The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-26
WILL NOW TRY FOR
AN ARTES|AN WELL
Farmers of Cedar Valley Will
Go Down 500 Feet in Quest
Of Water.
STATE WILL ALSO TRY
AN EXPERIMENT WELL
More Than 100000 Taken Up
by Settlers or Purchased
From State.

BEHl, May 25.-An effort will be
made TO test the dry farms of Cedar
valley for subterranean water William
Cotton, of Salt Lake City. passed
through Lebi today with a modern well
driving outfit and a supply of three
inch pipe. Mr. Calton and sons own
about 200 acres on the east side of the
valley and have had TO haul water from
Fairfield, about seven miles away. He
dug an open well l2S feet deep and
being unable TO secure any water, de-
cjded to try an artes3an we'll and is
prepared to sink to a depth of 500 feet,
though he thinks he will be able 10
get flow at less distance. The open
well is in fine soil all the way. none
of IT being coarse as pea.
The State will also drive an expert
ment we'll in Cedar valley this summer
Its location, though not yet determined,
will probably be about ten miles south
west of the Cation location,
Over 100000 acres of land have been
acquired IN Cedar valley during the
past year, either by homesiaking or
purchase, from the State, and present
indications this tract of land, which, un-
til a year ago. was kept from settle
ment because of being IN the Fort Crit
tenden reservation, bids for soon TO
blossom rs the rose, with fields of
waving grain.
About fifty homestcaders shanties
dot the valley. In all directions teams
may he seen clearing. blowing, or har-
rowing land and, besides these numer-
ous teams, there are three steam plow
ing outfits, whose thirty~two horse
power engines are clearing fifty acres
Of sagebrush per day, or are blowing
up twenty-five acres each per day. Big
stacks of coal are piled in different
places, and as each engine consumes
one and half tons per day, lots of
fuel goes up in smoke;
Nearly all the farmers VINO are us
ing horses use douhle.disk plows for
blowing and as four horsepower out.
At will turn over about four acres per
day, this method is found to be about
as cheap as blowing with q steam en-
CINE, especially as the distance from the
water and railroad becomes greater.
Greeley bench, located in the ex-
treme south end of the valley, is the
most developed of any locality. Be
sides several outfits camped in tents
ten families have built homes during
the past six months and are now liv-
ing here, They have plowed over a
acres cf land and have several
hundred acres of fall wheat-iust be
ginipg 10 head out-and a conservative
guess is that this grain viii yield from
twenty to thirty bushels per acre. They
also have several hundred acres of
spring grain whose future is q problem,
The greeley farms are about three and
one half miles north of Greeley springs,
which is now made to supply the nee
ossarv water for stock and culinary
purposes.
A stock company will be formed, and
during the coming summer months these
springs will be piped down to the farms,
Terraces are going up in all direc.
lions. Everyone seems hopeful, and il
low looks, from the amount OF work
oeing done, that Probably 10000 acres
IF wheat would be planted in the val
ey this fall.