Show EASTERN VALLEY what you will find there the of the arrowhead trail along the eastern rim of 0 the great valley of 0 millard county utah Is first impressed with the tha vast expanse of this huge valley in its entirety entirely and then more particularly ticul arly with the tact fact that he Is gliding mile after mile along perfect highway on either side of which are literally thousands of acres of fertile bench land stretches as far as the oyo eye can reach of greenish grey a rank and luxuriant growth of native sage at intervals ot of from ten to fifteen i af miles along this benchland at the 1 F foot of the tho picturesque Pa livant range a branch of the mighty wasatch the road intersects neat and 1 prosperous little towns and cities five fire of them in a row with fillmore the county seat located in the middle these five little community iles ies were founded first and still are populated principally by people of the mormon faith those sturdy law abiding and industrious people whom history informs us were among the tha first to demonstrate that arid regions can by the principle of artificially applied moisture be transformed into a veritable garden of agricultural wealth and even as the pilgrims demonstrated that in tho the new world there were resources tor for supplying livelihoods liveli hoods and habitations tor for countless numbers of people lust just so these mormons cormons Mor mons thru demonstrating the practicability of irrigation made accessible the arid regions of the tha world for human habitation and evolved a principle that is now paramount upon the minds of nations the history naturally enough the mormon pioneers of these five little communities made their homes upon the banks of the five mountain streams that gushed from the snow capped range onto the bench land below just a year or two previous these people had demonstrated in the great salt lake valley that the application of just such mountain streams to the soil was the way to make them productive in 1861 1851 after due investigation of surrounding territory brigham young called thirty of the sturdiest diest men of the salt lake colony to establish the capital of territorial utah at what Is now fillmore although arriving in the fall of the year the mechanics of the company immediately began the erection of a capital building and had bad it sufficiently completed tor for a session of the territorial legislature in 1855 due to its central location and more especially to the evident jal jai resources of the bec bertion tion that wise leader iader and colonizer recognized in this part of the territory the most promising place for its principal metropolis tro polis polls but he calculated without knowledge of the path of transcontinental tin traffic Fl Ilmore was destined to be cut oft off from the arteries ot of world commerce and tor for 0 ver over three and a half score years was destined to be ba an arc arcadian adlan village sufficient within itself then in 1922 the section was tapped by railway recognized again because of its great natural resources cei this tim time e by the great colonez colo A er the union pacitia system this event was heralded as the greatest that had ever happened to east millard and men in their wild enthusiasm pictured its vast acres producing fields and its towns grown into cities over night in the first conclusion causion they were indeed right but as to the time that would be required for results they had bad forgotten that fro more than the span of a generation the good people of these communities had practiced growing only enough of every commodity for their own consumption that it would take years and new blood to break uie the babit of keeping but one pig two cows I 1 twenty Y five chickens chicken 9 a few sheep aud and growing an acre and a halt half of wheat did not occur to them agricultural wealth Is not developed with the lightning like speed of a gold rush town and to further retard development the next six years presented the greatest period of drouth that has ever been bee known in the valley or in all southern utah thrifty growth in spite of drouth and the handl handicaps ot of habit however eastern millard billiard has experienced a very gratifying growth and the people are enjoying a prosperity never before known it if one could but see these thriving little communities as they were but a few years ago lust just long enough to compare them with the towns of the hie present day the growth would be astounding it would evidence indeed that this Is one of the rapidly growing sections of the coun try athe business districts are all new and modern and built not only to take care of present need but also with an eye toward the future each of these communities can boast numerous new homes some of them beautiful structures ranging well above the ten thousand dollar matic in cost of construction this money la Is coming through an ever increasing participation in the commerce of the world every year additional farmers realize that what they produce in surplus has a sale able value elsewhere every year additional farmers plan to produce something to turn into the channels ch annela tot of this outside trade As a result we are shipping ever increasing numbers