Show Another Boost For the Basin Basini i R. R s. s Collett is Still for or the Old Uinta Section When hen the Moffat r railroad sends send its first steam engine p puffing through h the Uinta basin r probably in in the fall of I 1914 1414 or earl early earl spring sprin of 1915 rc its screech screech- iti ing whistle Gown clown I n the fertile alleys and alone the thc rich table lands will ill awaken a sleeping inland empire of varied ari d and marvelous resources The hills are ribbed with vast coat coal b beds ds and Ind the valleys valles cover hidden pools of oil nil There i is no more enthusiastic advocate of the Uinta country than R R. R S. S Collet Collett of l Roosevelt t secretary of the Dry Ury Gulch Ir Ir- Irrigation company w who JO was in Salt Lake Lae yesterday He says the Finta section boasts ome of the biggest Ht bituminous and hard bard coal beds in its the United States great d deposits posit of gilsonite gilson- gilson ite ri rivers riera era lined with placer gold and r ag-r agricultural lul t ural tracts greater than Cache Salt Snit Lake and Utah c counties unties aI all put to to- gether The I t Unta pinta basin basi extends from near Steamboat boat Springs in Colorado Colorado Col OI orado do west miles to near the Heber Heher hills It will average average aver L age near fifty miles in width In n the Utah section acres acres acres' are now under canal with acres to come under under un un- der del contel contemplated plated ditches a a. a total of Taking the h basin as a whole there are tire several sev- sev cr oral eral l million acres of a nl fit lands t About u ut t fifty miles 1 iles West est of off R Roosevelt r se there are are some some of or the Uw hir largest est coal coni beds beds' in the state state state- said N Mr I. I Collett A uA 49 40 wile ru ile railroad from Park Park City would trip tap one deposit the government estimates at 1800 tons ous of of coal That is also a great timber timber tim tim- ber di district where th the government government govern govern- ment is offering feet for sale These are in Wasatch cJ county Over just east cast of the thel Utah line there ther is the largest deposit of anthracite anthracite anthracite cite coal in the United States outside of Pennsylvania A uA few miles southwest of Vernal three oil boring horing b ring ri rigs s shave have been in operation more or orless orless orless less for over o two yen years rs backed hacked by hy strong California capital One rig was still at nt work as ns I 1 passed there the other cia day dav Over further east is toe I Rangely angel oil Held field where scores of holes have prod produced high grade rade oil ail Our hydrocarbon and building building- stone atone have ha-e resources ces hardly been cen touched touchet yet Max Nax Smith made good goodmoney goodmoney money working a little placer mill alon along the Green r river er dI I he recen recently tho sold to other parties who will work the gold beds thi this summer The deposits northeast northeast north north- east enst from Fart Duchesne Duchesne operated operated oper oper- by the Raven Raven Mining I 1 com company pany are probably 50 00 o to tons tong a month while the Castle Peak Penk mines minea south south of Myton are also shipping this valuable product The Raven lies hUt a n wagon haul to Price of ol about miles i Prospects are very ery encouraging encouraging aging for the much needed railroad Contracts have been let two miles mile west from Craig which is iB only ninety miles east of pf the Utah line linc This ThiB railroad is all that we Uc need to show the theof I of Utah jut just ut what a ar r 7 grand country we h have e oer in Uinta Everything thing is is' prosper prosper- in ing At Roosevelt Roose for instance instance- we are putting in a modern system m of waterworks hi big hig g enough for a n town of several e t thousand people We Ve h have we electric lights good schools school churches and other conveniences conven conven- conveniences n- n and social advantages Uinta lints is is a n live country All that is lacking lacking- to bring it leaping leap leap- jug ing to the front and and tind to cause e the influx of thou thousands of desirable desirable de de- settlers settler is this railroad connection with nith the out outside ide world Herald I |