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Show WHERE IRRIGATION IS EMPLOYED The Union Pacific, through Gerrlt Fort and D. E. Burley of the passen ger department, Is sending out a large postal on one side of which is presented a potato scene from Pay ette, Idaho, with the inscription: "They raise large crops of pota toes and many other products on the Union Pacific system, out in the Oregon Short Line country, because the soil is rich and there is water for irrigation " The picture is of sacked potatoes in a field from which 753 bushels per acre were harvested, valued at $442. These postals should prove a great boost for western lands under Irrigation Irri-gation and a few thousand of them sent to Oklahoma, where, we are told, many farmers have weaned of the uncertainly of trying to raise crops without irrigation and are looking for new fields of effort, might result re-sult in drawing to this part of Utah many desirable families. |