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Show I, Independence. m. Speaking of the independence of farmers as H, a class, devotees of the agricultural art have only ;- a faint idea of the significance of the term un- I' til thev have inspected some of the farms re- H ' claimed vith artesian water in the Parowan val- H ley. The farmer who is dependent upon the H whim of some big corporation for the vital .fluid with which to mature his crops, or the dmall town H farmer who draws his water supply from a ditch in H common with a dozen or two of his contemporaries, H and never knows when he goes to bed how soon I some thieving scalawag will divert the water I into other channels, can hardly be regarded as H independent. H But take the farmer in the artesian well belt H of Iron county, principally encompassed by what I is termed the Parowan Valley, who has from one H to fifty young geysers pouring forth a small I river within the boundaries of his own homestead, I with an excellent quality of soil on which to apply I it why that is what suggests to our mind the H ., independence of tho farmer. '" In tho Parowan valley are many thousands of I acres of land embraced in this artesian well belt, I and already wells aggregating hundreds, have H been bored. The flow from these wells range from GOO gallons per minute to a mere trickle, but B wells supplying up into the hundreds of gallons H per minute are common. H Above the artesian well belt, is a liberal strip of H! territory known as the pump belt. On this tract H' the water will not flow from the pipes, but can be H pumped with gasoline, electricity or other avails' avail-s' able power in large quantities. With cheap H power, such as electricity,- there is no doubt but Wt - that a largo acreage of good land will "b reclaimed -, in this way. And this brings the homesteader H to the boundary line of the present fields, which H are irrigated from the canyon streams. H , ' Most assuredly tho Parowan valley is a highly H ' favored spot from an agricultural sense, and fool- H ish, indeed, is the young man of that locality who H turns his back upon the opportunities at home H to seek a residence in Idaho, Wyoming, Canada H or some other distant land, where opportunities H. ' are in many instances not one-half so good. H -Let's look for opportunities in our own door I yards before going to the ends of the world to H; seek for them. |