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Show if!, YOU CAN HAVE A FARM I i , WHERE PROPREROUS HOMES ill PROVE THE QUALITY HBt Ii V 1 The men who built the first railroad B('' '; across tho plains, through Utah and HB 1ft' to the coast, had to tako long chances HBx I ' on making their Investment pay. Thoy H fj, ' ttcro compelled to look far Into the HH, . futuro for tho conditions which would BHj I' warrant so tremendous nn ontorprlso, BBl - j . And tho statesmen at Washington, BHE ,i j believing tho great road would bo a BBl . work of national betterment, wero H 5 II , willing to help. That is why tho gov" BBBK j; i. ernment gavo to tho railroad company BBb I ';, each alternate section of public land BBb j ' ' on either side or tho lino. Tho land BBb J1 certainly was worth little unions tho K , country were opened; and it could BHjL t not be opened without the establish- HHJ ment there of a railroad, HHr v So tltlo to these sections passed to HHf ' tho railroad company. HB l Later Mr. Charles Crocker ot Call- HBr i ( fornia purchased from tho ralload H j" company all of the 300,000 acres of its BH 1 .J 1 land In Box ttder county, Utah, to- BBf H' l "j gether with a great area of additional BH M 1 land to tho north; and thero ho ei- M m -A ) I tabllshcd a cattlo ranch. Time passed, BH ! ' , j nn1 ll'o property Increased in value. BH j j l Tho eastern halt of Box Elder BHV SI J county Ib a region ot known excel- HB ti J v lnco to the farmer and the fruit HB j raiser, or moro than fifty joars sot- HB 1,1 lef8 have boon making tholr comfort- Hj 5p) i Ilbl0 ftn1 IosperouB homes thoro at HH 1 ; fist making their selections whero HH Ml iby would, and later ebtabllBhlng Ii J 1 , thomBelves on tho oven sections '1 " l"oso not tsUcn by tho railroad com- I f pany'a grant. Thus an established I V j s tl h, condition ot Bcttleuonts and towns' HH'iiiHiHHB hne Brown up ftU tho Wfty frora tno BBM,rfi Ih&BBHBBl north Bhoro ot tho Groat Bait Lake bVhl'4 hhvhH to tho borders of tho Idaho country. Farms havo been producing In great abundance n wldo range ot grain and glass and vegetables. Roads have been established, and tho presence of water everywhere proved. That big region Is no longer an uncertain quantity. In July, 1909, a number of Utah gentlemen associated themselves together to-gether under the name of tho Prom-ontory-Curlow Land company, and bought nil the holdings of the Crocker Crock-er estate In Box Elder county a tract Including 300,000 acres, and extending ex-tending from tho lnko on tho south, lying between Corlnnu and Pelton on tho original lino of tho Contrnl Pacific Pa-cific railroad now tho Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, ami Including about 7,000 acres In tho fertile fields ot southern Idaho. And Thoy Established a Town In the northern central portion ot their tract tho now ownora established estab-lished a. town and named it Howell. In tho Bluo Spring country to the north thoy devoloped nn abundance of water, and repaired nnd extended the Irjlgutlon canals that oven In nn im porfect stato had beon so helpful to tho settlers already located and thriving thriv-ing on tho over, sections of tho land. Upon one of tho principal corners of the now town of Howell they havo re-! erected tho palatial country homo ot tho Crocker family long a landmark, nt Promontory Btntlon; and they find it ndralrnbly adapted to tho uses of a hotel. Mr. John L. Baxter has recently recent-ly purchased this proporty nnd U now running a hotol at Howell, J Continued on Pago C. YOU CAN HAVE FARMS WHERE PROSPEROUS-HOMES PROVE THE QUALITY Continued from rage 2. Jinny lotB lu the town already have boon sold, and othore are now on the market, lichiK held at what arc believed be-lieved to be ery reasonable priced. Ideal Small Farm Irrigated. The Proniontory-Curlow Land company com-pany has set apart 30,000 acres of choice Irrigated land, and divided It Into twenty-acre farms, which are now on the mnrkot. Kach unreel of this land lias been appraised, and none will be sold below the appraisement appraise-ment a figure so rrtihonntile as to be very attractive. All of this land Is under Irrigation. The fortuity of nil has been' proven by successful farming farm-ing In the Immediate vicinity, and under Identical conditions. livery grain and grass nnd vegetable pos slbo of cultivation In Utah is produced pro-duced there In splendid abundance. This tract' Includes the famous Dine Creek, ICast side. Hock House and Dllllc ranches, formerly cqunlly devoted de-voted to cattlo range and plow land nnd on which from twenty to thirty-five thirty-five bushels of whont to tho aero was regularly raised by the process ol dry farming, oven before tho benefits of lirlgntlon had been secured. Water Available Everywhere. Throughout the whole extent of this large tract water of the best quality can be secured by driven -wells and In quantities sufficient to supply homes and gardens nnd llvo stock. To the west nnd north of the Dllllo ranch Is the famous Snowvlllu country, embracing em-bracing a portion of Idaho's best soil. And all over It nro found tho comfortable comfort-able homes of farmers and stockmen. The soil throughout equals that or Cnclip county which has boon called tho granary of tho Inter-mountnln region. re-gion. And tho experience of successful success-ful farmers rcmoves-tho last element of uncertainty In tho mind of the citizen cit-izen who Is looking for a homo. Railroads, Present and Prospective. As shown by any map of Utah, tho southern portion of the great tract offered of-fered by the Promontory-Curlew Land company Is traversed by tho Southern' I'nellfe line, connecting directly with llrlgliam City, tho county seat of Hox Elder county; and so to Ogdcn and Salt Lake on tho south, and Mnlad, Idnho, on tho north. Officials of the Hurrlman'--system give ovory assurance of tho -early construction of a road from Promon tory Point north past Monument Pont, nnd through tho western section of the land company's holdings, nnd another an-other dlreqtly traversing tho rich Irrigated, Ir-rigated, region farthor east, by wny of tho now town of Howell. Oppotunlty for the Home Builder. This cntlro tract of threo hundred ncres offers an Ideal opportunity to tho farmer. Such portions as are under un-der Irrigation nre divided Into small tracts with the express-purpose of "putting people on tho land." The goat fertility of tho soil, tho pleasant nnd very healthful climate, and tho established condition which results from the presenco of good citizens already al-ready located and thriving, make these properties very attractive. They are certain to bring more than their appraisement. Thoso Uicts which are not Irrigated, Irrigat-ed, and which glvo no present promise of Irrigation, are of a character to in-suro in-suro tho vcry best rosults fom dry farming, or for tho raising of stock. Dut thoy have tho additional advantage advan-tage of undeground streams which can bo reached with driven wells everywhere. ev-erywhere. All the magnificent success that hns been achlovod at Lovan ridge, In Sanpete county, are assured horo on the lands of the Promontory-Curlew Land company, besides the known peBence of water within reach fov domestic purposon. Mr. George Crocker wns nn old man when he sold this threo hundred thousand acres to tho land company. 11 had ceased to be useful to him, and tho price ho made enables tho prcsont owners to assist materially, in tho great, work of "putting people on the land." The company believes that tho plan of dividing the land Into tracts and appraising them, offers the best inducement to tho purchaser, and that It will most quickly reduce the en-tlrctract en-tlrctract to cultivation, and produce tho consequent great Increase In property pro-perty values tluoughout northern Utah. |