Show possibilities OF UINTAH COUNTY well watered and abounds in hydrocarbons oil and many astals express vernal utah just get a map of uintah county on your table and look at it carefully for a few minutes you will see that there is a great country drained by a wonderful system of rivers and creeks the like of which you will not find anywhere else in the world there may be some places and we ve have some in mind where streams flow to a common center but they empty in lakes not so in this case just to be specific we will name the more prominent streams that empty their waters at ouray or very near to that little trading post the duchesne and all its tributaries tributa ries including antelope creek indian creek strawberry river and branches currant creek red creek rock creek lake fork uintah river whiterock creek and deep creek the green river with its tributaries tributa ries including ashley creek brush creek bishop creek cascade creek little snake river and yampa or bear river the white river and its tributaries tributa ries including whiskey creek evacuation creek asphalt creek bitter creek sweetwater creek two water creek wil low creek and kwirant creek then there are nine mile creek argyle creek and minnie maud creek every bit of water from the country drained by these streams naturally finds its way to the basin where ouray is the only place worth mentioning at the present time here are a few government buildings and a trading store we are reminded of our geography which showed the picture of a little town on a lake shore in 1830 it was a swampy pi piece ece of ground but the country surrounding made of the little town the present city of chicago the reader might think it presumptuous for us to say the future city of the west will be at ouray but we submit the reasons for our belief there is no place in the world where hydrocarbons are so nearly pure and in such variety and there is quantity as well as quality gilsonite and asphaltum some of the products thus far discovered are found in the country sur rounding ouray the gilsonite veins radiate from that point almost as the streets do from the grand dukes palace at karlsruhe the paint products and rubber goods v that are bound to revolutionize the world in those lines will not be made up from raw material shipped to eastern marts but they will all be made at ouray and the finished products sent out to the world oil is found along the antelope the indian the strawberry the dry gulch the yampa the bitter creek and in short oil is found in nearly every direction from ouray the oil is not a dream it is there in great quantities and of the best quality and of various kinds experts who come from texas from bakersfield and from ohio and pennsylvania open their eyes in wonder at the magnitude of the possibilities for oil one of the best informed and most experienced perien ced oil men who has ever visited this country spent three days in careful investigation ti in one part of the coming oil field and he said emphatically there is a hundred times as much oil here as there is in kern county california but dont tell anybody promoters come they look over the field they report their findings they ask how far is the oil from a railroad and when the answer is a hundred miles the companies get faint never mind the railroads are only incidental to this article they will come and the road that gets here first and gets the right of way will reap the golden harvest we told it all yet every bit of oil can be run in pipe lines from any part of this great drainage system to ouray on the gravity line gan can you begin to see the smokestacks smoke stacks and the great tanks of the refineries the greatest in the world ouray will be the receiving point for the oil from the largest oil field yet discovered and the expense of running the oil into the tanks will be at the minimum rate if we were to go no further we believe we have given sufficient reasons for our head lines but the agricultural products been mentioned yet every acre of ground in the uintah basin will produce sugar beets there are acres of the best kind of sugar beet soil this has been proved for the tests have been made the largest sugar beet factories in this world will be at ouray the juice will be run in pipe lines to ouray from the surrounding country just as the water runs there now and as the oil will run there by gravitation some people will scout these ideas but just keep them in mind capital is looking for just such opportunities the wealthy men have been building up railroads sugar trusts tobacco trusts and all kinds of trusts and the time has not been ripe for these western projects but they are near to our doors even now the fruit of uintah county surpasses anything in the west for flavor and coloring this is admitted by fruit experts from other fruit districts they hate hata to make the admission but they do so from motives of honesty we raise apples that measure eight to the yard and better three of them will fill a ten pound pall pail the apple industry alone will be the means of great wealth to this country the potato yield and the other vegetables are second to none just to encourage the mining men of the country we wish to say the greatest copper plant in utah will be at ouray the ore is there and a mill is already on the ground and will be operating within a month the water runs toward ouray the oil d ps that way the sa charine juice will flow ouray ward and the wind is blowing that way cant you feel it we have not selected ouray as the pittsburg of the west nature did that a million years ago we simply study nature and from the tops of these mountains and along the streams from the viewpoint wherever one might stand natures finger is pointing toward ouray as the metropolis of the intermountain country |