Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-21
lteresting Article to Eastern
Paper Written From
Sandy.
" ONE WHO LIVED THERE.
Markets and Plenty Of Water
IN the Land of Sugar Bccts,
Potatoes, Alfalfa, Etc.

/ Al article OF considerable interest,
=. roar River valley, appeared in the
n.llas POST published at Dallas. Penn
.yIvonIa, on Feb, 10, 1905. The article
"a. written from Sandy, Utah, by q
correspondent of the Post, and follows
N full;
ncood markets and plenty of water;
,,e valley of sugar beets, potatoes. al
,.tfa wheat, oats, barley, cherries,
,erries. apples, grapes, peaches, pears,
inns, prunes and prosperity.
Everything that goes to make hap
.,,ess and wealth Is the product Of
40 npd and labor, and where the land
Il easily cultivated and very productive
,ho onlcker will happiness and wealth
he obtained See what Bear River
'aIn he year 1900 Mr.. James Carter
..orn OWatonna Mimi. bought 500
ac.es Of Bear River valley land at $40
ner acre. This land has paid for every
,nnroyement that has been made on
a and today Mr., Carter could get $3.50
var acre for his land. Not only has
Nr Carter made 100000 on his in
yes,ment. but he has regained his
health. as he came to Bear river an in
valid"
also Chelan and Lewiston counties IN
,he same state, compare favorably
with Bear River valley Utah. yet these
washington lands range from $500 to
se0O per acre, while Bear River valley
"A 20
according to fhe lay OF the land its
drainage (the most important Item in
an irrigated country and its age,
Good land here, as in all other places,
Is constantly advancing In price.
Mr. John Holmgren planted In 1904,
80 acres of sugar beets In Bear River
valley. He dug and sold over 1900
TONS from this 60 acres, an average of
over 20 tons TO the acre.
on his best acre he raised 40 tons.
-Four acressof IL yielded S9 tons to the
acre. and 25 acres 80 tons to the acre.
This Is the largest yield Of sugar beets,
for one four. 25 or so acres ever re-
corded.
BEETS WORTH s65 PER ACRE,
These sugar beets netted Mr.. Holm
sren over S6j per acre, after every ex-
pense was paid. In the year 1903 Mr..
Iomgren raised sac tons from "a acres,
and In 1902 so tons from two acres.
Bear River valley eXcels any other
SPOT on the globe for size, yield and
quality Of sugar beets.
John Brsben Walker. editor of the
Cosmopolitan, once asked a Mormon"
Elder What was the religion Brigham
Young taughtY This was the answer:
Ills doctrine was something like this,
Pow deep and SOW alfalfa, and
Mr. Holmgren's farm has been treated
10 this great arid land and Mormon"
doctrine several times. Alfalfa roots
grow to be from 80 to ~ feet long
III any one doubts this letihim read it
upl and each OF these roots sends out
thousands Of rootlets IN every dlreC-
ton, while the luxuriant Overgrowth
(of which three and sometimes five
crops are harvested yearly Is natures
developer and fertilizer in providing
humus Cdecayed vegetable natter and
giving good texture TO the soil.
The only thing on earth that the raw
land here lacks Is humus, and alfalfa.
which takes TO the soil naturally, pro-
vides for that need, and there is not an
acre Of drainabe land In this valley
which cannot be brought to great fer
tility by Rotating alfalfa with other
crops.
It costs 800 per ere to clear the pine
stump land and get II ready for
seeding in the Pacific coast, and
the land Is best ut the first; while here.
SO per acre will do the same thing.
and your land Will grow batter every
year Ii is properly farmed.
When we know that seven tons Of al
falta, % tons of sugar beets, 400 BUSH
els Of potatoes. 100 bushels of oats, So
bushels Of barley and so bushels OF
wheat TO the acre are not uncommon