Show GREAT THINGS j jIN IN EASTERN UTAH t Salt Lakers Tell of the Wonders of the Railroad INDIANS WELL CARED FOR MANY MINERAL LOC BE BEING BEING ING MADE IN RESERVATION Deputy United States Marshal How Howard ard S Page and United States Stater District Attorney Joseph Josoph Lippmann who vrho re no returned turned yesterday from the tio country in itt eastern Utah tell interest interestIng Ing stories about what Is going gains on in that part of the world It required hours to reach Vernar from Salt Lake and it was necessary to go goto goto to Colorado in order to get to Utah They went ent to Mack on the hUe Grande Western and there took the th Uintah railroad for Dragon From Dragon to Vernal sixty miles the Journey is maue by tage ThOse These men are arc enthusiastic in their description of the railroad They claim that It is the greatest scenic line in the world burnIng barring none and time the engineering feats worked out are marvels The line is but miles from Mack to Dragon and sixty mullen miles additional have been surveyed from Dragon to Vernal This will be built next year The road at about twenty miles out from Mack rises for five miles to Baxters Pass on a per cent grade time the greatest in the world The curvatures are CO 00 degrees making it possible to run but butone butone one passenger coach From Baxter Baxters s sPass Pass to Dragon the descent is on a fi C per cent grade The scenery over every foot of the road Is magnificent It is 10 not advertised because the company hitS has all it can do to handle Up lIe present business Preference is given to the gilsonite asphalt and other products handled by the Barbet Barber Asphalt com coni company pany that owns the road Fine Hotel at Dragon At Drag fl a now new hotel was ivas Friday night It has a frontage of feet it has fifty rooms all the modern conveniences and was wag furnished by John of Philadelphia In old mission furniture and amad rugs such as are rarely found in the west nOat From Dragon Dracon to Vernal there is a stage road of sixty miles that has cost It Is not surpassed by any mountain 4 road in the country Not even a pebble is to be found upon it Two automobiles were used over this road but the dust rendered them use useless useless less Two larger ones are being made especially in Buffalo and will nIll be put on as soon as completed In Vernal there is little ready money and time the saloons have most of that Um t There are seven saloons in the plaice place They pay 50 a month license and nd timis with time the license charged merchants pays pars nil all the expenses of tim olty gov The mayor and councilmen receive no pay for their services In Inthis this thIn little town tonn fine asphalt sidewalks are found and streets are paved with asphalt It was learned there that the Uintah reservation had been thrown open on Thursday to locations and many coal gold sil silver silvar ver var anti and copper locations have already been made These The wU be recorded in inVernal inVernaL Vernal and Heber Hebar City Looking After the Indians Captain Hall is looking ter tho th rights of the Indians He haa filed on op water for irrigation with the tate state on oat and a great irrigation system is now in of construction by bythe bythe the general government for time the benefit of the Indians Captain Hall Is busy night and day daj lie has a large force of men at work on time the Irrigation sms j tern and amid he Is determined that every right of the Indians will ivill be preserved Much of time the aid ad reserved for the In Indians Indiana diana is thought io to be the best of land for 01 the production of sugar beets j The whole country Is handicapped j for lack of water Dragon gets its 1 water supply over the railroad It in piped roan from the springs at Pass to a great groat tank at the railroad I From there It is hauled over the th road load to Dragon a distance of eight roller j Robert Forester a government expert has been investigating the subject of artesian wells for or Dragon and it Is thought likely that these can be se ee secured cured One thing that impressed time the Salt Lake visitors in Vernal was the mag magnificent apples The market there Is glutted with them beauties without a spot or a These cannot be shipped out nut because time the freight rate to Mack Mackon on the Rio Grande is per pam hundred hundredweight hundredweight weight Last year many of them were feti to the liege hogs |