The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-10

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The Utah Arid Land Farming asso-
citation was born last evening, and i'm
mense benefits are expected to accrue
to the entire state from its efforts. The
first convention of arid land farmers
! ever held in Utah began its sessions
yesterday forenoon in the Barratt hall.
/ There were three meetings yesterday,
forenoon, afternoon and evening. The
convention viii close this forenoon.
All of the speakers at yesterdays ses-
sionS took the most optimistic view OF
/ the future of the agricultural industry
! in this state and other western states: s
their enthusiasm in the effectiveness OF
arid land farming methods was un-
! bounded. testimony was brought that
there are hundreds of thousands OF
acres that can be successfully cult
waited without resort to irrigation.
Next October there win be held in
this city the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm
/ ing congress, which will bring together
hundreds of men who have proved that
| farming without irrigation is no longer
I an experiment. but a demonstrated
/ fact At that congress Utah will have
/ an exhibit Of its arid and products that
LnqueStlOn5bly VIII attract the widest
attention. A committee was appointed
yesterday whose duty it is to stimulate
/ interest in the congress and to urge
/ farmers to gather collections Of the best
/ specimens of their crops for the pur-
/ pose of display.
Gets Down to Work
. The convention was called to order by
Dr. John A. Widtsoe, president of the
! chairman of the committee chosen to
make arrangements for the meeting
/ He spoke briefly on the aims of the
/ convention. J. c. Dufin of Provo was
/ chosen chairman and F. NJ. Lyman. jr
of Salt Lake, secretary.
/ Mr. Duttin congratulated the cOnven-
ton on the interest its members had
manifested. and predicted that the
I work so auspiciOusly begun will con-
tinUe TO bear fruit. Soon he said.
/ there viii be scarce a sagebrush field
in the state of Utah. In their place
/ will be acres upon acres of golden
/ grain and orchards. and where was a
! desOlate waste before there VIII be cosy
homes occupied by the families of pros
} porous farmers"
The chairman referred to the re-
maTkable results that had been
achieved in Kansas. Oklahoma and
I other states of the middle west by the
application of modern methods OF soil
tilling, and declared that what had
been done there could and would be du-
/ plicated and multiplied i'm this state.
/ Secretary Lyman said that he had in
mind years crop produced in ToOele
county by arid methods that yielded
sufficient revenue to pay for a forty
acre farm and then some.
Governor Cutler Bids Welcome.
An address Of welcome by Governor
John &. Cutler was read. Governor
I Cutler began by extending a cordial
greeting to the convention delegates
He said:
Il extend a most hearty welcome TO
you who represent the newIy-orgaDized
movement of scientific arid farming.
Your assembling here is the commence
ment of the solution of a problem which
has confronted the people of this and
surrounding states ever since their first
| settlement. 1t is one i'm which l have
always been greatly interested. and
/ especially since becoming the governor
of Utah. This problem is the settle
ment and subduing and fertiizing Of
Z the vast tracts of land forming what
! has been known (but is known so no
/ lOngeT) as the Great American Des-
/ ert.' The problem has been a vexed
one. Because it has not been solved,
+ thousands of the young people, sons
and daughters of the pioneers, have
l been under the necessity of leaving
their homes and scattering to distant
regions, there to build new homes
/ among strangers, while hundreds of
/ thousands of acres of unoccupied land
lay at their very feet. Because of the
problem not having been settled, no
end of difficulty has been encountered
in securing homes and farms for the
many immigrants whose hopes have led
! them hither."
Compliments the Pioneers.
The governor said the dawn of a
brighter day is at hand and thar the
problem which has so long vexed the
! agriculturist of the west is in q fair
way for rapid solution. Governor Cut
/ Ter said that the immigrants who come
| to our land need no longer crowd the
cities The landless man is now with
in easy reach of the manless land he
declared, "and both viii profit by the
/ union.
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