Show It Roosevelt in in the Uintah Basin Basi Dy By R. R S. S Collett for the Railroad Red fled Book Dook On a mesa in the very heart of the former Uintah Indian reserva lion Hon about six miles due west from old Fort Duchesne Duchesne County County County Coun Coun- ty Utah lies the city of Roosevelt Roose the present metropolis of the former Indian reservation country From a 1 single mess tent pitched on the townsite in 1906 to supply the needs of an engineering corps the town has grown in ten years to a city ity of the third class class- with paved ved walks electric lights a good water system good di dl schools a new modern high school a bank l hotels garages a free public library id d blocks of good business houses house I The cit city proper has a population V 0 n n r rI I dius dins of fifteen miles of the the city ol or Roosevelt there is under actually constructed canals acres good irrigable lands These lands lauds are as asI I productive as any in the state and the climate is equal to that of Utah county for the production of or fruits grains alfalfa and all root cro crops s. s The winters are very ery open open and th these e cattle are still grazing in the fields I nothing to this date having had to i I bo ue fed fed- The soil about Roosevelt I is partIcularly adapted to the raising of or sugar beets and with the advent of a railroad surveys of which haing having havIng hav- hav I I ing been heen completed by lIy the Denver Den Rio Grande Railroad com company pan i and construction of which is prom promised I in the near future Roosevell I will become one of the best and larg u uto to to feet in depth The city is sinking a lar large e well for supplying It its water s system stem its water supply supply sup sup- ply coming from the Uintah river through a canal Farming lands are cheap in price and reasonable in terms ranging from 15 to 40 O per acre with water right and improvements improve improve- ments Choice residence and busness bus busi business ness property may be had had at mo mod crate prices and splendid business opportunities await the Investor Inmany in inmany inmany many lines Roosevelt Roose is a dry ell city as asi hl- hl i has been successfully entire rc- rc ed cd sin since e the town was incorporated d. d It is essentially a family town a city of homes where here one ne ma may raise ralso a famIly family fam fan ily fly of children and feel a pride and anil safety safet in their moral and educational development knowing that hell heir pros pre present ent cut environment and future possibilities ties are as choice and bright as it is pos ble to select in these modern times of at hurried and complicated living I t 1 II r t i rya n I l It I I 11 j I 1 Ifs 1 N I it i 1 I nj Ili t I I f I t 1 j t t I 7 r I I 1 y r 1 I 1 i 1 I I t I Ir r 1 o tit 1 1 I I t 1 Fri 1 1 I 1 I. 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Company's Building of 1100 souls with a contributing farming population within a radius of twelve miles of between and people and the city is the natural natural natural nat nat- ural commercial center for this contributing contributing con contributing con con- territory Besides being a commercial social and school center Roosevelt is the geographical center of or the irrigable lands of the Uintah basin and radiating radiating radi radi- out from this center i is thel the l largest contiguous body of irrigable ule lands within the state Within a ra- ra est cst sugar producing sugar sugar-pi centers in the state Stock of all kinds do well and cattle sheep hogs and horses all bring good returns as investments More lore than head of the best of or orthe the range cattle of the state have been imported during the fall months Pure artesian water is fo found nd over the contiguous farming region of I Roosevelt at from 45 to feet m it I depth the most of the farm wells securing flowing w water ter at from Lying at an altitude of feet in the heart of a rich agricultural empire rapidly developing with ith a climate affording a long warm growing growing growing grow grow- ing period for summer and clear dry bright although crisply cold days of winter Roosevelt has every element of promise for a healthy vigorous modern city that may well continue its lead as the future metropolis of the Uintah basin |