Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-07

.ey dotted with farms. orchards, gar
dens and comfortable homes. The vai-
,cy f. three by twelve miles In extent.
AMI Ia watered by the Grand river. to-
rcther with several tributaries. II 81
one ~ The finest valleys In the world.
with soil NJ marvellous fertility
Nearly 800 tons u freight went Into
Moab last year. and the country IT.
growing. business O. increasing. and the
mountains are tcemiug with latent min
crll wealth.
In the Blue mountain country. sixty
I'VE miles almost due south OF Moab.
stands Monticello the county seat N
San Juan county. Utah These settlcs
rnenN are prosperous and comparative.
~ solf-sustniuiug and Independents The
people IN general are Mormons. but
they ar honest. industrious ana have
an abiding faith In the doctrine Of the
l.attef-dny saints. They are making
these cory valleys bud ana blossom
Ike garden Wherever they have
planted their footsteps and establish i
their homes the soil is giving up its
rich Increase. They have their
churches. schools. newspapers. daily
mails, cooperative stores and they do
not experience the aggressive and tn
tense NE struggle that uniiUts the
masses In more dcnscly populated
places.
Tho Grand valley u looking like a
garden this season. SoHvuunhlc rains
have fallen ana luNurint vegetation
covers the face OF these mCsnH and plat
'Huu aH IN they were udutcd with om-
crlids. An unreasonable frost ulppod
some ~ the early peach blossoms the
more advanced and tender vegetation.
but small fruits apples. pears. plums.
grapes. npricots and other varieties Will
be hluntiful.
Al the streams are nush and tho
lholr volume 60 the grand aggregate.
The kcHtctn slope promises beautiful
harvest ~ the fruits Of the earth Or
charia ana alfalfa fields are redoiout
with hloum.nni the bees urc nlllng their
homes with honey Tho great irrigatinn
bitches with hundreds uf latcrais are
distributing water over thousands uf
arabic acres. Everywhere the grass ls
luNurlnnt. and cattle. horses and sheep
have atralrhtcncd up. the kinks have
gone out u their backs and their old
coats have disappeared.
The winter was unusually severe on
them. but nature la now compcnsa ding
Tor her former severity
This valley extends from pnilHado To
frulin, q distance ~ thirty miles. and rs
ton 10 fifteen miles IN width. II cm-
braces an nrra ~ over 23O 900 acres
nearly an ~ u susceptible ~ cultlvu-
lion. Probably $4,000 acres aru under
ulltht ann the uttfNlH are Wlug Extend
ID and the area Increased yearly.
\ great ditch u contemplated by
Smith a StrutherH, 90 ho thirty miles IN
length and cover $4,000 acres II iH to
start In NJ the upper end M tho valley
and terminate near FruItns Consider
able work has already been done on II.
and whom the financial conditions are
ripe the enterprise will boz pushed to
completion
A low vr,rs hone. npt thIs ,,,ypto.
cent valley Will De dcuHsly populated.
ana H. arabic acres will an br under "a
high state ~ cultivation. The soil once
quirkcnrd with water 60 fertility II
magical and marvellous.
II ~ eatlmptrd that over 100 600 fruit
trees have been set out iu the valley the
present season, an dthU farm and rur-
den areas arr being extended In every
direction. The Grand valley H. carrying
100000 Inches NJ water t2s foot "a mlnutc.
That ~ about the volume and velocity
during thvirrigatinE season.