OCR Text |
Show iUNTSToF7 ARlDFARMING Bishop Limt Krings to Subject Before Cedar City Citizens. COHTITTEE TO INVESTIGATE MATTER Sucjcct to be Further Considered Next Monday Evening; at Ward Hail, At tho regular monthly Priesthood meeting hold last cronlng in tho tab-orunclo, tab-orunclo, Bishop Luut, after disposing dispos-ing of cortnln ecclesiastical matters, stated that whilo eotno might think that temporalities vcro not lu order in a mooting of that kind, ho believed that any thing thnt tended to tho bottormont of temporal couditlons for tbo community made-for thoir spirit ual advaucomout, nnd with thnt end lu viow ho would introduce for llio consideration of tbo meotlug tho subject sub-ject of arid fnrniiug, aa an ontcrpriso thnt should recolve carcf al consideration considera-tion nt tho hands of tho pooplo of this city and vlolnity. Our neighbors neigh-bors in other parts ot tho stato are turning thoir attention to this branch of ngrloutluro, nnd mon of Jndgmont who occasionally visit this pnrt of tho stnto nro surprlsod to soo tho ox-collont ox-collont opportunities that nro afforded afford-ed for this species of farming in our neighborhood lying neglected. Tho stato leglslnturo two years ago mado an nnnronrlatiou of several thousand dollars for tho establishment of experiment ex-periment farms, to bo located lu various var-ious parts of tho stato in ordor to ascertain as-certain tho feasibility of tbo production produc-tion of crops .Without Irrigation, aud short as tho time bad been slnco this stpp had boou taken, rosalts of a very encouraging kind had been obtained. It had boon demonstrated thai crops of various kinds eouIdJup JSiiUE our XolihtrrtitfwVtoJsatlou JVb havo suiBoIeu jfreeipitatiou ir this county td'raiBo from 15 to 2C bushels of wbeotlto tho aero, aud oth' or crops lu, propprtion. A uumborof tbo mou prosont spoko on tho-sub'jfloi; 'that tho bishop hud introduced, till bolng very favorably impressed with tho idea of giving tho matter a trial, and thn result was that a committee of tbreo was appointed ap-pointed to canvass tho town and ascertain as-certain how many of tho oltizons wnutod to take part in tho establishment establish-ment of nn arid farm, nnd whnt amount each party was; filling to tnko, and to roport thoir' findings to n mooting whioh thoy woroauthorlzod to call at any tltno whon tho intorosts of tho movo domandod it. Subsequently tho committoo got togothor and docided to hold a moot, ing of tho parties favoring tho movo uoxt Modnny night in thoJward hall, nnd to prosonally visit nll tho rosi-doiita rosi-doiita of tho city nud Invito them to bo nresont. ' This is a very importnut movo nnd ou&bt iq 'rccivo tho support of ovory agriculturalist in tho community, not only In Cedar City, but in the sub. urban towns of Enoch and Hamilton's. Hamil-ton's. Several thousand acres of tho rich Boil that is so abundant in tho vnlloy, and for whioh thoro is no wa. tor, should be enclosed in ouo largo Hold and mndo to prodnco such crops as tho oxporitnonts lu arid farming havo shown nro practicable. 11 i i |