Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-02

! the heat ni the day and nor feel lie
| ffsota, while there, IL wtuid almost
scofch your hair. Farmers tell me
/ that they work Ia the sun from morn
| log I'll night aud suffer no More from
heat than thoy did In Otsh. 10 pers-
| pifc In Utah means 10 suffer from heat.
/ Here Precipitation has 90 lncUhveu.
/ ioncus aud luHYus no bad results.
| Attended danes On the uveniug Of
the Twoniy.iourth OF Jelly, the Their
m0metef stood ~ over iUD degrees in
! the fuom aud 1 will warrant thft the
| dancers teit the heat far ltsa thsn they
! would In room IN Uthu, where the
| Thermometer stood NJ 80 derfuss.
The people here sleep largely out Of
doDfs ON cots. There frHy DO
dutibg the season few sultry
nights but usually you can sleep CONE
| iDftabiy with sUfrni thrown over
you. The water Ia faifly good but can
he improved Ivy hltfail1n. There 10
nu ice factory near tlu toNn nhd you
can have ice dplivcrci - your lour
EVERY morning nta nominal cost. IL
/ ahould be- nufup 90 nilul that am now
| de- rfihinr the hot season ffUm Juun
until about tho nnt OF September.
Auer thai the climate ~ all that nUart
could drsift--uut oIlI aul not hot
Christmas diuucrs gfe often eaten uu.
der the shade NJ the iTerf. The wufso
feature 1 soc about the county T. that
there are no fIsy.checEsd childfu q.
rhu young lniits have 300 color ~ their
checks, anu everybody has % soft e. {
sailpw, tAwny cOmp.cxl3r. This be
not Uccasiouuu by tUuf nealth, lur The
general health II tue psople iHtett-r
mere than 10 IN vi ~ ~ NJ the norm.
Then there are fears IN my miud ns TO
the uiitClaa lJng.uuutiuuud rUAiduucn
IN the country would have upon the
people. | refer now " Industry aui
energy. Usually the le1plr 0f q
country where tue climate 10 arm
lack { rec anu fysl luii0n. Where
nature aces no much fur men tuty ID
little Tor Themselves. VIII 10 uot be 70
here In timr2 sill, there are ilzy men
every where. | know s0ms lew u them
w Bear Lake, where " u o. cold ns
Greenland hil the year mud. A
gentleman said ~ mo One day
"Iuu PEOPLE iu UtaA ought ~ have
mufu energy tIau W. have; yyu rec.
six months out OF every we've. whilu
we have 10 work tie whole yruf
round" acknowledge the force Of
hi. reasoning.
Ous OF the most attractive features
that | can set about the country b. the
abundance and variety Of " fruits, la
addition 10 all Of tue nults that We
grow IN Utah they have nSs, pomt.
gfRnntrs, dntcs, orange, auu ! am told
pinVhpplCs aud cUCuanuts can be grown
successfully. They have fresh fruit
uiue or ten months " tho year aud
melons from July until January. Al.
most every Kind VI vegetable oatl BE-
grOWn. Sweet potatoes anu peanuts
afe common production. Coffee tfr,h
could be grown successfully. saw
p0mtgfanate trees grown tor hedges,
And fgs grow NJ easily that hundreds
Of bushels sfo allowed 10 10 10 waste,
hey yield three crops during tho
season. Among the Ornamental Trees
1 noticed the fan.leM palm, pepper
trees, Chinese nnd rcxAs umbrella
trees, aud number Of othor varieties
that are common Ia Utah.
Alfalfa eau he cut here seven times
during the season but few people ever
cut II That many tiniei; they prefer 10
pasture their fields. | asked n gentle
man II better returns would not be
realized II the hay was cut aud fed, ~
~ much VI II 10 ttampUd under the
feet u ihu cattle and wasted, "DOu't
you suppose" said he, "thAt We have
nhythiug elise 10 dO besides cut alfalfa
snd feed cattle, especially whom We Gao
realize $50 or $40 per acre by pasiutlng
II and have no trOublt2" | was Ill.
Cnced.
Wheat and barley can be- grown
hero quite successfully, hut wheat
must be- kept In An elevator 10 prevent
It's being destroyed by weavil; Hour N
kept aOOut tho house few weeks 10
liable 10 he destroyed the same way.
Two orops osG he grown On tue same
land In one season.
The surrounding mining campo NJ.
ford n pretty fair market Tor the gtain
aud produce grown. AZ Prescott, l25
miles away, barley WIS worth ~ 50
per cwt.; eggs ~ cents dozen; butter
~ cents n pound; hay $50 pcr tOu. Tue
main trouble lies Ia getting the prO-
ducts ~ the market
Now ~ TO tho prospects 10 get land.
All tho land covered by the present
irrigation bitches IL taken up. The dry
season hss been no long that the water
supply was not enough this year g. 20
round, aud many who had land under
the new canals suffered Considerable
lo.s, but the recent heavy rains back
Ia tho mountains to the eastward has
caused an abundant supply Of water
and all the canals are flllvd.
Not more than hall u the land l.
now covered by cnuals that was GOV.
cred by the canals Of the anuiunls.
Excellent reservoir ullos aro known 10
the mountains ana It u expected that
in a short time reservoirs VIII DO con.
slructei that will hold water enough
to irfigate every. foot Of land In the
valley. In that event the ancient
canals eau be- utilized aud thousands
upon thousands OF acres Of land 70.
deemed from tho desert. There viii
then DO an opportunity for every mau
IN Utnn who thinks the climate too
cold, to get him n farm In n warmer
climate; hut TOT the present ( he hlsnt
got money enough to pay $40 or $50
per acre tor the land he ugd better stay
where he IL. JUEL RiCils.
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