The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-12
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.k%<<<SDo,ard mayor of Green =
| BOO ssking Of the new fruit re- =
| River. IA. ..The men who are COM
ron. creen River are OF the finest
| ing 70 Wanv of them have been sue
rpe.J In business and me proies-
cess.'W we have with us doctors den-
| SONS Na5Uare merchants and other
| lists "a ne Intelligent class. and all y
| men o. are glad that they have =
Of ti. .a raise peaches and have more
| ,one 70 and more freedom than they =
| noney ',id have had In store or In =
| EYER coliu
| an oiln,,t,eecrowing here is not expert =
la The growing orchards snow
| nen.@. soil and climate VIII do
| WhN - assistance of little water
win .Se abundant supply in Green
rom ,'rbjch flows through the val
river ~ know what varieties OF y
Wy. !, e hest TO plant and we =
iTal hat should be done TO keep =
W. 81. orchards in proper condltlon,
oar- ~ things must be learned by
: wish to grow fruit. and =
those 80, will more than repay the =
ne whom men start to learn =
e'or- ar profession. they are con-
hushs snend wears In study. Yet
isni .,urns in many lines OF bust
ihe I'D IN many of the professions
not equal to the returns OF
run man who Is inexperienced In
NE "r-oN,Inc who buys young or
Arul md studies fruit-growing y
tcsn. waiting for the young trees TO =
. bear AA%%%%
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ubo were born at the time the
Nc c-sn6e hotel and eating house,
nv csTed the Palmer House. was built
hoN c.asn River. Utah. have grown 10
a. nso1 and during the twenty-five
To-. in which they were passing
!e4' me various stages of baby
li rS ho,hood and youth to the voting
nv ,hsn,ands of passengers have every
Ns' canned al the railroad eating
i.ass in passing from Salt Lake to
r,.Tar and as they glanced over tbs
c.ssn River valley toward the sur
fading hills. which look like walls
- nv some prehistoric race OF
.i,n,s n was the usual thing for then
- sav Now we are in the heart of the
,rest American desert.
rntn few years ago no one real
,,sd that the Green River valley wa!
a,s az the most fertile regions or Utan
!, i true that along the river bottoms
,bara were a few early settlers wh'
sor, time 10 time talked of the grea
rings that could be accomplished
va,er could be raised in sufflcien
,bundarce from Freen river to irrigat
ne long sweeps of gently sloping lan'
in the valley. But these settlers coui'
srd few listeners. Men could not un
serstand why vast sums should o
spent on pumping stations for Greel
Piver irrigation enterprises when ther
we're places at which water could d
secured in an easier manner.
Whom the orchards of the Palisad
district at Grand Junction, Colo, wer
planted and brought such large return
"a the owners that land began TO Sc
AZ unheard of prices. II is said that
hlsb as $500 and $4,000 an acre ha
been paid for land there. But befor
rbs day of prosperity dawned upon tn
paisade district there were years G
o,stlv and vexatious experimenting, G
ranting trees and digging them u
again so that other trees better suite
% the soil and the climate could Q
tried. Men grew gray with worry an
ane gr, ~ disheartened before the fru
growers Of the Palisade district learne
all they know now.
These men who learned how 10 gro
fruit in the valleys were the first oil:
coverers Of the real value of the Ian
In Green River valley and the adjacei
valleys through which the stream run
They are now using their money ar
their experience in developing the r.
gions in the vicinity of Green Rive
They say that this new district w
within a very few years become II
most famous fruit growing region
TIE world Soil and climate. they sa
are ideal for the growing OF peache
And as an abundance OF water can
pumped from the river which nov