Record Details
page 123
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 123 Regional director's report of February 1951 on Central Utah Project, Utah : a supplement to The Colorado River Storage Project Report, page 123 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation Region 4 |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-13 |
| Format | 123 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; C CHAPTER HIMPTER A ttl ITI VII vil V T L agr kgr agriculture CUL oud odd ni J I 1 rul PLE nul E been selected initial phase lands in the bonneville basin are delineated on the map on page12and page 12 and initial phase lands in the uinta basin are shown on the map on page 125 12 PRESENT PREESENT agricultural ECONOMY agriculture in the project area is widely diversified varying from truck farming on small intensively cultivated plots to extensive sheep raising enterprises utilizing only the unimproved range lands crop production is almost entirely dependent upon irrigation but some dry farming is practiced considerable variation occurs in the size of farms but most units are small whether measured in area size of farm business or in labor requirements the small size of the farms established in pioneer days not for commercial purposes but for the self sufficiency of farm families has been maintained because of the population pressure against the land and has become a major problem no opportunities have existed for expansion of the units in the last 25 2 years as the small amount of new land brought under cultivation has approximately equaled the acreage that has gone out of cultivation and been transferred to grazing use few large land ownerships exist in the area some tracts however primarily of dry farmed or pastured land would have to be reduced under project operation to comply with the 160 acre limitation prescribed by reclamation law bonneville basin crops and livestock present agriculture within the bonneville basin portion of the project area varies with conditions in different portions of the basin the west jordan valley area is now dry famed farmed farned fanned ramed because of the lack of irrigation water the agriculture of lands in utah valley including the lehi and spanish fork areas varies from the production of specialized row and truck garden crops to hay production dairying cattle raising and fruit raising the heber wallsburg walls walis burg fran franc cis is area specializes in forage crops and dairying the juab county area in the vicinity of nephi specializes in irrigated and dryland dry land field crops and in cattle and sheep raising the millard county area in the vicinity of fillmore and delta has an agriculture similar to that of the juab county area and also engages in the rais ing of alfalfa seed within each of the areas described variations in the agricultural pattern are caused by physical factors such as the topographic location of the lands the bonneville basin includes some of the most productive areas of the state yields for practically all crops are higher than those for 123 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9437 |
