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Show Record almost any other point within a radius of one hundred miles. Many things can be grown in that valley that cannot be grown within 5455 a very considerable distance from it. The temperature in that valley is far warmer than one would expect at such an altitude. This statement is confirmed by the Atlas of American Agriculture, a government document issued July 15, 1918, as is also the fact that the last killing frost occurs much earlier in the spring in the Moab section and in sections down the river than farther up or in any of the surrounding country east or west of the river. What I have stated is also to some extent true of the region in the vicinity of the town of Green River. There is more liability 5457 of frost at the town of Green River than at Moab, but less at Green River than in other sections. In Moab Valley they can and do raise the yam variety of sweet potatoes; also peanuts and chufa and such products can be grown at any point within a hundred miles of Moab. Although they grow sweet potatoes in the northern sec-tions of Utah the sweet potatoes do not there fully mature as they do in Moab Valley. 5458 In Addition to the five thousand acres of land in Moad Valley to which I have referred, there are sixty thousand acres of land extending west from Grand Valley susceptible of irrigation by the Colorado River and its tributaries which are not designated on Complainant's Exhibit 505 as irrigable sections of land. The sixty thousand acres to which I have referred are included in what is known as the Grand River or Grand Valley project in Utah. 5459 I am familiar in a general way with the country in Utah ly- 5460 ing within the Colorado River basin. It is a very thinly settled country. I am familiar with the country around the town of Green 5461 River, Utah, and its nature is variable. I have with me a report of the U. S. Reclamation Service on that ares, it being a report made by William A. Green in 1921 and an official document of the 5462 Department of the Interior. There are fifteen thousand acres of |
