Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

There is no cost to feeding sheep III this
country, for they are never fed. Cold
as 1t Is in the winter, the humble Great
lures which wear our clothing before
we do, find their food OH the hillsides
or the level, and seldom suffer beyond
their endurance. Seven hundred and iifty
thousand pounds of wool were taken
from the sheep OF this valley this year,
Every sheep averages. ito Its owner,
between S1.75 and 81 year. The only
expenses incurred by the sheep men
are the hcrding, the dipping, the shear
ing, and the hauling of the wool,
APPLES AND PEARS.
THIS Ashley valley has rightly re-
ccivcd the name of the valley of the
Red Apple" That fruit raised in this
country has no equal. This year seven
apples, raised near Vcrnal, lying side
by side. measured 34I2 inches. virtually
making seven apples to the yard. The
accompanying cut shows the seven,
with other somewhat smaller ones. Inc
best bearing, and best to preserve, are
tho Wealthy apples. The large apple.
the Wolf River. neither bears so we'll
nor keeps so long. The Northwestern
Greening is also an excellent apple Tor
all purposes. and it thrives here. The
Ben Davis does equally vol. ~ good
apple tree produces from seven to twelve
bushels, and 100 trees may grow on an
acre of land Pears are almost as sue
cessful rs apples, but pear trees do
not mature so quickly as do apple trees,
and of course pears have not received
the attention that apples have. None
of this fruit leaves the country because
OF the distance to be frctgh,cc, Apples
sell for Sl,50 in the winter time: pears
from sl,50 to 81.
IRRIGATION PROJECTS.
Since the opening of the reservation
in 1905, there have been something like
500 900 acres of that land entered, and
Is now filed upon. This consists en-
trely of land which is tillnblc, though
there Is not now sufficient water for IT..
Thousands of acres might be put to
Immediate use either as arid lands. or
rs lands under possible water projects;
while thousands of acres of it are locat-
ed where to water 1t were Il very easy
matter, There are now $4,000 acres
which, under the Carey act, have been
withhold from entry for the purpose
1 of allowing Il corporation to provide wa
| ter FOR 1t ut whatever price can be had.
| The company is known as the "Ourny
| Valley Land and Water company 1t
| contemplntcs having as many as 10000
acres under water by the fall of 1911.
| The undertaking has very promising
| outlook. ana can almost assure success
| az soon rs intended. The project will
bring the water from the Dry Fork to
the district under consideration.
In 1903 100000 acres We're withdrawn
from entry and offered for sale. The
! sale was held at Provo between the lst
| and nth of November of this year; and
| something less than ono-third Of 1t was
disposed of ut an aggregate sum of over
II quarter Of Il million dollars. Since
| the opening in 1905. there have been
over 1000 homcstcads filed upon. on the
| reservation, ana II il estimated that 10.
| O00 people have taken up their abodes
| there, Near Mytou another 40 600 acres
| are soon to be reclaimed; for before the
| close OF 1872 It Is expected to conduct
| sufficient water 10 that region the
southwest Myton Bench, to irl'igate II
| all. Canals already form n network
| over the entire district: yet canal build
| Ing IL only begun. 1t We're too long
table to show the various lengths OF
| the many canals, Here we will take
room to say only that in all there arc
| some 2SG miles of them; OF which tho
longest Is 100, and the shortest -four
| miles: the others ranging between those
| two measurements,
| Those who have awaited themselves
| Of tho homestead opportunity arc
pleased with the homes which the,
| have begun to build. The present as.
! sessed valuation of the county Is $2125,
! 1910.
HYDROCARBONS.
In a well prepared pamphlet entitled
1.-THE Hydrocarbons of the Moffat
! Road" W. Weston, NJ. I. M. NJ, min
d p q Il .