Show I A TION D FOR i DA VIS WEBER I I Twelve Reasons Presented Why a 3 District Sho Should d Be Formed and I Ithe the Lands Made tho Basis of a Bond Issue of Over What Can Bo Be Accomplished A booklet Issued jointly b by the corn com commercial mercial clubs of Farmington Kays Kas yule und and Clearfield and the Weber club of Ogden deals with thc matter of Irrigation In this state and urges the thc or of an Irrigation district for Davis anti Weber counties In order that the tho property owners ma may take ad advantage antage of the district Irrigation laws and put water on their lands I The publication Is filed with inter interesting esting Information and can be oh ob tamed on application to an any of oC the boo above organizations The promoting or of this big Irrigation scheme which calls for an I ture or of over is drawing at to this region ns as It promises tIle the reclamation of oC or more I acres of oC bench land reasons are f set ct forth wh why the tho farmers and land owners of w Ve her bel and Davis counties should labor foi Cor the success of the undertaking and the they are arc as follows lISt 1st It Is ij for the greatest benefit not only for Cor the of Davis and Weber Teber counties but to the state stale at large 2nd The Increased acreage or of till able abbe lands will furnish homes for many or of our people making it Il u un nece rj for those born wIthin our state and who would to ro re iain among their relatives and friends to seek seck homes In distant parts o of the tho country countr 3rd The reclamatIon of these now mid arid lands means menns to you personally a large Increase In your Jour wealth and Its IlS attendant comforts ith You are not asked to part with witha a portion of your land holdings in or ordel order del der that others may reap real the benefits but you rou retain your our acres selling what ou may not require under the new conditions at prices greatly to yo 1 ad advantage I The lands which loda today you are arc dr dry farmIng and from which you nul amy receive an annual gross r turn or of I 10 per por acre will vIll when supplied with water ater If ou continue the grow growIng I bIg Ing of cereals pay you OU 50 per acre For the tho few years ars the rain iam fall has been above aboe normal there thereby thereby by facilitating dry farming We are arc duo due for a cycle of years when the tho rain fall will be below helow normal that wIll result In greatly reduced If not I a complete loss of crops on the tho dr dry 1 farms Dr Dry farming should not be seriously consIdered where It ii Is pos pOI possible sIble to secure a water supply at rca rea reasonable cost The rhe lands you OU today cannot cultivate for want of oC water and even those these with but a partial supply on 01 which you OU are producing a part of oC a I crop of grain or lucern can be made mado ot pay par to per lieI acre In crops of fruits or vegetables for the can canning canning I ning factories The growing of oC fruit Is most profitable under proper conditions and care There need be no fear that II fruit raisins raisIng In Ill Utah will be over overdone done No finer quality of fruits can ho bo produced anywhere Prices In the east are excessively high for choice western varieties and wIth the best of transportatIon facilities and with the aid of tile the fruIt Crull I ion you can Call dispose of oC your product at m most st profitable prices having laing on an over oer the fruit growers In I Oregon and Washington I by reason of oC closer markets Utah canned vegetables anti and fruit arf ar the very best besL to be found in Inthe the marl market CL The rho supply Is wholly in inadequate adequate More fruit means more factories and n a greatly increased marI mar 1 hot et by bj reason of tho better I ILion Lion of the goods Asparagus peas I and tomatoes will always have a good I demand with the canners and gIve sat J returns on the crops I It Is safe to say that today todar I Ilbe the gross annual returns from the acres of oC arid lands In these I countries will not nol bo be to exceed one onehundred hundred thousand dollars Those These s same mo lands when watered can be bernale made to produce five million dollars Thirty thousand acres of oC land now novi arid have hac a present value of one million dollars the ad addition of a full vater supply and tile the cultivation of these same lands will willin In the near future Increase their value to nt at least fifteen million dollars The great success that has I attended the growing of fruits In City and North Ogden can be duplicated on tIle the benches of Davis and Weber counties when water Is available Brigham City and North Ogden orchards are today loday command commandIng Ins Ing prices ranging per acre from 1000 to 1500 anti and upwards |