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Show "What Is that for?" "That's a farmer's farm-er's telephone line," replied Panton Copenlng. "Kvery farmer In this tract will be connected with each other and with Delta and Hinckley. Not only that, but they will have a rural maM delivery by the first of June." ."Gee, I'm rIikI I hoiiKht my land among this enterprising hunch of fellows," Bald the senator. "There Is where the new town of Alfalfa will be located." said Professor McClaln, as they approached ap-proached section 32, about 12 miles Irom Delta. "I suppose the Inhabitants Inhabit-ants will all bo hayseeds then," said the man from Missouri. "That's what they all say," replied the professor. pro-fessor. "Hut a hayseed In Millard county is some pumpkins. He Is a man who raises from $75 to 112." worth of alfalfa seed per acre, and we have got a good many hayseeds of that kind here and will have a good many more in a few years." Near this point the party got out and the professor artd the Parson proceeded pro-ceeded to take samples of soil at different dif-ferent depths for the Agricultural college. This was done by driving a pipe into the soil for a depth of two feet. The professor swung the brimmer, brim-mer, his long experience as a section hand and prospector rendering him an adept at that work. "What are you doing that for?" Inquired In-quired the man from Missouri. "T' enable the professing to tell Just w hat the soli Is best adupied for" replied the hammer ylelder. "We keep lii clowe touch with the Agricultural Agricul-tural college so they can help us out The farmers in Millard are no back numbers, but are light up to the limes." Hut what a big valley Pahvant !s! Ninth of the present Carey Act tract are tulles of level land upon vhlcii water will be turned before many years. All along the east side are thousands of acres more that will he ct'.tuiged Into waving grain field and blossoming orchards. And we have go' the water lor It if It I properly c. NM-rved. The only Incidents on the ri'Ic home w.i; hauling u loaded wagon out of a crossing where It hud got tick. and dodging broken planks In the bridges. "This don't look enterprising," enterpris-ing," said the man trom M'rsourl. ' In our back number stale wn don't let the bridges be In this condition lor a day, ami uo wagons ge' siuck. because the crossings are uiii I l:olo." "And you can't go on any of Die reads around Delta without Undid; just such bridges and cronlng.." said lien with some heat. "Walt till next year," said the editor, edi-tor, "and India will have a commissioner, commis-sioner, and then you will find qtil'e a different condition," and we ho,ie ve spoke the trulh. Did the Missourlan buy? You bet be did. Like every other man who C'lincH out here with the stuff and Is not too laJo to find the tract that exactly suits him. Hut you'll have to hurry; Its going fast. Yel probably anyone of our real estate men or the Chronicle editor himself could locate you on a tract that would have more all around advantages of soil, climate, markets, water, scenery and price than any land you could find elsewhere. else-where. Come out and take a Joy ride with us. them," "Yes, we sometimes run them thirteen months a year," said Par i son ('opening. j "Here," said Professor McClaln, as we approached the river, "Is some of the finest land to be found anywhere. Look at that rye. See the alfalfa starting. The land has good drainage, drain-age, close to the river, will never bake and will raise anything. When I analyzed a sample of soli from that section it assayed seven per cent alfalfa al-falfa bacteria, fourteen per cent saccharine, sac-charine, showing It was first class sugar beet soil, sixteen per rent gluten glu-ten and starch, the finest kind of potato po-tato land, sixteen per cent protean, twenty per cent alumina and thirty per cent silica." "What was the balance bal-ance of It?" asked the man from Missouri. "The rest was aqua pura and phosphate," answered the professor. pro-fessor. "Remarkable land," commented com-mented the senator. The brown flood of the Sevier river were coursing under the bridge as we passed over it. and the roar of the water pouring over the spillway came to our ears with a gentle murmur. "Do you know there are lOOOacre feel of water going over that spillway spill-way every day for three months or more In the year after the big res ervoir Is filled?" said the professor. "Knoiigh to water