Show Lets Let's Have Square Deal I UINTAH BASIN ASKS ASIS FOR Fon SIMPLE E JUSTICE Our Wealth Justi ics Genuine Effort b by Utah's Own Capital and amI I Labor abor to Unlock This Inland Empire Lethargy Lethar Lethar- g gy and Opposition Must 1 End It Is elementary duty for this paper to state commentary matter on the front pa page e not that it is news so much muchas as U because it commands an a front seat as it were In the following paragraphs paragraphs para para- graphs let the skeptic laugh and permit permit permit per per- mit the doubtful to shake their hea heads or show the usual depressed 1 sion abort Aye and tell our big opponents mt to remember the data at hand han 1 deserves res consideration and anel it will receive re it f While the most severe drouth ever r- r f known in Utah hurts us and shows 1 si signs ns of injuring many a farmer nev- nev we wc Uintah even under under un un- un- un der this Oils special load 1 shall not break down We Yc have re b been n han handicapped from the start for a long long time Being somewhat Inured however to hardI hardship hardship hard hard- I ship to loss to failure we shall fight on for rI right ht It is our duty aper r will continue if the average a man will support it to tell each ach week an important import import- wherefores where ant phase of the whys and fores of our predicament caused mainly by lethargy both by ourselves and our state as a whole Examine these facts SIMPLE STATEMENTS 1 1 In this his Uintah Basin we e havethe have havethe the wealth It is almost undeveloped eloped but nature made it for use This is of man many y kinds Farming alone will support support support sup sup- port without using the marginal marginal mar ginal lan lands or fi five times as many people as nR we wc now ha have and similar h hydrocarbons excluding oil oil shale and asphalt will furnish several car loads per day 1 a almost Indefinitely Natural asphalt as as- alt almost rend ready to la lay down with with- i t m I c 1 nh i with any any f- f other tl er matter will do nearly as much and It Itis is about 83 per cent as us durable fort for t paving ImIng and similar work worl as as' as the best hest cement rement Our timber on Utah's greatest range e the Uintah will provide five re cars per day T of or wood that should he hc I cut out now A large huge amount is Just Justas justus as us good as ns the imported and more fin- fin I hushed 1 material we import because our own sawmills are not financed to dr dry and to finish the lumber and mill products accor according to the U U. 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S Forest Forest Forest For For- est service Near Vernal is a mountain of or phosphate phosphate phate rock that Is valuable as a fertilizer fertilizer lizer anti and for other use and it is the only large deposit having hayIng almost no overburden ov or- so that cheap handling will reduce the thc cost and provide a market n against competition against ag all competitors competitors competitors com com- within fair range for trans trans- This would increase from a carload per day to s several carloads per da day A A. railroad into the basin assures us that an Important In Industry with rails and anti cars will make Vernal an nn important town no matter where the main line goes And not far from Vernal I I is that large deposit of asphalt and it willbe will willbe willbe be goo good 1 for a n car or two per day or many cars whether cement c companies like it or no not Our many veins cut through the sedimentary formation from fromn the Colorado line westward near nearby nearby b by to Duchesne while finer hydrocarbons bons well known in the markets of the world 1 continue on westward nearl nearly to Soldier Summit This material material material mater mater- ial competes with crude crud or a coarser tlc ha base e material now secured from the oil refineries Several mines are still shipping it to world markets against a n hea heavy local cal frel freight ht cost and it i is likely better known knout in Berlin I an and 1 in London than in our large cen ecu I Our coal conI deposits are large We West t of Duchesne near neal Fruitland is a forty foot vein of the same grade of coal found baud In Carbon count county Above that on the mountain side is a fifteen fifteen te teen n foot vein vern of sem semi anthracite antI I laying lay lay- YIng Y- Y ing lug on th the mancos shale just like the Craig Craig- Colorado deposit Why h did the theD D D. 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G permit th the Union Pacific h by its Us T the Utah Coal road to get into Its territory from Provo Pro Continued on last Page LETS 11 HAVE VE A SQUARE DEAL DEAIA Continued from first page to Helper Was It not for coal And were the forces that made that deal not anxious to keep that Fruitland coal off the market But Bu we have coal all nil along our UIntah range Iron ore is worthy of mention The first used for a flux in the smelter was lS taken from front that deposit between Tabiona and Fruitland that Is In Utah Utah Utah Ut Ut- ah and anel hn hauled lIed to Murray r by teams sixt sixty years rs ago Of or course it Is not toot quite as large a deposit as the one near Cedar City but hut it surely would compete with ZIons ZIon's National park in value vahl In payroll In weal wealth lj l. l j 2 Besides this natural wealth making carloads traInloads for stead steady marketing and our vast area of or goodland good goodland goodland land making 25 per cent of what Utah Utah Ut Ut- ah ali has now Irrl Irrigated and yet not half reclaimed we have rivers an and mountains unequalled elsewhere in In Utah Our lakes lukes are ure counted by the hundreds not Individually Grand displays dis plays plus of the remote past are arc to be beIn seen In the glacial basins at over o 12 p O foot elevation feeding lakes at foot Mt It 1 Is a Wonderful Or mountain but It would be he I lost Ht up In this range On On the the he the th and aucI on Ashley rivers ricers maybe ma may maybe be found scenery unexcelled in this this part of oC the U. 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Large sections of or orthis this primeval grandeur have ha scarcely scarcer trails It is so primeval prIme ul that our big men are lre considering the plan of havIng having hav huv- In ing a large section of it the nearest Ito to Salt Snit Lake Cit City declared b by the government a Primitive division of the forest and let no man despoil It We We- Weare are areso I so primitive in the basin now that we se believe helle the government should permit hermit human beings to make real roads up into that lofty lotty range A few Toads roads roa s would not despoil the primitive appearance and these might make it possible for tor man many a l poor cuss to enjoy enjO enjoy en- en joy jO life a little more think a little better of his state and still sUlI not harm the Uintah range rouge This lilts Primitive L nosiness is as really a part or of the plan to make a watershed for fOl Suit SnIt Lake It ItIs Itis is If Is part of or an Urban water supply program pro pro- program gram but hut of course that is a n secret Is it not time to come out of ot our shells and demand by the very cry force of elementary justice that this Uintah Basin shall shull and WILL have a n SQUARE DEAL It is up to us fellow fel fel- fellow el low citizens If three to four tour hundred million dollars may be spent on the lower Colorado river why not let us have for instance two millions for reclaiming reclaiming re reo re- re claiming our lauds And Columbia river riv er el you on know will get a project perhaps per hates haps as expensive as ns the Boulder dam deal More or Utah cash Rb has been taken to I northern W Wyoming for reclamation than we have ever er received In the Uintah Uin tab tah Basin Thousands of people are leaving our state stute holding the population population population tion about the same sume and making their homes In southern California Are they all doln doing well We Ve kon konn n a man who has hUR three sisters who w went nt with their husbands and children down to that land where they have more aged people peo peo- pie a longer growing season more consumptives not far from the ocean and yet t those Utah families have not helped themselves Really they have lost They would have hn been heen better hetter hereIn here hereIn hereIn In this basin California is all right but so Is Utah and it should not be bea a hinterland hinterland d. d The Uintah Basin will not be even If f It must remain an un In |