| Show RICHEST COUNTI san juan G CROPS ano this Is the largest county in fa utah why should it not be the richest it likely Is this Is tile tho largest county la in utah why should it not also be tile the richest chest tl it likely la Is far off south eastern utah wai which ch means principally san juan county the largest county has been neglected neglect ea ignored ang and left isolated without a railroad and until recently with not oven even fair auto roads Is coming into its own on ces tire aio too great in val ue anti anil bisti over too large a at territory to keep hidden livestock has been the main business and the future of the industry looks looff better because more feed hundreds oc at new leomea lonies insure better markets and mor mar handling of the whole lob job starting from tilts this office within a weeks time the editor of this weekly paper went vent to la sal at the foot ot of the I 1 famus range then south via blanding to bluff and tills this week weak w wa have rono one easterly even going 75 miles or over into colorado to cortz nit although houg tile the i 8 tate state line Is less than twenty miles i east surely it Is fair to say as news to many that athla wide vide dive relf I 1 ra t of climate attitudes altitudes and wealth guarantees I 1 that san juan county will soon I 1 tart start out on a new day of develop m benl ti 1 1 t much such day may only bi b delayed and beant ov vr ra a stretch of n 1 I land south and twenty fiyo r HIS east cast lan I 1 and west divest tills this panorama of latent resources Is ev evident evl dett ideLt weather provided by the government are aie at bluff on oil th south at blanding Dlan ling mantl 1 cello and la sal ebest records cords L ir all 11 their own stories and data of cance over a long gerld Is ample tor for op opinions I 1 ni ons regarding reg aiding temperature and I 1 precipitation which closely agree with attitude altU ude weather stations dont tell the kind of soil boll dut but crops produced for twenty to fifty years do tell it it if proof Is need ed rainfall or total precipitation per annum varies from 15 to 19 in at these four stations no aa the approximate mean average at monticello records of which are aio more access accessible able to us the mean la Is conservative at 19 in because v we e havo years of 20 to 22 in and only in twenty years 1931 did it go BO down that being the year when drouth hit nil all tilts this mountain region rind and a duplicate will not likely come again in a generation hero here Is not a question of producing crops even all kinds of vegetables with out fr irrigation but the problem Is a market tor for them while automotive t traffic ra ft c I 1 Is a proving itself competent to compto with railroads even to hauling fruits 2000 1111 miles mile tile the railroad situation Is dotso not so important travelling Tra velling out over chest mesas one 0 ne Is impressed with the urgent demand for new ilfe life for energy tor for optimism this will come whether you like it or not but our duty Is to save aalthe all the homes we may and to help to improve those wo we have in th last analysis tile the majar major aspiration Is tor for a horn bom and a bower tor for a place whereon and 14 graj ON a of awn afe and nd here in san juan county is ample resources for people and with gold mining on a large scale apparently at hand tills is conservative begrudgingly old ideas and conceptions are to be rearranged it was ever thus hero here is 13 tho the last front frontier leP of the undeveloped west one of these days attio tho last shall be first |
