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Show UINTAH COUNTY ' J INMOST 1 Breezy Letter Is Written to the '; 1 Commercial Club by Vernal Attorney. j ! ' i ASKS COMMITTEE TO OOME j TO NORTHEASTERN UTAH j i Probable That Early Favorable j Action Will be Taken in Matter. J? It Vernal and tho Uintah country want . j tho people of other parts of the stato ' n to know that tho eastern section of Utah j 1 possesses great undeveloped resources 1 and is rapidly growing" in importance ' Secrotary Joseph E. Caino of the Com- j morcia). club has received a "boost" lot- tor from Attorney Thomas W. O'Don- ' 1 noli of Vonial, Utah, in which tho law- jj vor asks that tho Commercial club Bend J a oommittco of threo to investigate tho m resources of tho Uintah countrj. Tho m letter follows: Wj Dear Sin I am prompt to dictate this letter to your body, not wholly from dls- j m interested motives, but In tho hope that , 11 some matters herein referred to may pri- ) marily direct the attention of your or- i ganlzatlon to tho possibilities and resources re-sources that exist in tho eastern section J of our state, and particularly to that portion por-tion known as tho "Uintah Basin." For some reason, this Uintah country Is not receiving the attention it merits ; from tho business man nnd the probable luvostor In Salt Lake City. This may be duo to two reasons: l-rom a senao of a well satisfied prosperity on ; our part. and. second, from lack of In- i formation on tlio part of the resident else- f whore in Utah; for the former, no blame. , attaches to us. but the latter can and j should be overcome. , t Railway Service Good. j While wo aro considerably romoved I from Salt Lake City, yet the service of j 'jl tho Uintah railway, connecting with the ' 11 D. &. It. G. at Mack. Colo., is such as to land tho passenger within twenty-four , M hours after his starting, at Vernal. j Capital is steadily coming in from Colo- j I rarlo and other eastern slates and placing Its Investments In the many resources to V be found in this section, as well as In ' those already undor headway, and. what (0 Is more to your Immodlate point of view, , the wholesale houses of Colorado. In al- fll most less than two years' time after their . II first Invasion, are claiming this field, and M With considerable reason therefor, and D have added tho Uintah basin to their '-fa Grand Junction territory, much in the . U same manner as one would extend an ad- , dltion to tho corporate limits of a city. I Jl Your Junketing tours taken at the in- VI stanco of your organization havo been of ' IB tho utmost advantage to tho Salt Lake dealer and tho retail country merchant, i j (J not only in tho spirit of good fellowship A j if manifested on such occasions, but as weii '. 11 from a finnnclal standpoint, fl Eager for Copy. 1 jf Don't vou think It Is time for you to send a committee of throo from tho clul t i to visit tho merchants of tno metropolis I V of northeastern Utah? A city busy every t minute of the dav. with a population or 1m 1000, who enjov the modern convenlcnocff " i ' of a cllv twenty times its size, ami j i;, boasts of five and three-eighths miles of J 1 streets paved with asphaltum, electricity. telephone and wator works, and linmo- I dlatcly surrounded with a population - 1 near about twelve thousand. Get busy' Call on us! Find out that we are on the map! Ask George T. Odell. . t managor of tho Consolidated Wagon and sm Machine company, or Frank Hewlett what tijlr kind of a country wo have and what they nlB think of us. M Lot us get acquainted, ami xnen let ns am cement that acquaintance in a buaincs? H way. You need V If vou can't send, a committee of tkrif ffM send "one, but one of unquestioned vernc- ! Ity and whoso reliability and conserv- iB ativencsB is unouestloned ny tho corn- morclal bodv; this latter referring to his 111 roport to be submitted after ho ha3 vis- ited our farms and our orchards and ox- rM amlned tho volume of our business. Nuff said. Very truly vours. . AM THOS. W. O'DONNELL. - ! |