Nephi, the county seat and the center of the agricultural portion of Juab 

 County, is a prosperous town of 3,000 inhabitants, on the Salt Lake Route. 

 Its resources are not limited to farming; there are salt mines, stone quarries 

 and great deposits of rock gypsum. The gypsum, which occurs in beds 

 together with rock salt, has given rise to a large industry, the manufacture of 

 wall plaster and plaster of paris. 



The raising of sheep and cattle is also an important source of wealth; 

 statistics for 1910 gave the county 1 1 ,206 cattle, and the number of sheep 

 assessed in 1912 was 107,310. 



Westward from the agricultural valleys rise the gray ridges of the Tintic 

 Mountains, whose tunneled slopes have yielded one-third of the vast mineral 

 wealth of Utah. 



With an area of 2, 1 45, 1 20 acres, Juab -County had, in 1 91 2, 1 ,764,61 1 

 acres of unappropriated public lands, of which 613,987 acres were surveyed. 

 The Nebo National Forest Reserve, containing timber valued at $184,- 

 000.00, occupies a large portion of her eastern frontier. The Salt Lake 

 Route crosses the county with two lines, one traversing the agricultural dis- 

 trict, through Nephi, the other bisecting the Tintic Valley, and sending 

 branches to the great mining camps. The resources of the county are remark- 

 ably diversified; the fields of oil known to exist should soon contribute their 

 quota of wealth, and dry-farming, from its stronghold on Levan Ridge, is 

 steadily pushing westward. From the car window, at Tintic and Mclntyre, 

 on the Salt ! ake Route, one may now see fine stands of wheat that have never 

 known irrigation. 



Millard County Tlie Delta Project 



ONTRAST has a universal appeal, and for this reason the observer 

 familiar with the Delta region of several years ago, more than the new- 

 comer, is impressed by its recent transformation. Those who remember 

 when sage brush, greasewood and shadscale were the ruling trium- 

 virate in the broad Pahvant Valley, marvel most at the termination of their 

 reign. Orderly fields of alfalfa and grain have supplanted the riot of useless 

 vegetation, and the monotony of the level stretches is broken by comfortable 

 farm houses. The Delta Land and Water Company has brought about this 

 change. The project, though young in years, is no longer an experiment; 

 its future is assured. 



The land, which was reclaimed under the Carey Act, lies in two tracts, 

 1 34 miles south of Salt Lake City, on the main line of the Salt Lake Route. 

 Forty thousand acres are comprehended by the project, and a million dollars 

 have been expended in perfecting the irrigation system. The waters of the 

 Sevier River are checked by a great dam, and directed through concrete lined 

 canals by diversion works of enduring rock and steel. The land company 

 exercises an almost paternal care over the settlers; its terms and requirements 

 are judiciously tempered to the means of men of small capital. 



The soil of the vallev varies considerably; the dominant type is a clay 

 loam, mixed and underlaid with sand and clay. Analyses of soils from dif- 



