| Show drens shift a une line 10 lo vernal A 4 t A road to the uintah basin ciui cau c be built just as easil ay the he one built on the ot ruthei he side hide and it if no one starts it sooner I 1 tarn tt volling tiling to put imy Shon shoulder kler to the wheel und and un d e r t a X 0 the job 11 W C orem tuesday nights meet ing 4 4 j tuesday Tue was a big lay day for vernal arid and ashley valley for the fact that about forty of the principal finan ciers of salt lake city v be hero hera that day to discuss a railroad for the uintah basin had bad brought ruan nian into town the amy bu ay iy soa sea sol in inthe the morning the I 1 hot car furnished by mayor Sul nUel vent out to fort to inept the party in the other cur car besides the mayor were Clen general cral manager mcandrews of the uintah railway stun stan ashton of the tha ashton kelly it W spangler publisher of the nem ne west magazine of 0 salt lake city and jas jaa 11 II wallis walela editor of the hie express the procession reached vernal about three in the afternoon their horns horna as they came into hwn there waa a large gathering 0 citizens on the main street and th moving picture men were vere oil the jo and took pictures of the line up of off machines and also of the croma alluring hands with the visitors thee pictures ft be shown at salt lak this coming week mt of the crowd as aa soon da they got bated went to ashley park arid and had amod swim the picnic on the city t grounds was abandoned on of the heavy storm the day loi so that there was nothing doing itil the meeting at night at 8 oclo the vogue theatre was packed I 1 overflowing while the stage warned with the guests of the evening vid d prominent citizens of verni vernal L W curry presided ove e meeting and introduced the di dl flient ent speakers in its his own inimitable illimitable leay vay the hanson orchestra caved fa ed the audience with a delightful bratle selection and I 1 president ethompson et thompson of the commercial a brief speech of welcome i president commett e limond climond of the salt lake Comme Vii club thanked the people of vernal tor for their hearty welcome and said he had not language to express ilia his felings lie ile did not believe there was a more hospitable people than the people of utah ile ho had learned to love honar and respect them ile ha then hen spoke upon the character of the business men inen who formed the party and the nature of the business that brought them to uintah babin lie he said your representative senta enta tive men keep on telling us of lour great resource reso urco here and your possibilities of development and in biting us to come doin and see sea aou ou and your country we have no good roads in pur our pockets nor any railroads in our grips although our slogan mogan has been a railroad for aln tali tah I 1 only wish we had one for or you but I 1 want to tell you yon how much salt lake commercial club Is interested tit in your behalf I 1 when you have any problems wo we want you to put it irp to us to solve them for you it has been some time since we firt considered a railroad into the basin we did not say much about it bus iness men never do but we got the question well under way vay and bad a promise from railroad men that they would go to work just about this time however war broke out and then came war with this country everything closed up like a clam steel ralls rails that ordin ordinarily arly sold at 36 a ton went up to 85 all and that maki not the worst we cannot get them hem labor Is so ao scarce that we a cannot get it so that it if we had all the money we needed and had bad all the steel we could not get the labor for the market la is absolutely depleted I 1 cannot tell you how long it will be a before m vo a can step in here and start to build this great war is lively likely to last two and possibly three years although gom something ething may happen to terminate it before that time therefore I 1 doubt it if it will be possible to build a railroad tor for four years but what ate are m ve e going to do in the meantime 7 9 are we going to let your grain fledda rot are arc we or you going to et at your state officers sit bit supinely by and not build ou a road to got get out lour our products if I 1 was a citizen of this coun county tyl I 1 would head a revolt and demand mand of these state officers a definite statement of what hat they intend doing if there was aas not one cent spent tit in any other part of tile tho state the governor should see to it that epry dol continued on page 3 OREM guarantees TO BUILD TO VERNAL continued from page 1 tar lar possible is spent down in uintah basin As AB to salt lake you can cut us out entirely and spend our taxes down in this valuable part of utah but you must help yourselves and not expect others to do everything go ahead and agree among yourselves as to where the road should be lf T then ihen center all your energies on gett getting ing it built As to us we say lets have a road from vernal to lieber heber city I 1 believe the most sensible proposition I 1 have yet heard loud applause it if I 1 was in politics I 1 would determine what would serve the most people in tile the best beat manner and when I 1 had decided that I 1 would go ahead and do it I 1 would not divide an appropriation and spend it on two different