Show L DUCHESNE AS SEEN BY VISITORS By Frank R R. Arnold Duchesne county is probably better better heter bet bet- ter er known to transcontinental tourists tourists tour- tour who pass through it daily in hi summer summer sumner sum- sum mer ner on the Pikes Peak high highway Yay thant than it t is to Lakers And Je yet it is as worthy of a visit as Switzerland and and every svery Salt Laker Lake would do well to have lave an acquaintance in the new nev 1 country to send him new potatoes hone honey loney chickens and turkeys by parel par- par q eel cel el post New potatoes there thc the thelast J last ast week in July sold for 5 cents per pound and they were superb for size i and nd quality gallon Five-gallon cans of I honey loney sold for 11 11 and as the postage postage post- post age age ige is only one cent a pound the thenice price nice e by mail is not much increased Every Salt Laker who wants to reduce educe the price of living had better beter better bet- bet ter er hitch Duchesne onto its back yard rard He can do it by means of the two forty trucks that the mail serice service service ser- ser vice ice used for carrying parcel post postin in n and out of the countr country For first lass class mail they have trucks with a aon aton ton on chassis and md five fhe ton motors geard geared gear gear- I ed d up to sixty-five sixty miles an hour Mail lail can leave the county in the morning lorning bp be at Price in the even evening ng and nd in Salt Lake late that night ready cady for distribution the next morning morn- morn i ing 5 g. isit i is Necessary t But But to know the resources of DuI Du- Du chesne I you ou have got to go gO over over and 1 iSit the country yourself arid and once ou see it you ou will be amazed at its productivity and picnic p possibilities I It is the youngest of Utah counties except Daggett but Its ts lovers are areas ares as s ardent as the native sons of Cali Cali- 1 Ig fornia ornia One young oung man while charging the enemy across a wheat wheatfield wheatfield found field yield near Chateau Thierry j i ime lime to remark that the wheat on that field would probably run sixty- sixty four bushels to the acre just like the hp wheat on some of the fields in n Antelope Another young army t fuan man tell how often he had laid in European shell holes and longed to toe Uintah lakes e e back fishing in the thc I in Moon lake there is a fish under every bush and any fool can F. F etch catch them And from a mountain Tear eaI ear ear- earby by you can c catch sight of twenty five lakes just like it it That how fe how Duchesne lingers lovingly in inthe inthe inthe the heart of its citizens Here is ish h How w it impresses a Salt Laker who goes foes over the Wasatch or Uintah ops ps for the first time t i I Beauty Switzerland II II The trip over to Duches Duchesne county I I from rom S Salt lt Lake ke is not unlike going i from Milan 1 in Italy up to Switzer Switzer- land and nd You leave th the pleasure loving pity ity of Salt Lake you climb vine- vine I It lad clad foothills by y you u see he Park rk City railroad curving on i like the Saint Sant Gothard you i pave lave ave an automobile road equal n spots to the Simp Simplon Ion you sass I through dairy valleys like Snyder- Snyder iville lle and Heber perfectly capable of of J producing Cailler's milk choc chocolates lates you ou have views of across al a- a l 1 cross cros Heber City valley which are reminiscent of the across Interlaken meadows and whether you ou go over into Duchesne by Danels Daniels Dan Dan- els ls canyon canyo and the Strawberry valley val- val ley J y or whether you go by Kamas over fiver ve the you will find especially es es- 9 P on the latter route spruce orests that would not be out of lace in Switzerland And to com- com lete the analogy just as the Rhine nd Rhone rises in Switzerland so iIII lee he biggest rivers in Utah the Bear Fhe he lieber the Provo and the DuJ Du- Du F J esne rise in ip the But I I when you drop down clown in thc the county of Duchesne the resemblance ceases You know you ou are in the Pacific basin in th the Green River country if you have ever taken the Rio GranIe Grande Grande Gran Gran- de Ie to Denver and passed through Carbon and Emery counties First Impression Wrong Most p people ople drop down into Du Du- from rom the Strawberry valley by deep Creek canyon though there i is a far better road by Kam Kamas Wolf Kamas-Wolf Wolf Volf Creek Their first is iJ that the main products of Duchesne must be posts pine nuts and perfumery for the road winds winds' endless through a maze of cedars and pinion pines If you break a twig of th pinion pine you get et a drop of resin that has a delicate perfume of pine flavored with lemon or orange The only wonder wonder woner won won- der er is s that som Utahn is not manufacturing perfumery on those slopes dedicating it to Maud Adams or Lucy Gates and sending it to New York to help make the State famous along celery honey scenery and religions But the people of Duchesne arc are too busy mining gilsonite and all the other ites to say nothing about coal and oil and growing hay for their stocks to think of anything so weak and womanish as per perfumery They leave that to the Parisians All th th same there is money in it and if Duchesne do doesn't get it someone will The first town you come to is the county scat seat of Duchesne which has the sam name as the county You have already passed through Fruitland Fruitland Fruit Fruit- land in the midst of the he cedar posts and md wondered where thc the fruit was Duchesne however is ig no disappoint disappoint- ment This Thi is ik seated at the union of the Duchesne the Strawberry and the Indian Creek Canvass Canvas and these three river pockets with the broad I Duchesne valley to the east from the main agricultural land of the county Your first breakfast Mill ill probably consist of cantaloupe chops and fried potatoes hot cakes with hone honey clear and delicately flavored i enough h to be offered d to Jove himself j I It will cost you only 60 GO cents and with wilh the feeling that the H. 