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Show Beryl Valley Progress Noted by 85 Visitors During Annual Tour i Approximately 85 state industrial, indus-trial, agricultural, and Cedar civic representatives took part in an extended tour of some 13 Escalante Es-calante valley farms conducted under the supervision of Lamont E. Tueller, Iron county agricultural agricul-tural agent, Friday, August 20. Included among the prominent state, county and city officials who were present during the investigation in-vestigation trip were, with the exception of Mr. Tueller, Hart Sanders, former southern Utah manager of the Utah-Idaho sugar company, L. J. Arnold, agricultural agricul-tural superintendent of the Gunnison Gun-nison Sugar company and new southern Utah U and I representative; represen-tative; Golden Kllburn, state extension ex-tension soil conservationist; Bill Hasfurthers, Cedar City conservation conserva-tion representatinve; Oral Henry, secretary of the Utah Soil conservation conser-vation service society; Bill Og-den, Og-den, state soil conservation engineer; en-gineer; Ambrose Myers, secretary secre-tary of the Southern Utah Civic Clubs association; Orville Isom, and Reed Bradshaw, representing the Cedar City chamber of commerce; com-merce; John Christensen, president, presi-dent, and John Hopkins, board member of the Bank of Suth-em Suth-em Utah; H. L. Adams, Iron county commissioner; John H. Pendleton and Edward Hunt, Co. veterans training supervisors and Thales Brown, Parowan high school F F A supervisor. The tour's main purpose is to secure more support for the Beryl area by convincing disinterested persons of its agricultural possibilities. pos-sibilities. A yearly affair, the trip was arranged by the county agent to point out to the civic county and state officials the progress that is made In the valley, val-ley, formerly a desert, and to point out just how the development develop-ment is carried on. In many instances, in-stances, on land that was vegetated vege-tated by sage brush only four or five months ago, fine crops of barley, sugar beets, or potatoes are thriving. The major development handicap handi-cap in the Escalante valley, according ac-cording to both Mr. Tueller and farmers of the area, is both the lack of enough electrical power and additional farm financing. A striking and quite frequent, sight in the area is wells utilizing utiliz-ing Internal combustion engines, a costly and comparatively inefficient in-efficient method, to operate well pumps, when the wells are located lo-cated directly below electric pow-er pow-er lines. Electric motors are both cheaper to operate and more efficient ef-ficient than diescl or dislate burning engines. Friday, most pumps powered by internal combustion com-bustion engines were producing water, while the majority of electrically elec-trically operated pumps were dry. According to Bill Hasfurthers and Commissioner II. L. Adams, there are 125 to 135 wells in the county pumping a combined total to-tal of approximately 200 second feet of water. If this total were poured into one stream it would be one of the largest Irrigating rivers in the state. Incidently, there were 172 night storage ponds built in the county in 1947 Mr. Adams concluded. Every representative present during the tour was of the opinion opin-ion that a crop rotation system would be one of the most valuable valua-ble assets to the Beryl area. The belief expressed by many was that a cooperative rotation system sys-tem practiced by all farmers in the area would greatly add to (Continued on Back Page) Beryl Valley Tour (Continued from Front Page) the fertility of the land, as well as increase production through scientific farming. In addition, officials said that producers in the area should build up their livestock herds as soon as possible. possi-ble. This would provide organic fertilizer, the Ingredients deemed most needed by the land. Lunch was served the group by Mrs. Parley Moyle, assisted by her three daughters-in-law, Mrs. Austin Moyle, Mrs. Gordon Moyle, and Mrs. Jack Moyle. Following Fol-lowing the lunch, many of the visiting officials expressed their faith in the area, and offered farmers valuable advice as to methods of obtaining, a more abundant harvest in future years. Farms visited and crops examined ex-amined were the old Clark ranch operated by A. J. "Pancho" Jimin-ez, Jimin-ez, sugar beets, carrots, potatoes, cabbage and onions; Durward Hall and Kay Terrel, alfalfa, potatoes po-tatoes and beans; El wood Thompson and Hollls Gribble. barley and land development; Jack Moyle, sugar beets and alfalfa; al-falfa; Ray Hunt and Austin Moyle, alfalfa, barley and land development; Blasl and Alberto brothers, suger beets, potatoes, beans and barley; Bryant Bea-cham, Bea-cham, alfalfa and potatoes; Tom and Cecil Gibson, potatoes and barley, and Stevens, certified White Rose seed potatoes. |