Show I MOFFAT ROAD WILL TAP RICHEST SECTION When the picks and shovels says Vincent J. J Keating in the Salt Lake Telegram begin to turn over the earth simultaneously at Provo Utah and Craig Colo marking the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of the construction of the Salt Lake Denver railroad the first step top will have been taken to turn into nto gold the vast resources of the Uintah basin the great inland emIre empIre empire em- em pIre Ire of ot the United States The Uintah basin with its estimated ed d undeveloped resources of over with the completion completion comple- comple tion ion of the railroad then will become becomes as s it has been aptly termed the breadbasket of the world Lester D. D Freed vice president ent oi of the he Utah-Colorado Utah Industrial corporation corporation corpor- corpor the parent organization con- con roling the Salt Lake Denver Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- road oad company and the Utah Birdseye Marble Garble company who recently returned returned re- re turned from Denver where he had hadI In the In interests of f the railroad gone the rests railroad reports the enthusiastic support and ana operation co of the people of Colo- Colo rado ado The Moffat tunnel bill bUl before the he Colorado legislature legislature-a a bill to bore rore through James peaks peaks passed passed by y a large majority The Denver Salt Lake railroad from rom Springville to Craig covers a distance istance of approximately miles At Springville traffic may have the choice holce of three routes already existing exist exist- ng mg to Salt Lake City and Ogden At Cral Craig the line connects with the Denver Salt Lake railroad which crosses rossea the Continental divide to Denver enver The new railroad therefore there- there fore ore may become the integral part of Df f a large number of railroad combination combination combination com com- of traffic The Uintah basin which the new road oad will traverse is a vast inland empire of untold resources and possibilities pos- pos a tonnage reservoir reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir virtually without a railroad outlet The Uintah basin topographically topographical topographical- ly y lies in Northeastern Utah and Northwestern Colorado from which entire drainage finds ends a narow outlet out- out let tet et where the Green river has cut Its ta path through the Book Cliffs on its ts way to the Gulf of ot California The he basin proper is about miles In n width and of the square miles of territory in it miles lire are in Utah and in Colorado In the Utah area tributary to the new flew line Una there is a population at present estimated at with assessed valuation of approximately In Moffat Rio Blanco nd end Routt counties Colorado the Colorado the last ast named already traversed by the Denver Salt Lake railroad there railroad there Is a population of virtually one half living In Routt county The assessed valuation of these counti counties coun- coun ti ties iea exclusive of the improvements is 15 approximately Of this population of approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately live Uve from twenty twenty ty y to eighty miles mUes to the nearest railroad by roads that are impassable receive during the present year per capita of week twenty-week enrollment enrollment enrollment enroll enroll- ment as noted This amounts to distributed among the for tor freight a considerable portion of the year The majority of these are keen business men who come from the more thickly populated areas They hey have built up thriving communities communities with handsome business blocks churches schools and homes o knowing that the advent of the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road will wUl more than justify such expenditure expenditure expenditure ex ex- of time money and enor- enor KT gy They dwell on the frontier In a atense tense sense but it is no frontier com unity the railroad builder will find but a territory dotted with modern cities clUes and with a heavy tonnage assured from the beginning The principal cities clUes and towns are Duchesne Myton Myton My- My ton Roosevelt Vernal Jensen Watson Vatson Wat Vat I son Bon and Randlett Utah and Rangely Range Range- ly Iy Meeker Craig Steamboat Springs and md Hayden Colorado The tillable area of the Uintah babin ba- ba babin f bin in in Utah is approximately acres of which can be irrl gated Dry land farming is easily possible with the rainfall of the basin basin ba ba- ba- ba sin but is not widely practiced In Utah Average annual yields per acre from Irrigated lands are Alfalfa four Cour tons wheat 30 bushels and barley 80 bushels corn 75 76 bushels Potatoes melons apples peaches pears prunes apricots and grapes are grown in quantity in Utah Seven Square quare miles of Northeastern Utah and Northwestern Northwest Northwest- ern Colorado are ire with oil on shale Geologists are of the opinion that the tho entire basin Is with coal bearing strata R R. R D. D George state geologist ecologist of Colorado estimates that the available in Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western Colorado and Northeastern n Utah Is in excess of tons Gilsonite and other hydrocarbons hydrocarbons hydrocarbons hy hy- hy- hy are in abundance and andIn andin andin in the basin The presence of phosphate phosphate phosphate phate In the basin has been a matter of common knowledge for many years but owing to the isolation ot of the country from rail raU transportation no effort has been made to develop th the extensive deposits |