No. 14 Original, Abstract of the Testimony, vol. 2, pp. 749-1426

Abstract Testimony, V 2, p. 1103

( cipitation 6pitation ) is not enough 1103 ; but , it is a ( very vary ) good ( win- win ) ( tar ter ) range , and in his opinion , if water could be placed on it , the soil would be tillable and grow good crops . ( R . 4411 . Q The area on Elk Ridge and in the section ( extend extend- extend ) ing to the south from there is higher land , and the precipitation is more than it is farther west or south . In connection with ( his bis ) cattle , he keeps in close touch with the growing of grain and feed of various ( kinds kiiids ) in that section of the country and he is ( en- en ) gaged in dry farming himself , and has seen others doit . ( R . ( 4412 441.2 ) . ) He is familiar ( with wifli ) ( their fileir ) land and he is sure that there would be one hundred thousand acres of ( till- till ) able ground on top of Elk Ridge , but farther south than that it could not be dry farmed . He is familiar with the country east of the Blue Mountains and from there on east to the Colorado line . ( R . 4412-4413 . ) That section of the ( coun- coun ) try is the ( dry-farm dryfarm ) section and is being dry farmed . There are a few farmers there now and it is a very productive soil . He recalls one year that he threshed three fields of wheat ; one field went twenty bushels , and another went forty bushels , and still another one went ( forty- forty )