. Alkali and water logged lands. Alkali lands. [from old catalog]; Soils. ALKALI AND WATER LOGGED LANDS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS To the most casual analyst of local opportunity for profitable investment in a drainage enterprise, it must be readily apparent that this area possesses exceptional economic advantages. It lies within a short distance of Salt Lake City, which affords the largest as well as the best market in Utah for all produce and is the distrib- uting center of the inter- mountain west. Its prox- imity to the city offers su- perior educational and so- cial advantages with little inconv
. Alkali and water logged lands. Alkali lands. [from old catalog]; Soils. ALKALI AND WATER LOGGED LANDS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS To the most casual analyst of local opportunity for profitable investment in a drainage enterprise, it must be readily apparent that this area possesses exceptional economic advantages. It lies within a short distance of Salt Lake City, which affords the largest as well as the best market in Utah for all produce and is the distrib- uting center of the inter- mountain west. Its prox- imity to the city offers su- perior educational and so- cial advantages with little inconvenience, and nowhere within the State is to be found an undeveloped area, similar in extent, which is so well served with all classes of public utilities. The transportation fa- cilities are exceptional. Ex- tending through the cen- tral portion of the tract is the Salt Lake & Los An- geles (Saltair) Railroad, and to the south, within a distance of less than two miles from it, are the lines of the Salt Lake Route and the Western Pacific Railroads. Electrical energy for commercial and domestic purposes is easily available from the transmission system of the Utah Power & Light Company, while telephone and telegraph service may be obtained from the lines which traverse this area. Topographical conditions are such that highways of very light grades, leading to almost every section, may be constructed and maintained at very low RECLAMATION The feasibility of successfully reclaiming these lands by means of drainage has advanced beyond the experimental period. This state- ment has been confirmed by the United States Department of Agricul- ture, acting jointly with the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station on what is known as the "Swan Tract," an area of forty acres in Section 5, Township 1 south. Range 1 west, on the line of the Western Pacific Railroad. This acreage was selected as representative of perhaps the worst possible soil condition to be found on the
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