| Show A TRADE LETTER FETTER SPEAKS O OF MILLARD The following a appeared In ID the tho last Issue of the Trade Letter LeUer soU gotten n out by the National Copper Bank Dank and Bankers Trust Co of ot Salt Lake City MILL MILLARD III I RD J COUNTY i Is 13 the largest hugest county of ot the five embracing acres of which only 8 acres are in private ownership The fhe farming fanning acreage has been more than doubled during the thc past four years and now totals acres as against acres of or grazing lands The grazing land acreage however does not reI reflect reflect re re- I fleet the status of or the livestock Ind in- in industry d which represented a 1 vaI valuation ua- ua tion of ot O 0 in 1919 an in increase increase in- in In-I In crease of approximately per cent in four tour years The biggest Increases in the livestock industry from rom 1916 to 1919 were in sheep growing the number increasing from to and the value from 1073 to The remarkable increase in farmIng farmIng farm- farm farming Ing acreage was due largely to development development development de de- de- de of irrigation water by construction construction construction con con- of reservoirs and canal systems and by tapping underground supplies In some districts dry dry- t farming methods have been employed emI employed em em- I with success succesS- but dry farms arms are aro being turned into irrigated farms I as rapidly as water is available In 1916 there were acres of farming lands valued at and and in 1919 the farming acreage was with a value of Western Vestern Millard l county is devoted devot devot- ed almost exclusively to grazing b brit t tIn In the eastern part development Ja is progressing rapidly in two sections one one along the railroad and embracing embracing embracing em em- bracing Delta and Oasis districts and the other in the valley including the towns of Fillmore Holden and Kanosh The country around Oasis has been under irrigation irrigation tion for many years and is highly productive Delta Is the newest town in the county and the center of a big Irrigation project which supports sup y up ports a beet factory Although only about ten years old Delta boasts of two banks with deposits aggregating gatIng gat- gat ing In the vicinity of ot Fillmore county seat and early capital of ot the state and around Holden the land is being boIng boIng bo- bo Ing reclaimed by the extension of cf the canals of the Sevier River Land Water Company and development of flowing wells Canal extensions are expected to add about acres to the irrigated area this year About fifty flowing wells some ot of which are among the largest In th the West Vest have been developed west and southwest southwest southwest south south- west of Fillmore and thousands of acres h have ve been brought under Irrigation irrigation irrigation gation within the past three or four years Although adapted to practically the same crops as the Salt Lake valley valley valley val val- ley Millard county's chief crop is alfalfa except around Delta whore where sugar beets are an important factor Alfalfa seed is the most profitable crop It is s not unusual for tor the gross receipts from one seasons season's crops to equal or exceed the market price of farms bought In recent years ears There I are five banks In the county with deposits aggregating an nn increase of during the past live five years The two banks at Fillmore have deposits totaling about and the bank at Oasis has deposits of Thousands of ot acres are yet to be reclaimed in the valley We Ve can only add to this by saying saying saying say say- ing that an alfalfa seed crop alone brought the owner an acre and his total returns for tor last year Including hay chaff etc ran it to above And that 55 acres sold for an acre An another for tor and another for tor and many for and scores and scores I at nt And that our will more than double In the next five years ears a and d bank deposits will treble Such will be the progress and prosperity of Millard County with Delta the acknowledged leader In growth |
