Show UINTAH BASIN LANDS much has been written in the past about uintah basin land in last weeks edition of the park city record they had a fine article telling their readers about this wonderful basin the article in part was as follows the country which was allotted to the indians a and which is now being offered for 0 asale sale or lease is about one half bench land and one half bottom land the soil varies from a heavy clay to a light loam and varies in depth from a few inches to many feet feel it is covered with sagebrush rabbit brush clover sage greasewood and other growths and is very fertile some of the lands may be cleared plowed and leveled that is placed in a state ready for the seed for per acre while it requires or per acre to place in a similar state that land which is covered With heavier growths the principal hay crop is alfalfa two cuttings per year are made and three may be made if desired the best crops yield about two tons per cutting other tame grasses are grown principally timothy and red top wheat oats barley barlay rye and other grains do well several individuals divi duals have reported this year of raising thirty bushels of wheat and 50 bushels of oats per acre on raw land potatoes yield abundantly and of an excellent quality sugar beets and all manner of roots do unusually well many farmers are raising excellent crops of corn and it can honestly be called a staple crop mr M koontz who lives about two miles from ft duchesne at an elevation of more than feet has raised it successfully every year for the past eight years this season just passed he had in thirty acres cres that yielded an average of 40 bushel per acre and individual acres yielded over 70 bushel apples pears cherries plums peaches and grapes are raised in practically all parts of the basin the hon william oneil ako who represents this section in the state legislature Legisla and who resides in cedarview Ced arview north of roosevelt an altitude of over feet has a beautiful peach orchard where he grows in in abunda abundance ce as fine peaches as one may find anywhere twenty bushels of wheat and aid thirty bushels of oats are frequently raised on raw land land which has been under cultivation ti a fe few 0 years yields more abundantly all manner of garden vegetables vege t a bles may be raised in abundance and no better bee section is found in the united states 4 the sum summers mers are deli delightful gotful being free from extreme heat beat and the winters are no less pleasant lant the temperature falls occasionally i casio nally as low as ten or fifteen degrees below zero but as there is no wind one would scarcely i realize that it was cold the time between frosts varies from to days the annual rain fall on the agricultural land is approximately six inches dry farming is not profitable the basin is well supplied with schools churches saw mills and grist mills there are numerous towns many stores in fact there is no point on our reservation er more than ten or twelve miles distant from town and post office much of the ground is with coal and coal sells at from to per ton artesian water of good flow and of excellent quality has been secured by many parties in and about roosevelt at depths of from 50 to feet the allotted land of which we are speaking is from forty to seventy miles distant from the railroad and there is a very bright prospect that the railroad will build into the Basin within a very short time |