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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER 13 The Last Great Frontier biggest trees, the greatest number of lakes in the woods in all Utah, (Continued from page 8) are in the basin. The agricultural products of the basin are very 150 feet long. It .makes the largest largely restricted to home consumption, because of elephant of today look like a pigmy. tion to market. lack of transportaScience calls it a Dinosaur. Honey and alfalfa seed are the Nowhere in all the world, this principal products which stand the learned scientist states, can one find one hundred-mile haul to railso rich a field in which to study road, besides livestock. The the average the story of earths animal oast ai( production per colony of high-grathe great surface changes that have honey is 120 pounds. Certain distiaken place, ages and ages ago. ricts are producing 200 to 240 From out Flaming Gorge canyon pounds, with a few good bee men plit Mountain Green river enters getting 400 pounds or better. Althe basin to the north and nows falfa seed shipments now annually through its central portion. It is exceed five million pounds. one of the headwater streams of the The soil and climate produce corn Colorado river. From the west equal in quality and yield to that comes the Duchesne river, draining grown in the corn belt. Stock roots s, into the Green, with its nany giving over 20 and 25 tons per acre the Utah section, and the are not uncommon. Mixed pasture Yampa or Bear and the White riv- grasses do exceptionally well is giv-n- e ers draining the Colorado section of halfa a chance. vkffHbqffH etaoin en half a chance'. Dairying can here the Basin. R. S. Collett declares the approx- be made most profitable, the basin imate dimensions of the basin are now having more than 40,000 acres 300 miles east and west by 100 miles in alfalfa, providing abundance of winter feed. Vernal has a fine butnorth and south. The U. B. I. C. manual, "The ter and cheese plant and Duchesne Happy Homeland, declares the ba- a substantial mutual creamery plant. sin to comprise 2000 more square It has a capacity of a tern of butmiles than New Hampshire, Mas- ter a day. No better conditions can sachusetts, Rhode Island and Con- be found for good dairying than the THE PAPER We need the subscription to THE UINTAH 50 cents per BASIN FARMER, now. Mail it year. YOU NEED The Basin Pharmacy de triD-utarie- basin affords. The underlying beds of phosphate minerals make the growing of high quality grains possibe; wheat yielding an average of 40 or more bushels per acre, oats 60 and more bushels, and barley 50 to 60 bushels; all under irrigation. This has been the record in Ashey valley in Vernal district for years. The Dry Gulch Irrigation company shows similar yields of fine quality grain in Roosevelt section. The long truck haul prevents shipments ouside the Basin of these grains. C. B. Cook, in his Wealth of the Uintah Basin, is authority for the statement that there has never been a failure in the apple crop on those it: farms growing apples in the basin. I have seen and greatly enjoyed He names Wealthy, Gano, Ben Dathe scenic spots of our Intermoun- vis, Jonathan, Northwest tain West. I do enjoy the unrivaled Belflower, Winesap, YellowGreening, Transcoloring of the Grand Canyon, Ari- parent, Red June and Astrachan apzona. Our own natural bridges. Ceples as types that have been successdar Breaks, Zion National Park and fully grown. Peaches, apricots, beautiful Bryce Canyon are all m strawberries, and other raspberries inThose a clafs by themselves. can be grown In abundance. fruits tense colors in the desert sunlight, all cultivated regions no one can adequately describe. It of Practically basin the grow quality pois all beautiful and holds one some- tatoes. Vegetables good of all kinds do what entranced. equally well in this region. But for ouiet. restful beauty, give The governor and many noted me the highands of the Uintah Bahave promised their pressin. Stand with me there on my speakers ence at the U. B. I. C. at the big elevated mountain pedestal and see rally at Fort Duchesne. Soon we those mirrored lakes, set like flash- shall learn more about this region ing gems in the woodland, reflect- which ships out by truck each year ing the blue sky of heaven. (There more than six million pounds of alare in reality 1500 of them.) Turn falfa seed, two million pounds of from these and see, on a hot sum- wool, sufficient honey to fill sixteen mer day, those ten cars with sweetness when it gets to peaks, all over 13,000 feet high, the the railroad, many trucks of turhighest in all Utah, all visible with keys, capons and cackleberries, a glass from here we sit. Let us and where the stockmen all declare name them and give the height of it is the Happy Grazing Ground each one in feet: for cattle and sheep. Truly, the Uintah Basin of Utah can be conKings Peak, highest peak in 13,498 sidered Americas last great frontier. Utah 2 13,496 No. Kings Peak, WE WANT 13,428 Mt. Emmons 13,422 Gibert Peak 13,258 Unnamed Peak 13,233 Unnamed Peak 13,227 Mt. Lovenia Write for Price List today 13,173 Tokewanna 13,134 Red Castle Charles Friend & Co., Inc. 13,095 Wilson Peak DENVER, COLO. With mountains, wood, lake and sky, 920 Wazee St., we have the perfect landscape. I have traveled afar fisbmg, hunting and enjoying scenery. For all three this section of the Uintah Basin gives Wong Sing Mercantile the greatset satisfaction. The store with a complete We must not tell tales out of line of school, but permit us to say that hi.3 could Groceries and Provisions, Dry get if Professor Peterson and deer in this region and jerk it, Goods, Notions, Ladies so that Dr. Atwood would say that Gents Furnishings, Boots and it Was the most delicious venison Shoes, Furniture, Hardware, he had ever eaten; and could, in Sto ves. Ranges, Harness, and of one these from Saddles. thirty minutes, lakes, hook fifty pounds You will profit by trading of trout and not one less than one here. and a half pounds, someone else can FT. DUCHESNE, UTAH at least try to follow his example. The highest mountains, tallest and necticut combined. Within the basin stands 65 per cent of Utahs timber. State Geologist Prof. William Peterson, director of extension division, Utah Agricultural College, told the writer that h spent many weeks with Dr. Atwcod, the great scientist, after whom the largest lake in the forest is named, in the northern portion of the Basin. Oftentimes they passed through that portion of the forest where great spruce trees, several feet thick, were so close that it was with difficulty they could get their pack horses through. When it comes to scenery we will let State Geologist Peterson describe snow-cover- ed The Basin Pharmacy Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake city will be with us again this year and as the last speaker on the afternoon of the first day will address the people on the subject, The City or the Country, Which? When answering advertisements please mention THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER. Saylor E. Delaney, Prop. 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