Show DRAIN THE BOTTOM LANDS much good soil along the river the appearance of mineral on valley lands has driven off capital the problem which confronts many mann of the landowners in this ivinity is the removal of mineral from the lands and the utilization of surplus water these conditions obtain n all the low lands of cf the valley the silt and deposits of ages liae hae made tie low lov lands the very richest of firming farming land but the application of irr irrigation gation to the bench land has the mineral from that q s i and it has seeped through the ground cind and appeared on oil the bottom lands RANCH this is not i a hard problem to ov but it requires work and clase application and attention J M 1 bolitho has come near to aching the mineral proposition pro posit he has fourd thit that the chief thing ne nece cear am is to wah the land with ith plenty of water and gie it drainage enough to tn it off he secured a big tract of this land that was deemed useless for years he secured water from flowing wells nells and he is gradually reclaiming his entire ranch of hundreds of acres ml mi bolitho is authority lot loi the theory that the first indication of success in reclaiming tre tle lind land is the advent of fox till tail or whitetop grass this product has ahaas been regard ed as the culmination of all that w wis is objectionable in farming farmina land mr bolitho sans that if he can only get two ers ears of foxtail hii big lard is re claimed and is then ready for the first crop of oats and after that the land was fit for ani kind of a crop lie he has tried it and he knows DRIVES SETTLERS AWAY there are thousands of aires ai res of this alleged uie useless land all along the rier salt grass and whitetop are all that the land is capable of prodoc arg at present thus the prettiest part of the sevier vallea valle is little better than a desert this ig 11 one 0 of f ane most depressing things that new settlers find in this alley last spring two wealthy sheep and cattle mn came here from southern utah with a view to locating they isit ed all the land in tho the vicinity they saw that the mineral had appeared on all the low lands and was w as gradually app arang higher bah year vear this decided then as to the ad ic inability ability of battling bett ling here they cone concluded eluded from the indications that it was only a question of time until the valley would be in the grasp of the mineral and all vegetation ruined this is the same thought that posses possessed ed the people who settled midway across this valley in what was as known as pratts ville the land when first settled was very promising later it developed celop mineral and the people deserted the site and the land was not considered worth purchasing of late 5 apara ears this has been proven all wrong the land is being reclaimed and it now promises to be the best farming district in the county DRAINAGE THE KEY the secret of the whole thing drainage it even covered drama drains an open trench a rubb the land at a depth of four and the land is redeemed the river offers the very best of gebing gating rid of the surplus water present a drain crosses the lands the south of richfield and empties into the river just below the vermillon vermilion canal dam this drain carries a constant stream of water it is fulfilling its mission but more drains are in fact every tarm farm in the altton lands jeline its cwi system of drainage drain drai nige ge it will pan pa for itself in a short time by reclaiming ane lands from mineral and surplus water CAN ALL BE RECLAIMED there is ib not hot a foot fool of land along the river but what can be reclaimed by this tr the time is not far distant when the bottom lands will be the cream of the firming land in the sevier valley drainage Dri inage is the key to the situation land that is 13 now selling for 15 5 per alre aire will I 1 L c worth iron from iro n to before many years instead of the bottom land being worthless the application of drainage will make it the most valuable land in the county AN IN THE DESERT A trip ocr 01 er this and was made by h a bumler of reit lemen last laet week in looking over the preposition of a new road to leaen annabella from the glenwood arid and the pos vos ties of the ian kanj was noted it Is ie wonderful what a growth of vegetation there is in places where the land is dratt drained ird right in the heart of the mott most forbidding district and lying ling close ci os e to the river where there is excellent natural drainage an old couple named larsin have a dairy dair be tween t e house and the ncr there is 13 a patch of ground under cultivation and potatoes corn and oats are inz in like the proverbial green bay tree on oil one side of the field is tu to be found the feib adding bul lerry bushes which proclaim poverty of oil boil nourish ment and yet the crops are as fine as ai iny any in the entire valley valle it is a line picture of what wealth there is in this bottom land soil faither to tie the ti e east there is i a profusion of wild ha another evidence of rich land in places there are sloughs and pond ot water but even there evidence of rich soil ean can ba 12 been ESTABLISH DRAIN GE DISTRICTS it is time for the landowners of thi chii vicinity to get er ani aal lih li h dis it 11 a and i 1 r ed ead to make th ill 9 land into valuable farms prod icing agricultural wealth and addine to the population of this valle 13 1 inviting sett leia leib here As long as g theme thee lands in the river bottoms almain ri niacin in the state they are in at present just so go long will intended settlers te ie driben dm en from here there are thole thoi E ands of acres of this land which can b br made available for farming purpose it is site safe to dav av that the new canal ind resi scheme of th estate will not reclaim more land than will the ali application of drainage dri inage to the bottom land of this valley |