The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-18
Boosting Bear
River Valley.

Alvin NJ. West was in Garland on
business Saturday and gave this office a
pleasant call. Mr.. West, who has been
boosting the Bear River Valley for a
number of years, is issuing Boosting
Postal Card with a picture of fine
apple on one side and the following
comments on the other:
Bear River Valley-is located twenty.
five miles north Of Ogden, Utah, the
greatest railroad center west of Colorado,
at an attitude of 4, 200 feet.
This valley extends from the Great
Salt Lake on the south TO the Idaho state
line on the north, and varies from five to
fifteen miles in width.
II is traversed by three railroads.
The Bear River, 300 miles in length,
draining an immence area, flows through
this valley into the Great Salt Lake.
The Utah Idaho Sugar Co, owns and
operates from this source one of the best
irrigation systems in the United States,
and furnishes an abundant supply of
water for irrigating more than $4,000
acres of fruit, grain alfalfa, potato and
sugar beet land.
a healthful climate is shown here by
the fact that asthma, malaria and tuber-
culosis never originate In this valley, but
many cases of each have found relief or
permanent cure here. The winters are
mild and the summers delightful.
There are many hot springs of great
medicinal values, as proven by hundreds
of reported cures of various diseases.
"Sunstreke" and hydrophobia are un-
known here and no loss of life from
cyclones or earthquakes has ever been re-
corded in Utah.
Crops-Observe the followings reports
of the best farming on the best soil:
Alfalfa Hay, 5 to z tons per acre.
Apples, 500 to 900 boxes per acre.
Sugar Beets, 10 to 30 tons per acre.
Oats, 70 to l25 bushels per acre.
Barley, go to 80 bushels per acre,
Wheat, 80 to 80 bushels per acre.
Potatoes, $50 to $50 bushels per acre.
The finest apples, peaches and straw
berries are grown here.
Poultry and dairy products are profit
able industries in Utah.
Cattle and sheep from the mountain
raEges consume thousands OF tons OF
alfalfa hay grown in the valley.
Apples and peaches bring the highest
prices obtained in the mining camps and
cities of the West and reach the eastern
markets at profitable price.
The sugar company at Garland, neal
the center of the valley, operates brancl
railroad lines to bring In the beets from
the surrounding farms.
A thriving German colony, togethe
with natives OF Utah and other states
are developing this fertile valley. The!
enjoy the modern conveniences of tele
phone, II. +. ID, mail service, goo'
school houses and churches of variou
religious denominations.
Farm hands receive good wages here
and good land can be rented on mos
favorable terms. A few good farms cal
be purchased for much less than ther
value.
Forty thousand acres Of oats, wheat
barley and alfalfa Is the anHual product
of irriaated lands of the Bear Rive
Valley. - ------'
Nearly 5000 acres of peach and appl
trees now growing in Bear Rizer Valley
Railroads to all markets the growing
cities and mining camps of Utah, to tn
Pacific coast and Chicago.
More than 6, 900 acres Of sugar beet
are grown annually in Bear Rive
Valley.
For further information about Bea