Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . o knows how many moreremain still hidden in the rocky fastnesses of mighty canyonsinto which as yet no traveller has found a way. Another region rapidly gaining in popular recognitionis Washington County in the southw^estern corner of theState, From its border south and west to Arizona and Ne-vada, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, this county displays awonderful series of terraces and cliffs which, like giganticsteps arising one upon the other, culminate in plateaus withelevations above 9,000 feet. Thus within narrow confinesWashington County includes three or four ve
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . o knows how many moreremain still hidden in the rocky fastnesses of mighty canyonsinto which as yet no traveller has found a way. Another region rapidly gaining in popular recognitionis Washington County in the southw^estern corner of theState, From its border south and west to Arizona and Ne-vada, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, this county displays awonderful series of terraces and cliffs which, like giganticsteps arising one upon the other, culminate in plateaus withelevations above 9,000 feet. Thus within narrow confinesWashington County includes three or four very distinctzones and climes, each one eminently suited for agriculturaldevelopment along certain lines. Of these conditions thethrifty JNIormon farmers, who settled here in their pioneerdays in the West, have taken full advantage by spreadingtheir holdings over all of the different zones. Guiding thelife-giving waters of none too plentiful streams out of theirrocky beds onto the thirsty soil they have transformed deserts 27. NATURAL BRIDGE, COAL CREEK CANYON, IRON COUNTY, AS SEEN FROMTHE CREEK BED 1000 FEET BELOW into green gardens and fields. In the lowlands where snowand ice never linger long they have achieved splendid resultsby the cultivation of sugar cane, cotton, almonds, tokaygrapes, apricots and figs—products which strongly suggestthe sunny south—and hence the Mormons are fond of refer-ring to this part of Utah as their land of Dixie. In May, when fruit trees in Dixie have passed out ofbloom and the first cutting of alfalfa has been harvested, itis sowing time for wheat and corn on the plateaus at 5,000feet elevation. One thousand to two thousand feet higherup conditions have been found ideal for potatoes and theseare planted early in June. Cattle, horses, and sheep, leanand scrawny from a meager winters subsistence on stiff-leaved shrubs in the desert, meanwhile have begun their an-nual migration to better pastures at higher altitudes. Onthe rich meadows at 9,000
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