| Show MYTON'S VAST I RESOURCES One Hundred I Ten Thousand Acres of Land Contiguous Its Future is Secure The Uintah Basin Dasin has many towns all new thriving communities that have great things In n store for or them in tho wa way of or increase In population and wealth Perhaps no town is better hetle known than Myton 1 and no doubt thero there Is no more ambitious community In the tho state than this Ibis former Indian trading post Myton 1 was officially born when hen the town was formally laid out b by bythe the government Sept 28 28 1 1905 hut but ut the tho was established May 1 6 6 1903 1103 with Hayden Cahen as post poEt master II G. G Clark prior thereto had been post trader opening open his in 1898 1818 in the old n town around which h the tho commercial center grew 1 In Jn talking with thin the old timers one Teams learns that there thero are arc l people who vho believe belie tho the old days das the best best best- I who julio remember with wIlh satisfaction the time timo when Mylon Myton was the tho principal I stopping place for all inland travel wh when whan this was the tho only ford Cord on the j i Dl ch Ducheane e and when sheep and cattIe call catI cat cat- l I tie men JUen soldiers Indians and gov- gov C n e employees made this their those days the near near- rendezvous o Jn in iett st whito man was ivas at Ft Duchesne i nfl tc-nfl sn n miles distant B Ln cearly as 19 government go 1 somo some work worl for the red ih iiii way of canals man man Wins to to get got him to A opt the thel an and d t l maps mans ways but hut very V f W litO mall made It IL t progress w. w L orco to start the Iho mam- mam ed cd fo for r a I and mn-and and open Olen up tile coun- coun m moth oth prOE I L Lr and the white try 0 for b both r 0 tl 1 o reservation was man When Myton lyton was made opened in Iii lilt v he ue e governments government's r head quarters Barters i 1 a operaL opera- opera L engineering and ij iop of hundreds f Hons in the spen y rs Good of- of l of thousands of dc de h flee Oce buildings and f i the ther f r buildings were Wc- Wc e n ns f engi- engi c management of H. 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C L it neer acer in charge f rP P ea f However Myton 1 ton is is' is iss s sI s. s u with Ull Indian I allotments and J e town is perhaps the best comI com corn it It I center on the former s f t has C cj with the Indian f. f L r ft and the tho original natives native's holdi 4 I f that are untilled except by the lea 1 ees ees with the exception of those tracts 1 which have been purchased by white I men Hence a traveler coming Into t. t the town Is perhaps unfavorably imPressed impressed impressed im- im pressed by the tho absence of contiguous farms as he sees but a few in proper state of cultivation But brief examination ex ex- f. f of the he surrounding territory terri tern k t tory explains why hy Myton lyton is a town why Myton is an ambitious town and arid why its residents business men L friends and even opponents declare that It ft has a rl right ht to be a town to aU aUIs and andis is highly justified in being ar l' l and nd progressive On the tho south of Myton in h one largo tract is about fifty thousand acres rf rr f as good land as ian can an re be e lount This large trea brea has excellent drainage plenty plent of water rater aj ai is all owned ly y homesteaders who ha hat o lc licen n lating persevering and have resided thereon except that big ig tract known as the Lott LoU project which is i R Carey act segregation This land laud landis is not yet under water altho a c al al will we believe furnish water wate- for tor f several thousand acres next year if it the plans of the promoters ar an carout car car- ged ned out as as' a tho water is now run- run I ng to the bench on the upper porn por- por il thou n of the tho tract Various differences vate veto capital and tho the district officers have retarded a solution o of a dispute concerning the Irrigation of ot the land hut but there is good reason to 10 believe that ii n of the Uie matter is near at hand liani A long longer r canal is necessary r ry to cover the lands altho I no engineering feat eat ar nyc are r r and andI I water for the entire aerie acreage Cr e will be cheap Tho rho Lott Jott project will bf built buill as Soon oon as th tb the money market op opens na up or signs of oJ a railroads 8 coming are Myton is the center for this land lana besides surrounded with Indian river bottom lands fifteen miles mile cast east and west and two to three miles north and south bouth Korth h 0 of town is the famous North Myton tw- tw irrigated under government government government govern govern- ment jJ ay by the well known Dry l Eyt ct M Myton ton has a bank banle f ll i p thriving business five gen general ral torta one ne builder bunder supply houses two lumberyards lumber yards s end ind Implement houses one gb gj 1 hotel rooming houses two restaurants a laundry laundr two tiro drug stores stares two salo aloon PF J real ical estate offices one tent and harness Ettore two blacksmith shops two newspapers two nour mills electric J Jug lg put In as this lila Is written two j le jl fr r m and anti antion on clores uorca government ro gation offices lawyers doctors engl engi- two ministers one h one I academy good U 3 2 o and many other evid evidences t c-t J. J business besides a good picture show and opera IS C another to b. b he be tal f 1 pod acom- acom for or oi- the four lo 10 ani v rr fifth to b be t installed lIed within a month month AS as the ll Ian land l tr bt J J Gliding part of that men mentioned P p Valley y tract 22 f s ss as L tt Carey Care Act tract 14 44 I res North Myton Uyton bench IS 18 18 oo Red Cap Can flat fiat 4 about about 1 of river rt bottom land d dj j T Indians largely yet Bt pasing into inte he he of ot the white C wee both b bj 1 Ing ind nd by purchase Ts TI 18 any wonder Myton ryton is am- am f With more than i land l d with the Duchesne c acs f v ir i oil ii 1 Hio ti Ler er i t t Vj 1 tk u uw 1 f w ty r of fifteen thousand eo o Ti t be e e. town of at 1 1 l ji c f Myton 1 Is a abe abe ak k be i ic iP t I ne m Jint t J t. t basin has hasgood hasgood hasgood good tt tl 1 which many oh tI X V lW i l ll b b t t this js one InThe inThe in- in The Re cork cor v ph V ou out t Is en t o a right to toof toof toof of the h b basin asia asin 1 L l et a rail- rail make malee a noise a d and road a right aright to lo u to attention r ll tu al 1 wealth wealth Besides this agri agni t e we have bave oil ner t hand band tte rot not far farIn farin tari in ten minutes drive ela vp S H. u t lS In hii away and timber on the L 1 L n be plain view wate tf If wo t found Cound it IL Is believed with h hundred feet Myton nea neu is js water works M. M 41 3 neds with which to deve these r 1 arces uces We Ve want mor busies me i t I. I more citizens There is far more ti tJ ian lan we can use or develop I D. D and all aU we we want is ts help p Note This is the first of a series of es artles es The Record intends to A. concerning the communities i of ta 1 I asin A detailed o outline of or locality is essentiaL essentiaL es- es local rv m IT ounces in each I All Interested boosters will 1 do well to assist us with information an and f ines or even with articles of proper i |
