Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-27
BY WILLIAM sPRY,

BY WILLIAM SPRf'
Governor OF Utah.
M atate In the union has been more
richly endowed in its splendid and mahiioiu
resources than the state OF Utah. us
mines literally inexhaustible treasures or
goId silver. copper and other metals III
1sie reached A production OF more than
so 100 90 and we may say that its noun
tains have scarcely been scratched win
every year its production increasing oy
remarkable and astonishing strioes' us
live stock added e. the states wealth. last
wear more than t2O.O0OOO0, and though young
in it's manufacturing advancement and holo-
ing opt countless opportunities for factories
OF every kind It still produced at home
tho value ~ slSOOO.OOO. Its stores Of timber.
c,aI and iron which for the present are
c,nsetved for a little while in out OF the
way places will presently be known across
the world. as they can easily supply the
needs Of America for a hundred years. our
farm crops. Of which we shall speak mostly
here. in 1910 totalied in value nearly
Sx8 900 900. and yet not q 1.-THE OF Utahs
measureless tracts OF rich, loamy, sage
brush land, lying in its beautiful mountain
valleys has yet come under the domain OF
agriculture
In spite of the production Of nearly $685.
OO0 900 OF our mineral resources we may
say that in future our agricultural and
horticultural interests will be 80 much
greater than our mining interests that the
latter, great as It is, will be very small
In comparison.
Cache valleys Riches.
Cache valley on the north, with its
quarter Of a hundred thrifty towns Of in
telli4ent. Industrious citizens, nearly al
OF whom own their own homes and Guilt
vate their own farms has an area Of
100 square miles; its population Is 8'OOO
its assessed valuation, SS,659OOO. According
to j. c. Hodgenson, agronomtst, Oh th'
agricultural college, Cache valley witt
10000 acres OF dry farm wheat, produces
an average OF thirty bushels TO the acre
while its bsnncI crt ps yield as high al
sixty-two ana one-Ealf bushels to the acre
Here, as everywhere in U-ln, are RAISED
three crops Of alfalfa from 100 TO 500 bush
els of potatoes and twenty-five tons o
sugar beets its orchards not uncommoni!
yielding from 400 to 600 bushels of apple
per acre. Yet Cache Valley is by no mean
equal as fruit district, the other portion
OF Utah further south.
only few years ago a large portto
OF the splendid lands now under eultiva
1NcN
OF Utah. at from Sis to $3.50 per acre, o
taken by the thrifty American citizen a
a homestead. entry. from the bounteou
hard OF our national government. Toda
countless farms are paying net interes
of 10 per cent on an investment Of froT
$50 20 5000 per acre.
This s only representative OF the cond
ton. more or less, in every county
Utah Weber county, with the junction cit
of Ogden as its principal city, Is larg
enough and rich enough, with natural r.
sources sufficient to make II almost an In
dependent empire with a present populG
ton Of $500 remarkably energetic, II
dustrfous and thrifty people, Weber count
could easily support many times its pref
ent population. only a few years ago SON
Of the lands which today are valued {
$500 and 5000 per acre we're covered wit
sagebrush, scrub oak, or other natiN
shrubs, and were considered of little Walt
until the wise hand OF industry shove
what might be done in fruit culture G
the rich fertile soils along the base
our mountain ranges
salt Lake City's Prestige.
Salt Lake City occupies still more in
portant position in the great basin. Loo
ing down from the west upon the beautif
valley which It occupies with 100000 peopl
are the mines, mills and smelters of BIN
ham, the greatest copper camp in Il
world TO the east of IL is Park city wi
a valuation OF $1OO, 0O0, 900. farther, to Il
south, Is the camp of Tintic, with a val
alton no less than Park City; IL is 81
rounded by the mines of hundred mou
tains which look to II as the smelling al
milling center; the products of 4O,O0O,i
acres Of tilable land pay tribute to 1t al
the herds OF a thousand hills Not betwe
the Pacific coast and the Missouri river
there a city which commands a position
Important not between the savage paint
landscapes OF the Grand Canyon OF /
Colorado and the borders of Canada
there q possible rival; so commanding Is
position as a mining, manufacturing a
agricultural center that Is is inevuat
marked as a city Of destiny.
Progress from Pioneer Days.
In the early days OF Utah's history, !
handful OF hardy pioneers settled in SIN
villages along the mountain streams. tt
were far from transportation and had
the world market which they have tod
they chung tlmidly TO the banks of
streams and raised a little wheat. a III
fruit. a few vegetables and enough :
for their horses, sheep and cattle. es
supporting in an Independent way as b
he could. his own family. Indeed a
seemed almost afraid OF the bOundl
empire which stretched around them. {
mountain valleys in those days seen
too far from the thorOughfares Of
world, and even Daniel Webster wo
have left us a thousand miles away n
the western confines OF the nation.
time. of course these broad areas "
pastured with sheep and cattle With
advent OF the railroads into Utah. and
spanning across her zones OF the a
transcontinental lines, however, the la
or began 20 creep out cautiously from
green banks OF the streams until
learned that without irrigation these ,
empires OF untitled land might be made
) ield with the proper cultivation,
twenty-five, forty, bushels Of wheat
acre This has been accomplished
cessfully for many years, but It's NEAR
is just out. Today dry farming Is u
the tongue OF every business man In
cities every clerk ana craftsman, e'
politician, merchant, banker, specula
wage-earner and mining man Is lOoi
with establishment upon a movement 81
is sweeping us all with enthusiasm
AN ENTERPRISE whose possibilities are