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Show SEN.iUCEiLER SEES 'DRY':' FARMS Senator Kuehler has returned from his trip to Juab and Sanpete counties with other members of a committee appointed by the slate senate to determine de-termine the boundary lluo between the two counties. He states that the question was thoroughly considered and the disputed dis-puted ground visited. The dispute. Senator Kuehler says, seems to haw come ubout through the changing of the road leading from Sail Creek east to XcphI to Gunnison on the Sevier Se-vier river. tho same traversing the summit of the low range of mountains '.ind being known us the "Gunnison road." It appears that the 'Gunnison road." In earlier times, was made the dividing line between Juab and Sanpete San-pete counties, but that In later vears tho "road" has been changed, and the Question now Is whether the "road" of yore Is tho dividing line., or whether wheth-er it is the "road" of today that forms the line of dcmarkatlon. All the evidence was taken up by the committee and, before yie meeting of the next state legislature a report will be prepared for presentation to that body Mr. Kuehler states that while in Juab county ho visited the dry farming farm-ing district, betweeu Nophl and Juab, and that he was surprised to see such a vast area of dry land planted o wheat Ha says It looks to him to bo the largest dry farming country he has ever seen and the success of the project Is assured. The thing most needed there Is artesian ar-tesian water, and to obtain this for the people the state Is now driving an experimental well. The well has been flunk to a depth of 600 feet, at which point water has beon struck in sufficient quantities to furnish considerable con-siderable water by using a pump, but the w-ell will be mink to a much greater great-er depth, with the hope of getting a flow. The well Is situated about six miles south of Nephl and within two miles of the state experimental farm. |