roads just to please the people of those two particular places it if it was legal I 1 would have an election called to determine tern itne which road should be built I 1 want to say that the time Is coming coining when you will have a railroad in here you cannot keep it out but what you want mant now la is a good freight road one you can travel all the year around it seems to me it the state officials could lie he induced to build you a road that you can use be ba tween vernal and heber city no matter it if a railroad did come you would still use it with bour our autos or more what I 1 would advise ou to to 1 is to adopt a fighting campaign agree on what will be the best for you and then conie come to us ua and we will devote every bone and ever and every energy to carry out your wishes we want ant you good people in uintah basta basin to pull together and not pull apart I 1 have not been so enthused on this uintah basin matter as I 1 have since I 1 got dow down n here in this end of the valley I 1 have never met such hospitality and such buch sociability and such clean mer and women as I 1 have seen since 1 I have been here chairman curry took the cue from mr richmonds talk and said it if the state road commission could bo be induced to spend in promoting a road between vernal and sal lake city they could not possibly do anything that would help the more the answer must come from arora them attorney R 11 wallis was called upon to express himself as aa to the impressions made upon coming into the vernal end of the basin in a five minute talk the gentleman said he had not met a more sociable people nor finer country with greater possibilities ile he felt confident whatever the pe people 0 pie promised or agreed to do in building a railroad they would live up to it he had bad heard it said that it a person once coming into this country never gets geta out at first he thought this was a joke but know now that the hospitality and sociability of the people and opportunities here for becoming established were such that a person would not want to leave sanator colton gave a most interesting t talk alk anthe wonderful opportunities tuni tunit ties les awaiting the investor and the great possibilities of the ashley valley for the ile he on bald I 1 d there were acres of irrigable land in the valley nalley while title to the east and south there were thousands of acres of land which can be brought under cultivation it if we me only had a good road on oil which people could travel to haul their products to the market we range over head of sheep on our mountains and shipped out of this valley tilts this spring one million pounds of wool we have immense oil deposits and have no idea of their extent as we have not been able to develop them we have one set of oil wells mells which are producing a grade of oil 96 per cent marketable our crying need Is a road to get out we want an outlet more than we want an inlet it is natural that we me should turn to salt lake cit for our help but we dont want a road to take us to some by station where we will be as far away from froin salt lake as when nhen we started salt lake esthe iu the capitol of our state and that la is where here we want to go and do all our trading we are it has been said that we are wedded to colorado it Is true colorado has treated us well and would do more tor for us but we me love utah and we want to cooperate with you gentlemen of salt lake our interests are yours and your interests are ours we have a great cooperative spirit here in this valley as oil may possibly know these there electric lights tilts this telephone system our irrigation canals our large business blonks and our milling interests were all built bs our local people you will find us a very liberal peo pie e W 3 don dont t want mant charity no what whal at w we want Is legitimate assistance ice I 1 falhen aben we will pour into the I 1 oo 00 offers affer faff cc rr ss 0 of suit stilt lake dollar for dollar I 1 a I 1 ch h whatever amount aou ou spent spend to hel ev I 1 pu p us get to you we are proud of tit tho al 11 I 1 pioneers Ion cers who alio settled here in ill d of af sA swarming arming over tho the colorado 11 lim it ii ii tl they were vere loyal to their own on st stable te and nd withstood untold hardships to M make k this thia ashley valley bloom eo at a rose and now we are building all obber aver tills oils country getting nearer to sult lillie lale all the tittle time gentlemen 1 brit lemell tire asked to take tills this tj t aught lack back with anith ou Ilin ulalah tali county i Is not lot looking to colorado uintah j p Is looking to a bigger and better lutali and we want an opportunity tk tto throw in ill our tit fit with bour our to help t part tit in big aniol amo tills growth by helping us to get to our state q abitol a p with our products secretary Secre secretary tari of state harden dennion Donn loii received a rapturous welcome from his home fl lelli on arising to address the a I 1 ile he said that lift lie thought t alie kad te people knew about here dullere lie he 0 I 1 the road situation tion in tile IT intili dasin basin and lie he folt felt confident confide lit it taito lo 10 salt t lake men knew also consid ring r they had been spending the laef our r nights tit in go fio ing over th the e lipat A