Show Adams Is IsA A Boosting c Tells th the Salt Lake Press o of the Glories of the Uinta Basin r I r. r When we we get het the Moffat 10 t tr r road an through our fur countr o which should be he in the early part ot of 1 1915 15 as the manage management age age- I ment is bic bidding for a big big- slice of of the great nt frei freight ht and pasI passenger pas pas- I t eng r traffic which is assured for the San Francisco e. e exposition exposition exposi exposi- tion then you will vill Ot see ee one of the flue hig hh biggest est industrial uprisings ever er witnessed i in id the state according to George E E. Adams merchant it of of Vernal who was wasa a l guest at the thc Cullen y yesterday A few miles mills to the east of V Vernal is the Rai Rangely ely oil fiel field wl where ere the highest t class of paraffin par par- Tiffin oil has hab heen been fo found This oil s is-s such is-such ch a high grade that it will almost explode like gasoline gaso gasoline asoline aso- aso line There Ther are arc scot scores es of wells driven ell there and aurl practically all more or or r less less oil For instance in stance th Oil coth- coth pany in which rh cli lam Taihi iut interested has ab about Ut ri a Wells r ranging rang rang ranging nr- nr ing iut in l from froan GOO feet They all oil Tests have hart been heen made I a and nd 1 gh git give e them a n capacity ty of ol 10 W to to 20 w barrels Toe company still has ilos a rig in int inthe t the he field dr drilling Another com pall pallis is the Colorado Pac Pacific t c development which is putting lots of wells with equally en encouraging ing r t I The ad std advent d dv v vent nt of y a railroad i 1 make ke t this it ij f 1 n t producing uc ng field of of h high grade oils A X fe fc v r. r miles southwest from frOl 1 Vernal t C companies compani s ate are are mi in for oil T They c 11 live have v heen in in there for for two o years hie results must have he c justified the C 1 c continuation o of oft the the- work which is hein bein being k kept pt up ri right along g. g r IO f Over to the thc west and northwest north north- f vest west Y t V some of the biggest big big- gest c un untouched ached 1 coal oal fields fields' in iu The I he govern government men t reports re re- ports estimate one of these thes deposits deposits de de- deposits posits posits at nearly nearly two ho billion billio J tons Tl Then we have ha the only onh extensive extensive na r beds heds of gilsonite in khe r the cOl country we ha have extensive i i I marble quarries beds of the best hest kinds of Portland cements I our our Green river with fifty miles milea or more more of sand bars hars containing con- con gaining millions ns of fine gold Ve lVe V e have extensive forest reserves reserves re re- serves and acid some of the best hest hunting 1 and fishing fibbing grounds rounds in inthe inthe the westI west I r t I But But what I 1 consider of more importance as a permanent basis basig on which all these other important industries must build are our extensive e agri ri agricultural cultural r r l lands and the climate we have hav to too offer with them their The average altitude of Uinta is fa is about th the same as Salt Lake Valley alley I ond the clim- clim clim climate ate i ia is similar We Ve have ha ethe largest one tra ra t of f agricultural lands in the entire state tate I coi con consisting of to 6 acres We Vc have great streams streams to the north issuing from the foot ot at the half dozer dozen hi highest he t peaks in the state stale all over feet bi high h. h From th these se streams many man lar large c canals have hav been constructed and others are now under under way bringing Jing I o cultivation u t probably bly a I It third to a n half hulf of cultivatable cultivatable able lands We Ve cau can raise thin anything in Uinta basin babin you c cari can n in Salt J-ake J valley The Thelast last state fair u i demonstrated that when our our ourt t I I I fruit fruite e vegetable arid and gr grain i exhibit ex ext hibit took a a front rank As a a prot of f our ur mild climate tc f m that Uinta l h believe ha has th the Jr large orchards orchard in tile the state All 1 V we the need it is a railroad is assured within the That now thel i next two or three years yeara Gangs of men I understand are working work work- work work-I I i ing jug west of Steamboat Springs between hel there and Crai Craig I 1 hear that a contract has been recently let and ann another I Jer gang with machines has b been en put on I still farther west Craig is I I about miles mile from the Utah line Vernal is 32 miles still further west When the weather I er r warms up this spring no I doubt the work will he be vigorously vigor pushed Two years yearn should put the road well through h the I entire Uinta and then ii I watch watch I out eastern Utah to to boom boom Herald |