Show Spry is Uinta Basin Basil Booster Utah Governor Contributes Valuable Valuable able Article in Which He Ue Lauds This Empire and Calls Attention Attention Atten Atten- ti tion ti to Wasatch Population t Governor Go William Spry nev never never r loses loses' an opportunity to boost the Uinta pinta basin When llen he lie was in Myton ryton in inS in'S inv ins S 'S September 1910 as as a guest of the people of the thc town during the thc Bridge Day cel celebration he declared this to lie be a n most won most won wonderful erful country a veritable em eta- empire empire pire pyre waiting for th the Conquering conquer Conquer- conCu conquering ring r- r ing hand of man Ever Eer since that time he hc has has' been singing the praises of th Uinta basin Whenever occasion an resents presents itself he h speaks through h the I press In In Iii the annual edition of the thc Railroad Red Book h he e has hasa a contribution the contribution the subject of which is Prosperous Utah Belov Below Be Be- Below low v are a few quotations ns which h will be e of interest 1 Lying Ling I. I ing ini immediately jr we west vet t of the Colorado line and north of the Denver I Rio io Grande railroad railroad rail rail- ro road J in iu Uintah and Wasatch counties is a u vel veritable empire The Uintah Indian l Reservation formerly erly embraced the most moat desirable de desir desirable de- de sir ble portions of thi thus this section of eastern Utah but since the the- Reservation was thrown open to entry much of the land has been acquired l and wherever it has been cultivated it has yield yield- nr aus lr pa It is of the or-the the best watered sections of the West Vest the the rivers which which make their way y through h the country furnishing ent wi pow power po r to treat creat electrical energy ener energy ener- ener gy for the entire state of Utah Va Wasatch atch county t enjoys s the the thedis distinction distinction dis dis- of f r returning turning the second d largest argest percentage of population l Lion tion increase of any C county comity in inthe inthe inthe the state according to tV tJ thc the ce cen census cell cell- l- l sus of 1910 DID 11 The iThe great grent Strawberry r project pro pro- j ct inyo involving vin the diversion of the he Strawberry river on on the watershed d of the Colorado bas bas- ill iii n bv by a dam dum to be constructed ill in n the Strawberry Narrows v and mcl the taking of the waters under tinder the thc Wasatch range lange by a foot tunnel to reclaim ll In lands ands in the Great Salt Lake basin in Utah county is pro pru- progressing gressing rapidly Over teet of the tunnel l has been been completed and cemented while he the footings and fourteen fee feet of t the le diverting dam clam have ha been 1 c constructed This project wills will willibe be completed by October of oit 1912 1012 awl and when the waters vaters area are turned turned th through fife die tunnel proximately acres o of J choice a agricultural and Huel fruits T S laud and in in L Utah tale count county will be beb bej j b and find reclaimed there trier J In r r I 1 I There arc are numerous other vl valuable t contributions for d' d dif dif- r ferel erent t sections of the state C C. 13 D. Cook of j M ton has an a ar- ar title tide on the thc Uinta basin The Thc Red Book has a large e circulation |