| Show gag f ao U utah s resources and possibilities utah la Is not only a locality it Is a type it cannot be defined by merely mentioning parallel of 0 latitude we think ol 01 it and love it U aa as the dreamland of the mormon people and na a a region rescued from barren ness and made a lome home for or hundreds and thousands th of people salt lake Is r really ily its metropolis but ogden logan and provo are prosperous crous anil and progressive pro gressle cities whose tion increases only less rapidly than their ambitions one of the first things tor for a stran per ger to do in to take his lis hat oft off to our STATE for utah Is a pioneer ot of irrigation a master of dry farm ing a great producer of sugar beets excelling in fruit raising successful in dairy products her salt 11 raises anything the resources resource a of utah with her mountains of iron and cop per great areas of coal Inex haus tible supplies of salt mines of or gold and silver oil in abundance and acres of asphalt are just becoming known ita its development Is rapid and it la Is a rich empire within itself utah Is a young state we have 54 cres or square calka miles of land in the elate state acres are subject to agricultural but of this vast agricultural area leas less than one tenth is cultivated at the present time this fact alone shows the grat great possibility tor for agri cultural development more lion and more intense cultivation of he the soil Is needed for F or lr ir righted farming the principal rivers of utah discharge annually a total of acre feet of water ac cording to the report of the utah Con conservation commission with mil lions of gallons of subterranean water that will be brought into uso use as wv ur population demands dry fanning farming his has been practiced ince since the dawn of civilization in egypt and in india ahe farmers ol 01 utah lave tave been raising crops on dry farms with a rain fall of less than 15 inches for more than half a ten century tury the beginning of dry farm log ng in our state occurred through an tec ident in a little compau compan if f immigrants settled in the dear bear liver valley and diverted the water from the malad river for irrigation purposes tho the waters were so heavily laden with alkali that in a few years heir beir landa lands were so impregnated with the noxious salts that crops were un ble to grow upon ta tiem em in despera derpera dou alc n the settlers put the plow in the oge sage brush around and planted seed in lit the soil sell that was not to be birri rated chev succeeded in their work md nd since then dry farming methods have become inore in vogue every atar tar mid today with frith the proper method urd have been made nod and 35 3 to 60 bushels of wheat per acre are produced utah offers special inducements to prospect tl ite ie settlers under the en act whereby acre i of arid land can be taken up by one ove citizen ani title obtained without residence by simply putting one half of the tract under tion within flie fise years today the product of these dry farm areas ex cell in quality that of any other class of lands the average yield of wheat throughout the united states for the last la t ten years was less than 14 bush ea cla per acre while utah has hall produced from 60 to 82 bushels per acre on irrigated lands noth with standing anding et the fact that our colls molls have not been intensely cultivated we aland and second in wheat production second in oats first in barley first in alfalfa seed first in sugar beets and second in potatoes tho the average yield of oate oats through out the united untied states was as push bush els cis per acre while in our state we bave have produced bushels per acre the average yield of potatoes ea th the untied united states la Is 85 bushela per acre while utah produces produce an average of bushels pr por sere all n I 1 h hns his is produced as mitch as add 9 bushels on oil ono acre and from to 1000 bushela bushels of contons per acre 23 25 tone tons of if tomatoes 40 tons of sugar beeta beets and 7 tons of alfalfa bay per acre one hundred years neo are ore gren brit nine average yield was abol abo l the ome for the above products na as the united states at that time a koy roy al at commission was appointed to stimulate agriculture and proper cort COA atlon of the soils now Fri england gland produces 32 bushels bushel of wheat per acre germany 28 tie lie netherlands 31 3 and france 20 of oata oats egland r produces 42 germany 46 the nether inns lans 53 germany pei filli lid 1 great britain averages es bushels ot of I 1 po aloes per acre ana and d I 1 ing the tact fact thit enough potato eps i rould r be raised in utah to supply the he united states there was wall import imort cd ed into our country in 1909 1900 8 bushels fruit growing as yet la Is in ita its infancy but enough hrs been done to abow that its opportunities re unlimited apples reaches pears plums plum s strawberries ethaw berries and garden truck are all produced pro dured in large quantities qu entities the and soils here are remarkably mar kably well adapted to the production of apples and vearlon I 1 ro r commercial orchards are being plan d as farmon farmers have found that a good irrigated ot clard Is the ni linstad miln stay of the farm business and a peach or apple orchard will yield from 11 1 