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L is I all a nl myth rth you will sally forth to see the town Meet fleet Bud Window Winslow Meet Bud Dud Winslow first H His He Heis is 3 the thc secretary of the Commercial club lub and the kind of man you cant can't help elp calling Bud and h having ving a brotherly feeling for He has been in n Duchesne all the fifteen years since ince the land passed from an In Indian ian reservation to public land and from Wasatch county to an independent bailiwick of its own I I We Ve says Bud who have been starving for years are I beginning to make money now and we ve are arc glad that we hung on even if f we hung by the skin of our teeth This year yea we are having the biggest crops ever known in the basin All the he stuff will be cheap because there theres is s lots of jt it Hay is now 10 in the stack tack and it wont go much lower We Ve have had lots of rain and in spite of a late spring crops have caught up and are even ahead of what they usually are Grain and potatoes look Inc fine Of course the best town in the county i is Duchesne but there are Roosevelt M Myton ton and Tabiona We say Tabby for hort Short but the real name is Indian and was given it b by I Apostle Whitney Our farmers used to o dig their own winter coal for nothing nothing nothing no no- thing but now they can get it at atthe atthe atthe the mine for All 1111 through h the southern part park of the county is oil Cil shale and they are going to begin drilling near wi within hin sixty days It would not me to see real Texas oil on fields s her here Y You ou know there ha hasn't nt been a n vacant t room in a a Fort Worth hotel for over oer two years Our r stockmen dont run exclusively to either sheep or cattle th way wa they do in Wyoming They make malc l money oney out of both though just now new the wool marl market et is on the hum hummer humm hum hum- feed high m mer r an and last winter was We Va have hav native herders and pay them a month lots more mare than our school teachers and md feed them up to the tIe top notch The They can save ever everything thin and o. o 0 they soon get hold hod hodor of or a 1 ra rach ch and have cattle of their That's the thc way Jap Thomas Parted farted in And Jot more like him Stockmen Mentioned Our chief hief stockmen arc are Thomas Jones Jonc of kf O. O Antelope A A. M M. M Murdock Continued on Page Pac Six AS OTHERS SEE US Continued from page One of Duchesne R. R S. S Lusty of- of Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du chesne J John ohn Bar Barbell Barberi of Tabby and William Craver Graver of Strawberry But Dut ButI j I guess Id I'd better not tell ten you about Graver Craver lIe He dont want any publicity publicity publicity public public- ity and and if I tell anything about him Im I'm a u hung mort mortal l. l There are arc outside outside outside out out- side men with stock interested in the county Harden Bennion Dennion of Salt Lake William Coleman of and Jesse Knight of Provo and ana then there are the Smith brothers Al Dave Daye and Ron Hon They used to live in Heber and made money in sheep here a and d now the they are arc directors of th Nati National nal Bank unk bf hf the Republic in Salt Lake We have natural re resources resources resources re- re sources here that if developed cd would double the wealth of the state of Utah and we have got goot people here hereto hereto hereto to develop them They are arc a conglomerate con con- conglomerate mixture of everybody but theres there's a lot of good Pioneer stock mixed up with them Another good man to talk to is Stephen Johnson editor of the Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne county Record He is from l Y pi and is apt all hi hirs hir's his r rs r's especially in such words as North Carolina He i is just now fi fighting in his paper for better schools and I schoolhouses especially in the grades with th money that the county is isabl isabl abl abl to raise not for more schools and md more teachers He sees the county with the eyes of the editor of the American magazine and can cantell cantell cantell tell you ou all about its interesting char char- Sheriff Owns Own A Ford There Ther i is Joe Timothy t th hs count county sheriff who drives a n Vp C Ford called i Pete H Mo has no state st liNn nJ d so sc pu puts put s up his liia nota notary notary no no- ta tary public n on his hig wind shield 1 He ie drive driven from froni rl mH l 1 to CI Duche Duchesne nc ne a distance of fort forty five five miles in two hours homs while the best I cars do it in four Then there are arc Cowpuncher Barton