In 1910, irrigation enterprises in the county were prepared to supply 

 water sufficient for 25,000 acres, and several new projects are now getting 

 under way. The highest class of fruit lands will be made productive by these 

 projects. Some of the higher lands not at present susceptible of irrigation may 

 be successfully dry-farmed; the State maintains an experimental dry-farm at 

 Enterprise. 



The county has vast mineral resources, particularly coal; silver, lead and 

 copper have been mined profitably ; the enormous iron deposits of southern Utah 

 extend into Washington County and there are great quantities of gypsum near 

 La Verkin. Red and white sandstone suitable for building purposes are found 

 in many localities. At Leeds, there is a geological curiosity, a bed of silver 

 bearing sandstone that has no counterpart elsewhere on the globe; the reel, 

 which has been extensively worked, contains many petrified trees, rich in silver 

 chlorides. Near Virgin City, oil is known to exist, and future development 

 will undoubtedly discover the oil-bearing sands. Six billion feet of timber from 

 the Kaibab Forest, in Arizona, must eventually be sawed in Washington 

 County and transported across her borders. 



A source of future fame, as well as profit, to the county, are the mar- 

 velous canyons of the Virgin River. St. George, from which they may be 

 reached, has all the requirements for becoming the winter resort of the inter- 

 mountain region. Those who have seen the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, 

 and the great gorge of the Yellowstone, need not suppose they have observed 

 Nature at her best as painter and sculptor. The exquisite tracery of the 

 Mukuntuweap and Parunuweap Canyons, the gorgeous ornamentation of the 



A GROUP OF UTAH PORKERS 



