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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER 4 bureaus and bankers send the resentatires. B5S1N FARMER lUwubau GET BEHIND GOOD ROAD MOVEMENT farmer considerable time and money to get his crops to This expense market. naturally reduces his profits. If he hauls his produce in a motor truck, and the roads are bad, his engine consumes enormous quantities of gas. If it is moved by horses and wagon t.he load must be lightened and the speed reduced, thus consuming more time and time must be paid for in the hire of his men and in the feed for his horses. Any way you look at it bad roads are a nuisance and an expense. For this reason every farmer in the Uintah Basin should be solidly and insistently behind the good roads movement. What if it' does cost a few cents? It will be worth a dollar for every It cost3 Established 1924 Published 1st of Each Month at Vernal, Utah Entered as second-clas- s matter at the post office at Vernal, Utah, under She act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Office: Vernal Express, Vernal, Utah. Telephone 24. Subscription Price, one year George H. Harrison Violet Harrison. ...Business 50c .Editor Manager rep- - a hra&s ok it trembling and Henry Jason, the of Portia Jason, husband story, of had just been reading the was the It Delilah. Samson and her Samson, Delilah got one- where husband, to cut off hi3 flowing locks, which deprived him of his strengthr3 and made him as other human it made a deep impression said Portia, dear, on Henry. rare a wife his Henry, as he brought of tea, why piece of toast and a cup bobbed? hair have your dont you fine looking laAll the stylish and think I you it. dies are doing ever. I than look better would have an appointment for that very but purpose today, replied Portia, here inform you right I want to that I coud have my head shaved and then whale the daylights out of me. you with one hand tied behind hen-peck- ed - be-ia- RAGSON TATTERS Folks: Id had some bootleg lik ker; I think that I was tight, for everything was swimming before my Animals are often credited with startled sight. The moon was dan- human intelligence and this story, cing wildly upon a mountain top; I related by H. T. Hall, would seem skipped about from place to place bear out the contention that they and never seemed to stop. Some- to BOYS OX THE FARM can at least harbor a grudge; Paul how it seemed to worry me; it was Burnette E. living southwest of like a buzzing fly, flitting about Roosevelt, while How to keep boys on the farm is penny it costs. hitching up a young from cloud to cloud up in the fevera problem that has perplexed many down and a young thrown got ed sky. Ive always hated bugs mule, farmers, as well as others who have UINTAH BASIN BUSINESS. o other side of the the tied and flies and what I feared to see, horse, ran around and stepped on his been alarmed at the trend towards team, in its wild and restless flight the larger centers of population. Once let a man be down (The following editorial was re- was ankle. moon the farmmight light on me. There are a few intelligent the animals hasten to step even cently published in the Salt Lake and ers, however, who know the answer. Tribune.) on him. Someone has decided that the letThey have tried it and found that it Ready cash in the Uintah Basin, works. and there seems to be plenty of it, ter e is the most unfortunate letI looked in on a dance tother The answer is giving the boys who comes chiefly from one ultimate ter in the English alphabet because night but it wasnt much fun. Why Alfalfa is it is always out of cash, forever in when I was a young feller goin to stays on the farm the same chance source, namely, alfalfa. he to is if make in and the he have would that princes debt, never out of danger, and in hell country dances, we never thought king, helping city No little credit is due wed had a good time unless we pullof a great many people who might all the time. went there. Mile after however, in that it is never in war, ed off at least a half dozen fights Farmers wno have shared with otherwise be otherwise. And we are but young fellers dont seem whirl and always in peace. to their sons in the profits of their mile of billowy alfalfa to indebted this letter little the automobile windshield deeply (there to have. by farms and have appreciated the fact have the pep they used that boys need a certain amount of is no railroad yet), and the traveler since it is the beginning of existence, recreation are the ones who are en- is not surprised to be told that the the commencement of ease and the LOST A cow owned by an old lady "Without it there current wealth of the Basin abides end of trouble. with brass ends on her horns. joying the whole-hearte- d no be would no life and no to of in its its meat, alfalfa, say sons. nothing of their These same farmers have also billions of dollars worth of shale heaven. It is the center of honesty, and although it