Show Colorado Editor E r Boosts Basin 1 From Bayfield Colo Cola Blade Blado In our jour our travels through we found found In the northeastern part of the Ule state what Is known as the Uintah Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah basin The tell teU ua u that it extends extends' from the tILe ROCKY y mountains on the east to the Wasatch range on the west a distance of or miles mItts and amI from the Uintah mountains un on the north of the BOOk Boole Cli d on n the south a distance of about 90 mn miles s. s Now that Is some some- country Den you compare the area with wIlh wont om of or our eastern and New Engl England lt state sta CI We Ye promised friends r Jolo olo- olo loA lo- lo A our n r that mat ir Ii irve ve se nun l au on our travels that lo loosed looked ea good 0 to a n thrifty man we would let them in inon inon inon on the ground floor We believe we have It Duchesne county Is the ideal deal spot and now Is the time to buy land The majority of the pioneers who settled here are dissatisfied and anxious to sell on account of the financial depression Most l of the people here seem to think that the hard times are only In the basin baS but If they will take a trip Into their neighboring states we will venture to guess they will change their minds Therefore you ou can buy good goodland goodland goodland land very cheap This is an ideal dairy dary country and a farmer can with a 1 rew head of dalr dairy cows make a good comfortable ble living hiring Then hogs Is another good mortgage raiser add to that thata a few head of sheep sheep we we mean by sheep only what you can pasture on your own farm and we venture to say that farmer will be Independent within a few years Another item Hem of profit is turkeys and chickens chickens' The climate seems to tobe tobe tobe be ideal deal for those birds There Isn't a farmer but what could have at least from to turkeys and chickens Spring fryers are never a drug on the marl market et and there always always' seem to be a big demand demand de de- mand mandl for turkeys the prices rangIng ranging ranging rang rang- ing frow 35 to per pound B Bees eS' eS seem to be one of or the big industries of the country A good goodbee goodbee goodbee bee man can make a afine fine living especially es esp especially es- es p if f he is lis thoroughly acquainted acquainted ac ac- ac- ac with bee There are people here that are making money on bees that have very little land They place their colonies near an alfalfa or clover field for a small rental and the little busy bees do the rest Its It's profitable and a money The alfalfa seed industry is s just justin in its infancy in the basin While the he farmers have have- been raising seed Beed here for years the prices until last year were very low and tory ory Last year the J. J G. G Peppard Seed Co of or Kansas City came Inhere in inhere inhere here and built a plant at Roosevelt and are this year building one at Du Duchesne the county seat They keep seep a number of or men in the field who are all experts rn n the seed raising rais- rais rais rals- ing problems They make It their I I business to visit every farmer and I advise them when to irrigate how hoe to fight the various pests and as a consequence the farmers are raising the finest seed eed In the world Besides this company quotes maKet et prices every day during the hulling and cleaning sea season on and as ns a res result lt the farmers here received ved the highest prices here of any state In the Union We Ve have heard of or a number of farmers In the Ioka loka and Mt l Emmons Emmons Emmons Em- Em mons section who had an income of over per acre from their seed last year and this year there Is no doubt but what that figure will wll be beaten in the Duchesne section That is why we say the seed industry industry industry indus indus- try is In its infancy When a a aman aman man Is l looking for a new location he should give some thought to its future The rhe first point we In Utah was Jensen then to Vernal and from there to Roosevelt stopping slopping in each place for a aa day We were in n My Myton ton two days making one trip down the river as far faras faras faras as Ft Duchesne and another jaunt to Ioka loka Upalco and Mt Emmons From My Myton ton we came came- 20 miles up the river to Duchesne City the county county seat of Duchesne county This city is really the gateway from the west to the Uintah basin and for the future it has the best outlook ok of any town in rn our judge judge- ment It Is situated In a beautiful valley about a mile wide an and l a mile and a half haU long The Strawberry river flows on the side of the city and the Duchesne river on oD- oDthe the north side They have water works electric lights beautiful homes and progressive people On the north side of the river just at the base of or the Blue bench Is where the Peterson flour mill Is located which is s run by bywater bywater bywater water power giving the water a fall of over feet and developing ampie ample am am- pie power for the mill mUt West from rom the mill the J. J G. G Peppard Seed Co are building their seed cleaning plant which will be completed within with With- in the next few days The Clement ment I saw saw mill and planer are also on this side of the river and are busy Dusy sawing sawing saw saw- ing ng and lumber dally daily Then they have the Mutual Creamery plant In this city which employs a number of people We e predict this will be a manufacturing city in lathe the near future on account of the water waterpower waterpower po power er which can CRin easily be developed develop develop- ed at ta a minimum cost Another Item of ot Interest to this section Is the railroad There Is 18 no doubt but what the basin will will get geta a railroad In the near future and when it does come fit it t bound to go through Duchesne because wo we repeat repeat repeat re re- re- re peat its it's the western g gateway into and out of the basin |