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Show 1938 PAGE Xwo gov. from , s Up. atis Extremes Roosevelt administrspending two dollars for received, .::,r of revenuemore than t ling, CONSUMPTION WOOL e For Uintah Basin Railroad and For fifteen years following the deficit of there was a definite downwas war, Landon If M. A Gov. Me down government expenses ward trend in wool consumption," to it that say3 an editorial In the New York i Kansas and seeing not spend more than Journal of Commerce (November state did Last year, there was 1) avenue. a sharp reversal in trend. In the United States particularly there wa3 a big increase in consumption. Increased wool consumption Is reported from Great Britain and the continent of Europe. Im- the e of it Tied mail pay idon t ( . I . 1936 ds I i ! - is a day of hope. Hope ialirs a peep at the future, remember that, a wise man keeps his mind open to the truth whenever griisp and wherever it may be dis tuletide proving economic conditions and the development of lighter fabrics suitable to modem conditions make it likely that the trend of wool consumption has now been reversed. It is true that more severe winters during the last few yeas have helped wool demand and that this factor cannot be counted upon regularly. But as long as manufacturers continue to display Ingenuity in meeting popular demand and in evolving new fabrics from wool and wool combined with spun rayon and other fibers, they should be able to make further sales gains even If the weather is less propitious." from U. S. D. A.'s Daily Digest. low-pric- ed covered. for Taxes of the Roosevelt admin istration tax bill that is collected from the workers and farmers, largely in the form of hidden taxes, of the wages represents One-Fourt- L. A. Hollenbeck ATTORNEY-AT-LA- Duchesne, Utah k Constitutional Covers Many Years of Unjust Action The h part one-fourt- h or income they receive. History contains no more tragic instance of railroad ruthlessness and greed, coupled with Government indifference, than is evidenced in the case of thousands of homeseekers induced to acquire lands in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah, In what is known as the Uintah Basin, a territory roughly one hundred miles north and south and three hundred miles east and west, surrounded by mountains on all four sides. The Moffat Road was begun as a local project in 1906, just after the opening of the former Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in 1905. The railroad was intended to develop the vast agricultural, timber and mineral resources of this large territory, and from its made inception its management every effort to induce settlement of the lands along the route, the United States Indian Department also giving assurance of railroad construction in their campaign to secure settlers on the former Indian Reservation lands, until today there are probably one hundred thousand people residing in the territory between Denver and Salt Lake Valley, exclusive of these terminals. After many years of struggle against the powerful interests opposed to the building Dotsero Cut-Of- f Constructed of a competing line of railroad from Denver to Salt Lake City, the line finally reached Craig, in northwestern Colorado, crossing the main range of the Rocky 0 Mountains at an elevation of feet The key solution of the problem of completing the line to Salt Lake City was believed solved in 1922 by the formation of the Moffat Tunnel District, embracing almost all of Colorado from Denver to the Utah line, with an assessed valuation of three hundred fifty million dollars, subject to taxation to cover the cost of building the Moffat Tunnel, which was completed in February, 1928. The road quickly showed an increase in its earnings as a result of operating through the tunnel, its operation in 1927 showing a deficit of $13, 000, but a net income of $610,000 in 1929 after absorbing interest and tunnel rental charges of nearly $500,000. The Denver & Rio Grande Western became at once anxious to strangle the Moffat Road before 11,-66- ut Not big or lavish, but truly sincere as any greeting you will receive is our Merry Chistmas to You" Leon H. Cline, M. D. W. D. Bishop, D. D. S. by MAX Self-Preservati- it became completed to the Salt then threw the case out of court Lake Valley, as had always been intended by its owners, and . in order to give the Rio Grande a short line into Denver, authority was given by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the construction of what is known as the Dotsero from Dotsero to Orestod, connecting the two railroads, and reducing the Rio Grandes distance from Denver to the West by 172 miles. Being unable to secure trackage rights cut-of- f, over the Moffat Road from Orestod to Denver on their own terms, the Rio Grande began buying stock of the Moffat Road with a view to obtaining control and forcing acceptance of their own terms and at the same time forever forestall the possibility of the road being completed to the Salt Lake Valley. A vigorous protest against Rio Grande control of the Moffat Road was made by the Moffat Tunnel League and the Uintah Basin Railroad League, composed of residents of the Uintah Basin, whose interests would be very adversely affected by failure to complete the Moffat Road through the Basin to the Salt Lake Valley, thousands of these people having located in the Bauiin during a peroid of thirty years on the strength of assurance of railroad construction. At the hearing of this protest before the I. C. C. Examiner these organizations were refused permission to introduce evidence to show that the public interest would be adversely affected by Rio Grande control of the Moffat Road, and, anticipating that the I. C. C. might not approve such control, the Western Pacific and Missouri Pacific, joint owners of the Rio corporGrande, formed the W-ation and purchased the necessary additional stock without awaiting authority from the I. C. C. Appealed to U. S. S. Court The matter was then appealed to the Federal Court at Wilmington, Del., where a decision was rendered in which there were some glaring errors, and in which the Court evidently believed the building of the Dotsero cut-owas being opposed, whereas the suit was entirely for an injunction preventing Rio Grande control of the Moffat Road.