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Show I I WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH I I OUR EMIGRANTS AND I I WHAT KIND DO WE WANT I ; H it Front ftvo years experlcnco In H R Southern California, the (list answer H jj to this question would ho ,ve want. m "Tillers of tho Soil." H . II I think It can be stated beyond eon- H ;H tradlctlon that a man who will give H ' tho proper attention to cultivating H ' 'I commodities tbnt can be raised on an H aero of our soil, can inako more inon- i i cy per acre than In any other section H J In this or any other country, but it H Is like any other business, It must H ' ' have close and careful attention. I believe firmly within flvo yearn B I after the l'anama canal Is opened the B population of our Hlatu will be B doubled and In time wo will bo ono of B no richest states In tho union, H ) Flint transportation by water and B by rail will open tha markets of tho H world to us, and this will mean that B wo will havo one thousand manufac- B ' turcrs to ono wo have today. lmlcol H believe the territory between Los H Angeles and our port will bo occupied B mostly by largo and small mnniir.tc,- B turlng plunts ,who will require all B kinds of Bkillcd labor. B I need not point out to you at this B tlmo the commodities that wo grow B and nru now being shipped all over B tn'8 country and to foreign lauds. B These shipments can eiiBlly bo more B than doublo and the cnterprlslm; B merchant can without doubt find mar- H e,H fr same, as tho Hterllug quality B of tho "goods" sell them. B When some of our friends arrlvo B noro tnc' will be surprised at tho B prices asked for our best lands as 1 H was when I camo hero flvo years ago, B yet I presume- n great many of them H w'" l' as bavo done, buy acreage B in Southern California; but I havo B " dono more than this, believing whon H the I'auamn Canal Is oponed a very B largo number of farmers will locate B In the States of Novaila and Utah B where cheap and good lauds can bo B purchased. 1 havo been buying what H has commonly been called "doseU" B lands in Utah at from $2.00 to $1.00 H Pr acre, and believe I urn safe in Bj saying those same lands will, within B !l fov years, Increase In vahio th Bj same as laudu havo In Kansas, No- Bj braska and other mlddln western H states. It Is not so many years ago H you could have bought oao half tho B farm aereagu In Kansas for less than B -3.00 an acre, and today you cannot B buy the same lauds for less than H $100.00 an acre. BT I know you must realize what II B will mean to tho wholesale California B. merchant whon tho states of Nevada Bt and Utah are populated with thrifty B furmcru and nicrchants. Bj 1 represent a railroad that runs Its B trains between hero and Salt Lako B rli. 701 mlliiu nti.l tlim-n nui utt Bj good lands along tho lino of the road BJ as thero arc in any eastern or mlil- B die states. Tho enterprising farmer B can piocuro water and In huge quail- B titles. Tests for 'water havo been B made in what Is known us "diy farm- B Ing" territory, which proved most B successful. Indeed I know of several B cases where pal ties liave boied foi B water and found It from nlno "to B thirty- six feet from tho suifnce. B Those socalled desert lands havo B been neglected from tho fact that It B wns believed no water coild be found Bjj yet the country Is full of uuderBround Bj ' rivers. H' Ih I.as Vegas, Nevada, valley, there H aro today over ninety-five artesian H wells niul large tracts of land are bo- H1 Ing developed. Tho Las Vegas Fruit B Lands Company arc now developing H' 10,000 acres, Tho Clark County Land m Company 5,000 acres, nnd tho Winter- B wood Ranch company own largo B acroigo and aro planting 1,000 acres I In apple tiees. Thero are now In this H field II well drilling rigs, and tho H changes In this terrltmy within the M next few years, from "desert scenes" Hk. lo beautiful farms, will bo ono or Bmj tho wonders of tho ago V Tho Moapa Valley Is a second Im- Hc perlal Valley and It will bo but a B short tlmo until their shipments will S bo thousands of ears each year of S melons, asparagus, celery and Indeed V all kinds of early vegetables . H Tho State of Utah hifa dono a great H deal to develop their lands, tho Utah H Agricultural Collego establishing ex- perlmental farm sat different points H In tho state, ana tho result has been that hundreds of thousands of acres which have heretofore been used for H range purposes, and could not find n purchasM- at $1.25 per acre, can K now ralso from 30 to 35 bushols o( B wheat to tho acre. This has been do- B monstrated beyond question. B F'' our information will state B briefly tho Improvements taking place ft r- in Utah, In addition to the dry farm M ' ' system being taught b the state, Bh gm there has been organized, and und'M iWBVABVABVABVABVABVBkfer''' BBvBpJ9BpBK1 'At-i X development, companies promoting Ir ligation along tho lines of tho Salt Lake Railroad which will reclaim nearly a half-million acres of desert lands In tho following counties: Washington County ....150,000 acres lion County .. 