t oil so far as a railroad la is co vernet let us lay that thought aside at t lea beart it I 1 for the next four years is the M van a I 1 in which chhour our country I 1 disengaged Is engaged c d and nd which I 1 thought ill inget last that tha thau time abao autel precludes the hie poss pos billt of an all such an undertaking ibe ahe scar scarcity cit of labor for building roada road Is not encouraging cou raging the state roads road comm commisa isis ion would mould like to do moro mori tor for tile the people of this country it if it etwas kwas not for this in one county bounty in this state where tile the have established a new nek sugar factory their beet fielis fields were absolu absolutely absolutes tel dying for want of vien men to thin out the heels beets so despe desperate did tile the people become that they closed up their stores and offices and the merchants clerks cleres and professional men went vent into the fields and did the work these people appealed to the state road commission not to take tile the labor from the farms to build tile the roads but to help them save their crops by sending bending thorn them help otherwise they would mould lose a quarter of million dollars worth of sugar beets beet s I 1 so far as the people of vernal and the ashley valley are concerned you are well mell provided with an outlet in the uintah railway to the east of 0 ou while in the summer time you have a road up tio the strawberry con necking you with salt lake but I 1 want to promise sou hee he e tonight that next summer bummer wo we will build you a good road to tho the capitol city by way of Stock moro and kamas loud applause greeted tills this positive statement V fi secretary dennion Benn lon you kno ai hii us its I 1 do tint thit the road through gli y not be made alade suh at 11 mad on which alch to haul out our products product a tho the best highway to do this la is that from myton to price and the state road commission ilah haa felt it their duty this road dy june julie first next there will be avail able I 1 ederae funds to build the kamas wore road and we will sell tile the bonds authorized by the last legislature and put dollar tor for dollar with the government appropriations on oil that road the federal government has designated this road to be tiL Artt that shall be built next spring and tile the state road commission tins has alroid agreed to cooperate with them at that eliat time W 0 orem was ana listened to with intense interest as aa the people seemed to feel that the lie first railroad to connect con noat ashley vallo valle with the outside world would mould be an all interurban title line to be built by the orem interests ne ner er in my life I 1 said mr orem have I 1 been a bunch of real optic lata as ai you have in the ashley valley and you people of the uintah basin are going to win because you are such real optimists your opportune tips here in this his rich section of our state are amazing and inspiring I 1 am wonderfully impressed with the richness of our agriculture and mineral ropa here Is one of the few opportunities left in western america for real empire building and I 1 am going to give you fill all the help I 1 can call because the trip to vernal has convinced me that of all the places of utah where they need good roads it Is right here there are two reasons why by you have lave not had the railroad before now one is because you ard are walled in ion on all sides aides tile the oilier reason Is because our railroads at are built by a set of financiers in new york who go over the cold figures and which must be very im am preb sive to warrant Nar rant them in investing their money so that a railroad foy for uintah basin will vill be built by utah capital by men who dream dreams and see visions it can be done and will bo be done but while this government of ours is undergoing der going her great trial you and I 1 and every true american citizen must 0 everything my plan Is this wo we will organize a company and we will go to work and take our securities to eastern markets and tell tho the financial men there what we need and N with it those securities we will borrow tile the money to give ion ou a railroad but we must put in our money first this road can be built just the same as aa the one we have lave built on oil the other side of these mountains mountains and it if no one builds it before wo we get ready I 1 pledge you my word tonight that I 1 am willing to put my shoulder to the wheel and undertake the job loud applause greeted this unmistakable promise bishop david A smith george S 8 mcallister and parson Simp killa all of salt lake city made bri brief r talks along the same line after more delightful music by the ariel quartette Quartet tp the meeting came to a close tho the following well kown known austn oss men were in the party J julian u an bamberger man ngor ager of the salt lake ogden rall rail wiy harden dennion Denn lon secretary of state B F hauer bauer president salt lake hardware company F D cassity Z C V al I 1 C C crisman Cr laman assael as jos decker president doelter docker patrick pal rick company W J halloran capitalist fred 8 hatch manager cudahy packing company E B 0 toward howard vice president walker brothers Brot liers bankers W 17 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