Show SALT LAKERS HEAR PERTINENT FACTS Alu housing sling speech delivered by R S collett to salt halt lako commercial club in ili harmony with the untiring work of R IS S collett in the uintah basin for many years he pouts forth facts that go home to his hearers the following was his speech population needed it will bo be of no benefit to the people of the basin bagin for you men with money to come there and buy land and hold it for speculative pul pm poses we dont want that we want men and women wo want population and we want you people of salt lake to help us in some way to connect our district iloie dir erectly salt lake our people are thorough thoi ough citizens of utah their sympathies all and their hearts heart saie ate with cutali and they point with bilde to salt lake the gem city of the avest eat I 1 but how can we get close to you if you will not let usa we want people and a railroad will bring theio people I 1 fifty miles milea of rail f from rom park city will bi ing a railroad into the heart of tile the great hydrocarbon district of the batin bashi ba tin which will insuik a tonnage sufficient to maintain the line fifty mile more of line will take the road into the agricultural district and we appeal to people of salt lake to help 1114 get bithis opening g fol foi pi products pio ducts have been coin ting the f friendship lot the people of the aln tah basin and bidding for thai ti ado ade not a month has passed this summer that representatives of tho the denver railroads have not been ilithe basin soliciting us to send our business over their lines the Mor talline was first built to steamboat springs and thou it routed for three years then P I 1 was pushed on to cial cynig theio it has bested for two yeat deais s supposing tile lino is 19 now constructed on to antl or roosevelt and there ic for or five years what then will be the leh chances ances of salt lakers over reclaiming tho the business of that section of the state of atall V we have the land there and can caie for the people and this land can produce tho results in the uintah basin today there ieni legains ains the th 0 lal it continued on page 2 SALT SAIM healt eul FACTS ACTS 1 continued from page 1 of the cheap irrigated land in tile the country indian allotment land with primary water rights can bo be had toi fol fromI 12 to 20 an am acre patented homestead land at from 15 ito 30 an acre the minute a railroad turns a shovel of earth scarth to build into ahli district that land will bu woith loo 00 an acre re la is at tile IMP prcy birc nt tilli aline bi land indor canal in tile the vintah basin to give families 40 acre each and that means people wo we want those people asa matter of fact the land under canal wholly alli all I partially in ill ithe uintah batsin totaling acres IP 10 more than one third ozithe of ithe total ai ea bof land in the state subject to irrigating iwo have now under canal acres and andO acres moie partly under canal compare this area with the irrigated lands hinds in boxelder Box elder cache davis morgan rich tofele tooele and weber which total but and you can in a meas uie me realize the thel extent of count ry wo we have and these irrigated lands cover I 1 only small portion of the total area of this amount only acres are under tinder cultivation and wo we have but people in the MO bafile which extends for 1150 miles east and west anti and ITE miles north ond donth of tho the resources in the basin in one district alono according to government re ports there nio aio feet of timber ready rot foi the saw there are gilsonite deposits estimated by I 1 govern ment experts to be worth 7 an amount cent our national debt seven times coal de deposits with a vein 65 feet thick and of milne which cannot bo be estimated asp asphalt balt elated ito ite and other minerals alch ahlich cannot bo estimated in value fol foi have been fully explored including the richest copper deposits ofa of tile the state to say eay nothing of the wealth 11 in 1 agriculture and horticulture land and live stock which ant aalt development but we I 1 need a railroad and it Is up tip to salt lake to helbus get lt IL at the close of mr colletts colletta speech cairell S ducher bucher gave figures on tile the cost of constructing ting the moffat line and said that if salt lake was waa to participate in the business of basin it must stall building a lall road aiom this thin end on d lie ile also recited unsuccessful c mado in ili ailt balco to in financing til th line |