The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1911-08-25
Utah's Resource and Possibilities

We think OF DO and love It ~ the
drcamlaud OF the Mormon people. ant
as region rescued from barren.
ness aud made home for hundred
and thousands Of people. salt Lake
is really it's metropolis, hut Ogden
Logan and Provo are prosperoui
and progressive cities whose popula
| ton increases only less rapidly thar
their ambitions
/ one Of the first things for a Btran
ger to do is TO take his hat off &c
our STATE. for Utah In pioneei
of irrigation, master OF dry farm
. INK. great producer OF sugar bcuts
eNcclling In fruit raising, succcssiu
| In dairy products. her soil raisei
anything The resources OF Utah
with her mountains OF iron aud cop
| per. great areas OF coal, incNhaus
iblc supplies OF salt. mines OF gold
| md silver. oil In abundance and acres
/ Of asphalt. are just becoming known
| It's development II rapid and II 10
"A rich empire within itself. Utah
I Is young state We have $4,000 0Ol
/ acres or $4,000 square miles Of land
In the state, 22,OOOOOO acres are
/ subject to agricultural dcvcoplmcnt
/ hut Of this vast agricultural ares
less than one.tcnth ~ cultivated .,
| the present time This fact alone
shows the great possibility for agrt
I cultural development More popuh
/ ton and more intense cultivation
OF the soil IN needed. For h
/ rigatcd farming, the principal riyers
/ Of Utah discharge annually tothI
| OF 7.7Sj.g2l acre feet Of water. nc
/ cording to the report OF the Utah
Conservation Commission. with mil
| lions OF gallons OF sub;orrancan wa
| ter that will bo brought into use AZ
/ our population demands.
Dry farming has been practiced
/ since the dawn Of civilization In
/ Egypt and In India. The farmers Of
| Utah have been raising crops on dry
| farms with rain fall Of less than
/ ~ inches FOR more than half o
| sontury. The beginning OF dry farm
ing In our state occurred through an
/ lccidont In 1865 "A little company
/ II immigrants settled In the Real
/ River valley and diverted the water
tom the Malad river FOR irrigation
purposes. the waters were No hCavlly
laden with alllnli that In "a few ycarl
heir lands were 40 imprcgnatcd via
Tho nONlous salts that crops were IN
able to grow upon them. In dcspcra
lion the settlers put the pillow In ~,
] anna hruah WrnuuI mud t.tuut,d g.s.l
in the soil that was not To be lrri
gated. They succeeded In their worl
md since then dry farming methods
have become more In vogue even
year and today with the propci
method uGed. teatg have been mad,
aud 30 to GO bushels OF wheat pei
acre nre produced.
Utah offers special Inducements 10
| prospective settlers under the En-
| larged Homestead Act. whereby SEQ
ncreg of arid land can be taken up
BY one citizen ami title obtained
/ without residence by simply putting
| One'half OF the tract under cultiyR
| ton within five years To-day the
| product OF these dry farm areas cX.
cell In quality that OF any other class
| OF lands.
The average yield Of wheat
| throughout the United States for the
| last ton years was less than "a bush
| els per acre, while Utah has pro
duccd from 60 to S2is bushels per
acre on irrigated lands, nothwith
standing the fact that our soils have
not been intensely cultivated We
stand second In wheat production,
second In oats. nrBt In barley. first
I'm alfalfa seed. first In sugar beets
| and second In potatoes
Tho average yield OF oats through
out the United States was 277 bush.
'ls per acre, while In our state we
have produced 1856 bushels per acre
The average yield Of potatoes
throughout tho United States "a 50
bushels per aero. while Utah produces
an average Of 100 bushels per acre md
has produced as much as 900 bushels
on one acre, and from 200 10 1000
bushels Of onions per acre, % tons
Of tomatoes, A. tons OF sugar boets
and Z tons Of alfalfa hay PER acre.
one hundred years nro Great Brit
aims average yield was about the
rnmc for the above products as the
United States. ~ that time Roy
nj Commission was appointed TO
stimulate agriculture aud proper con
Bcryntlon Of the soils. Now ENGLAND
produces ~ bushels OF wheat per
acre, Germany ~. The Netherlands
o. and France -. OF oats England
produces ~, Germany 80, The Neither.
lans %. Germany, lclrium Hnd
Great Britain averages $50 bushels OF
potatoes per acre, ana nothwithsinnd'
Ing the fact that enough potatoes
could be raised In Utah to supply
the United States, there was import
ed into our country In 1908, S,3Si,0O)
bushels.
Fruit growing as yet Is in It's In
fancy, hut enough has been done 10
show that its opportunities are IN
limited Apples, peaches, pears
plums. strawberries ana garden truck
are all produced In large quantities
The climate and soils here are re-
markably well adapted 10 the pro-
duction Of apples aud peaches, LorHe
commercial orchards are being plant
d AS farmers have found that a good
irrigated orchard Is the mainstay Of
the farm business, and q peach or
Would Be a Change,