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Show Farmers of IBasin Meet at Ft. Duchesne Community Problems to Be Discussed With Officials Unique and colorful adjectives too often misapplied belong rightfully right-fully and emphatically to the Uintah Basin Industrial convention, conven-tion, which holds its eleventh annual session at Fort Duchesne Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Fri-day of this week . Unique, because nowhere else on earth, nrobably, does a whole countryside consisting of two large counties assemble for a three-day encampment which combines many of the features of a county fair, a short and inten- sive college course , an annual homecoming, and a picnic. Colorful, because of the varied hues of the blankets and attire of the Indians present; of the gala dress of their white sisters; ' of the sun-tanned faces and horny hands of the farmers, who find this outing a relaxation from all to constant work on field and range; but, more than all, for the expressions of interest as eager eag-er minds discuss with experts problems of their daily lives, or expressions of happiness, as friends, who perhaps have not seen each other since the last annual an-nual U. B. I. C, meet. Although the convention did not open until Wednesday, 200 tents were pitched on the large parade grounds by 6 p. m. Tuesday, Tues-day, and a steady stream of arrivals, ar-rivals, which, persisted until long after sunset, indcated one of the heaviest attendances ever recorded. recor-ded. 1500 ON SCENE The visitors, hailing from all parts of the basin, came in conveyances con-veyances of all sorts, from the fronter praire schooner to the most modern of automobiles. The machines were heavily loaded with bedding and camping equipment, equip-ment, and a large number drew trailers. Chassis of discarded automobiles, hitched to a . team of horses, formed the most unique uni-que vehicles. |