Show history of seed industry in basin tile the largest seed crop in ill fit the C lila 1113 tory lory 0 of the basin Is now being harvested and threshed with everybody thin cing arid and talking in terms or seed and several well established seed comi corni panics in our midst re ready ady seed to a handle an dip tile crop no do doubt a short reume of this infant industry will be ot of interest to pur our readers we call it an infant not lot bo be taue aue it Is so small because as a matter of fact the total yield thi season will likely top but because anyone contemplating tile the vastness of this territory in ili Ws its p initially developed state arid and thinks of future possibilities inuss realize that the growth 0 of this industry has only just begun the first alfalfa arid and sweet clover seed was gioan in fit tile the known kno w n as indian belich east cast of roo roosevelt sevelt in 1917 the pioneers in seed production were robert marshall J p I 1 rudy perry dean 0 11 bracken levison Il ancock and oilier oth indian berdell farmers armors among amon the pioneers lu in other parts of tile the basan as the land was brought under cultivation were aco cco pickup I 1 james angus aligns if H J mitchell E W allred arid and 11 II S meacham clarence johnson Jo linson who has been the outstanding figure of the seed trade in it the basin handled the entire output for the first beveral seasons finding ills his market with the different seed companies in utah later on at al sen har handled idled seed for several seasons finding ills his market in tile especially in iowa in recent years year buyer shave como come from all over tile the country our seed li s apen marketed in all sections of tle ibe united state alicie alfalfa and sweet clover are grown probably not much of 0 it goes abroad but we do linow know of one lot being shipped hy bv ther the occidental co to D iren maclaria Macl Ala mria churia this is near rort fort arthur which was lalen front from the Russia russians rib by the japa in fit the russo japanese war seed is now grown practically all over ila hasin baan front rom duchesne to lo vernal and beyond we have so sio many really successful glowers that we cannot begin to name them all the til total cotal production in I 1 1 l 1017 1917 was about pounds this was doubled the next nest season and in 1903 1909 the total shipment amounted to about 12 during the first few seasons prices paid were very low sweet clover seed brought front from 1 to lo 3 cents alfalfa from 6 to S cents la in 1910 farmers all over the lie basin had begun to see sec the advantage of oc growing seed sine sin that tinie time the production ruts increased at tile the rate of 0 approximately GO 50 per cent each year until the 1921 crop totaled pounds the higle t price ever received tor for seen in the basin that we know of was sold by C B L uart dart of myton in 1918 for 35 cents per pound until 1916 practically all the med was shipped out without having bacen re cleaned this was an economic waste because of 0 the high freight rate paid on tile alio dirt and worthless screenings the first commercial cleaning plant was in stalled and operated by clarence claren johnson at roosevelt in G it il was a vety very small plant and soon proved to be inadequate this ear three companies are equipped to clean the seed grown in the dasin basin myton bobas boa ls of a large well equipped plant costing nearly 16 this thio plant was financed by the western seed growers marketing company arid and is to be conducted under a operative cooperative co plan whereby the lie seed s cd growers will eventually own it roosevelt has bag the llo J G peppard seed compa company with a lint fint plant near tile business section 01 ol the town this company have long been large handlers of alfalfa seed arid and are expert seeds men their plant rivals the myton plant in size and is equipped with six ox high grade peed eed cleaning machines the oc ci dental seed company operates a 1 plant at and one at myton besides these companies who operate cleaning plants the blin lb Is favored with other representative buyers J P may alay of roosevelt tile the pacific seed house of salt lake lahe city has been a con buyer of 0 seed tor for several years thus thug in tile the phort span of 15 years the seed indu industry Etry in the basin has sprung front from nothing and grown to he be the meins of bringing in large amounts of money from now or on it ft should amount to over ever a halt a million dollars each year it tile the production increases at the pace already set it should reach the million mark in ili three years of course this Ms money Is pretty widely but without doubt the seed sd industry is adding more to the economic stability of nf the community than any other thing Court sv occidental sped C company oni pany |