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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER 3 bor for the forty days he was supervising, cutting and threshing his eight thousand dollar crop of alfalI figured that fa seed this summer. Orval Dart made one hcndred and five dollars per day for the hundred days he was busy handling his one hundred and twenty acres of alfalfa Then as other seed growers seed. came into my mind this one hundred dollars per day gentleman beThe glamcame less conspicuous. our of professional life commenced to fade as the real seed grower came into prominence. Why should we depreciate the independent life when Time is such evidences abound? Lifes most valued asset, why waste it. The farm offers more exercise to the mental gymnast than any profession does, what is the trouble? The ability to decide quickly on big judgments brings a man immediaterelations with ly into successful things as they are, without this ability a man trembles under responsibility, and lives the life of a coward. 1 First to Build on Ten Acres. While visiting the threshing machines on Altonah bench this fall I met Floyd Case who had seventy-tw- o sheep for sale at what seemed to me to be a very reasonable figure, and I asked him why he was selling He gave me an excellent them. reason. He had bought a ten acre tract of land near Mt. Emmons and was going to build him a nice home, and he wanted nothing else on his He had received mind. seventy dollars per acre from eleven acres of alfalfa seed harvested this fall, and the ten acres he had purchased was all in alfalfa and he thought he could turn the trick again next year. He is the first man to build on a ten acre jvViV.W.VW.V.V.W.VA.V.W.V..W.V.V.V.VAV.V ESSIN FARMER I I j i i j A Little Talk Of Uintah Basin By HYLAS C. SMITH Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah . Entered as matter at On Christmas night, I seated my- -. ty of room for all the family rethe post office at Vernal, Utah, un-d- self in a rocking chair with a child lations to There i3 a gather here. the act of Congress of March on each knee and an old, old song I, of ten children who call this 13, 1879. book in my hand for a real old home jfamily many old! their home, and they love it and I I Office: Vernal Express, Vernal, sing. we After singing one to seemed admire them. that turned But the father and songs, tUtah. Telephone 24. to plum the depths of being and mother who builded this home thru It the years have lived a full and com- 50c erase the. eliminations of time. Subscription Price, one year. was: Tis Just Before the Battle, plete life. All honor to such parFame or fortune may place Mother, and Im Thinking Most of ents. Editor You, While Upon the Field Were your name in the line of light of George H. Harrison. Violet Harrison. Business Manager Watching, With the Enemy in the world, but there is no greater View. My voice trembled and I achievement for any one than that could sing no more. Instantly, I which this father and mother have saw my father on the battle field of achieved: the building of a substanA HAPPY NEW YEAR the Civil war, thinking of his moth- tial home and the rearing of ten I Weve often wondered what this er; then I saw his son on a battle children in happiness and comfort old world would degenerate into if field of Life thinking of his father, therein. there wa8 no such thing as Hope; tenting up on the long, long trail Alfalfa Seed Brings Fame. weve often tried to picture just somewhere beyond Earths call to Over on. Lake Fork lives a quif t Then I saw he battle of man how much misery we would be forc- battle. who never likes to blow his ed to go through ir we were not gift- the World for existence, peace or own he is a careful and horn; ed with the happy acuity of looking no peace, the battle was always on, farmer, and his acres do his thrifty stunts jinto the future and believing that and the tired farmers of a hundred for him. This he had year thirty was on the acres homes in Uintah Basin tomorrow will be brighter than him one hundred field of battle with the enemy in and that yielded eighty sacks of alfalfa seed. J And as we come to the birth of a view, and they, too, were thinking This thirty acres yielded fourteen Tears came to my eyes, bushels of nice mother, New Year such reflections pour in plump alfalPainful wounds, mis-th- e fa seed per acre. yellow We reach for 1 kaeY upon us thick and fast. Some wild millet season of new Hope, the day er an death on the battle field has infested parts of this field, but world; I knew of the disap- Mr. Jochems will see that it is elimwhen we can close up the book of the year, open ivp a new one and Pmtments, defeats, tense moments, inated through careful cultivation enemy waiting for the re-- and irrigation. Hope that every page of it will still ant This field the retreat that never was to lies on the west bank alfalfa of Lake bright and clean when it, too, the an as became aware of the river in the north regions of ready to lay away with the others, of the world, and that Fork battle and ranks among the best Insofar as this Great Inland Em 1great Midview, was to become and actually was Ferdiof the season. we believe crop i8 the yielders concerned, pire men who should nand so field has most of our citizens can lay away one of the brave Jochems spoken go through, I seemed to sense a Basin the entire Uintah that the record of the departed year with- nearness loudly the other brave men in has heard it. Let the acres get out regrets. Our people have pros- - the Basin towho would be in the front to do in nineteen hunto the where things ready point pered they have; Qf the contest and lt made me feel five. Get all your and dred no reason for