over l'lO.Ouo more iM-res or land. With the proper conservation con-servation of the water In other storage stor-age reservoirs we could water ul least IhiO.OiM) more acres tif water than Is at present under canal. You will yet see this whole valley dotted with green farms, blossoming with orchards orch-ards and populous with villages." "Yes," said Parson ('opening. "This is truly the land of promise." On every side farmers were busy curing their land, plowing, planting, plant-ing, and some were alreadv running the water onto their farms from the b:iuk full canals. The green shoots of wheat were showing in many places where the larmers had sown their grain early, and everything gave promise of abundant crops. Kv erybody seemed to leel cheerful. M.g while gulls followed afler the Iar,n-er's Iar,n-er's plow, and In every barnyard led combed chickens were picking up a pleittilul supply of raw maieriai f ir flesh eggs. As the car spe I northward, new farm houses, barns and ter.ts were to be seen on every side, indicting the home of many new comers. The Tlntlo range of mountains broke the northern horizon, their serrated tops marked by a thin line of snow. The black Drum mountains bounded the western horizon, and on the east was another range, Its deep canyons filled with snow whose melting means prosperity pros-perity to the farmers of this big valley. val-ley. Through a pass In (his range the lofly sides of Mt. Nebo rose 14,-noil 14,-noil feet In the air, clothed In a cold and spotless robe of white from base to summit. Who having once lived among the mountains would ever be content to live on the level plains of the east? Certainly not the editor. "This beats Missouri," said the man being shown. "You bet." responded the senator, "and Nebraska, l.io." We were passing the Nebraska man's IliO and he got out and examined the soil with the care of a prospector look-Ink look-Ink for gold. "Here's where I win nil my runabout next (all," said he. At the uext farm we stopped at a new made well and drank our fill. "I don't know how this would he on a real hot day." said Senator Higgins, "but jusl now It beats Anheuser-liusch." Anheuser-liusch." "It will beat It any, day in the year." said Parson ('opening. "Il Is lilhia water Irom 200 feet under the surface and Is SIS per cent pure. You wont find any such water In any Irrigated section In the west. They sell it In Salt Lake for dlcinal purposes." "I know It Is good for ilver complaint," said Hen. "A man in the last siages of liver trouble came out from California last winter and afler drinking of this water for three weeks he was entirely cured. Poor fellow; he was killed In a street car accident a week after he got home, but they say his liver kept right on working fur three days after he died." As Hen brought back a bucket buck-et of waier from the canal to cool his radiators he remarked: "I never dare use this llthla water for my engine; en-gine; It sort of exhilarates It; It's like trying to put out a fire with alcohol "I see you have a telephone line up here," said the nun from Missouri. OUT SIGHT SEEING. The editor took u Irlp tin- other day In the sight seeing car and put In an Interesting day. Ills com panlons were Professor M '('lain, the celebrated agronomist and booster for Delta; Parson ('opening, whose persuasfvu arguments would (o-ll a town lot In the desert of the Sahar-as; Sahar-as; Senator Illgflns of Nebraska, who was born between the plow handles, han-dles, but" hasn't staid there all the time, and thinks he has the best Dili on the west side, the man from Mis souri who came out to be shown, and Hen the chaufleur, who knows till makes of automobiles and more about their Internal mechanism I ban iny man In Millard county. The weather was Ideal. No wind, the sun bright and warm, but not too varm, the air clear and fresh with it flavor of green things that made one realize that the days of spring were here. The auto spun over the hard and level raad wltn exhilarating speed. "I certainly shall get me a runabout," said Senator Higgins. "I never saw finer roads. Why, In Nebraska" Ne-braska" Just then the machine Htruck a chuck hole and the senator's r.f.O pounds were thrown against the ,-oof. "In Nebraska." said he, as be dropped Into his seal, "we have mud three months In the spring, and sand three months In the summer, aud the rest of the year we can run nut-mobiles, while here you have twelve months In which you can run |