Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

we land, making IL noro ,.,.
~ u today and also. which" iuaole than
oration 49, '%uee' decrease tho ,'qF
strueted "'en' Ihis dyke, IL wei Vyop'
| MS dono especially II some all, con-
/ in rase would be perfectly aaens N
n conld Ivy heep6ge should sprh,, ahd
nunnn pu handled with fav XIX up'
TSh,nnb paced on the bank or ,h ooiVcVlc
ea me u ,syie method we underston11 uyke.
! IfnitaNd" Ivy Mf Newell the chioe a.
ln, ',vu states geological survo,. W tbe
NO (, ,sI,' me proposition for n, VINO
IT,, r'invhL IN connection Win r"ol Qe-
LIZ oi utah lake, some wor, W. fals-
rree9eN 10 remove some bars also
yoluan river, which TO sone ~. IN The
gcrtain seasons. prevent the A.cnl az
XVI uellVering It's full flow Of wg. dog.
peinE az those times similar ~ n",er II
pot'ie win small neck w u 'arge
C'--ln the matter OF nnnr
llileR when the waters of xxx AZ
art 700 low for q sufficient st. eke
now INTO the Jordan river nn,,Vlm 10
pc q great benefit, ana n thev bao would
Installed during The past soaso, n"u oeen
ms OF crops 10 the atno,tnt s y saw
half a million dollars would W. nearly
accomplished One OF thn co n",e been
panies at It's stockholders moa 1a' com.
Iast week unanimously decldod ",la
puinps pelng erected during the cor,,eul
season' the pumping plant nooI I'd'us
oIe WIN q capacity Of 500 second y
with q lift Of four feet. '"u leet
Din the matter Of the praoo,,..,,
OF loss OF water after Il reaches WE
canals Measurements of tbe ,ne
should be made; In places n, XIV
canals where an unusual loss Of ,,o, ne
through seepage Is suspoatpd '"tcr
pad places should be puddled or WV
rnented A large amount of yoto, We
also be saved by the farmers hrlnoJ,ann
lheif oultlvators more into uso ,bass'"B
generally practced at the present ~, ,i,, "
win many OF the crops a cnltiyo,ne'
ana watering viii do more GOOD I tbon
two waterIngs. "'" nun
The greatest thing that is nooa.,
however is that consolidation ~ 1u,
canal companies be effected ana n Lls
the patient be put under the chor,Co' 'as
one DOCTOR instead Of five doctors. VIM
Wy Iarpy can agree on the way to adj.
minister remedy. Of any kind wv
Some OF the foregoing figures mov
snow what can be ACCOMPLISHED ~,
FARMING on irrigated land. The avor
age Of value OF crops with spoic,on.
water being about $50 an acre whne
crops OF bG.ts are often worth ga an
acre, and orchard returns win M ti,,e,
double the last mentioned sum Ae hjs
Is accomplished by the sllp-shod moth
OBS so many OF our farmers onnlov /,
may SHOW to some extent what mipbt
be accomplished through intensive
farming by young men who would po
In 10 learn the business Of farming nv
apprenticeship 10 successful fnrmers
study Of labor-saying methods M o,,,
agricultural college etc,) as they Womb
an Industrial or professional calling
Irrigated lands. wherever found ara
the lands that please the eye, are The
lands of homes surrounded by fruit ana
shade trees, aud Of pleasant surround.
lngs ana whether you travel in orr
utah valleys or among the orange
groves of CALIFORNIA; or through the DO.
tato fields of Colorado. or through
Lombardy that garden SPOT OF Frlrone
where, although most crops can Ia
raised without irrigation, yet irrigated
land has seven times Of value of land
which Is not irrigated or through tho
picturesque Orontes valley In northern
Syria; or In the country around Damas.
Gus about which the Arabs go wild
comparing It with Eden and Paradise
or into the land Of Egypt, whore the lr.
rigation canal sharply marks the boun.
dairy between the greatest fertility and
absolute desert; and II you compare The
appearance OF the irrigated lands with
the looks of the countries whore they
await the water to come from tho
clouds, there can be only one conclusion
and that Immensely IN favor Of the
lands whore, as Colorado German ex.
pressed himself, "They make the rain
come nit a shovel"
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