The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-27
BUMPER CROPS
ARE EXPECTED
National Copper Bank Is 0p-
timistic Over Outlook for
Business.
COMMERCE AND FINANCE
SHOULD HAVE GOOD YEAR
Prosperity Promised in the
Conditions Prevailing in
This Country.

Forecasting a year decidedly more
prosperous in nearly every branch of
commerce and finance than its predeces'
sor, the National Copper bank of Salt
Lake has issued its "trade and finance
letter. under date of July %. The
review deals with the upward trend Of
financial conditions, crops, the western
outlook, the weevil evil, dry farming,
fruit, sugar beets and bee raising, en-
tering extensively into each subject
from the standpoints Of the past year s
experiences and future prospects, de-
foundation of the nation s wealth and
giving the indications for bumper
1911 crops as ample reason for being
filled with hope for promising season.
The letter in full follows:
General investment conditions are on
the upward trend; steel business has i'm
proved. bank clearings are increasing In
nearly every part OF the country:
nation We continue TO sell To foreign
countries more goods than we buy and
we have the goods TO sell. business fall
ures show a marked decrease: the half
yearly dividends declared by corporations
throughout the country viii reach about
June 30 was the greatest in the history
OF this country In its foreign commerce;
our exports exceeded two billion dollars in
over last year and OF sl42 800 900 over
| 1907, which was the greatest year pre-
vious to the one Just closed.
Crop Prospects Good.
| That is the magic word of all mpor
tance TO the American people Just now
| Good crops mean good business. busy
factories old industries enlivened, new
ones begun-a prosperous country.
We have been told of the drought In
the eastern and middle statcs-corn
IN a "a
crop, and all that Many were badly
frightened in Juno. The heat wave which
minable. 1t threatened to burn UP most
everything. But we learn. with satisfac
tiop, that rains have reached the corn
Just In time and that good yield is now
certain, The cotton outlook. our great
export crop is better than usual. 1t is
estimated that the output Will run one
million bales heavier than in 1910. II
would seem that potatoes are not to be
n big yield this year. hay will be shor;
and oats only fair. but the wheat out
look is most encouraging The United
states production will run to seven hun
dred and sixty millions OF bushels. or
about 100000 900 moe than in 1910.
The far west is To be the big gainer
this year. II we can be guided by the re-
ports which are now coming in from the
entire intemountain region, While the
eastern and central states were swelter-
crate temperature. with heavier RAIN
fall than usual. Conditions have been
better than for the past few years, both
for dry and irrigated farming and the
and adjoining states Will soon be har-
vested. The leading cause is the fact
that our farmers are learning more about
farming. They have found that proper
treatment of the soil will generally bring
results in spite of weather conditions.
Adversely continues to be necessary In
order that we may learn how 10 sue
cecd. The alfalfa wcevil. a wee BIT OF an
! insect about three -sixteenths of an inch
long. ruined the first crop Of alfalfa this
spring and then we rot busy. We studied
the visitor and got acquainted with its
habits strenuous effort was made to
, prevent 1t from living long enough 70
We succeeded that the second crop OF
alfalfa Will be heavier than usual. The
extra attention which the soil received,
as a result of this scare and investIga =
ton. should result In bettered condi-
tion generally. and the third crop may
bring the total yield for the year abovs
the average.
Dry Farming Successful.
There arc twenty-five million acres CT
arabic land In Utah. The total annual
\ water discharge OF the principal rivers
Of the state is measured at eight million
effect. or enough 10 irrigate about one
and one-half million acres OF land. IL q,
time ever comes when all of the moisture
that falls on Utah's mountains is stored
in immense reservoirs and spread out
II over the land when needed IL NAV be pol
siblo to irrigate six TO seven million
\ acres. The remainder must be cultivated
If al all. by dry farming methods.
III BY dry farming Is meant the cultiva
/ tion Of lands In regions where the anuua
| precipitation Is under 20 Inches. IT |:
G estimated that nearly three fifths OF tn,
4 earths land surface is within this class
/ hence dry farming must soon come 10 b,
a world subject, for II will enable th'
\ redemption Of the vast unirrigable deser
4 acres of the world and conversion int
Il garden spots, just as the valley OF Tn,
Great Salt lake and the neiehborlng rift
between the mountain peaks have beer
turned into wonderIands OF beauty by ir
/ rigatlon Utah took the lead in the ives
In the irrigation OF lands. and was th'
pioneer in modern dry farming. Her son
4 are now in advance OF the procession o
followers OF dry farming methods. Presi
dent John A. Widtsoe has written a,
| able treatise on the subject. the AGri
cultural college is conduc,ing. experiment.
4 all over the state and Prof. l.. Il Merrill
| has performed wonders In the way Of as
| sIstlng To educate the people OF the In
| tcrmountain region He Is now constant
ly working with the farmers in q prac
tical way. enabling them To successful!
\ ods and Is Issuing bulletins. In which th'
4 results at the state experiment station
arc published and distributed withou
' charge 10 all who may he interested.
III And dry farming pays. That fact Is In
disputably settled. Prof. Widtsoe say
\ wheat contain as much nutrtivc matte
u as 1925 bushels of wheat grown ana KEEP
under humid conditions. Utah dry farm
l wheat VIII gam q per ''hl III "HlSn
] on being shipped into eastern markets
4 That significant fact Is worth rcmem
\ boring. 1t is conceded by all that las
\ year was a severe test II dry iarmin
| theories because Of the low precipitation
\ yet the Utah Yield was good and tn
1 profits fair. This year. under somewha
l more favorable conditions and despite tn
I spring setback through freezing. a bum
I per CROP j. expected and the present out
| look for one - most favorable. Report
| rcccivce from every corner OF the stat
\ and from southern Idaho Indicate tina
\ wheat will yield all the way from ten [
| forty bushels. with twenty bushels 10 In
1 acre as n conservative average. No NOR
\ moistur. is needed before harvest
II is estimated that ten To nftee
4 bushels 10 the acre VIII pay the cXpens
4 OF farming by dry farming method,
where everything is hired Twenty bush
els yield a fair profit, and forty 0ushel
| amount TO n bonanza. Reports ndicat