discontent. There twenty I was ready to do my part, just acres in line as so stunts for have been shadows alon1 with the tka,t big father did his in the Civil ag a8 opens. spring and my sreat. great grand- lerred n LDfri-!wLeads All in Threshing. S"r E to aMUty The big eight and a half huller ff war, only the blood must be done. We Revolutionary sacrifice when run by Collins and Mackey this fal1 be of blood sacrifice shed shall the have lived happily a8 a community, and the battle field shall be in s led the fifty eight threshers and the .. growing stronger in each others ' souls, 01 men Even now as ,1 nte of the Reservation country in friendship and happier as days rolled again the words, they seem like the amount threshed. It has about into weeks and weeks passed into three hundred bags of seed Before Tis twenty Just We have come to knowfl. months. The Larsen huller of I Am Thinking to its credit. frnch other better, and that added the Battle Mother, came a close second with, Field Most of the While Redcap UpoD You; knowledge has served to make us Were Watching, over two thousand bags threshed. in the With Enemy more appreciative of our town and This Larsen machine got a late start View. he community about it. but had a good territory and often Ideal Maeser Home. There have been needed improvethreshed way into the middle of the There is a big, ten room brick night. ments postponed, but that same Hope which fill8 our hearts at the begin- house in Maeser that I admire very Seed Raising Beat Profession. and there are pretty pine ning of a New Year leads us to be- much, While 20 on eating dinner with a friend lawn trees the front planted lieve they will receive attention in in a restaurant recently, he of mine to lend the that big ago beauty 1925. There have been some years man eating at a to another house and I admire these pointed things left undone, but these can be brick said: That man and table a water is trees. nearby There private disposed of along with our new tasks dollars a hundred draws day and per to with water barns piped if we will only determine now that system comworld over is the sent all his by the year 1925 shall see more actual and through the house; finest kind Ear Tags pany. is also mountain water, this ood for the entire community ac-was to shot all pieces My curiosity than in any previous thy of praise and draws admiration swallowed my teaspoon The best tag on the I almost and are here. cellars There roomy big year in our history. I turned to look at a man who market, indorsed by prominent stockmen. The outlook was never brighter One of them is made of cement and as had gotten into Uintah Basin and With our DOUBLE ACTION PLIERS for a Happy and Prosperous j c ar, has twelve crated bins in it to hold still drawing one hundred dollars 50 per cent more Tags can be atWhen I and we believe the feeling here is! apples of various kinds. He was eating the same tached, with one half the Exertion. day. per wras in it just before Christmas We begenerally to that effect. I was eating, he was as other Pliers on the market. One dinner of sort Pear-maiwere Winter there Wealthies, iieve our people realize, as a rule, same brand of coffee; squeeze attaches Tag instantly. the Rhode Island Greenings, Ben drinking in the full- that we must at was the same hotel; he Write for FREE Samples staying 1st if we keep pace with other com- Davis, Ganos, Winsaps, and several be INTER-MTshould he I MACHINE & STAMP and why thought, I not could name. 'other kinds My munities, and if we get all of the of an the W times worth price ORKS, Inc. twenty benefits to which our town is en-- j mouth waters as I now write, as I on second But man? 2nd So. 242 East Salt Lake, Utah. ordinary The old spirit of being con- - think of those Wealthies and their titled. I took out my pencil and pathught, I cellar admire and this tent to let well enough alone is fast ju'cy taste, When answering advertisements much. There qre big apple per and made myself believe that lying. out today our people want very mention THE UINTAH BAS-tw- o of made Roosevelt please Leslie Eldredge better towns, with better streets and trees all about and they are the laFARMER. IN for hundred (jollars per day better schools and better highways fillers of the cellar, and I admire are them walks also. about There nto the outside world than they iWWWVWWVWWwVvVAVWYVWVWWYVVWWYWV It is the house and out to the barn, and bare every had in the past. the spirit of progress, the desire for rose bushes about the lawn and plen- BRING YOUR ill these things, and with each and honestly-conducte- d newspaper is en ivery citizen putting his shoulder to the wheel there Is no reason why titled the support and We the1 year 1925 should not see us 'of the people of the Basin. to make our all to in do want we power We pay the highest market price. of the all of things possessed the Hope of every citizen for a still Hope for. We want to renew the pledge of more prosperous and a happier Cornells paper, as a immunity institu- - munity come true. Here is our New Year wish that lion, to aid in every way all moveall of your Hopes will come true in ments that come up for the betterVernal, Utah Here is our wish that the g ment of th8 Uintah Basin and its 1925. a will 1925 which you, greater as well those bring !year as things eople, Phene 198. (In E. A. Mankers Office) vill advance the interests of our measure of health and happiness, s than we and you contentment, All state. our that prosperity :ountry and Ask in return is that to which every t have ever known before. second-clas- s er 1 2 : be i?-lre- i i I i TiiSr Jd .ng"- ar hul-ler- i -- A Al-Wuz-- On wor-complish- ed !f j n, N. FURS, HIDES, and PELTS Uintah Fur Company i -- |