of car loads of hogs cattle poultry etc to the consumers of the rapidly growing metropolitan centers of the pacific coast larger scale production Is being tried and specialization Is gradually grad dally taking the place of diversification merely from the point of view ot of independent self preservation the growth in eastern millard county has in no sence been the result of excitement or boom it Is merely the steady growth of conservatively thinking people after the most careful of calculation calu lation hence very few farmers or business men ever tall fall in this locality the taking of bankruptcy Is something one never hears bears of a citizen of this locality doing worthless checks are reduced to the minimum tm and the able bodied man who does not pay his bis debts is soon ostracized in this vicinity tho the economic status ot of eastern millard county has no peer in the land for soundness expansions aside from the general prosperity some noteworthy note worthy expansions are also the result of recent years and in a large way contribute to the prosperity of 0 the section where but a tow few years ago the only development that had been made upon the whole eastern rim benchland was at the mouth ot of its five mountain streams today wo we find a great percentage ot of the agricultural products of 0 the section being grown elsewhere perhaps the richest spot in the whole valley is a strip ot of land some three by twelve miles lying just below the bench in the valley known as flo well this is an artesian well belt of 0 recent development and the strip is a mass of perfect specimens of irrigated farms i another project of somewhat soNe somewhat what less jess fortunate development but which now otters offers excellent tor for the man who wants to get in on the ground floor so to speak is the land beneath a high line canal from the ho sevier river reservoir this canal runs some thirty miles a long the lower edge of the benchland and gives promise of developing into one of the greatest alfalfa hay arid seed producing sections of the state just as the project was entering its first profitable development Lo however wever all southern utah and more especially the headwaters of the sevier bevier were thrown into a drouth unparalleled in the history of the state As a result the water right below the canal tell fell tar far below expectations tat ions and the properties of the enterprise suffered a slump from which it has not even yet recovered drouth in the section however revealed one astounding tact fact alfalfa can be grown in the greater part of the canal belt with but very little it if any irrigation once it has been well veil started the section does not seem well adapted to the growing of grain nor any other surface rooted crop and requires somewhat liberal irrigation to start alfalfa but once the tap root of that plant has penetrated to a surface water table which exists it thrives well without irrigation the few farmers in this locality who were fortunate enough to geta get v good acreage of alfalfa started during the first few years of plenty of water are now independent dry panning finally the section is now awakening to one of the greatest expansion possibilities ever dreamed of from scipio valley on the north to beyond kanosh on the south a distance ot of over fifty miles remarkable demonstrations have been made in the production of dry land grown grain at sufficiently well veil distributed spots to demonstrate the whole belt dry land wheat has been grown with very gratifying success the yield ranging as high as thirty and forty bushels per acre at scipio alone sufficient amount of this bench land was reduced to grain fields last year to warrant the purchase ol of three combined harvesters the first of such machines to ever enter their locality it Is reported that one farmer more than halt half paid for the land he purchased from his crop last year the first year it had ever been cropped at holden also dry land sections are rapidly dotting tho the stretches of sa sago 5 a and some sections have sprung from 2 to 40 per acre in value in a single season at kanosh 1 aoe 0 e man planted a patch of kan kansas sas red wheat last year intending to irrigate it and finding himself short of water decided to raise its his hay bay and forget his wheat patch the wheat however lid did not die but matured a forty bushel per acre crop in tact fact so successful have our trials at dry farming been that many of our leading citizens do not hesitate in claiming it our greatest enterprise it Is indeed not dot only possible but altogether probable that the next few years will witness the transition of thousands of acres of sage into waving fields of wheat immediate future promising but why all the tha present excitement some one may ask the answer is simply that this winter the dry spell has apparently been broken throughout southern utah precipitation approaches the records of old times and the outlook tor for prosperity is so promising that nothing can stay the progress of eastern millard county it you would get into a country whore where things are bound to happen then indeed this Is the place LN af r P FI C kl zt I 1 lot F if ot eu a L 1 ru T I 1 NOW yr n r ga r V Ns EA h X ir A |