Occupying some 93,000 acres of the floor of the valley are the waters 

 of Utah Lake ; upon its shores stand a number of pumping plants, which will 

 supply water to the bench lands not included in the various projects. 



The lands adjacent to Provo, the central shipping point of the valley, 

 may be considered typical. Mile after mile of orchards greet the eye and from 

 that district alone 1 500 carloads of fine fruit are shipped annually. The mean 

 temperature is 49.3, the average annual precipitation is 13.71 inches, the 

 elevation 4532 feet. Peaches, planted 135 trees to the acre, yield 8 to 10 

 cases per tree; cherries, planted 80 to 1 00 trees per acre, yield up to $8.00 per 

 tree. Dewberries yield 400 cases per acre; strawberries, 400 to 600 double 

 cases; sugar beets, 14 to 28 tons. Dry-farm wheat measures per acre 25 to 45 

 bushels; irrigated wheat, 50 to 60 bushels; oats, 80 to 120 bushels; barley, 

 70 to 80 bushels. Spanish Fork holds the world's record for the production 

 of barley per acre. Three crops of alfalfa are grown annually, yielding 6 to 8 

 tons of hay per acre. The Elberta is considered the best commercial peach; 

 among the apples grown profitably are the Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Ben Davis, 

 Gano, Spitzenburg, and Winesap. In addition to the fruits mentioned, apricots, 

 plums, pears and prunes, together with raspberries, yield prolifically. Potatoes 

 produce three, four and five hundred bushels per acre ; onions bring six to seven 

 hundred dollars. Provo and its immediate vicinity has not had a fruit crop 

 failure for 35 years. 



The growing of sugar beets is made attractive by the presence in the 

 valley of two great sugar factories. The Payson plant has a capacity of 500 

 tons per day, and the plant at Lehi a capacity of about 1 1 00 tons per day. 

 In 1913 the Lehi plant manufactured 26,000,000 pounds of refined sugar. 



FRUIT ORCHARD AT BASE OF MT. TIMPANOGOS, UTAH VALLEY. 



