Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-24
Eastern Manufacturers Realize
Its Importance to Them as
Well as to the West
UTAH AS AN ILLUSTRATION.
Small Irrigated Farms Will Work Out
To Greatest Good to the
Community
Special CORRESPONDENCE.

Special Correspondence,
Washington, d. c., June 2O.--Ts the
country at large interested in the irri-
cation Of Utah, in material sense?
Eastern papers and magazines print
articles descriptive Of the big irrigation
projects and enterprises in the west, H.
Illustrating them with photographs OF
dam sites and diagrams and plans OF
the proposed works, and with enter
tanning stories showing the increase
Of wealth which will come to the section
through the creation from the desert Of
perhaps a thousand new farms, while
editorlally they may favor the irrlga-
ton policy and commend It as a means
Of opening new lands to supply farm
homes for our constantly increasing
population, But how often do they
draw the close and intimate relation
which exists between an irrigated agri-
cultural community IN the west and its
business complement IN the east-the
eastern manufacturer who supplies the
western farmer with his farm imple-
ments, his tools his barbed wire. even
nails with which to construct his house
and barn. to say nothing Of the thous-
and and one articles Of farm and do
nestle economy which he continually
uses?
Eastern wholesale business men, Job
bers and manufacturers, are, as class.
much better informed as to the practi-
cal results Of irrigation than any other
class, In this section.
AN EASTERN MANUFACTURERS
VIEWS.
\ large eastern manufacturer said TO
me recently that while he had never
seen water running in an irrigation
ditch, and had but a vague idea as to
how crops were grown under irrigation,
he believed that he was fully alive to
the blgness and importance Of the
question when viewed from national
standpoint as a factor in the internal
development OF the United States. at
least one-quarter Of my business he
said Is done with western communities
west OF what you term the arid line,
and most OF these communities are d.
rectly supported, as | understand, by
irrigation. IL II were not for this arti-
iicial method of making crops grow the
prosperous farmers who buy my goods
would never be where they are and
the hamlets, towns and cities which
they support would never have come
into existence or at the most would be
but mining camps Take Salt Lake
city, for instance and the other COM
mercial distributing points Of the Salt
Lake region. Shipment OF my line OF
goods goes regularly to these points,
and from what know Of their demand
Tor eastern manufacturers OF different
IN .f -
the Salt Lake retail establishments
which sell plows, or cultivators, or wag-
ons. or carriages, or clothes. or hats. or
shoes, or practically anything which
comes under the head of manufactured
articles you Will be able to trace their
origin back to the east
BELIEVES IN IRRIGATION.
II am firm believer In the work
which the government Is prosecuting to
build up farm communities on the des-
ert and ] should say that the small ir-
rigated farm such IS you have in Utah
and In southern acknowledgements
good market for eastern manufactured
products-is the one which will work
out to the greatest benefit to the COM
munity. Every new agricultural COM
munity which Is built up. in whatever
part Of the country 1t may be, stimu-
lates a complimentary manufacturing
activity In some other part. This Gre
ates business. Money moves from
point TO point We send our money
west to pay for the things which we
buy from the west and the west sends
It's money back 10 us for the class of ar
ticles which we produce and which IL
does not Traffic too, gets its
fair share Of the increased bus
mess. have heard that Utah
can easily place an additional million
acres under irrigation. through the use
Of the waters OF your rivers which the
geological survey engineers propose TO
pen up behind big dams, The throwing
open Of such an acreage OF productive
land would be a signal for a scramble
among eastern manufacturers TO secure
the enormous business which would re-
suit, OF course | understand that this
Irrigation development Will be a COM
paratiyely slow process. While per-
sonally ] would Ike to see n million
acres placed under irrigation in the
next year, II possible, for would then
enormously increase my business, still
a slower development would undoubt-
eddy be the best for the country. 1t
would cause a steady and substantial
growth, i take 1t, both In the west and
In the east"
GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKING.
The government Irrigation works are
| far reaching. According 20 the recent
statement OF the secretary Of the In
! terror, designating various specific pro-
jects throughout the west, the con-
structlng OF which will cost some $27,-
| 100000, the adjoining states Of Wyom-
ing, Idaho and Nevada will benefit
| largely by the Irrigation act and In ad.
| dillon to the immense immediate bene-
| 1T which the great government irriga-
| ton plans now being worked out for
salt Lake valley would bring TO Salt
Lake and vicinity, that city seems de-
| stlned 20 become a great distributing
center for a region greater than tho
| entire middle and New England states
UTAH IRRIGATED FARMS.
The unit. or average, according to the
census figures, for the Utah irrigated
| farm is "a acres and while the farms
| under the government projects will
average greater IN extent than this
| they must necessarily, under the ma
| tlonnl irrigation act, all be small farms,
| They cannot be more than 100 acres
| each, while Il Ia within the discretion
OF the secretary OF the Interior TO re-
| duce the unit, under any project, 10 as
| low az 40 acres. The Minidoka, WyOo
| project has already been determined
| upon at so acres, so that the carrying
out OF the government work promises
great aggregatlons Of small holdings,
! lived upon and farmed by their owners,