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Show NEW HIPIRE BEING BUILT ff UTAH Uintah Country Is . Goin Ahead by Leaps and Bounds. "The outlook for tha old TJIntab reser- I vatlon waa never brighter than It la at tha present time." aald W. H. Fltawater. postmaster of Duchesne, who waa In Salt Lake City lata this week on a business trip. Mr. Jtttweter save that If the state board of land commissioners will make the MTS.OeO loan that has been asked, nothing can prevent Duchesne and other towns la that part of tha stats from booming. The money la to be used In various irrigation irri-gation projecta which will bring several thousand acres of fine land under cultlva-m cultlva-m tlon. It la estimated that with tha land W hoard advancing the loan, not leas than 76. Mo acres of land will be brought under cultivation within a year or two. Mr. Fltawater says that whether the loan is made or not that part of the alata will continue to (row. At present a lle.eoe bridge le being built over the Duchesne river neer Duchesne and plana are n earing completion for a power plant that will generate sufficient power to Operate: nn electric railway system through a large part of the valley aa well as to furnUh light and power to several of the settlements. Just before Mr. Fits water left for Salt Lake City a gold find was reported from a point on Lake fork, about twenty miles north of Duchesne. The property Is owned by Jesse Knight and othera and work will ba continued aa faat as possible. pos-sible. M- W. Cooley, general manager of the l intan Kan way company, ha annouced that th 'company would abort ly com-mpner) com-mpner) th wot k of hulWIna a tunnal thrototth Book cliff which will maa the llmioation of a numbtr of curves and tha cutting down of crmdea ao that hoavy trains can b handled over tha road. Mr. Cooley also announced that the fourteen-mile fourteen-mile extension of th road north from vion towards Duchesne is faat Hearing Hear-ing completion. Greeks Plan Settlement. The orcsniutlon In Salt Lake City of the I'iatMh-AUiens company will mean ; the exodus of a Iarf4 number of Greeks to Llntah county from Salt Lake City and other I'tah towns In the Dear future, fu-ture, atvordtng to the plans of the officers. offi-cers. Tlise are seeking to induce natur-allvi natur-allvi Greeks and those who have d-clarr-d tlirlr Intention of becoming cltl-cenn cltl-cenn of the tnltd States to settle on land which the company haa secured north of THichesne. The land eomprl'es nearly stvOA acres In the center of a fanning fann-ing district. The company also haa a number of mining claims In Vlntab county coun-ty which It Intends to operate Id the near future. The officers of th Uintah-Athens Uintah-Athens company are: Constantine Con tee. president; Louls Crmtm. vice president; Jane Regs, treaaurer; "lk Jerefoe Mcretary; Peter Rfihlmlou. director; with Steve Skllrls, .';rerge 8otr. Vaeileos Kayeas snd Vas- ios Yeanaksris aa prominent stockholder stockhold-er Halt rke ta lo be headquarter for th -company,. |