50,000 " Heaver County .. .'. .. .. 00,000 " Millard County 100,00 " Utah County C0.000 " 100,000 acres of the foregoing iuo now ready for tho settler in, Iron. Heaver and Millard counties, and tho development work Is being pushed, Tills territory Is being populated dally by the Influx or tillers of tho soli looking for good and cheap lands. In addition to tho above tho U. S. laud office a little over a year ago, designated Tor entry, under what Is known as tho Sinont Amended Homo stead Art, 1,500,000 acres, 'and on January 1st or this year 2,000 entries en-tries bad been mado of 000,000 acres, leaving about 800,000 acres available under the act, and when tho U. S. (loveriiinent completes tho necessary surveys In the stato thero will bo several more millions of acreage open for settlement. Kemember, I am only quoting lo you what I am advised Is being dono In tho territory tributary to tho Salt Lake railroad. The passing of tho desert Is no better Illustrated than by tho (act that In pushing railroad construction across what up to that tlmo had been termed a "desert" much water was discovered and many wells wero sunk. These wells wero not sunk with any . reierence io nppareut uxibjch'i; of water, but wero sunk at points where water was a necessity for the operation of tho lino. Although It Is hardly known to the outsldo world .Southern Utah and Hastem Nevada contain a section of suniltropli: country formed by the rapid fall In elevation to the south and west of the rim forming tho original or-iginal basin of Lake Honnovillo (Croat Salt Lake). This semi-tropic area of Utah and Nevada will rival even tin lauds of Southern California In the production of everything save citrus rrults. Tlie development of this section sec-tion Is but just begun and with pro per lenseivatlon of tho water which flows throng this area, hundreds of thousands of neres, now valueless will be brought to a condition where they will support an Immense agricultural agricul-tural population. The rapid development of this se"-tlnu se"-tlnu seems to bear out tho prophecy innilo by President llrlgliam Young or tho Mormon Church when In 185:1, at llawir City, ho stated that soon-'it soon-'it or later this poitlon or tho great Intor-niountoln country would become ine granary oi iuo buuiii-wusi. To help along n good cause the company 1 represent sent out laRt year from Salt Lake City a Special Industrial and KducatlonSl train, which stopped at tho principal sta lions In Utah and Nevada, where lectures lec-tures were given by experts In dry faimlng, agriculture nnd animal hus bandry, soils mid field crops, live .stock, homo economics .Irrigation and drainage, stereoptlcon views, etc., and It proved such a success, and was so much appreciated, that it was decided de-cided to send out a similar train this yenr, which left Salt Lake City on January 27th and It will stop nt 21 different towns wheer lectures will bo given on the different subjects. This train Is In charge of our Industrial agent, Mr. Douglas White, and we are Indebted to tho Utnh Agricultural Collego and the University of Nevnda for their hearty support. Tho personnel of tho party on this educntlona tialn being. Prof. Lewis A. Morrill, director of extension ex-tension woik and dry farming experiments, ex-periments, Salt Lake City, l'rof. Cordon 11. True, professor Agriculture Ag-riculture anil Animal husbandry, Uulwralty of Nevudo, llono. Prof. J -C. Ilogenson .soils and field crops, Utah Agricultural College. Prof J. T. Calne, 111, live stock, Utah Agricultural Collego. Mrs. U. llunrord, homo economics. Miss L. Ivtiis, homo economics, Utnh Agricultural Colleg'. Mr. L. M. Wiusi.r, It ligation and drainage, Utah Agricultural College Mr. Hd. W. Howling, In charge of ste-rcopticun ste-rcopticun and demonstrator, Utah Agricultural College. Mr. (iotlelh Smith, In charge of live stock. You can see from this what wo arc doing In jour sister states. Wo expect to keep this good work up, and any man with nerve and push, and n lit-tlu lit-tlu money, need not bo afraid to come to this country. Thero Is room Tor such men and they will hell) to build up this great Stato of California Califor-nia so It will be second to none In the United States. . o |