. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . o when a compulsory sprayinglaw was enacted. The real awakening, however, did not come untilUtah suffered state-wide humiliation over her defeat by Idaho inthe fruit contest held by the National Irrigation Congress at Ogdenabout five years ago. Then the people became conscious of theirwasted opportunities and went to work to make fruit growing aprofitable industry. The State Horticultural Society was formedand tree planting became almost a craze. Result: Utah took prac-tically all the prizes and sweep-st
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . o when a compulsory sprayinglaw was enacted. The real awakening, however, did not come untilUtah suffered state-wide humiliation over her defeat by Idaho inthe fruit contest held by the National Irrigation Congress at Ogdenabout five years ago. Then the people became conscious of theirwasted opportunities and went to work to make fruit growing aprofitable industry. The State Horticultural Society was formedand tree planting became almost a craze. Result: Utah took prac-tically all the prizes and sweep-stakes for the size and flavor of herfruit at the Irrigation Congress contests since held at Sacramentoand Albuquerque, and the Salt Lake Commercial Club now has onexhibition, silver trophies then awarded, valued at more than$5,000. Orchardists are seeking locations all over the state, and thegreat plateaus lying along the Green, Grand, and San Rafael Riv-ers, are now the scenes of a scramble for land and water by com-panies and individuals who are convinced by the phenomenal horti- %^:,. : the City of Ogden. A GLIMPSE 0 F UTAH page thirty cultural successes at Green River, that the whole eastern portion ofUtah has the climate and soil to make it, under water, one of thegreatest fruit-producing sections of the world. This territory—always until now considered an unreclaimablewaste—is all tributary to the Rio Grande System. The waters ofits deep-cutting streams will now be raised to the plateaus by pump-ing plants and gravity; reservoirs will be built to hold the floodwaters and unless all predictions of expert fruit growers fail, thatpart of Utah will in ten years be covered with orchards and beworth as much per acre as are the lands around Palisade and GrandJunction. Utah is credited by the Salt Lake Tribune, in its annual sum-mary, with a fruit production for 1908 of $1,500,000. Apples, pears, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries,raspberries and blackberries are
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