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Bulletin No. 267 - Muck-Soil Management And Crop-Production Studies: Sanpete County Experimental Farm 1927 To 1933, Inclusive, Le Moyne Wilson
Bulletin No. 267 - Muck-Soil Management And Crop-Production Studies: Sanpete County Experimental Farm 1927 To 1933, Inclusive, Le Moyne Wilson
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The muck soil area in Sanpete County, where these investigations were conducted, comprises approximately 6500 acres, 4209 of which are included in the San Pitch Drainage District. This region is located in the south end of Sanpete Valley and west of the towns of Ephraim and Manti. During part of the year the lands involved were subject to overflow by the San Pitch River. Water covered most of the area early in the winter, and during the spring months high water kept it submerged until June. Before the neighboring communities were settled by white people, this area was probably submerged …
Bulletin No. 270 - Soil-Management And Crop-Production Studies, I. D. Zobell
Bulletin No. 270 - Soil-Management And Crop-Production Studies, I. D. Zobell
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Carbon County is the greatest bituminous coal-producing district in the state and ranks as one of the largest and best in the Intermountain West. In 1934 there were twenty-six operating coal mines from which approximately 5,000,000 tons of coal were mined each year. These mines create work for hundreds of men. Many people in this section farm in the summer and mine during the winter months. In 1934 but 20,000 acres of land in this section were under cultivation, with little possibility of reclaiming additional land. Prior to 1928 crops had been somewhat restricted on account of the limited water-supply; …