Show BASIN LIVESTOCK TRADE GROWS 31 profitable profitable shipments to salt lake lahe highway necessity Necess ty again urged an indication of livestock development possible in the uintah basin when adequate highway facilities are provided is to be found in a retrospective glance at the livestock movement to salt lake from that corner ot of utah since june 15 for the six and orra ona half months from that date to the close of 1926 the salt gait lake macket received by I 1 truck from the basin 20 head of cattle cate hogs and 1002 sheep according to a report made mada by J 11 manderfield general manager of the salt lake union stockyards Stock yards this volume Is equivalent to about eighteen railroad cars loaded with the respective classes of stock staci two I 1 or three trucks arrived every week during the winter except for thel three weak period when traffic was wasi tied up completely by the heavy snowfall I 1 the last six months is the firsta first j time farmers and stockmen stoc kmen of the basin have given much attention att antion tol to development of light livestock which could be marketed by truck in salt lake the same day it was loaded in the basin in a measure the tha producers in the basin were forced into this program program which is making satisfying returns to them and la Is indicative of much greater activity in livestock production the 1926 alfalfa seed easily the outstanding cash crop returned disappointingly in the basin immediately the producers turned to other possible lines of agriculture and livestock activity ability of their farms to excellent hay and grain feeds and ample ranges contiguous to these feed producing fields made the livestock industry a logical selection another An othir r phase of livestock dev elopement though not of the variety that would appear in receipts to the salt lake stockyards stock yards concerns turkeys the basin went in strong for turkey production last year and indications are the volume this year will be considerably larger than for 1926 the last truckload of livestock to salt lake came last sunday during the three weaks period when shipment of stock could not be made the people of the basin suffered economically it is reported thi the regular shipments of livestock are being counted upon in the basin the livestock industry developing in the basin aloni alone justifies 1 immediate i m development of the highway from salt lake to vernal declared mr manderfield Maniker field in con on the report of livestock shipments from the uintah anent general consideration of the basin highway situation is a comment from J P may of roosevelt basin booster and advocate of a modern all azar all weather high way giving the basin an outlet to salt lake and the pacific coast markets mr may alay declares this east west road is demanded by several factors the basin needs it utah needs it it will increase the wealth of the state considerably it will connect up the state with another national highway and in doing this will be ba equal to zion national park as aa a revenue prod producer acer but the basin has a right to ask tor for it isolation has haa been endur endured bf long enough the railroad hopes and dreams will b bi gladly forgotten it if we may bi be favored with that which is only fair right and urgently necessary tribune |