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Show FINE WHEAT LAND AT $10 TO $15 AN ACRE IN UTAH i Land of Promontory-Curlew, Tract Pronounced Un- cqualcd in Value by Colonization Experts. FARMERS PROSPEROUS The uniform success of the farmers farm-ers who have settled somo 200,000 acres out of tho total 100,000 acres of the Promontory-Curlew tract of dr farm wheat land In northern Utah, Is attracting wide nttcntioi. throughout the cntlro west and inlil-dle inlil-dle western states, In northern Utah nnd southern Idaho, sweeping smoothly westward from tho foothills of the mighty Hockles, lies a wheat empire of tremendous tre-mendous possibilities Seven years ago this 400,000 acres of wheat land was purchased by a group of prominent promi-nent and successful western business! men and placed on the market. More than half of this erst tract, nearly a quarter of a million acres, has been settled by prosperous farmers. Promontory-Curley farmers havo been successful for two reasons: (ono) tho high productivity of the land and (two) Its low price. In 1915 moro than 3,000,000 bushels of wheat, oats, barley and rye wcro harvested har-vested within the boundary of the Promontory-Curlew tract, ono field of 300 acres producing over 11,000 bushels of wheat, an nvorago of forty bushels to the acre. Tho dry farm wheat land on tho Promontory-Cur-. lew tract Is priced at from $10 to i $15 an aero with ten years in which to pay. Tho splendid markets at tho very doors of tho Promontory-Curlew tract form one of tho big advantages tho property possesses. Salt Lake City, with is 125,000 peaple, Is less than four hours to tho south; Ogden U less than three hours away. Thi Southern Pacific railway traverses the tract Itself, and the Salt Lake & Idaho railroad will traverse the project pro-ject when completed, this road now being in the course of construction. Tho towns of Snowvllle, Howell, Promontory and Showcll are all located lo-cated on tho tract itself. It Is easy for any Intelligent farmer to flguro out just how advantageous this land Is when tho low prices of from ?10 to $15 an aero aro taken Into consideration, con-sideration, together with tho fact that It Is land yielding up to forty-flvo bushels of wheat per acre tho first year, and with the government guaranteeing guar-anteeing a splendid prlco for wheat for many months to como. Address nil Inquiries to Herschel Iiullen, secretary and manager, Promontory-Curlew Land Company, Logan, Utah. adv. tf. m |