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Show G. E. ADAMS TALKS OF UIM EMPIRE Hope of Conntry Is For Railway Rail-way Connection With Salt Lalve. G. E. Adams, a merchant of Vernal, Utah, Is in the city on a purchasing trip and is a guest of the Cullcn. "I have been located iu business at Vernal for the past twelve years," said Mr. Adams, "and during all that time, evor so often, we have been encouraged by the promise that a railroad would be started from somo point to the cast of us nnd be made lo course through our splendid Uintah empire westward to Salt Lake. But these promises, so far, havo not bevn fulfilled. "Our nearest, railroad point is Mack, Colo., sixty-two miles east, from which an automobile line runs. Our next nearest point Is Price. Utah, 100 miles distant. So, you see, wc are, In a measure, meas-ure, a country to ourselves. 'We rqlso about all we need, however, and the money that, comes In circulates in the country, so that, as a. matter of fact, we do not realize to any great extent the wonderfully high prices which products prod-ucts have attained. "In fact, we are a world by ourselves. There Is much money circulated, but little lit-tle goes out except for luxuries. That is why I am here now to buy those things in the line of merchandise that arc absolutely ab-solutely necessary. "Ours I mean the Uintah country In extent is Immense In productive ciuallty uncnualed and the best-watered country in Utah or the west. "Tho Uintah country I mean by this, eastern Utah Is bclnj; thickly settled bv eastern farmers and stockmen, and thus the hope for prosperity was never so optimistic as It Is at this time. Of course, our great hope is that, some day In the not distant future, wc shall have direct railroad communication with Salt Lake." |