The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-02-02


they seemed almost afraid of the |
boundless empire which stretched |
around them. Our mountain valleys |
in those days seemed too far from
the thoroughfares of the world. and |
even Daniel Webster would have left |
us thousand miles away from the
western confines of the nation. In
time, OF course, these broad areas
were pastured with sheep and cattle.
With the advent Of the railroads into |
Utah, and the spanning across her
zones of the great transcontinental
lines, however, the farmer began to
creep out cautiously from the green
banks of the streams until he learned
that without irrigation these vast EN-
pires of untitled land might be made
to yield, with the proper cultivation,
ten. twenty-five, forty, bushels of
wheat per acre. This has been accom-
plished successfully for many years,
but its meaning is just out. Today dry
farming is upon the tongue of every
business man in our cities. every clerk
and craftsman, every politician, meT'
chant, banker, Spectator, wage-earn-
err and mining man is looking with as
constituent upon a movement which
is sweeping us all with enthusiasm in
to an enterprise whose possibilities
are unlimited. For sixty years our
tardy farmer Rugged the mountain
streams with his small area of land,
farming for the family, little dream
ing that about him lay an empire so
broad and magnificent that he could
not grasp it's meaning ANY acre OF
which would produce, with proper
cultivation. crops so per cent larger
than the average crops of Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Illinois. Not I'M
til 1t had sent its lusty children into
Mexico, Canada, Idaho and Colorado
f! in search of homes; not until for
quarter of century few OF Its
progressive and wise hands had grown
ri III upon farms which could not be
reached by the irrigation ditch; not
Until its northern neighbor, Idaho, had
demonstrated a hundred times what
profit and what inspiration could be
drawn from the cultivation of vast
areas with the gas and steam tractor;
not until, within our own state,
score of progressive men had placed
magnificent tracts of sage-brush land
under cultivation with horse and ma
cline power drawing down enormous
| protas; not until a panic came to
rouse us out of our lethargy, did the
business men of our state begin fully
to appreciate that our agricultural
wealth should represent to us an in.
| come of q half billion dollars a year.
outweigh ing by twenty fold all the ag-
gregated Wealth of all our other indus.
tries
Attractions of the State.
This brings up to the mention OF
some other counties besides Cache,
Weber ana Salt Lake. There are
twenty seven counties in Utah, all of
which hold out the best of opportun
tiles. Box Elder and Morgan are un-
excelleo as fruit and farming districts.
Tooele county, with precipitation
second to no other county has fu-
ture beyond our present calculation,
not only as farming and fruit rails
ing section, but for the splendid smelt-
ing and mining developments which
are coming, and shall come, to it.
Utah county, with population OF
37,942, with an area OF 2,342 square
miles, the present seat of one of our
greatest national irrigation projects,
the Strawberry Valley irrigation canal,
which will cover $4,000 acres Of land
unsurpassed in the world, is dis
trict especially adapted for fruit cul'
ture, sugar beets, alfalfa and garden
ing projects.
Davis county has population OF
1871 and is the garden spot Of the
, state, and the fruit, gardening and
canning center.
3 Willard county, with a population Of
; 6,l18 and an area Of 6,774 square miles
!. whose principal town is Fillmore, the
2 first capital of Utah, holds out unriy
allied opportunities for farming, hog
\ sheep and cattle raising. Eastern Nil
D larry county alone, having 100000 acres
, of sage-brush land, which at one time
was waving field of blue grass, WILD
A flax and thistles, with soil deep, rich
{ and prolific as any in the world, cal
; support population of 100000 PEG
!. pie. Half of this magnificent area
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