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Show FARMER TIIE UINTAH BASIN 8 Fwntiev The Last Gvsat Wonderland, Uintah Basin Utah Is as Rich as a Fabled With Its Many and Varied Natural Resources by w. II. olin Grand Western Magazine Taken from the July Number of the Denver & Rio With fifteen hundred lake1? flee- 'f'Vi ! ing like gems in the woodland; with d ten peaks, all soaring over 13,000 feet into the clouds with a rolling basin containing thousands of acres of forests, in which the trees have attained gigantic growth, and other thousands of acres cf agricutural lands that produce annually millions of pounds of alfalfa seed, and furnish grazing for thousands of head of cattle and sheep the Uintah Basin of Utah stands forth as Americas last great frontier, a land of promise and potential wealth. As a vacation land ths inland empire, with its many and varied attractions for the sportsman, the angler, the mountain climber, and the health seeker, is without a peer. Within the last few months much has been said about the Uintah Basin. J. P. May cf Roosevelt, mi the heart of Utah section of Uintah Basin, has sketched for the writer the confines of the Uintah Basin proper. o He stated that the line just cuts the Basin in two The Utah 'Section covers the Northeast Utah counties of Uintah, Duchesne and that part of Wasatch county up to the top of Daniels Pass, in the Wasatch mountains. The Basin stretches east from the northwest Colorado line to take in a part of Rio Blanco and all of Moffat county, Colorado, and a small portion of the southwest part of Carbon county, and 'southeastern part of Sweetwater county, Wyoming. Mr. May is president of the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention for 1925. The convention has planned a great big time for this year, to be held at Fort Duchesne, the last Indian reservation. Last year the Uintah Basin Industrial Convention held a celebration covering three days and not a single day saw less than 6,000 present. The high Uintah mountains form the northwest, west and southwest rim of the Basm, rising, from to 12,000 feet high. To the northeast, east and southeast there are breaks or buttes that mark this boundary of the Basin. In geologic times there have been groat unheav als, as is shewn by the great erosions of the past, the different soil strata and the narrowed river valleys running down from the northern :'"?v - i ... snow-cappe- $4 . ; r . KJ rrl 7 -- f P ' 'S : i : - S '- . , , t ' . S ... t"w. ' - i ' ' . , J ; . I I,'; 4 - x 'L s P t- ' - ' i J j- . f i" . - Chk 4 ,e t ' "S It r J- - Af- A ' - A. Utah-Colcrad- mid-Augu- i;- u.'-i- v , JT .1 f V , A t . The Sportsmans 3 ? je Paradise Fov Lake in the Uintah Basin mountains. Dr. Earl Douglass, a noted scientist of Pittsburg, Pa., who has spent st years in geologic study within 11 ) as lie within this basin. Up discovered the fossil remains of one of the great animals, of the mammalian age, near Jensen, not far from Green river. Piece by piece, he rescued this from its bed and shipped it to the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa., where he has it restored in skeleton form. It shows an animal standing 20 feet tall and 8,-0- 00 (Continued as A the Basin, affirms that nowhere in all the country is there . such a wealth of rare fossils and minerals x & nt 5 ' on page 13.) vw - Apiary Near , i w Vernal, 1 Jl Uttih, ' ik a p. J ! ; r ri 001 unr- - ' iff 1.11. I in s the i Uintah Ideal Climate Basin f A Good Place a to u. |