Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-07-09

it. The CampDell SySCSlil hSSpS
all the moisture in the ground,
and the roots of the wheat hunt
it out. A special kind of wheat
is educated" and this easily
finds the fluid ditch, whereas
the roots of wheat on land that
is moist only play along the sur
face.
By the Campbell system a
crop of from twenty to forty
bushels is sure every other year.
The land that is now being util-
lied was worth only a dollar per
acre five years ago, and is now
worth ten dollars or more.
The deep soil and subsoil pillow
requires three or four horses to
pull it, against two in the old
fashioned way. But in Utah |
saw an automobile plow that
would turn over forty acres a
day, operated by two men. 1t
burned crude oil, pumped on the
spot. But if oil is not near,
there is coal in that country ev-
erywhere. The inventor pro-
posed to organize companies and
do blowing for the farmers, just
as they now get their threshing
done by the merry thresher, who
the women folks say has a good
appetite.
Only one-tenth of the avail
able land in Utah is now under
the pillow. What the future of
such a country can be is the
business of the prophet to tell.
The "Salt Lake Route" with
in two years has begun to run
through trains from Salt Lake
City to Los Angeles, California.
The distance is eight hundred
miles, the same as to San Fran
cisco, but it saves a five hundred
mile trip on the old way of
reaching Southern California
from Salt Lake.
The marvel is that the rail-
road was not built before-it is
such an obvious route. 1t fol-
lows a valley almost the whole
way, where the grades are very
easy and the curves slight. The
valley is from ten to a hundred
miles wide. 1t is a new terri
tory given to the world as big
as the State of Illinois. Thes-
valleys were once the bottopre
of nrant inland -1nlsna- gl-Sy77lt 4
applied and by the Campbell sys-
tenn very much Of it is available
anyway.
The faith Of these railroad
builders in this country is re-
vealed in the fact that the road
is built with an indifference to
expense that is a thing unheard
of in a new country. 1t has
ninety-pond steel rail, and a |
5tone ballast that makes it the
equal of the New York Central. |
It's passenger trains are palatial,
and the dining car service S of |
a kind to advertise the products
of the country. With Los An
geles at one end of the line and |
Salt Lake at the other, and a
fruit and vegetable country be-
tween, you get Strawberries,
blackberries, grape fruit, oran-
ges, plums and melons out of the
orchard and vegetables out of |
5he garden with the dew on
them the whole year round.
The second big thing the Nor
mons are doing refers to a little
Bhing-dwarf fruit trees. The
idea was born in Japan, carried
to Paris, where apple trees were
grown in flower pots, and fond
lovers sent peaches on the tree,
to fair danes.
An orchard of cherry trees,
all three feet high, covered with
white blossoms or red with
fruit, is a sight to gladden. your
heart for a year. New Zealand
first took the matter up as a
venture, shipping a
perfect fruit to London, and now
Utah is doing the same.
The advantages are these-a
rec a year old bears fruit; the
rec being so small that you can
ook down all over it, allows you
70 pick off the imperfect speci-
mems and also properly spray it,
preventing the San Jose scale
md also destroying other para
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