Show B it to P RIM qa 11 wo 1 to R r 0 i 1 I 1 L N H 0 L M 0 R RM editor news prompted by information of in 1111 opportunity to purchase 1 land and in ill the vicinity of fillmore I 1 made a trip to the unknown to the outside world country and found that the people are just beginning to wake up to the opportunities of this sec section tini I 1 purchased anti and bargained for ecres acres of very fine land at 16 15 per acre they have only discovered in ill the last few years that groin grain qan can by bu raised without irrigation and thousands of acres will be broken up in the next year thley they raise from 20 to 40 bushels of very fine wheat per acre and all other small grain in proportion the average annual rainfall is about 39 19 inches the first to take advantage advant ago of this opportunity will not only have the first choice of land bind but V will get it at a bettor better bargain rd than those who go later ther thera are no enemies oner nies to the field crops here such as wind hail or severe rain storms A crop ononce cr nce raised is not apt to be destroyed f by these elements there are also many thousand acres of vory fine fruit land apples peaches plums pears and cherries cli erries do as well here abere as any place in the die united states and i in li it a few years I 1 expect expect to see many fine orchards in ill this country i nature has just held its hand over this strip scrip of productive e country as it is now 5 miles from the R R X und and the nearest K R it runs through a desert country that it almost worthless so that anyone oi ie riding along tile the road in the cars would not imagine there was a belt about six or eight miles milea wide avide along tile mountains that will in a few years be all taken U UD and farmed the country wa was s first kettil settled by the morino cormons Mor mons ns and fillmore selected for the capital of the state and the first state house built av to iteli awa it jha stands 1 a ids and d being is used for tor jail and lush high school F fillmore i ill more lik i like e al aiTo 0 other raer e r M nor viol Z W blocks blicks and eight lots to the block giving each person one aud and one fourth acres acrea the people n moso i lilt all live irv in the town and have their farms in ill the country from half to eight miles this gi gives vs the them in better social advantages the mormon are great for amuso amuse mento benl u and having a good tinie time there is tin an amusement liall hall near most marmon churches where old and couig ta biell and poor meet on oil an equality 1 I 1 attended a Alor mormon nion entertainment and dance while in ill fillmore ill ore all and d saw gran grandmother nother di daugh daughter ter a and n d granddaughter buthe on the hoor at the same time or three generations the cormons mormons do not believe it is necessary to leave or off the pleasure ot of the world in ill order to get to heaven they did not seem to pay much attention to their religion and many of the younger people tire are dropping it eit entirely I 1 found them to be a very genial people to deal with there tire are several enterprises under consideration here at pr present among them is it a power plant to furnish electricity for light lind and power tin an electric R R and it a gypsum mill to utilize the gypsum 9 deposit near fillmore till all of which will add to the activity and value of the land I 1 A alfalfa I 1 fa if it does well here and this year men cleared from 7 75 to por acre on oil the seed crop alone they cut about six tons to the acre worth on the ground per ton and when the JR R R is in ill will be worth 10 0 to td 12 per ton lind can call be bought on oil long time and the first crop will pay for the land in many cases and in some pay even for ta the ie fencing and improving I 1 will be pleaded to furnish any ally information to chose desiria de desiring g same J B Herri herriman nian des moines iowa the foregoing was published nearly three years ago but it has been suggested teo by one of our esteemed subscribers that it is good enough for republication if mr herriman would come again now lie would find that some of hia optimistic suggestions have not yet materialized materialized ni but lie he would see our thousands of trees loaded with and many acres with tomatoes small fruit and vegetables and a capacious modern canning factory ready now to be gin operations and other indications bf industrial pro progress gressi venetia all around us ed |