Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-10
UTAH FARMERS IN LUXURY
Harness the Water to Do Their Bid
ding on the Farms.
AFFLUENCE AND WEALTH ROAD
Season is Drawing 60 close
and AIT Have Been Greatly Bene-
fitted by the Monetary
Returns.


work, after a trip through the inter
mountain region. says ogden is doing more
building and making greater industrial
progress than any city west Of Omaha, with
the exception Of Denver.
The financial stringency, following in the
restricting OF loans by the large eastern
banks, has brought building operations TO
a standstill in several large cities which
were fostering a boom, but ogden, quite
to the contrary, is erecting more bust
ness blocks and residences than at any
time since 1890. AS an Illustration OF the
changes taking place here, Twenty fifth
street, the entrance to the city, but not
the main bul. less district. seven new bust
ness blocks under construction, one Of
which is to be the largest hotel in Ogden
with the exception Of the Reed At Ogden's
present rate of increase, the city will have
a population Of 100000 ten years hence.
Harnesses IA spring.
Charles Schmaltz, whose country home is
eight miles southwest OF Ogden, at the base
Of the wasatch mountains near the mouth
Of theWeber canyon, that deep gorge
through which the Union Pacific railroad
finds a natural passway, is one of the
farmers in this region OF natural water
power sites, who has harnessed a spring
made it perform a multiplicity Of duties.
Three years ago the farmer conceived the
idea OF having his own electric power and
light system, and though he knew nothing
Of volts or amperes, direct or alternating
currents he set about to construct a pipe
line and power house and install a water
wheen and a dynamo, and string wires
800 feet TO his farmhouse. At a result, he
has enjoyed all the electric conveniences
Of a city home, and today his wife polishes
his shirts with an electric iron and at night
the family burns Tungstens without with
out the buzz of meter, that erratic ma
chine which presents to city folks once
month, bills OF uncertain totals. More than
that, Mr. Schmaltz has freed his orchard
hrom moths by putting incandescents
among the trees and under each light
pan Of water coated with film of kero-
sene. The bugs, attracted by the bright
lights at night drop into the pand and die,
and the trees escape a pest which in other
orchards make wormy fruit
This country electric plant is a COM
paratively inexpensive, simple thing From
a spring flowing seven-tenths of a sec
ond foot Of water, a 4OO-foot flume con-
veys the water to a pipe 100 feet long, made
up of eight-inch, six-inch and three-inch
cast iron pipe which was bought second
hand for SIS, The water has a fall of fifty
six feet in the 100 feet and through a one
and one-eighth inch nozzel it plays on a
two-foot Pelton wheel, which was pur-
chased for sos. Connected with this wheel
is two-brush S65 dynamo that making
1850 revolutions per minute, generates cur
rent for twenty sixteen-candle power cleo
trio lights. The water wheel also operates
a machine In which ten bushels OF corn
are chopped in an hour, the dynamo and
chopping requiring five-horse power
With an outlay of SIS for the pipe S65
for the dynamo, sos for the Peton and
$50 for the power house, and q small addi-
tional $ umfor the lumber flume and wir-
ing or a total less than $780, this farmer
has at his command at all times of the
year a power which lifts a big load from
his shoulders in feeding the stock, caring
for the orchard, saving the wood, and his
family can appl ythe same force to run
ming the washer, propelling the sewing
machine heating the irons and dispelling
the darkness Of night.
Mr.. Schmaltz says that the country home
where a little stream of water gurgles
from the rocks is sadly unmindfuI of ma
lures murmurings calling for a higher
duty IL the water power is not con-
verted into electric energy and made to
serve q useful purpose.
This man Schmaltz is not only a farmer
with mechanical turn OF mind, but he is
somewhat OF a financier. Twenty-four
years ago he worked on a barn In this
city He accepted for his wages a horse
and traded the animal for 100 head of
ewes. Locating where at night he now
reads by electric light, he built a rock
house, contracted to buy 9l0 acres ~
pFa lan For
the hard grind of rearing a family of
eleven children and raising a band of
sheep. He endured four years Of Cleve-
landism, during which he sold wool at Ga
cents a pound and was forced to retain
the wethers for lack of a market but
gradually he won prosperity, and as a
sequel to that struggle, he is today rated
as a man OF wealth. This year he dis
posed Of $500 worth Of wool, $4,000 Of
lambs and 1900 OF Nethers, or a total of
$4,000, and he enters the winter with 5000
head OF stock sheep.
There are very few places in this or any
other country where. with a beginning SO
humble, even the most industrious and
far seeing could have accomplished more
In legitimate field OF endeavor and
therefore Mr.. Sehmaltz' triumph should
prove an enticing lesson for others outside
possibilities are so vast
Tomato Canning Season Oevr,
The canneries OF Ogden and vicinity will
close their tomato season the end OF this
week. after packing 10000 cases, or nearly
$4,000 cans.
With small crop Of tomatoes in the
east the Utah product Is expected TO
reach Omaha and other markets on the
Missouri, and even compete with the lower
priced goods In tha Chicago district
Some tomato growers have harvested
thirty tons of the bright red fruit from an
acre Of vines, receiving therefor 800
These tomatoes are contracted for In the
fall OF the year for delivery the follow
ing. year, and this feature Of the Industry
makes tomato culture quite as inviting IA
that OF beet raising. There is no hawking
or peddling and no waiting for a marked
A year hence the farmer knows that with
good crop, he has but to make the de-
hveries and draw his money from the
canneries at a stipulated price per ton and
no limit to the tonnage.
These canneries, which, beginning with
early cherries. handle all the fruits IN
their season, and wind up the campaign
with canning pumpkins and apples. dis
tribute hundreds OF thousands OF dollars
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