Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-20
OCDEN'S NEW WATER PLANT
Conduit and Diverting Dam to Com.
plete City's Service.
SPECIAL CROPS ARE YIELDING BIG
Peaches, seed Peas and Tomatoes
Furnish Unusual Returns TO
the Farmers--Fuel on
from wyoming.

OGDEN, Utah, Sept. ls-(Special)-
After purchasing its water works. Odgen
has held a bond election and voted 500 900
for Improvements. including a new conduit
through Ogden canyon to the source Of
supply and a diverting dam in cold Water
canyon. where the water wells from noun
tain springs. The surveyors are now running
their lines and before winter the new
aqueduct will be in service, furnishing this
city with an unlimited supply OF water
which has been determined to be chemically
pure.
Thirty-six building permits, covering
cottages and business blocks, is the record
of the building inspectors office for
Wednesday. September H. The total of
permits so far this year exceeds that Of any
year in the history of this city. Among the
structures now in course OF construction is
the Marion hotel, which will equal in size
the largest hotels in the place
Utah's Peach Crop.
Five hundred carloads of peaches have
been shipped from this part of Utah with
in the last four weeks With a partial
crop failure in other fruit districts. the
Utah peach has commanded an average of
81 per hushel and several orchards have
yielded an average of four bushels to "A
tree with t12 trees to an acre, or a return
Of $6SS per acre. The fruit industry is
growth OF a comparatively short time.
Not until five years ago was spraying
generally practiced or comprehensive laws
placed on the statute books compelling
orchardists to guard against the spread of
orchard pests. Today fruit culture is in
its infancy. yet 1t is a lusty infant at
that with promise of wonderful develop
ment.
The peaches shipped this season are Of
unusual SIZE entire shipments averaging q
pound to peach. One consignment of iG9
cases was made up of peaches Weighing
one pound, two ounces each, of unexcelled
flavor and richness Of color.
New Seed Industry.
A new industry in this region is the rails
ing of seed peas for the eastern market
Two hundred and fifty acres of peas south
of Ogden, with an average yield of thirty
bushels to the acre, have returned to tho
growers $50 per acre. The cutivating and
harvesting of these seed peas is not more
expensive than the handling of a wheat
crop, except the work of the experts in
roguing, which is paid FOR by the local seed
house of Coulter, Adams s. Co. The plants
are cut down by mowers and threshed in
the same manner that wheat is harvested.
In other districts devoted to seed pea Gull
ture, in Michigan and Wisconsin there
are repeated crop failures and this year
there is not more than a sixty per cent
yield. The three seasons of experiment in
this region indicate that Utah is especially
adapted in climate and soil to seed peas.
There is an absence OF weevil and the
plants mature in excellent condition.
Canning Tomatoes.
The tomato season is now at it's height
with fifteen factories canning the product
of the vines No farming district in the
United States produces a tomato of the
color, size and flavor OF the local fruit.
The pulp of the Ogden factories is pur-
chased by the carload by eastern catsup
and pork and bean concerns for the pur-
pose OF giving color and flavor to the
output.
Ogden canned tomatoes sell at an advance
of 10 to 10 per cent in competition
with tomatoes put up elsewhere
The output of the Ogden canneres this
season will approximate 100000 cans.
Fifty carloads of empty cans were con-
sumed in the process of making ready for
the market this one product of the farm.
The average yield per acre has been
twenty-five tons, for which the farmers
have received from 50 to $40 per ton.
OIL Field Coming.
To the east of ogden, just over the
boundary line in Wyoming, there is being
developed an oil field which promises to
flow a stream OF wealth beyond compare
There are over a hundred derricks in the
field and seventeen producing wells have
been opened, OF which seven are now being
pumped, producing twenty to thirty barrels
of high grade OIL commanding $3.50 per
barrel at the wells.
This oil field is known on the geological
survey as the Spring Valley basin and is
defined as two miles wide and thirty to
forty miles long.
There is a pipe line three to four miles
long through which the output of the wells
is being delivered to tank cars at Spring
Valley station on the Union Pacific. 1t
has been proposed to extend this pipe line
to Ogden, and as there is a fall of 1000 to
5000 beet in the seventy intervening miles
the practicability of the undertaking is
admitted. With a gravity pipe line to re-
fineries in Ogden this district would draw
the attention of outside investors and
perhaps, boom as have the California
and other oil fields, where oils of lower
grade and far less value have made mil
lionaires. And the greater beneficiary OF
an excitement of that kind would be this