Show EASTERN capitalist AWARE OF WEALTH A representative of la large rge estate comes coines west to inspect laud land project it must be true that larga bodies move slowly and big things are slowly moved which accounts for or the iho time taken in bringing this big basin into its own it to Is also said we cant wait too long for or a good thing also algo everything comes to him who watts waits we have been waiting androv and nov it looks like things aie leally coming our way thomas J dolan general manager of 0 the widener estate 0 of 1 philadelphia which controls con trolls the street railway system of 0 philadelphia and all the larger cities of 0 new jersey and is interested in the midvale steel company in addition it has vast holdings of 0 mining property properly in ili western colorado and minet minei and lands in the uintah basin has haq just spent ten days out 11 here e re and made the following statement which sounds good to us I 1 before saying anything about what I 1 have peen been or what I 1 have done said mr dolan 1 I want mant to congratulate the people of utah and lly ily its governors and legislatures for having common sense and not passing the freak laws which have caused capital I 1 to ito withdraw from otherl other states utah has been sane and conservative serva tive and it there Is irany I 1 any thing I 1 can do to bring money out here for developmental develop mentI w will do it it is so seldom that capital is treated fright that tt it is always suspicious auspicious the widener estate hal hai lidd ha d property in the uintah basin for several years I 1 we are looking after coal deposits there and also are figuring on the construction of one or more irrigation projects while west inspecting tho the mining milling properties lea in colo COIO lado I 1 determined to goolt oaf over r tile tho basin 1 I have never seen been such a rich agricultural country in my life the land la is of tho the best and the engineers toll tell me there Is plenty of waterton water to Iril gate every foot of tho the good land i I 1 traveled I 1 I 1 ton ten days through the uintah basin and while we are not going to start building Iril gation projects in ili the morning oi 01 open coal mines next week ot ct the estate will do its shaie in developing th tint thit it country the greatest drawback ac we be ae 0 els Is the lack of settlers it if IV we 0 should build an irrigation project there we would want to know what class of colonists and settlers wo we were potting getting experience Exper lenco in ili idaho I 1 irrigation projects where clerks and inexperienced men started taming and broke up tip and also broko up lip the convention shows audi settlers will never do we want farmers tor for tho the land when we are ready to HO 10 ahead and andee iwo will not take inexperienced men the mormon church Is to bo be congratulated in its colonization niza tion I 1 work it we could get aid in colonizing the land ine e would start work obon on the coal deposits of the uintah basin are more than eleven feet thick I 1 had samples sent from the bituminous deposits to 10 philadelphia last year and the analysis of the chemists show that the coal li l i a better coking coal than the pennsylvania coal ther are deposits of anthracite in ili the uintah basin which aro are larghi than the pennsylvania deposits althous alth L the coal la Is not quite so hard there is continued on pago page 8 capitalists AWARE oli OF continued from page pace 1 the greatest empire of agil cultural cult uial langsand land lands sand land mincia ls in eastern utah in tile the united states and it should bo b do voloyed loped vo ve not only fol foi tho reason that the state bo be benefited but that nien men could ile be given iriven and so ho that thai capital may have a chance to work I 1 there is one drawback to the development lof the country outside of the matter of retting getting good far that is tile the lack of transportation it if is ia easy to say lay ithai a lail load can bo be built thoice b but lit where is the money imaney coming coining from of course it is easy to suggest that if wo we ate aie interested te rested and are thinking 0 of f developing lands and manog wo we should build the load we are not railroad people excepting in ili so fai as ti action traction lines are concerned one thing which my attention more than tit nothing else Is ia the prosperity of the people lin hn tile the basin I 1 believe I 1 did not moot meet a man i who was poor thoy they have good land a and nd good cl chops aps ops and while they cannot git alt their grain to the without expense yet they fond fend it to stock and gotbetter le ie turns I 1 1 I met an indian out there who was running it a big automobile I 1 maily fill off my seat when I 1 saw that indian dian it was tile the first time I 1 have over ever seen one who ont in for that of thing and after making found that he had bad one of the boyi beit forms farms in tho the basin and is 13 working it 1 I will return to utah next spring and will probably hi bi ing a U large party of with me I 1 chave not invested a dollar its aa yet and have nothing ing to sell eoll after getting back to philadelphia athis will be taken up tip and I 1 will do everything lican I 1 lean to mako make those who have the money soo the uintah basin in ili tho the smile bamo light I 1 see it f |