Show T Tells About Best Country on Earth J B. B Maling Boosting For the Uinta Basin Believes The Resources Are Among the Most Extensive in an the West Nest I John B. B Maling of Steam Steal Steamboat boat Springs Spring who has luis made a couple uple of visits to this section is doing some sonic of the greatest boosting on record for this sec sec- tion The following is in part what he lie has to say in a rec recent nt issue of the Den Denver er Times When the Moffat l. road rond is reorganized reorganized re re- organized said John B. B Nalin Mai- Mai in ing of f Routt county this morning morning morn morn- ing when the Moffat road is reorganized said Mr Maling again unloading from froni his Capacious capacious capacious ca ca- pockets a c cargo of maps and reports and photographs photographs photographs photo photo- graphs when when that is done clone he reiterated band and and the Denver Securities Company is a going going go ing concern I 1 can go alons in into into into in- in to Kansas and raise the mone money to build the road right in into to Salt Lake City L Look at at this said 11 Mr r. r Maling opening his portfolio of pictures That is Uinta basin Utah Look Lonk at those rivers and rivers rivets an and l r rivers rs Look at the breadth of them and the body of them Five I years year ago sir that was an Indian Indian Indian In In- dian reservation given gi-en oer over to the Indians and ancI idleness ss Today Today Today To To- day four hundred and sixty thousand acres acre have been homesteaded Today l private ri rite te enterprise has put one hundred and fifty thousand acres under ditch Today the government has put put- one hundred and I twelve twel thousand acres under ditch for the Indians There are five hundred miles of ditches ditch es and laterals made by private enterprises There are two hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles of ditches and laterals laterals laterals later later- als put in ill by hy the government All that territory said Mr 11 Maling ng that irrigated land with facilities for irrigating thousands and thousands acres more is two taro hundred miles from an any railroad and nd is waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing now for Den Denver Dener er to complete the Moffat system and put Uinta basin on th the transportation tion ma map p. p Back the there re said Mr l Maling Maling Mal Mal- ing is the Bonanza corral near Vernal They clipped a million pounds of wool there last year Farther back here said Mr Nr 1 r. r Maling l tracing tile tle lines line upon pon th the map with the index 1 linger finger nger of a competent hand there are one hundred and twenty live thousand acres of coal land in Routt county held by Colorado for the school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children of this state That hat I coal has an average thickness of sixty feet fee to the acre and will run ninety thousand tons for cry e every acre mined On these school lands lunds today there are ten I billion tons of splendid coal and that coal coni must lie there until until un un- til we ve get the railroad You know about dont don't you said Mr l L Haling Its one of those new hydro hydro- carbons They are are r now using it more extensively every ery day in japanning lacquering and andin andin in iii some kinds of paint Well here ere is a pi picture ture of a gilsonite deposit and here her is Uinta basin basin bas- bas in iii where that deposit lies where they plan to to run the Moffat l road th through rough on its way West Again remember that that- that gilsonite deposit is two hundred miles from any rail rail- road In It n 1909 1009 they shipped with difficulty because of lack of railroad facilities s thirty seven n thousand tons of gilsonite Last year the demand was so great they managed to get out eighty eighty- eight thousand tons This year they will ship more than one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred thou thousand aud tons And by God sir if this road roach was made they would be shipping five hundred thousand tons tons' of gilsonite right now from Uinta b basin sin and shipping it into Deny Den Den- y yare r. r You talk of railroads he said Why no railroad proposition proposition proposition was ever confronted with the certain success of this one Take lm case and the Sat San Pedro railroad he built buill from Salt Lake City Cit Citto to Los Angeles That road went from froma a city to to a through city through a des des- ert No f freight ei ht on its route atall at atall atall all To 10 get freight Clark had to depend on the other roads and that dependence was a I broken reed recd Clark couldn't met get hi his frei freight ht and nd so Mr l Harriman Harriman Har- Har riman got the road that Clark had built v There here is no desert problem about this proposition There are the Wasatch mountains iti iii Utah they present no engineering engineering engineering engin engin- difficulties to railroad men But suppose the Moffat Iffat road stopped dead at the foot of the he Wasatch mountains the coal there and the agricultural ag- ag ag agricultural ag 1 I prod products there and the min mineralized products of Routt county counts and the Uinta U ba basin would g give ge e you so mu much h freight that you would have to I track double-track your system to toh h lri haul ul it |