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Show : WATER FOR LAND NEAR O.GDEN. Brighant City, keeping pace -with the progress of other fruit districts, has inaugurated a ne system of, irrigation which is bring-mg bring-mg a reward to the orchardists. A correspondent, writing from the .p Peach City says: ! "Another electric well was just put into operation in this city this H week, when Messrs. Martin Anderson and C. W. Richards started I their large piunp in the well just completed on Fourth North and Fourth "West, on what was formerly the poor farm property, part of ' which was purchased by them. This is one of the largest of many I wells in operation here for irrigating purposes. "There are nearly thirty electric wells in operation in the city and vicinity, and they have reclaimed hundreds of acres of once arid laud that was sold to the present owners at a price as low as $17.o0 per acre six or seven years ago. Sow the same land is worth from $1000 to $1500 per aero. ' "One1 particular tract of land which a few years ago lay idle and apparently doomed to remain that way. is the strip between Sixth" and Eighth West, and Forest and Seventh South. This tract is now a peach orchard that has been bearing for two years, and the electric' well was the only menus of reclaiming this tract, as a hollow separates it from the city irrigation system. Within a few years all the remaining dry land around Brigham will be irrigated in the same manner." This is further proof of what this paper has been stating, that great areas of land, now deemed worthless, can be made productive product-ive by driving wells and pumping the water on to the land. In-Brigham electric energy is being employed as motive power js or the pumps. To the south of Ogden, on the Sand Ridge, above the line of the Davis & Weber Counties' Canal, there is a large tract ) Df land waiting for some enterprising farmer to point out the pos- , "sibilities of pumping water on that fertile soil. The water can be l' obtained from-wells, or even the canal, and, by electric power or gasoline engine, pumped to young orchards or true gardens. |
