Show 1 UP SAN JUAN COUNTY A tow few days ago the tha writer met james richey 72 year old farmer from nep nepal hi who Is visiting his neph ew james eagar our dry farm man had I 1 not nat seen jim for 33 23 years we had a ittle chat about our big county and he agrees that here Is a really rich farming belt jim remembers the days around neobi when people almost begrudgingly gave way to the I 1 idea thit that crops could be produced there without irrigation lie ile has had a rich experience and very practical too liere here in tills this county of ours Is a wonderland in agriculture without irrigation in irrigated lands that will i be supplied with water from the san juan river in mining very divers fled in oil the bikow bigg pt l supply of 8 fled stove ove wood in utah and beats zions and codar cedar breaks tor for natural seen ery just examine some or of the crops growing grow ing on this mesa north south and east see wheat without any arri ration gation that will make 20 0 35 bushels tilts this year examina 3 galm pa ilni i 91 biown own under tinder these coundit ions after two or three days right here in utah go across the ile state top HIP 14 miles mila on the sou southeast theas t angle road and see and wonder all over this mesa good potatoes are produced to bush els cis per acre anti and almost no weeds or diseases mining milling and oil each make separate stories which must be told let this he be t agriculture aprI culture and ive the latr bang ti ll ild arnd basic business which isolation made primary how long will this kind of land remain at one to five colars per acre land that will produce two rood good crops of alfalfa every year e excellent wheat grasses imported frum from x siberia as well as native blue gross grass etc who Is coming to take this land many who formerly owned it have let it KO go to the mortgagee while still I 1 I 1 many including abent readers of t this his paper now living elsewhere are holding on but the price Is down davv no market has been afforded because shipping to thompsons Thomp sons Is not econom leal feat for wheat and potatoes of course most people dont believe alfalfa will grow well but skeptics should visit the dry farm and there examine nine plats of that crop three for each years planting 32 and then see the 1933 plantings corn core ing along then travel over lands that are about the same in fe tilliY in elevation ind precipitation all evidenced by bif wheat potatoes torna domn toes and really wonderfully wonder full gaiden gardens this Is ampe evidence |