Darton who is six feet feet seven f and Stenographer Bench who i i. i is only four fOll feet and md who to together make an admirable Mutt and Jeff pair Barton the giant had charms of a remount station in Florida du elu during ring the war and the h boys boy ho how to pack mules When the reservation reservation res res- er was opened to settlement Mme of th first fust settlers was William Craver who with his wife had been with Buffalo Duff Bill for years ears They had saved money and wanted a west vest rn rn ranch and they found it en on n the Strawberry river He has 01 head hend of cattle and imd some sheep and until last year ear wore his hair 1011 long lil liU Buffalo Bill Both he and anil hi his wife are invaluable in Duchesne tir o on July Fourth and Twenty Twenty- fourth when when-he when he wears beaded buckskin buckskin buckskin buck buck- skin trou trousers ers and showy shows the county u- u af food ged ridin riding is Editor Co Cook k Wins Gratitude Another excellent editor of th the count county is C. C B. B Cook of the thc My Myton ton Free Press He has w won n undying gratitude of all who wh travel through Duchesne b by preparing an automobile automobile automo automo- bile guide guid called the Wealth of the Uintah Basin It is an compilation well illustrated and makes you want to live in the basin As an editor he takes pride in covering covering cover cover- in ing the whole county with his twenty correspondents and he shows hows a fine bit of editorial scorn corn Thus when My Myton tOil could cough up only d 1 7 inhabitants in the last census cen cen- hus Aus sus he quite naturally blamed the forty bachelors and sixteen childless Childless Child child- less couples in the My Dayton Myton ton ranks and concludes that if each of these had produce five children as God meant them to do the population of M Myton Myton My My- ton should really be He lIe is a 3 aman aman man after Roosevelt's own n hart and if My Dayton Myton ton should ever happen not to prosper which God forbid it will not be his fault His favorit verse from the Bible is Multiply i and replenish replenish replenish re re- re- re the earth and for him the earth is Duchesne county Still one wonders why stop at five children 1 Myton has another claim t to di dis- dis I besides Editor Coon Coo It has the biggest Masonic lod lodge c in I astern Utah It attracts members rom remote Moab and and even re- re note Monticello Moab contributed wenty members last year Another man to talk to is Ed Harmston of Roosevelt He can tell teU you all about about a- a bout hout reservation days and h how Baron von Horst now a Hearst hears rt t correspondent cor eor respondent in Berlin still owns shouse o s house lot lot in Roosevelt Roosevelt and 70 Cf acres in county r I People Inte Interested ested in Fruit Duchesne county has horticultural al longings but will never make lake take a back s scat eat The soil oil is too with hard hardpan pan pads for fruit trees ever to do well in in the I county but the crowd that recently gathered in the orchard of A. A W W. I demons Clemons a nursery man at Duchesne Duches Duches- I ne shows how keen is the in in horticulture in th county Men tren and women had gathered to hear talks by experts from the Agricultural Agricultural tural college at Logan and asked them hem questions First the they asked about fruit blight root root starvation tion that leads to resetting on fruit trees I end and finally talked about th the alfalfa which has appe appeared red in the county but which hs not yet et becom become t 1 serious pest In fact Du esne county is almost a virgin land as regards insect pests and could easily easily easily easi easi- ly stay so if the farmers will do a little fighting Then the women asked how to raise roses and strawberries strawberries strawberries straw straw- berries and what to do for the tomato to- to mato flea the corn worm and the cabbage aphis In spite of being only fifteen years old Duchesne I wants gardens as prolific as those in England Alrea Already y she has sweet peas the most brilliant colors in Utah Good Land on Benches Benche Before the reservation of which Duchesne is a part was thrown open to the public in 1905 the best lands landsI I were reserved for the Indians and several canals were built for them This This' meant that newcomers either had to lease Indian lands along the rivers or climb the bench and thus it has come about that many of the he heI I I best ranches and the newest towns I are upon the high lands On One of I the most prosperous is Boneta on onI I Bone Boneta 1 bench about ten miles from Duchesne The Consolidated d Wagon and Machine c company's manager at t Roosevelt says his company has hns made more monc money out of Boneta than any other town three times its I size in the basin With the possible I exception of Millard county the best alfalfa in the state stale grows in ini i th basin It has tender stalks and large leaves and tumbles over the fences and ditches like purple vines As it is cut when in bloom it SU suh I plies bee food for the honey for fo which Duchesne is famous The roadsides of Duchesne are arc white with sweet clover another excellent bee bec food and nearly everybody keeps bees Bonta is only eleven years old but every everyone one of its forty forty for for- ty ranches has a four-fold four income I |