The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-14

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report rep; Of my trip 10 s Il.
gust 27, TO INSPECT t'iS. ia Y.
now, now going on. and "a ~ 90
nutlon In the soil md %l' i V:
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acsua! construction Torf N.
begin TO feel TN, IN ~ = n
dreamed about for yssrs.,l' =.
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ley-will soon b a r.sI',s n
ginning has been made MY,
prosecute the work yir,,s
sa tisfactory demonstrate
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showing what may % y ss,'
start a great wave Of pc,i,
as in everything else. tts
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mean more for all that
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to the construction work ~
cel!ent materials that s7 r
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work done along dalrss.
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thing Is good enough tor
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drainage system and I 81
question OF effectiveness
sidered Of prime Imponz
continue 10 carry on ths
now being conducted you
OF a permanent and eSee>
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nation.
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have evolved interested ID
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with which the sverase O
fronted, namely. eliminate '
without being compelled 10
| pensive machinery.
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age is not the complete ~
lands as you are dealing =
the Fundamental bars q.
ton. With tha; In yieE ! {
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OF the soil throughout g.
in depth. and / wish 10 q
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out the necessary procetl.
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about six feet below ths 4
trary TO popular opinion. \
TO the surface. but II m
proximity for a su!nder!
stroy crops. owing lafgsq
that are brought 10 the
that period. Your proellz
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water level, and. second,
salts now accumulated.
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tests was on land that e.
drained and on which ~
indication Of salt. The m
practically no salt. lEdeA
could be controlled. crops
on this area at the pTsss1
second TO sixth feet nos
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tity was in the third foas,
decreasing rapidly Win
means that the natuTa
sufficient to carry ths aip
distance from the sunsce u
10 carry them on the g,, gTou,,.
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