Show WERE TOLD OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES salt bait takers lakers were given information that ThatIs Bear ing fruit according to some salt lake papers f the thirty men 0 o came to the basin bashi on the sociability run made a wonderful discovery the old timers who blazed the train into northeastern utah do not care for any of the credit but they would like to see the salt lake capitalists build us a railroad now that they havo have discovered the uintah babitt although there were only olly a third as many on the trip as had hady planned I 1 to come the ithe result of that trip Is already beginning to bear fruit tho the salt lake dailies are publish ing columns about the uintah country now that it has been discovered and the only ro re grot gret Is there were several hundri hunan d of the leading men lot lof our capitol city on the trip to see with theirl own leyes and hear of tile the many undeveloped resources we have by men who know the express wanted to print several of ithe speed speeches hes that were made but could not at the time one of them how ever that presented t facts and and figures of our many if Is worthy of publishing at this time in part the speech of N J omeagher is given as i follows folit ws my personal knowledge of the growth of inland empire extends over the past twelve years with the opening of the bank of vernal I 1 became closely identified with the development and progress of basin at that of valley there were but cabins along streams and at watering places in uintah county no settlement then existed in duchesne county except the military taryl post at port fort duchesne c the indian agency at whiterocks Whlter the sub agency at ouray and the indian schools at randlett indians roamed over the vast vastl territory to tho west of us ahei 0 no sod eod was wari turned and wild horses and coyotes held domain in all this unsettled country only oni y one practical means of access with tile the outside world then existed I 1 for us a road to price a distance of miles a road practically impassable to all but the hardy stage driver and freighter As roads are indispensable to the progress of a community is it not al alfonder wonder that such a settlement as vernal then lox existed with the opening of the uintah indian reservation a sout bout tonly to nears ears ago many people came here and over ever since have come to acquire homes bomes in ili continued on page 2 WERE TOLD OF OUR oltia N NATURAL continued page pace 1 this beautiful and most promising undeveloped section of the state of utah of the united states instead of one bank we now have four instead of acres in cultivation ti we have close to every dollar of capital invested in ili the banks in ill tile the flour mills in tile the lighting systems in the telephone lines hues Is owned by local people this Is but tin an item howo vei in tile the amount invested here tile the 1 irrigation systems already completed not the government pi ejects projects for the reclamation ol 01 the indian lands have cost the settlers sett leiB leis upwards of f awn million of Idoll gis and alil only y Is borrowed flom aiom so ao cices outside of 0 the uintah basin the work done IQ ili only a start of what needs doing but gentlemen if a few men with practically no means when came here have ac so much in the short space of ten years in the or modele in this baan lu in the of such a vast territory what will ill they not liot accomplish in the next ten taip abart they have I 1 I 1 positively know of one man in this valley iwho came here about top tep beltis ago with only and who all ills his means by work working ilig on a tough piece of land in this valley who is now conservatively estimated at being woith net with the Inci eased cased opportunities wily why can we not hae bund hundreds reds and thousands to do likewise tile the uintah basin comprises about one tenth of the area of the state of utah bounded by the I 1 mountains the wasatch range books cliffs and blue mountain WHITt the lio whole I 1 basin basill eventually reclaimed growing such a variety of crops and such a wealth of vegetation compared with tile the most favored spot the earth you can well imagine the uintah basin as an ex fiame we have in the basin about one fifth of the cultivable irrigable land in the state of utah I 1 in traveling over the coli country from duchesne to vernal rl a distance of miles you were crossing a lot of land that Is partly developed and that boniv needs people now to make it produce pio duce I 1 you have not seen some of the choice tracts yet undeveloped the upper blue bench and the purple tench v ith its upwards of acres the Randlet tf district of acres the south myton my ton bench of acres ackies act I 1 proposition to the west of us acres and the dead mans bench to the east and south oflus of jus which takes in part of colorado in which it Is aiom to acres of cultivable Irrig irrigable ablo land may bo be obtained with this vast area in cultivation besides that which ilitch Is now ready to produce what wonderful flocks of cattle and herds of sheep can be supported we now have close to four millions invested in cattle and sheep in the uintah basin and not a cent Is boi lowed on oil them from out of the basin I 1 1 the uintah basin has on water to irrigate evely i ere acre of land that catillo can bo watered and then can call aspalto a whole lot for tile the zest lest of etab no syb systems tenis have yet hoen been constructed we dwell under ithe the most majestic the most lofty snow n owned crowned mountains in thi state of utah and it if allena teis that topple down their sides barn harnessed essed who can call rAli mate nate tile the power alio would produce As we havu hero here the highest mountains in the state and the greatest volume of water caterin wa terIn lin the state millions 1 of horsepower horse power can be produced no part of the state can coni compare paro with it in tills this respect the agricultural possibilities and livestock industry Is apparent to us aadne can lit in a measure compute their worth but who can even non en turo ture a guess at our mining worth just here surrounding this little ittle valley within a radius of from five to ten miles we leave coal beds already prospected prospect bd to insure out oui fuel for 2001 years we have sand asphaltum ten miles long at least showing a vein feet thick and of unknown depth these minerals alono just beside our homos at 1 per ton ought to luring we have heio moio fol flims of hydrocarbons hydro carbons than ip all ithe rest of the and the value of gilsonite alone computed by a gobin mont expect expel t oyer over twenty years ago is 19 son seven en billions of dol lais since then algi cat man inane more inore veins of gilsonite havo have been discovered it lifts has be ben ii told line that are one hundred doity two mincia ls of commercial value found faund in fit tho the uintah basin cheso i anga from small veins of precious minerals to layers of phosphate and sand asphaltum c 0 ering Nering very lvery laige aci acie ages enges of the oil possibilities we know little except that experts all concede thattie that we have it here in abundance one syndicate recently ly located about acres for oil pui pill poses which they intend to develop as soon its as railroad ralli raili oad transportation comes 1 to us one expel t said of tho the oil fields here that the theall loll 1011 fields fielda of tile the uintah basin would be producing when the california fields will be extinct now we have all this wealth in ili agi cultural and mineral lands I 1 in speaking of the uintah basin mr eib said after his trip hole 1 I lune littie come through tile the gica greatest test agrical euial and mining section in the united states in the ims badt two days and it t lis ih n shamo gliano that it must lemalu undeveloped for lack of a lalli oad theio is no other section lp ip this country so BO rich as the uintah basin now gentlemen wo we of the uintah basin feel this load of wealth 1 it actually beals us down and we want you to come in ili aria and hep ns bear tho the load iso that we can call run rull faster find and catch ft a train trail you yell hay elthe means of advertising us MS through gli boll daily papers which reach onery every section of this broad land so BO wj wi want you to get wort wont for ua to holthe ithe congested settlement i ir the east that wo we havo have an all area that support several times the present population of the state of here in the abe uintah basin want you to tell our utaji uta capitalists that we I 1 have here safe investments for ahelf money and tell them often and often we must have A 0 railroad |