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Show PAGE Trra UINTAH EASBf FARMER root The bagpipe, though re hrded the national instrument of Scotland is only introduced into that country from England. It is an instrument great antiquity, having been among the ancient Greeks.. IBESIN FARMER, J Established 1924 Published 1st and 15th of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah. At the annual meeting asof the Uintah Meadows Dairy at second-class matter Entered as following officers sociation, the the post office at Roosevelt, Utah, were elected: President, Elroy Halunder the act of Congress of March verson; vice president, D. F. MitI, 1879. chell; secretary, Dallas Spencer and Official organ of the Dadirectorg are Wilford Whitlock, Uintah County Farm Bureau Office; Roosevelt Standard, Roos- vid Gines, H. L. Spencer, Arthur Telephone 30. Hutcheon and John Burgess. evelt, Utah. 50c Subscription Price, one year TRIDELL The maple flooring Editor and other material for the Tridell George H. Harrison. Violet Harrison Business Manager ward amusement hall was delivered Saturday and the work of comLATTE THE SALT PAPER pleting the building wiil be pushed CITIZEN CLASSES THE A splendid response EASIH AS BACK COUNTRY from now on. was given by the people of Tridell (Continued from page one) in answer to a call for a commit-munit- y day to improve the grounds its pork, and in good years it has some wheat. Wool and mutton has3-- he sch0l house and amusement was always been exported because so hall. Almost every family of our state is a range. AI- -! resented, with the result that the defalfa seed is another specialty that grounds were plowed, and the amuseat the brings us some cash. But as an brig of construction and the ment cleared hall away agricultural state, Utah is really a done. It at that building grading small potato, and if we had to proto for landis work done prepare duce all we consume as foods, we we will be which expect would have little to export, if any. scaping done the under supervision of Prof. Less than three acres per capita of the Agricultural Hanson Emil cropped wont give in Utah much The community day was for export, except sheep and wool college. connection in with the half held grown on our vast desert areas of government owned land. Pigs are holiday. now bought up in Utah, shipped to TRIDELL The Whiterocks and corn states to fatten and then reValley Irrigation companies turned for our ow'n packers, or Ouray have had a serious break that took shipped back in lard cans, cured over four to repair. The drop meats, etc. Bread, milk, and meats above the days farm of C. B. Bartlett make up the foundation of our food gave way because of rotten timbers supply, that is, milk and its pro- in the frame work and was carried ducts and meat and its products or down to the foot of the hill in a NEOLA - rep-mu- ! ch But the interesting part to the!'crumpled mess, however, the troube was discovered before the bank Basin people is the fact that, as of the canal was washed away so the Telegram asks, what are the! no damage was done to property facts about Utah's resources m this below the canal. The canal was Colorado river drainage area? and 160 second feet of water carrying lo, no one can answer. Some of at the time of the break. The drop the wildest guessing ever indulged a has perpendicular height of over in by sane people has been printed 40 feet and the old structure was from time to time in our Salt Lake over 100 feet in length. Sunday City daily papers. Speaking of the two1 of the . Uintah Basin, the Lions share of this area in Utah, we may state without fear of successful contradiction, that no data at hand in federal files is of much value. Our own state knows practically nothing except what it has received from these federal fishing parties. Under such conditions our big papers just chatter about rights O yes, we must protect our rights. RIGHTS, yes sir, they are securec and MUST be protected. But they dont know what they are. So L. A. talk about the back country goes as good stuff. This Uintah Basin has been mighty good natured in its poverty and privation. We rever complained When. Strawberry water was taken, at a mighty high price, over into Utah county and really a big help to Salt Lake City. And we have patiently endured, through, twenty long years, the inability to get capital for reclaiming lands for to 535 per acre, while all around us, in Utah, Idaho. Wyoming, and other states, lard3 have been reclaimed at ?75 to $150 per acre. Vast areas await capital, and the water is here, inuch cf it just as the Indian had it 1000 years ago, and yet we cannot get organ- Iza ,, on among ourselves, real co- -j 510 night companies. engineer the Pres. B. O. Colton, Jr,.! of' together with representatives the two hoards of directors visited the scene of the wreck ard form, ulated a plan for the repair work. Early Monday morning the work of wa building a new structure started with all the men and mater-ia- l that could be used to advantage and at ? oclock Thursday afternoon, the water was turned into the canal again. ' The work of construction was under the supervision of Lawrence Wall, director, and Junius Jackson, of watermaster, the Ouray valley company. An overshot flume was put in and the water is dropped the distance of 40 feet, in a magnificant waterfall. It is now much safer than it was before and we all hope the trouble at that point is at an end. It has given a large amount of trouble and anxiety in the past. operative energy to protect ourselves. We will always be the back country unless we fight for our rights. Is it not better to aim higher? How would it be to organize our two counties and plan on being a front country once? We are now frontier, but lets make It straight FRONT, and let the other fellow have the back awhile. are you a WOMANS AND PARTICULAR-LTHE FARM WIFES Y reader emancipation (By F. K SMITH) of From the time of our pilgrim carded, spun grandmothers who clothing and wove the family's and rememwell our of to that wear, a great The Uintah Basin day, bered grandmothers change had taken place indoors and out. New conditions were developing and could be met but by new From the time of the methods. latter period, with the movement of the emancipation of woman, when she took her place in her giiiuninniiiinitisniiiiiniiiiniiiiinniniiiiiiinnniiniininniiiEiuii'niiiinuiiiinsn proper sphere in life, could claim Cole Batteries! Gates Tires her just dues and those of the most important of all farm pro- 1 RED FRONT (previous to ducts, her children GARAGE this time, horses, cattle, sheep and we hogs had had the precedence, Authorized DODGE Dealer I dont wish to imply that this was so in all cases; but the number J A good line of Good Used Cars! was greater than should have H Call or Phone 160 been) radical changes were revolutionizing the world. The farmer Vernal, Utah was not given to grumbling when Owner! his graneries, barns, cowshedg and C. F. TUCKER needed His enlarging. pig pens calves were turned into the front dooryard for convenience sake; but the old log cabin, board shanty or sod house remained the same with few exceptions where a ieanto had Home) been added in order to accommopatron-date the increase of the years in the home as well as on the farm, izing the ones you and hired help became a necessity. have. During this time the patient wife e already i carried water from a spring, or from the barnyard well, planted UINTAH CREAMER? hoed and weeded her garden for COMPANY home consumption ana market, sold butter and eggs with which to deC. J. Nelson, Mgr. fray household expenses and clothe M NEOLA UTAH cases even fanaticis. One Carrie Fan if not WHY? I i I Encourage 1 I 1 (Continued cn page five) COME TO TH-E- PRODUCT PHONE 13 ROOSEVELT, UTAH FOR Lawn Seed, Pasture Seed, Seed Oats, Chick Foods, Flour, Feed and Seed Com, Alfalfa Seed, Seed Potatoes Chopped Wheat and Dressed Poultry Ice, Baby Chicks, WE BU-YVEAL, Chickens, Lambs, Hogs, Oats, Wool and Wheat |