starts off in error, it joined in the farm bureau organiza- oils and other minerals. ends by making life perfect. a of Comes first o alfalfa crop hay have work tion and ANNOUNCEMENT given their sup-tin of and the earlier fields, many marketing; they have also encouraged their children if not, then a pasture crop, so that land is already giving up its white We are now able to make you to join the boys' and girls organiza- from the alfalfa thousands of cattle crusts of alkali and demanding special price on all model tions and have explained to them and sheep live well and grow fat. drainage of a permanent sort. Also ST UDEBAKER CARS. why such work is necessary so that Comparatively large numbers al-of Wheat and flour are sometimes for the KOHLER A agents shipped in from better grain secFARM LIGHTING they in coming years may be able dairy cattle are also kept on the falfa pasturage and hay, and more tions, that the Basin folk may have to increase farm revenue. PLANT. Making farming more profitable or less cream is shipped weekly from bread, and they do say that the best Gas, Oil and expert Repair will make it more attractive to young nearly every farmstead in the Basin. brick building in the Basin was Work. The hum of the modern family shipped in by parce post; but the men. The only way to compete with the cream separator is heard in the low- realm has a bright future, nevertheMILLER GARAGE big cities that are drawing boys away liest of log cottages, and the less, a prospect which at the present MOFFAT from the farm is to meet them on skimmed milk goes to feed and fat- moment is polished with high brilBetween Vernal and Roosevelt their own ground and use the same ten thousands of pigs and poultry, liance by the steady progress and weapons a fair profit and a reason- dogie lambs and calves. certain promise of the steel railroad. Most of the alfalfa is left in the able amount of pleasure along with fields for seed from the fijst crop, work. and thus alfalfa seed has become OPENING FOR A BASIN COMMER- the Basins best crop, a cash crop, CIAL ORGANIZATION too, for it has a ready sale through a number of substantial seed firms The two county farm bureaus and established permanently in the basin. the three banks of the Uintah Basin Sweet clover seed is also produced will be urged to send representatives profitably in some sections, the two conference for seed crops bringing in immense reto a banker-farmUtah to be held at Logan, Tuesday turns in good seed years. Blossom The Store with a Complete Line of July 8, for the purpose of discus- time In the alfalfa and sweet clover sing the banking needs of the farmer areas remind one that the honey GROCERIES and PROVISIONS and planning for a constructive pro- production in the Basin is also immense of and gram of high quality, netting DRV GOODS - NOTIONS This is one of the best moves yet several thousands of easy dollars a made for Utah agriculture in year with a high degree of cerThere are other crops, but LADIES and GENTS FURNISHINGS and the Uintah Basin in particu- tainty. lar. Each of the county farm bu- alfalfa is by far the most extensive, reaus should send the best farmer-busine- and is the principal support of the BOOTS and SHOES man they hare in their or- Basin. This is not to say that the Basin ganization, one who not only underFURNITURE - HARDWARE stands how' to manage hie own offers opportunities that are unbusiness a' .rs, but has a vision of mixed with their risks and objec-tionaSTOVES - RANGES the needs of the entire Uintah Basin features, for the empir in a true is its what and organizaentirety long way from a HARNESS - SADDLES tion between the bankers, farmers railroad, though the railroad is preorganizations and business organ sumably steaming slowly Basinward. would mean to this Great In- - Thus the Basin folks are singularly Four Patronage Always Appreciated You will land Empire. fortunate in being able to export When these five or more men re- - Buch concentrated products as live-tur- n Profit by Trading Here. they should study out a plan, stock, dairy products, alfalfa seed suggested possibly at the confer- and honey. Being without railroad ence but that will fit the Uintah facilities as yet, the Basin is also Basin country, and then present it without many other advantages as a basis for a permanent organi- which are made available by the zation suitable to our needs, oblit- railroad, including the reduced cost erating county and community lines. of many imports of necessary con. It is the possible opening tor the sumption. Coma of Uintah Basin Moreover, rainfall is light, except establishing mercial body, meeting the require- in the high Uintah mountains to the Ft. Duchesne ments requisite for every section north, and irrigation water is none of and business organization every too plentiful for the arable acreage kind. By all means let the farm in the Basin, and much of the low- fic-lu- s IO r WONG SING MERCANTILE er ss be WONG SING MERCANTILE Utah |