Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-09

i ASOANSh" LOhhS OhSO idloCN % l-S UuSu-
els of wheat on single acre. / should
say the same soil, located in East, and
taking its chances without irrigation,
would not produce half what it does here
with irrigation. Laborious and expen-
sive as the process must be, the large crops
and the high prices obtained for them
make it pay. Over all this country, that
is forced to have an irrigated farming
there is now no business that pays so
well, net even mining; and nowhere else
in the whole nation is agriculture so prof
liable, But the mountain SHOWS do not
provide half the water the valleys need.
Many broad and beautiful valley goes
unredeemed from dry, half barren veg
citation, for the lack of water to be put
upon it. Salt Lake City has exhausted
its present supply, and now contemplates
grand canal from Utah Lake, 80 miles
off, to provide water for its extending gar
dens and the wide valley below and be-
yond the city---the most of which is now
only poor and growing poorer pasture,
but which with irrigation will become as
productive farming land as lies under the
shadow of the republic.
The couAtry drained by the Great Salt
Lake is about $50 miles east and west
and 250 north and south Four or five
large streams of fresh water pour into it !;
but it has not single visible outlet, and
it's water is one-f fourth solid salt--two
mysteries that mock science and make i'm
agination ridiculous. Other salt is found
in the country; there is a mountain of
rock salt few miles away; and below
) in Arizonia is sinular mountain whose
salt is pure as finest glass. President
Young showed us a brick Of it to-day,
that excited our surprise and delight as
much as any novelty we have seen on our
journey. The territory Of Utah covers
the region drained by the Salt Lake and
) perhaps 100 miles more both in breadth
and length. But the Mormon settlements
extend 100 miles farther into Idaho on
the north, and perhaps 200 miles into
Arizona on the south, clinging close
through their entire length Of 6 to 700
: miles to narrow belt of country hardly
= more than so miles wide far on the east
of this are the mountains, and to the west
the great Central American Desert that
' forms part of the great internal basin Of
this section of the continent, and leads
the traveller on to the Sierra Nevada
mountains of the Pacific States. These
- settlements are mostly small counting in
habitants by hundreds, gathered about the
D course of mountain stream but there
are several places of considerable impor.
tance, as Provo at the south and Odgen
: City at the north. Their extension south
. into the valley of the Colorado, paves the
: way to the successful working of favor.
: ite commercial idea of the leading bust.
: ness men here, which is the use of the
: gulf of California and the Colorado river
= which empties into it, for the great ave
u nues of trade; for bringing in the sup
plies of goods needed here, and for send
o ing out such surplus products, agricutu
y raj and mineral as these interior valley:
; are offering. The Colorado is found to be
. navigable for steamboats, for 400 miles
l. or to within GOO miles of this city, and
Z the substitution of this reduced distance
u of land carriage, open all the year, through
their own territory, and up valley roads
for 700 miles to SanFrancisco and ovcl
Il 1000 to the Missouri river, through deserts
% and over mountains, and often interrupt
Il ed by rivers, is manifest improvement
Il and advantage for the commerce of THU
g country, that can hardly be over estimat
g ed. There are already steamers on thu
j Colorado, and some Of the merchants arr
y having goods come over the route by way
, of experiment If it succeeds, as seems
n quite certain, then the heavy trade 0
l. Utah and its dependencies will come ant
a 90 from N. Y, by way of the Isthmus 0
% Panama and around Cape Horn, and mer
IS chants having to buy years supply o
D goods at onco, can market several times
year, and do business with much less cap
D ital and at much improved advantage 9th