Show acres assured Potato industry gets start here They grew these spuds in Pleasant Valley A big push is being made in the Roosevelt area to grow potatoes as a supplemental cash crop for This photo illustrates how one second from has a growing industry going in the Pleasant Valley area where ho grew bags in Workmen sorting potatoes as they pass over a conveyor belt in tho warehouse used by Gleave arc to Bob Fran Harrison Prentice Gleave and Cline Corporation formed to contract all at Idaho market price That the Roosevelt Myton areas will be raising upwards of acres of potatoes this year as a supplemental cash almost assured this week as enough farmers had indicated they would plant from 5 to 20 acres as a testing starL IF GROWING POTATOES BECOMES an industry In this part of the Basin in the then a great amount of credit will have to be given a meeting held last Friday night at the Roosevelt Junior High sponsored by officers of Utah Farmers Union of Duchesne The meeting was called to hear a veteran potato Virgil Gleaves from South Sevier tell of his success since moving to the Pleasant Valley south of Marion newly elected president of the local Farmers Union presided over the meeting and expressed interest in the and assured the group of complete support from the state and national Justin legal advisor for praised those responsible for getting the project off the and also pledged help from the farmers He encouraged a cooperative idea be used in assuring sale of potatoes after they had been GLEAVE who has been raising potatoes in Pleasant Valley the past three said he and a along with Fran Harrison and had recently were prepared to contract every sack of marketable potatoes grown in the area at the Idaho market are now associated with markets in Phoenix and Los where we can handle up to bags at the going Idaho market There is no chance on whether good potatoes will he The veteran potato grower who raised in the Richfield area for 25 a few pointers on getting ground ready and the type of soil best suited for raising He See bock page Potatoes laie discouraged farmers going all out for this but suggested they learning as they grew around 5 to 10 acres the first year or Old Alfalfa or grain fields make ideal seed beds for He also suggested ground be watered just before then no water be used until the vines began to cover the Then they need water every week until they Gleave suggested they be planted either in April or wait until early POTATOES should yield up to bushels to the acre in this with the cost being approximately per sack to raise Average market price in 1960 was per In discussing the problem of Gleave told the group he had used Navajo Indian help for years to pick them up after they were dug by mechanical Cost of harvesting is about per A committee composed of who is chairman of the Farmers Coop new industry and Joseph state director of were named by the meeting to contact farmers relative to getting the acre quota ready to Gleave will also help the ROSS TOLD tho group he had been invited to attend a National Rural Industrial Development Conference in Washington beginning May where he hoped to get information on industrial opportunities for rural |