| Show pioneering HERE AND THERE those who came liere here a generation genei atlon ago anti others who came much ear 1 ller iler we lightly designate pioneer pione eis s however there Is another we word rd more aptly applied to them that is tion fron tier because they came and established themselves on a fro frontier tier in utmost isolation today with autos and trucks tele jete phones radios and much else provid ing better life there Is s still a lot of pioneering in a region that lesem bles blea most the genuine frontier in wyoming in the uintah basin at lepri and in idaho years have phased in active arh work nil all of it in public activity this experience has taught one simple fact outstanding all the time viz lz our true frontier and pioneer type of man Is the most difficult one to convince that imbor tant and change are im manent they as a rule dont believe the change wll wit come from 1852 until 1872 no farming done in utah without irrigation capi capillarity larity soil science clence I 1 and precipitation were not closer closely figured gradually Gia dually new ideas took root loot as it 11 were and good farms were made on supposedly pasture and range lands the writer herded cattle over that sunflower mesa the levan lean ridge before dave broadhead produced dry land wheat west vest of ills his irrigated land fifteen or twenty years after lie he was successful in dry farming strangely sti angely enough someone decided ded that if dave could do others might between milford and Miners minersville ville in 1908 as a country editor we studied the rich sage brush sol soil the water table conditions and printed long front page stories under bold head letters announcing that a rich belt of good land band could be farmed well vell and artesian water found to help out it was plain simple and true as those good farms today testify people I 1 for forty years eara had traveled over it never plowed a burow or built a fence it was public land IV when vh lien water gushed out of those pipes and good crops were produced naturally in much u c el i nonagricultural ioni j I 1 1 I land was ta ken too in that blk big valle callep so few people at milford seri seriously ser louly considered those bold stories that in dif fernee hurt nut du possibly half the subscription list went outside the state as milford N was a railroad and mining town and little else that weekly paper aroused interest among those farthest away and many of them and their friends got land there all liall hall to the pioneer and his predecessor la in san juan the frontiersman tl ersman they did well As in all regions where extreme isolation Is dominating livestock became the mary industry let us realize that altho isolation Is pasing life Is chabr ing there Is still much to be done 04 that deni demand ando originality daring faith and and cheso require manhood and womanhood those who know the he land basi best as liv stock people will profit out of transitions that no man may prevent ahey are most difficult to convince vet t chev know that land trat will pro duce alfalfa wheat potatoes toma toes etc in paying quantities and Nit without hout irrigation will be rf rearmed armed the dry farm Is proving that alfalla alfain Is a rood good crop and most other crops are to be found all around us A fair truck load to actual market down clown in to arizona insures rood good homes i talk about not needing more moi land farmed Is lust just another phase of transition and bulte it was ft as luard livard in 1892 in 1907 and bak baek in 1873 As we RO go right on inci cre easing in population more janti land wll wil bp be farmed far ined this Is the last easily farmed and very ver cheap land left in the mountain states anti and it will anvill be used and san sail juan county Is near to a rebirth in another decade people wll wil tell about the small population hero here in 1833 1933 |
