| Show basin aso up CES EN at UINTAH BASIN OUTPUT PLACED BEFORE commission AT RAIL HEARING residents of famous utah section are skeptical about rod road ever penetrating that region been fooled before salt lake city S so 0 many imaginary ra railroads ia roads have been built in aln tah tab basin in the past that citi citizens zions of that country are still skeptical ot of any plans for or a line from either salt lake or denver declared R S collett pioneer of that region and the witness at a ses session of the hearing of the application of the salt lake denver railroad tor for a permit to build a line from provo to craig cragg colorado mr collett was a witness and his testimony was much along the same lines the tributaries tributa ries of the green river could irrigate at least a half million acres mr collott collett testified and with the advent of a railroad the population could be expected to be increased materially without an increase of land ownership as the witness said that the land was being owned in large acreage at present and some of the people were land poor the poultry and dairying industries could be extended considerable it a line was brought in mr callett said at the present time only the local poultry needs were cared tor for with the exception of turkeys in 1924 turkeys had been shipped to the outside market ten million pounds of alfalfa seed will be the production tor for this year uintah basin can provide sufficient beets beats tor for three sugar factories mr collett declared two fac factories could bo be constructed immediately and the basin growers could supply them without trouble providing a market could be provided and then only it if a railroad was built A good winter range for sheep Is available in the uintah basin mr collett said while the animals fed on the mountain tops in summer As the valleys west of the are for cattle it ii 11 a dangerous practice to even drive sheep through that country mr collett showed A railroad in the basin would be utilized to move the he thousands of head of sheep at the present time there are head of cattle and head of sheep mr collett also told of the coal fields in the western part of the basin and the rangley oil wells which had been producing about 1000 bar aels dally daily the copper mines across the utah colorado line would also be aided by a railroad while a spur line could tap large deposits of phosphate rock and iron ore the witness said A billion feet of lodgepole pine has been cut and is ready for movement air collett said bald the true attitude of the denver chamber of commerce regarding the application came in for a rigid setto when harry dickinson commissioner of it traffic of the denver chamber of commerce had previously said that his organization was opposed to the bamberger application |
