Show ITHE GREATNESS OF DUCHESNE COUNTY r we already have acres under constructed canals which is the largest county in the state the infant county of duchesne stands to become the first county of agricultural importance in the state this may sound big to some of our readers but here is the proof of it cache county stands first in agricultural importance today have acres of land under cultivation but of this amount but acres tire are irrigable lands the balance being dry farm lands salt lake county stands second with acres under meation and utah county a close third in the race of irrigated acreage duchesne c county has now under actually constructed canals acres of land and has canals projected and being built for many thousand acres more thus it will be sen sell that just ast as soon as this county can obtain a population to cultivate these broad acres this will stand as the county of first importance within th the estate state because the irrigable within the county and the water for the same is more than double that of any other county of the state besides this there will undoubtedly lybe be added to duchesne f county a strip of territory from minth county at the next general election as every man on 0 n the uintah ui atah side would vote for such annexation particularly if roose velt is selected as the county seat of the new county should duchesne be selected as the county seat then there woul not be much incentive for annexation as it would as far and farther to duchesne as it now is to verral vernal chusit will be seen that where ever the county seat is now put PS es present conditions seem to indicate that be placed in one extreme end or the other of the counte there is sure to be agitation for the county to again be divided before many years pass duchesne has made overtures to roosevelt that the latter with draw from the race now and the people there give a written pledge that when the time for j another division comes duchesne would stand for roosevelt for the county seat of the new county then to be created of course J this could not be by roosevelt Pm sevelt for several reasons not the least of which is that i i should a division be made du d chesne woul not be in the same division with roosevelt and con could have no voice in where the county seat should be placed and then we cannot think that duchesne is the proper K place for the county seat of the I 1 west division if the county and ahat a majority of the voters of talmage tamage tj mage Blu mt home alterah all boneta and other dis tracts where the majority of the people of the western district are located do not think so we firmly believe the count on election day will prove duchesne is noi not centrally located even now and will become less so 80 as the time passes by there is not now ten families to the south of duchesne and the geography of the country is such there can never be much of a population to the south of the town the results will always be that duchesne is standing on the extreme southern edge of agricultural development and possible home building the center of population is easterly and will continue for all time to be even the western district is more to the north and east 0 of f duchesne more toward boneta and Al tonah now by placing the county seat at roosevelt the citizens of this northern belt of splendid country will in a few years demand a new county and by that time it will have developed beyond all questin that the county seat will not be placed at duchesne and they will then see what a mistake it would have been seen to have placed the county seat at duchesne in 1914 then should the county seat be placed at duchesne at this time where would duchesne put the courthouse court house would ibbe it be put in n the hollow or on the hill are the people of duchesne agreed as to this or will they after receiving an affirmative vote have to call a town election of the citizens to locate it some onedas one has said abat a lot has been donated on the hill then it means that immediately the people place the county seat at duchesne a bond election will have to be called in order to vote bonds to build a new court house now roosevelt can and will take care of housing the new county officers for several years to come without extra tax for a new court house and it seems to us that the majority of the people in the western end of the county can best serve their present and future interests in this county seat matter by placing the county seat at rosevelt now and thus save an increase in their taxes that must go to build a new court house if that county seat is placed at duchesne and by adding to this a uintah county that will very much help the present revenues of the bunty which will not be obtained unless the county seat is placed at roosevelt these voters will especially help their future by voting for roosevelt at this time in that they will then be able to place the county seat for the western county to be created in a place that will be the first choice of a large majority of the voters which it is conce eded cahnt be won von by voting for duchesne now it is the people who are here now in the county that will establish the county seat and for whose convenience it should be selected roosevelt being the center of the present population of the county should logically be selected an we rest assured that the county on election day will confirm this opinion |