- The matter was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which formally accepted jurisdiction and ff - Weekly i o. s S BERNS on the ground that the Leagues the action were not Intt'Uat power has Congress over corporated bodies, regardless of .laliunal elections? the fact that they represented Uur Constitution provides that thousands of settlers, and the ive legislatures may prescribe 'he further fact that the law provides lutes, places and manner or hold-- on bringing in Sec. 15, U. S. C. 28, that comand indimunities, associations viduals who are interested in a controversy or question before the I. C. C. may appear in such cases. The matter was then appealed to Congress by joint petition of the two Leagues heretofore mentioned, and though at each subsequent session of Congress, It has never been reported out of Committee and considered by Congress. Here we have a situation where the Interstate Commerce Commission authorized control of the Moffat Road by the Rio Grande on the ground that ii. was in the public Interest," whereas it is distinctly to the contrary, as held by Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman In a dissenting opinion. Census Shows Decrease Here, also, we have communties along the Rio Grande receiving the benefit of construction of the Moffat Tunnel without cost to them, while property owners along the Moffat Road pay taxes to cover the cost of constructing the Tunnel, to which they only agreed in order to secure the completion of the Moffat Road from Craig to the Salt Lake Valley. The last census of Duchesne and Uintah counties shows a decrease of 4,000 people between 1920 and 1930, and hundreds of these people, now scattered In nearly every state of the Union, have stated that the lack of railroad transportation and distance from markets forced them to leave their homes and start over unconditions. der more favorable And what is our wise Government doing? Why, sending good citizens to frozen Alaska to make homes and develop a wilderness, resettleworking up visionary ment schemes in West Virginia, Tennessee and other states, while here is a rich empire only waiting railroad transportation to give homes to thousands of people and induce capital to develop Its boundless resources. Natural Resources There are hundreds of thousands of acres of good agricultural s elections for Senators or but the Congress may . . alter such regulations." Without giving this power to the states could annihilate tue Union by fa'lurs to provide for the election of perso - to administer ts affairs. It was cot until 1842, however, that Congress passed a law providing that members of the House of Representatives should be elected by districts. Previously, In some cases, they were elected by the state at large. This gave undue preponderance to the dominant political party of the state, however small Its majority, since It might not have a majority in some districts. To correct other abuses and provide uniformity, Congress in 18i2 provided that such elections be held ou the Tuesday after the first Monday ia November. It also provided that presidential elections be held on the same day. Since the l'th Amendment providing or ocular I election of Senators, they also are elected on the same day. Many states, under state law, also electj Repre-i-ntatlve- Con-tres- these November state oliicers elections. 'To provide for preserving the. national government, our ConsUtu- tion gives Congress certain powers' over national elections, and by lawsi passed In accordance therewith the, people In all states now vote fo. J Representatives. Senators and Pres Idential electors on the same day, (Next Week: "Right to Vote") Copyright 1936 by Max Berns land with ample water for Irrigation, the immense timber resources of three National Forests, extensive deposits of high grade Iron ore, manganese, cooper, coal, bituminous paving material, phosphate, gilsonite, marble, onyx, cement rock, gypsum, fireclay, petroleum, natural gas wells, hydro-electrpower sites, and other natural resources necessary to make this territory one of the riohest In the West. Yet rather than interfere with the monopolistic plans of the Rio Grande our Government will disregard the promises of their own Indian Department and encourage and assist the Rio Grande to strangle a line that was projected There are some stores In town to serve this territory and the do a good business because that settled thousands of people who they have good prices and the fact here in good faith. Are our Congot around like the news about gressional delegates incoupetent, some one having the mumps, bededisinterested or opposed to the cause their advertising run on the Utah, same velopment of north-easter- n page that the story about the to that they have been unable get did. the petition referred to out of mumps ConCommittee and considered by Lei us do your Job printing. gress during the several sessions in which the petition has been n The Uintah Basin will soon troduced. Are they YES" men quest? answer. know the who will consider only bills Inre troduced at the President's Signed, BASIN BOOSTER ic 2 gulettiu dmtiugs: I ; We wish to express to you, our old customers, our ap- - our appreciapredation of your loyalty; to our new customers, the tion of your confidence; to you who are not our customers, t 1 to you, and to wish you not of hope that we may be service NEW YEAR. only a MERRY CHRISTMAS but a mighty glad ROOSEVELT STATE BANK ROOSEVELT, UTAH Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -- w -!- - iffa |