Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
UTAH FERTILE FRUIT REGION
Fast Taking Place Equal with that
Of Colorado.
SALIVA COUNTY RICH SECTION
wonders Are BeinS Worked There By
the Progressive sniins Orchard
Loan Company Through
Irrigation.
by LEONARD FOWLER

ehuetHuEl TINS e. great deal better X YOU
viii take a map Of Utah. IT'S altogether
worth understanding, too, because you
will zee the unfolding OK a great empire
a transportation empire; the coming OF
another Cou d'etst OF the Goulds. You
sec, the Rio Grande Western. the Denver
g. Rio Grando and the Western Pacific
railways, over whose fortunes our old
friend 4. l. Lomax il exercising a potent
sway are all known on change as a part
of tho Gould System. II you will look at
Grand county. Utah. you will see where
the Denver q Rio Grande railway. passing
through Green river. heads north into Salt
Lake City. now follow with your finger
across Emery county. and on across sevler
county, almost 70 the Willard county line
There, your finger Is resting on sallraa a
principal town on the san Pete bfanch line
from Salt Lake City to Marysvaie. East out
Of Salina there are twenty miles Of broad
gauge. standard road built. tae beginning Of
the Hahna cutoff. which is TO shorten the
freight route from California 90 the east a
little less than 800 miles mai,ins st possible
for Western Pacific train load Of oranges
TO compete IN point of time with any of the
other transcontinental lines. very much -
tho advantage of our former Omaha friend.
MIR. +. L. Lomaz and his read
To be n Frci@at HOute.
This 'Salina cutoff will be q freight
route and a fast passenger route from
California to Omaha and the east 1t will
save that long. weary ride across the
deserts OF the Green river: hot in summer
bitterly cold in winter: a bare space on
the face OF the earth which does not now
nor Ia It likely that It ever win support n
population of any numbers. The "salina
cutoff" however. crosses the enormous
coal beds Of Dmery county. the rich beet
sugar fields of Sewer county. the peach
groves OF the Cove district. the 10000 acres
OF fruit land that the state OF Utah is
retaining under the Piuts reservoir and
canal project. and into Willard county
where there are literally and actually
hundreds OF thousands Of acres OF land
awaiting the coming Of the settler 60 make
values. to improve. TO develop and 20 make
two blades % grass grow where but one
grew before. From Green river 20 sniina
is 1876 miles. across lots. II you make the
round trip tho way tho railroad goes now.
It is nearer eco miles. Take tho lonser nam
Der from the greater and you have what
will be saved when that stub of twenty
miles clicking out from saiina. eastward,
has grown into the 'out-off" that makes
for the shorter distance. the quicker tiIiie,
the cheaper unproductiye desert. put i'm
5000 square miles Of the richest coal fields
in America and you have tho reason that
ealina. Utah is one of the most hopeful,
thriving. hUstlinS cities In the inter-moun-
tain west And no matter whnt the rail-
road engineers say any one OF tho men in
Lewis drug store can prove TO you with
out quadrant or transit. that tho railroads
simply cannot get out OF building that
line"
some Road Has Been Built.
And, come to think of It, It Doesn't look
reasonable that the Gould system will con-
tinuo to haul it's freight trains from oil
around Robin Hoods barn 800 miles. Just
for the fun o. the thing. does it2 And II
Mr. Gould, aided and abetted by Mr.. LomaK
should be careless about little matter
like that It may be suggested that there
is the Clark road. owned by Senator Clark
OF Montana. Clark didn't get his money
doing things for fun Say what you will
the saslina prophet has the best OF II; espo'
clally as the route has been surveyed
twenty miles OF road built and some Of
the maps have the thin red line on 1t ina
is marked protected"
asked A. ]. Crozier about this. Croziel
"a the head. front and beginning Of thu
sauna NleINAnllie NbliAPLh1s Ath' NeAANNA'
does a trifling business OF a $4,000 eaei
year with the farmers Of this section
handling their produce. hay, grain and
provisions He uses 400 freight cars. as
sorted sizes. to get this stuff to market
and for plain. unadulterated hustle he hal
a little La Sale street trot that gently AM
firmly ushers the stunt makers in thi
section TO a remote seat behind a post OF
tho diagram.
There's no question" said Mr. Crozier
but what that cutoff will be built. Tn
road would eliminate the desert, which 4
a long, unproductive haul; it would plac
the same roadbed through the center o
the greatest coal fields in America; ant
would assist in the development of thi
valley as a great apple orcharding sec
Ton.
Opportunity for Utah.
You see, / am in the commission an
produce business Last year the crop G
the United States was l2,OoOOOO barrel
short. had many calls for western apples
which could not fiji Aud felt that theT
was a great opportunity here in Utah 70
some OF our people TO do what has bee
done in the Grand Valley, the Palisade
and Clifton districts in Colorado. We hav
an advantage of 500 feet In altitude owe
the Colorado valley; the soil Is exactly tn
same; we use the same water, a mud,
silt-filled stream, that replenishes the Liant
and 1 know that we can raise as exceller
an apple in this valley as they can any
where In the west. Besides that, our tree
raise the quantity, twenty boxes Of apple
to the tree being not unusual. With se'
enty-five trees to the acre It is not in
possible for intensive orcharding to yiel
100 to 1000 bushels OF apples to the acl
in this valley.
we raise fifty to sixty bushels Of whe'
on our dry land farms as a usual thin!
potatoes will run from 2O) to 400 bushe
TO the acre, and all other farm produce
proportion.
''Oh, yes, / think the cutoff will be hui
all right. With 2O0OO acres Of land in tn
valley under State OF Utah irrlgauC
project, the increased yield and valuation
will make the requirement nearer 10 40
cars per annum than 400 SO sure am
II this that 1 am setting out 700 acres
land 10 orchard and I believe that by Il
time We have Il In bearing, perhaps t'
OF six years the through freights from a
coast to Omaha and the east VIII