The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-20
SOUTHER|V UTAH IS
| RICH IN RESOURCES
Btate Commissioner OF Sta
S tistics Finds Much to Com
mend After Inspection.
VAST AREA AVAILABLE
Region That Has Been Sterile
4 Reclaimed Through Means
of Irrigation.

aftcr = persopal Investigation or tue
ro.ourccs Of iron. Beaver and MlIlard
.o,,pt;ns. II. +. Haiues. commissioners ot
tbe state bureau OF immigration, lapo'
krd Statistics. il cnthused over them
nrd has compiled some interesting 1acts
rrga arJ;nc the three counties. r'hlch he
has nlaced on Glc in his Office. lhe IN
restipations showed that these counties
ire inst beginning to be developed ana
fbnt there is great future ahead o'
lll of them. in the agricultural Duc cs-
pecialIy. The data. rs 1t VIII nc pre-
'crycd By Mr.. liaincs, is'aS follows;
F irou county is destined To become a
tfeat agricultural section. Tor INC reason
'Lat 'ilIc annual precipitation there is
,cyoud doubt sufficiently ample To pro
Iucc cropS i'm altcrnal" years without
ear Of failure. The sol generally IS =
ANDY or clay loan which Is very rloh
md deep. The climate Is ideal TOR gram
Ind tine harder varieties Of fruits and
.cgo Ia bcs.
Trc Parowan VALLEY is an especially
plomising agricultural section In addi-
Hon io IN annual average prcclpl non
,f Il inches, flowing artosian wafer Is
)bia ned in wells at depths ranging from
.ixty feet downward Wells sixty teei
lecp Weld noT OF watcr from tWcntI
1ve TO nifty gallons per minute. while
Wells from sixty Ia 600 feet deep give
rom dft. 10 rs gallons per minute.
Abundance Of Water.
I Splendid flowing wells are numerous
round summit Parowan, Para Goonah
md BucLlIoru. ono man. +. Y. culver.
Wing near Parowar. has rs many as
hirty nnc flowing wells. and from them
3 Irrigated in the neighhorhooo of io"
lcres | Was told thai II cost around
per foot for driving aud casing q wei,
5pIeudid irrigated and por-irrleJi"d
irops arc 10 be found in this VALLEY, and
1ie vast acreage of dry h"ld Wh'"' Is
low up. dottinC the valley with beautiful
1nlerald fields. Nearly 20n.o0n acres oi
and have been entered III The county ~
be past eighteen months under The en-
arged homestead act
Apple orchards. tn" success Of which
X assured because nf th" flowing wells,
will soon he numerous ir this section.
parowan and ParaSoonali ~" electrical
n lighted and the citizens of TN" former
5ifv arc now agitatinG the matter OF cS-
IabIishin= q municipal watcTworks syS-
lem.
Beaver county's hopes for future pros
pnrity arc not SO strongly founded on us
mines alone. as in former years. AS II
.yidencod b. The agriculture! activities
toa abundauill' found there. Success
las attended The efforts uf tho peopl" 10
row grain without irrigation. and *"N-
'ra. thousand acres OF land ip the eastern
|ection OF thc county hav" been seeded
o wheat this fall and. aided by recent
rorms. the grain is coming M nicely.
An The southeastern section o1 his county
jono the drN- farming land will soon az
frAimatc a0oeo acres,
Salt Jakers Interested,
HIarry :. Joscpi, o. salt Lake city and
is associates arc Installing a waller
Forks system in tho city Of Beaver.
PFnrther north in Nllard county dry
lSrmipe opera lions are assuming great
compared win, those of tuc
3rigated tracts. Miles OF new wire
|'nces, iucIosing beautiful trac,s OF rich
Pipd. covered with forests Of sasehrush.
\detch oUt into the distance farther than
ne eye can view. one hears Of great
&I1sst and alfalfa seed records which,
tir:le qule oi,en exaggerated, arc nat
&rlne enough 10 inspire hope in the old
ettler and many new ones. kanosh Is
We great alfalfa seed producer. The
lfack yards SHOW great crops Of hay and
Rain. Here. as well AS 3t Fillmore,
4lasiS and Other points. thrcshing ma
Hines are running overtime turning out
lIfalfa seed Almou Robinson. nj FIJI
s5crc. IL credited With having raised be-
-wccn 500 and 900 bushels of seed. worth
10 per bushel: John IIBwley Of Oasis
8as fully as much; James Stewart OF
/Ieado" aud Peter Anderson OF oasis
8ave smaller amounts. but both arc rec
1rd-breakcrs when 1t comes 20 Tho matter
N hisn Yields per acre. Tho latter. We
Re ore1ihiV informed. raised twenty
mshsls of seed 10 tbC nero on = good =
Ezrd tract Of land. wEilc the former
bbtaincd nineteen bushels of seed per
bcre from q slualler tract OF land. Mr..
Robinson is said 10 hay" grown fifteen
bushels 90 the acr" on some particularly
khcic" land. and not loss than eight bush
rs per acre ON larger tract.