The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-04
.UTAH'S GROWTH
SURELY PROVED
Wonderful Increase i'm Seed
Business Shows Progress in
Intermountain Region.
CONVINCING EVIDENCE
OF YEAR OF ACTIVITY
Both Old and New Residents
Are by Their Purchases Indi-
eating Progressiyeness.

Sometimes, not often, n man whose
outlook on life is clOuded, saws, wnen
he reads Of new skyscraper that is
under construction or for which con-
tract has been let:
go, it is all right for the men who
,already have millions to spend their
money that way if they want to, but it
don t help us any meaning thereby
that skyscrapcrs are not indices of the
country's progress, considered from the
broad viewpoint.
Pessimistic and prejudiced as this
opinion may seem, it can find no room
for reasonable argument when one is
dealing with the more basic and ele
mental principles and factors Of
region S growth, There is, in spite OF
many varied opinions and theories, one
fact upon which all experts upon
social economy agree: The growth of
agriculture is reliable index TO the
growth of any region possessing agri"
cultural resources.
Proof Is Self Evident.
This is only preliminary word to
a story of the increase in business In
line that proves beyond the shadow
of doubt thai not only Salt Lake
City and county, but also the whole
of the vast agricultural region tribu.
tary TO the intermountain metropolis,
stand in the forefront of advancement.
The test is just as simple as 1t IS
conclusive. When the seed business of
a long established and well-known firm
OF the city increases 40 per cent in
single year, it is proof OF a cor
responding growth of the demand for
seeds, and consequently evidence of the
/ -b,f Il nf Z No Yriia
tary region has created this demand.
| \. II. Vogeler, head of the Vogeler
! Seed company, has been in Salt Lake
| City as a seed merchant business for
many years, but disclaims either per
sonal popularity or extraordinary effort
Iin attempting to explain his phe-
nomenal increase of business.
Growth of 40 Per Cent.
I; "Our seed business has increased 20
per cent on an average over our
business of last year" said Mr.
! terday. This growth OF trade, l ap-
prchcnd. is duo primarily to the in
creased development OF agricultural re-
sources III the intermountaln region
where we have customers, This in
cludes outside trade from Oregon,
Washington, Idaho. Nevada and Mon
tana, in all of which states, as well
past year many settlers, the majority
of whom will, of course, turn TO agri-
culture for their livelihood
There IS one thilg that / would
like to speak of with particular en-
phasis. Our purchasers are manifest
ing this year pronounced desire TO
improve the varieties Of their selec-
tions in all lines OF crops The educa-
tonal training of the farmers is bear
ing fruit. People arc learning that
careful selections and discrimination III
choosing varieties are in the end al
ways profitable. -
Specific Instances.
Questioned as to some specific in
stances along this line, Mr.. Vogele:
said: "Take the potatoes-farmers
have found that by changing seed fire.
qucntly they secure not only better
quality, but a better yield. and conse'
their land. Last year we sold only
1000 bushels OF seed potatoes; this
year the Indications are that we viii
put out at least 5000 bushels.
"Then consider the growth of the
wheat business In Utah and the tribu-
tnry region. Ten years ago our yield
was 100000 bushels, last year it was
prospects are fulfilled, it will be 5000.
600 bushels. There is no question that
Utah produces the very best hard
wheat Of the intermountaiu region, and
the millerS of the cast are fast finding
this out.
Growth of Dry Farming.
Mr.. Vogeler attributed u large part
of this phenomenal increase OF business
to the great development of dry farm
ing during the last two years, and
spoke enthusiastically of the large
tracts of land in Utah that. although
not irrigated. have yet been placed
under cultivation within brief period.
"Dry farming has been proved
pronounced success, he declared "By
careful selection of the varieties OF
seeds and scientific cultivation it has
become profitable. more so, in many
eases, than the expensive irrigation.
''The sac of garden seeds indicates
that the demand for garden produce is
st,ll Far ahead Of the supply and that
profitable one in this valley for an in
definite period. -