Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
Utah Goods for Utah People, the
Slogan of Excur-
sionists.
OTHER JUNKETS ARE PLANNED
The Next Invasion Will he Into Logan
On July i5--Big Experiment.
Farm Center of Interest.

The NJ and NJ. special train over
the San Pedro road with 200 boosters
from Salt Lake. reached Nephi yester-
day noon, where a crowd Of people
and the Neph brass band were wait
ing to welcome them. Carriages were
in waiting TO carry the visitors to the
government experimental station four
miles distant where they We're shown
the advantages of scientific methods in
farming on a large scale. Prof. j. A,
Widtsoe of the Agricultural college.
and Prof. l.. A. Merrill, the dry farm
expert, +. ID. Farrell and DR.. Il. j.,
Ball were the demonstrators. The
wheat in highest favor was shown to
be the Turkey No. 299S, which yields
35 bushels to the acre under dry farm
ing. Gold Coin and Red Chan club,
which yield 20 bushels to the acre,
were also spoken of with favor
On the return to Nephi. the visitors
We're entertained by President 4. G.
VIM, c. III. Grace. Dennis Wood and
Roy e Homer of the Commercial club
at the Forest hotel. The early after
noon was spent in going about town
and making acquaintance, and at =
tabernacle, where speeches were made
by r. c. VIM. president of the Com
mercial club of Nephi; Gov. Cutler,
George S. McAlllster, DIR. John A.
Widtsoe, of the Agricultural college
and Lon j. Haddock, of the NJ and
Nj. association Music was furnished
by the band, the Glee club. Miss Ed
ma Evans of Salt Lake City and Miss
Helen Grace of Nephi.
AT THE MEETING.
President Winn of the Commercial
club made the address of welcome, in
which he said that dry farming is
changing region formerly a sage
brush waste and inhabited by grass
hoppers, into productive land, adding
thousands of bushels Of grain to the
annual output of the state. He said
Nephi wanted more Touring mills and
was about to establish breakfast
food factory. President George Nc
Allister of the NJ. and NJ. association
urged that If Utah material is used in
Utah factories, and if Utah people de-
mand Utah goods, much money will
be kept in local circulation, which is
now being sent into other parts of the
country. Gov. Cutler spoke of the adj
vantage of large population and of
the necessity of conducting an industry
of the state where land had been in
the past selling for 500 and 5000 per
acre. are now bringing 10 times those
figures when planted with fruit trees.
John Henry Smith urged the neces-
sity of young people remaining in the
state to build up homes and grasp the
opportunities that are here offered for
business success. DR.. Widtsoe In ex-
planning dry farming. said as il takes
100 pounds of moisture to make one
pound of grain, II Is necessary to plant
crops only once in two years, as the
precipitation in Utah will not permit:
the planting of crops every year upon
dry farms There are 20,000,OOO
acres In Utah that could be proftably
used by dry farmers.
MUST BUY AT HOME.
Secy. Haddock closed the speaking
with rafting address in which he in
sisted 1t was for the advantage for peo-
pie not to send their money out of the
state for goods, but to buy articles
made In the state He said $2,0O0,O00 Is
sent annually to mail order houses and
that this sum, when sent away, is per-
manently taken from circulation in the
country. Money spent
at home, he said, circulates and passes
through many hands.
Among the eXcursiOnsts were Hebar
] Grant, John Henry Smith, Francis NJ
Lyman, George f. Richards, Gov. John
c: Cutler, Mayor Decker and former
Mayor j. II. Frisbie of Provo, Mayor
Gardner of American Fork, President S.
l.. Chapman of the Cedar Valley Inn
provement company of Lehi. President
Thomas p. Page of the Jordan Valley
Dry Farming company OF Riverton,
George Austin, agricultural superinten-
dent of the Utah Sugar company: Or
son n. Hewlett, former president of
the M. & M ASSOCIATION, and many
others.
The LADIES' G. A. r. band of this
city furnished instrumental music for
the visitors and Il glee club furnished