to 4 per acre utah poaches peaches are famous fatuous in dox box elder county the liberia peaches are grown to a most wonderful size they are also high ly developed de eloped in ciche cache valley weber davis salt bait lake and utah counties t la is a demonstrated fact that the elberta peaches can be shipped to the eastern markets and keep perfectly for six weeks and find a ready sale in competition with the bout best irelta of the sections nearer the point of eales sales NN vi have laic all kinds of climate in utah from tho the semitropical saml tropical to that of perpetual winter in the higher mountains all kinds of fruits cin be grown flea figs almonds grapes and pomegranate gra nates and the finest cotton thrive in southern utah our dixie land ibe the products of this region are much aousha though Is dim cult cull the advent of a railroad Is only oni y a matter 0 of time tor for as the state grows so must dixie for ita its climate ind soil sell are emalen only in lit southern bout bern V california and the traffic from that section will be enormous something of the future as well as the present magnitude of fbi fruit industry in utah may be gotten from the tact fact hat last year from f om the onell one fifth fth of its planted area that Is bearing fruit 2000 1000 car carolana caro ladd of fruit was as shipped d that surely means that when the intire i planted area Is bearing the output will bo be carloads a year people we must have in our state vve bare have the room and anti the tho resources although he the dairy industry la Is growing utah Is still unable to sup ply the demands of her tier growing population we havo have cows la in the state or an aver age of five cows to each lura farm lu ra but we need more of the manufacturing indest tea sugar lead utah vas as the first otate in the union to make sugar froni from beets grown on irrigated lands linds in 1889 I 1 8 sa there was 99 pounds manufactured in the five factories the value of the product at 4 cena cens per pod at the factory waa was 1920 4 people who live in utah do net nt realize the advantages ol 01 the state and the necessity of placing these advantages more clearly before i the people of this country Is appa rent utahna believe in and are loyal to their state but in the burry hurry ot of ea everyday eer ery day 1 e they do not always post as well aa as they should about ti home 0 me affairs for example compare utah with new now england gland which has 66 squire miles and people with new york which baa has square miles and people with pennsyl Ienn syi vania vanla which has square miles and 7 people with denmark thich alch has hns square miles and people with krince 1 ranee which haa has square miles and 39 9 52 people while utah has ba square miles and only people these few fidares figi irea are given to show that utah haa has territory fulti dent clent to support a much greater population ula tion and ehe she has the resource resources tor for the support of that population if these resources ire i re wisely eded utah s mineral resources which have been an important factor in her growth are aa its let et only partially developed mountains of iron irrin ore with coal in inexhaustible in quantities are as yet untouched while the marketing of salt from BU salt beds 60 nilles miles square and five feet deep has only just begun the estimated prodoc rp fy lion of some of the minerals for 1910 Is copper ibs lbs silver 0 S lead cud pud zinc fold 5 1160 coal tons ce ment mt bands barrels gilsonite 0 1 95 t i the tintic gintic district produces an enormous tonnage of smelting otes while park city the amous silver lead camp has produced over a bun dred million dollars to besides the me millions paid in dividends and the largest copper mine la Is the world orld Is situated in benghim bingali irn there ar mountains of iron at ron ten springs iron county located in louthera lou thero altah and expert testa tests have croven that our deposits of iron are amon the largest richest and meet valuable in the world tolay bolay the cs es timatea coal area of utah Is 14 square miles with an nn additional 2000 inu tre amiles of workable wor kabie coal the coal region Is divided in three 11 tracts th uintah the utah and the weber the coal wealth re iches the enormous sum of and in 1910 tons were mined havlir these opportunities in utah r the question Is asked why new yett rett lera leTs peeking homes have passed through tia this plate in the last ten years going 1 to other points alere tl ere arn various re irons vb there haa has been a greater drift to other places and some of them are not in tho the control of 0 any ono one but there la Is one fart fact that Is vcr verv jbf marked about some 0 of the 0 her states wech hould should be 1 H ten note ot 0 by the commercial flub clubs and by the sate aa as a wh a I 1 and that lo 10 that aam of or the them then n have pursued a mar noro more energetic una a turp sive in advertising and in placing the attractions resources ami and of these states before the I 1 people our state will wilt aln mil tall lion lions ot at aptt settlers lers and we ve invite any and all settlers cettl era to investigate the wonderful possibilities and great I 1 wealth of our state for we fee feet auro sure they would then settle atle here bore and call utah homo home 1 |
