Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-18

thirty-one; Bishop K. F. Sheets and for
mer Representative George @. Cannon had
twenty EIGHT each: Angus M. Cannon,
twenty-seven; Edward D. Wooley. TWEEN
ty-six; Bishop John Horne. twenty five;
Charles Kelley, twenty-four: Samuel Ros-
kelly, twenty-two; George A. Smith,
James c. Snow and Henson Walker each
twenty. These figures are taken from
many other families equally large.
The father of the largest family have
heard of war Lauren Farr of Ogden, who
had 392 living descendants-thirty- mine
children, twenty sons and nineteen daugh-
ters. of whom thirty are still living, eight
children and siXty-six great-grandchil-
dren.
All of Mr.. Fairs sons and daughters
are married and have children. All OF
one failure among them. Almost every
profession and trade Is represented in the
family. OF the eighteen living sons. sew
eral are merchants. several a~e farmers,
two are lawyers and two are doctors. OF
the twelve sons-in-law, four are farmers,
three are in business and the rest are
practicing the professions.
And. what is equally extraordinary, Mr..
Fairs brother Enoch had twenty-six and
his brother Allen twenty children, which.
proba bly, the largest family In the world
three brothers with 10 living descendants.
Every one Of them over sixteen years OF
age is self-supporting, while there are
Mr.. Farr. and his brothers were born
at Waterford. VT, and he had six wives.
His first wife. Nancy Chase. bore him
eleven children: his second wife, Sarah
wife. Olive a. Jones. seven children; his
fifth wife. Mary B. Freeman. six chill
dren. and his sixth wife, Nickoline Errics-
son. six children. Clare Jane Bates. his
seventh wife. whom he married at the
age of eighty-one. had no children
Strawberry Valley Project.
The agricultural capacity of Utah is
being largely extended by the construc-
ton Of what Is known as the Strawberry
Valley reclamation project, whereby the
government Of the United States will pro-
vide for the irrigation of about 10000
acres of land in Utah and the Wasatch
mountains, on the eastern shore OF Titan
lake. The water supply will be obtained
from storage reservoir about thirty
miles east of the irrigable area, and
will be carried under the mountains
through a tunnel four miles long into
Spanish Fork river, from which 1t Will
be distributed by a canal twenty miles
long. This tunnel violates the law OF
nature by transferring waters which now
flow into the Gulf of California into the
Great Salt Lake. which, as you know.
has no outlet.
Electric power created from a htgn
line canal Is now transmitted to the tun-
mel for drilling through the rocks. and
later will be utilized to pump water to
lands above the gravity system The
Secretary Of the Interior has recently ap-
proved a contract entered into by the Of
ficials Of the reclamation service and the
municipality of Spanish Fork. whereby
a portion of this power Will be trans
mitted to that city for lighting purposes.
This contract is exceeding favorable to
the government, as 1t utilizes at falr rate
of compe nsation the surplus power de-
veloped by the reclamation service, which
otherwise would be wasted.
The Strawberry Valley project Is based
upon an old private enterprise. Some OF
the bitches were constructed by the Nor
mons as far back as 1852. One of the
canals was built in 1869, and considera-
BILE area of the neighborhood has been
irrigated for two generations. But the
extension of the service was too expen-
siye to be undertaken by private capital,
and the local irrigators formed a corpo-
ration and entered into a contract with
the government, turning In their prop
erty and receiving in return the benefits
of whatever may be done by the govern
mert.
The project will not be completed until
1913, but the land which will be irrigated
is being rapidly taken up, and planted
under the dry-farmng methods to alfalfa.
grain, vegetables and fruit. DR.. Newell.
chief of the reclamation service, says:
Permanent Market.
There is probably no other agricultural