Show s i BASIN 1 j N p AD PROPOSED r I i AID ASKED IN PLAN LAN TO DEVELOP RICH UTAH DISTRICT I State Senate Adopts Memorial to Congress for forI Building Railway Line Resources of I Fertile Region Described MOTHER effort is to be made to secure a railroad for the A ANOTHER Uinta basin This time the energy is to be directed toward the United States government and the start was made in the state I senate today when senate joint memorial No 3 by Knight to the congress of the United States petitioning for the building by the I federal government of a railroad to the basin was passed under suspension of rules rutes on its third and final reading I In setting forth the resources of the basin and stating the reasons rca rea- sons why such a road should be constructed the petition states This basin Is more than a hundred miles In length and more than fifty miles In width with lands the fertility and productivity of which are not excelled excelled ex- ex celled In the state a Veritable COhlman cota- cota man wealth capable of easily sustaining a population of people In addition addition addi- addi tion to the now living there This valley has already been partially par par- developed In anticipation of a railroad and in this condition answered answered an- an the call of the nation naHon by the production of prodigious War crops It ItIs Itis Is surrounded by mountains affording the best grazing lands for cattle and sheep and covered with the finest tim tim- ber Its oil shale deposits are said to tobe tobe be the largest In the world Gilsonite asphaltum co coal l are found In large quantities an and these wIth other minerals ar are now mined tu to some exten but await d. d railroad for full development PLENTY OF WATER The waters waters of this basin now developed de- de e- e Irrigate acres no part of which Is intensively cultivated for want of adequate transportation faI facilities fa- fa to outside markets I In additIon to the water wat r rI now used figures of the United States I geological survey show that acre feet of water annually ally run to I waste from the Duchesne the principal river of the basin which If applied to the additional irrigable land available I would produce annually Storage reservoir sites are available fo foj conserving all alI of this water Proposed Proposed Pro Pro- I posed projects by the reclamation service ser ser- vice will Irrigate acres a additional addi- addi di- di to that already under canals and horsepower can he be harnessed from the streams of the basin |