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Show water in California equal to our artisian lithia water, and J while California may have us J skinned in regards to climate, J scenery, and sea shore, one can- J not appreciate these advantages J without an adequate income. J Now this is no knock on Cali- ' fornia. If I had $25,000 1 would move there at once and live hap- J pily ever afterward on the in- ; terest. But for a man with a growing family, some experience ', in farming, enough money to ', make a payment on a farm, buy ', tools and stock and keep him for ' a year, I believe no place in the country offers better advantages than Millard County. A man with no money will find it hard i to get a farm anywhere. While a Millard County farmer may have hardships and bad luck sometimes he would have it just the same in any other place. Distant fields look greenest. One may think that California, or Idaho, or Washington offers for more advantages, but a year in any of thse places would dis- close drawbacks that one has j never heard of. People of a j community, and particularly its j real estate boosters, never adver- j tise its disadvantages. This is j especially true of California, j Probably this will be the first in- i timation to the readers of the 1 Chronicle that they had a slight earthquake while I was there. ' Millard County is good enough for me.-N. B. D." ' California vs Utah Below we publish a letter from L B- Dresser, formerly editor f the Chronicle, and who has pent the past two months visit-lg visit-lg in California. "After a visit of over a month 1 California I think I have learn-d learn-d some of the reasons why so lany Californians are buying ind and making homes in Mill-rd Mill-rd County- To the casual visitor ; seems as every second or third lan one meets there wants to ell out. This does not mean hat California is an undesirable ilace to live in. Its climate, aried and beautiful scenery,,: ocial and other advantages make t the most delightful place for a lome. But all these advantages lave been capitalized and result in inhancing the price of the land. ..and everywhere is steadily in-Teasing in-Teasing in value and thousands if land owners see larger profits n selling their farms and orch-irds orch-irds at an advance of 30, 50, or LOO per cent, than in raising ;rops. This is true of the prune md apricot growers of Santa 21ara, the raisin growers of the Ban Juaquin valley, the grower af citrus fruits or the suburbanite suburban-ite around Los Angeles. The real estate industry is by far the largest industry in the state. More fortunes have been made in it than in the entire agricultural agricul-tural industry. With the stead advance in the price of land i1 has been increasingly 'difficull for a poor man, or a man of ever moderate means, to buy a piect of land. Of course cheaper lane can be found, but its inferioi quality or distance from trans portation makes it undesirable in spite of climate and scenery For a man with $25,000 and up ward California is all right. Bu to a man with $2,000 to $5,000 Millard County land at from $5' to $75 looks pretty good. It i about one-tenth of what he wouli pay for no better land in Califor nia. Nor do I believe Califor ni lands offer any larger net return to the farmer. Land worth $50 per acre must pay $30 to give return of six per cent on the ir vestment, and that is a ver moderate price. The cost c cultivating a prune orchard i about $50 ' per acre, and muc higher for citrus fruits I am tok While one hears of farmers wh have cleared over $500 per acr these are the exceptions, an these are the ones that are a ways advertised. Last year thei was a big crop of oranges, bi the price was below the cost ( raising. Prune raisers get froi three to seven cents per lb. f their fruit. The first figui means below cost. The latti figure gives a profit and is whi was received last year. Then is a continual fight against inse' pests and blight. " -Californ: climate is favorable to bugs i well as to humans. There is i frost to kill them off and lesse them, and so the farmer has keep up the fight all the yei around. Most of the Ca', farmers are dependent"" Vf?i crop and if frost comeL-s'X win out, water fails of & drops below costMhe farmer up against it. On a Millard county farm'oi can raise sugar beets, grain, -! falfa hay, seed' and' hogs', dai ' cows and poultry. When ho '. are low, as they were last yea grain is a good price; beets a . a crop that can be depended o alfalfa seed is always psfitabi if it is not always a suri"C"a And if hay is low it givepi "th much more profit to hoga a: dairy cows. We have no pes excepts tumble v"tj''"nd f tail, which will & fa?1 when the canals and dittl cleaiied up. Our produl V staples which do not havj marketed at gnce, and who prices cannot be easily manip lated. We are within easy cess to eastern and weste markets. I did not taste a |