Show Uintah Basin Bashi B is Becoming United Neighbors Beginning to Realize That Advancement Can Come Only Through Harmony Concerted Action A. A As singular as it ma may seem an altogether friendly and harmonious feeling Is springing up among among the residents residents' r I of the towns of ot the basin toward each other It Is becoming becomIng becoming be be- coming so that citizens of Roosevelt My Myton ton and Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne meet and visit and discuss problems problems of mutual in a perfectly amicable manner As As' startling as this situation may appear on its face it n nevertheless t the is truth a and d tune time U ft ft would t i p fie r that alf all all' spirit of bitterness by one community against the other is to be buried that the Idea of progressiveness through a unity of purpose is to take its place and that by a united effort the great Uintah basin from Vernal to fo Fruitland will present a solid front In the development of or the Greatest Country on Earth There was an informal meeting of or orthe the Duche Duchesne ne Commercial club theother the tho other night at which were were present representatives prom from other clubs inthe iu in th the basin among who i were ere George S. S Sloan of My Myton ton J. J P. P May and R. R S. S Collett of bf Roosevelt At the beginning of Mr Sloans Sloan's s 's address hf lick advanced ouch cuch an astonishing policy pollin poll poli cy in view of the sentiment that ha has hag J heretofore prevailed that the appointment appointment ap ap- of ot a a. a lunacy commis lon ion seemed to be th the proper r step to I take in his case His doctrine for fol future conduct was so bewildering when th the immediate past is taken Into consideration that it is little wonder that his audience for the moment moment thought him an active and aggressive cand candidate date for one orie of those these Institutions sometimes referred to toas toas as a nut mit factory The gentleman from Myton actually actually actu ally stated that when travel h begat g L Lon on the he Pikes Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocea Highway when the cars reached My Myton ton from the East the secretary of if the My Myton ton club would place literature lit er ture I in the autos telling the tourists and visitors and ers all about what a wonderful country there was to the west and antI th that by the time they arrived in Duchesne through a reading of the descriptive matter they would be bo acquainted with what Duchesne and the the thES west basin had to offer Not a word would be said aId about the Myton Myton My My- ton tori section After Arter recovering from its astonishment aston the crowd caught the Idea tad ind gave the speaker a good long long applause ap Mr Sloan afterward explained explained ex ex- that the idea was not original original origl- origl n nal l but that it was being used by bythe bythe bythe the towns in the to im mense menne advantage He saw its practical practical practical working on his recent trip to St St. Jo Mo when he he and R R. R M. M Pope attended the Pikes Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway convention Vernal it is reported has pledged itself to put the highway in shape from the K ranch to Vernal This alone It is stated w will ll cost In the neighborhood of 1000 In fact all of the towns along the route have havo taken hold of the the idea idea of making the Pik Pikes Pike's s 's Peak highway the thee great popular route rout from the Atlantic to the Pacific and in this the west est part of the basin will wUl use every effort possible le and contribute its share o ot of work worle time and money Lest any of the foregoing remarks remark concerning Mr Si Sloan an be misunderstood misunderstood stood the Record desires to say that I h he ho Is not crazy but on the other er hand handis is absolutely compos omI os mentis an and that at atIf If it the ideas deas adv advanced n ed by him are nourished and fostered it will be but buta a short time time until the Uintah ba basin n comes conies into the foreground with a system of roads that will be favorably favorably favor favorS ably ably known from one end of the country to the he other and andl in the end will mean a hard surfaced thoroughfare thoroughfare thor thor- ou from Vernal through the important towns in the basin and into Salt Lake J. J P. P May president of the Uintah Basin Confederated Confederated Clubs goes the Record one better In advancing th the theory that if the present disposition tion grows to the end that the and communities of or Uintah and Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne counties become absolutely united in a common effort an electric electric elec elee line c can n be forced from the Ashley Ashley Ash Ash- ley valley into ZIon At any rate everyone feels better over the together get-together spirit that is il up and there will be few tew who will not say Down with the agitator and Let the go good d work go on |