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Show WORTH OF COUNTY EXTOLLED IN AN ARTICLE BY U. P. RAILROAD BULLETIN SETS FORTH WEALTH OF BEAVER COUNTY The Union Pacific System is mailing mail-ing out from its Omaha offices, an excellent pamphlet, descriptive of l"iah ami Nevada. The resources of several counties served by the Union Pacific are written up in excellent style. The following is the descriptive resume of Heaver County, as published publish-ed in the above-mentioned booklet. HKAVKll COUNTY, VTJ.1I 'Heretofore noted chiefly for its cattle, sheep and mining. Reave County is now rapidly becoming one of the most noted dairying and alfalfa alfal-fa seed districts in the State of Utah. All of these industries on a large scale characterize her activities. Each is progressive and profitable, bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars in wealth to the residents of the county, each year. Conditions Favor Livestock Success in the cattle business depends de-pends largely on two fundamental requisites facilities for growing tho cattle, and a market consistent with those facilities. The grazing lands, suitable for cattle and sheep approxi- mate 4 50,000 acres, including 14 2,-00 2,-00 acres of National forest, the remainder re-mainder being public domain and consisting of winter, spring, summer and fall ranges not intermingling but adjacent to each other. That these wonderful mountain summer pastures and desert winter ranges make sheep wool production a desirable and profitable industry, is manifest by the fact that more than 100.000 head of sheep are assessed as-sessed here annually. Many purebred pure-bred flocks produce breeding stock especially rams for other sections of this State, as well as for many of the surrounding states. The quality of the sheep, and the abundance of feed on the ranges, may be judged from the information gained from a test herd this spring. This herd sheared an average of 12 pounds per fleece, and docked 93 per cent of lambs under entirely range eondi-tios. eondi-tios. Dairying Successful Within the borders of the Beaver Valley there are 10,000 acres of alfalfa al-falfa land, besides hundreds of acres of meadow used, primarily, for pasture pas-ture purposes. This would if properly-managed, properly-managed, maintain eight to ten thousand cows. At present, we have not more than about 20 per cent of that number. We have several herd? of pure-bred Jersey, and'some of the Holstein, breed, but the greater part of the cows are grades on which we are improving by the use of purebred pure-bred sires owned by bull associations. 000 feet elevation is greatly in the cows' favor, since the most nutritious grasses and feeds grow at high elevations. eleva-tions. The pastures are composed largely of grasses and clovers and are almost unbeatable. Many pastures pas-tures maintain four cows to the acre, and supply all the feed the cows receive re-ceive from May to October. Through practically every one of these pastures pas-tures runs a stream of clear, cool water, that seems warmer in winter weather. Alfalfa of superior quality supplies sup-plies the main part of the cows' cold-weather cold-weather diet, supplemented on many farms by corn silage, and, in some cases, home-grown grains. There are, in the valley, two creameries handled more than 30,-000 30,-000 pounds of milk a day, and several sev-eral small individual plants, as well as cream stations shipping to the larger centralizers in the northern part of the State. The butter from these plants is sent to the Los Angeles Angel-es market, where it commands the top prices at all seasons of the year :in fact, the company which handl-es handl-es the greater part of the butter offers of-fers to furnish money to purchase 200 to 300 more cows for the farmers, farm-ers, here, in order to get more of the product. Such a dairy industry is naturally conducive to a flourishing hog and poultry industry, and the producers, do not slight that end of the business. busi-ness. Hogs, produced almost entirely on the by-products of the dairy industry in-dustry and alfalfa pastures, top the Los Angeles market after a short period of finishing on grain. One line of the poultry industry has made rapid strides in the past season. Turkeys thrive especially well here, and will be shipped out, to the big markets in carload lots this year. Two years ago about 300, turkeys were sent out to market. The pumping district of the Milford Mil-ford Flat is a comparatively new project, and is one of the great assets as-sets of Beaver County. This area,-vast area,-vast in extent, is of an especially good type of clay loam, underlaid by several strata of water bearing gravel, grav-el, at a depth of 12 to 20 feet, from which an apparently unlimited supply sup-ply of water is pumped for irrigation purposes. To secure this water borings bor-ings are made and cased with perforated per-forated galvanized pipe IS or 20 inches in-ches in diameter. From this, water is pumped in streams of as high a; 1,000 gallons per minute, making a very economical water supply, free from contination of any weed seeds or filth. Grimm alfalfa seed is the .principle .princi-ple cash crop of the district. First crop alfalfa is cut for hay abou', June loth and either fed to livestock or sold in the town of Milford, or in the mining districts adjacent thereto. there-to. The second crop makes a seed yield of 300 to 500 pounds, per acre, and sells at from 23 cents to 30 cents per pound, in the dirt; reclean-ed reclean-ed seed being valued at 30 cents to 40 cents, per pound. The development develop-ment in this district is in its infancy, at the present time; there being thousands of acres still in the natural natur-al state. To one who prefers the changing seasons. Beaver offers an incomparable incompar-able climate. The sununer iever gets uncomfortably hot, the winters are mild and invigorating, and the people peo-ple are industrious and hospitable. Beaver, an inland town, is the county seat of Beaver County. Milford, Mil-ford, located on the Union Pacific System, is an Important trading center cen-ter and railroad division point. |
