with his land knowing to u IL certainty that whenever his crops need moisture the tho reservoirs In the mountains are aro at nt his command with their supply stored during the winter Conning Coming from the thc snow-capped snow |
