Show TO TD OUR DU Rs STATE TA TE SEA LEADERS DED s H HAND I AND LAW MAKERS MAERS The Uintah Basin Needs Help Utah's Most Important Road Has Been Long Delayed This Is Is Utah's Main lain Part of the Colorado River tn W Watershed aters hi e d t 1 r 4 t. t f J. By-J. y-J. y P P. P Play May lay v Why We 1 Help P I f Previous l IS to to 05 when n tI the Indian I reservation res reservation was for rOl home homesteaders ste the 11 people e of Ashley valley val val- val val-l ley settled in 1873 w were practically the only white people e in northeastern northeastern northeast northeast- ern Utah They were elC and many are are are- in the livestock business tl tie only avocation tha offered offeree a living When the reservation was opened cd only only- genuine homesteaders could take tao land Thousands of people canie cane came an and now in intine blue entire Utah part of the basin hasin we have llao After the large largo influx of or settlers settlers to get tho the new lands progress was slow Although a gradual growth is perceptible per per- perceptible It is not what it should bo be Several thousand thousand have left either cIther h because causo of adverse ad financial conditions conditions conditions condi condi- or because use of or disadvantages in business and otherwise New setlers se set se- tiers coming in each year are arc on only y slightly larger in number than those Ic reliving leaving for Texas California Idaho Canada and other places People came here convinced that only short time would bo be ry to to build one good s state ate road into this big country even if ift a rt t 1 railroad were delayed This basin is the tho lions lion's share shaie of the Colorado river waters watershed led area in Utah There Thero- is is- 1000 1000 acres of f reclaimed cd land provided with excellent water rights acres aeres additional cheap cheal land and rind water some of or it t partly ready and 50 more nore land with water wate th that t will wall now compare with Irrigation irrigation irrigation tion projects in iii n any western state In price per acre for reclamation This will b be about 35 per cent of all the farm land provided with wa water r that Utah may ever eyer use because our state stale is cropping annually ly anI only about 1 1 acres i This former reservation is is' settled by genuine homesteaders generally wiLh little a l strangers anion among strangers strangers Jt It might be he said that thaL this is the outstanding thing ding feature amid d that that it Jl is a weakness in in mastering ilIC the big hiS job of a st state le road oyer over the I summit During ono one third of or tite the year on our l' l Creig freight t is seriously delayed This winter we ha have hac c now gone to weeks without i llo t freight or express express- ins we 0 had hind lid no 1 over O- O over Ol l tip mountains mou mountains ll and ana mail several flays la lays s We l t l' bonded o ourselves about b tho tiro U o legal unlit for roads and amid the main road road over Uio U 1 S too much for us even oli on Ol a 7 24 4 C G federal road basis d valuation for the Our Our- total total- total asse four Cour fourteen fourteen tw two counties is approximately teen teen- million dollars We e are are front from from a rail rail- GO 60 t to 15 miles or more road Diversified agri agriculture Is the only only kind that will pay us But wema we along this line maL ma v not nOr lir ogress w on one good i ll leading U to Utah's business and C cultural ce centers or or towards Colorado tb to Denver Dairy c cows ws now give ive us sa a a halt Half J IC mil milion million mill mill- year year but this Indus Indus- i Industry lIus l ion n dollars rs per her I try demands transportation Cra ll r regular and reliable This is only one or ot I several indu industries that require rO roads I s hIl beep ri raise beez wee cattle came u ar c n. n j. j We Va may t t without it a a good state roa road but m thin that big ranches not genuine means That was aas the t-he early early carli carlida but hut that time 11 time me practice and da day view has passed J i It H will Ia Taj Pay Utah tuh in 0 o tJ Utah Utah all has has' a a. surplus population this than han thirty years for more lnore and nd has been settling outside surplus aswell well capital piUl as taken has haB Utah Ill This is Th Tim This hash basin ha has l loads lauds and alyd people people- as more p people oe at nt water for or least le st st. This increase in population millions to our a a- a add many would valuation at l least ast one bt hun hundred I- I important dred pinion million Other very wealth will Justify this estimate if H. we too too optimistic but we are ca' ca NA i tl he pleading leading g the thc cause of of f farmers farmer le hue lH h r 14 7 f 0 Is ls Is Utah Obligated to to nel Help ii driver il river is water Is riot not used a aall at ata a all i Utah tah but is just a as Es if V sa say i. i It The Duchesne river is omil only par pal partly ly utilized for irrigation These Thes W Waret ff arc aret our ur t two o largest st S streams leams 1 Is there the there thea a anything like this left anywhere any any- i wh wilCe where i ln in the intermountain country ry oJ is just right t spring sprin plowing is as early cally in the large central central cen cen- section as it is in Utah count county if not earlier has has' made lIt little effort t to help help us ma master the isolation isola isola- I lion tion by getting a road over our western western west west- cr ern r rim m. m Colorado has done J much lU h to open oP 11 that part of this topographic unit At t present the 2000 people l ou out here are in many y ways completer completely cut off from their states state's business and cultural centers Js is this fair fail t to Utah r Does oes it not nol seem ail time the more mOle Ul unfair fair when we r realize alize that despite these the se e disadvantages we are grow grow- Jug fn ill M and nd will soon soon have pen peo people pre Jie Such a big area arca 1 r cheap la lane land lI lIand and water under lc ideal eal conditions condition except for this thIs' road will be bc settles settled up JJ without any ifs Us or or r antis ands Many Mangy c 0 hC hero ci now ow dont don't t lega regard d Sail Sah Like Lake ke City Provo or 01 other othe large c renters centers n ter is' is as essential t to o th their ir lives They r cj ha have c got got a along along W without them I and nd this number will wl gr grow w as al it iL is is' gl Lowing growing wing t to l help e p ourselves master naster l. l ster the difficulty ty one eter eternal lal p problem that is a n loa road l o over r the i I Ir 0 must have h help lp r satch ra range we or it 1 proceed as wo we are arc This procedure duie d- d uie ure ire is not good f br Utah or or am n not t as ms asIf s 1 If ff t r uhl be IJo J to Is it Not to Ashley y valley l ey has ts 1 J. J ex- ex I mo Ille iS Isolation la on for Cor nine forty ye years rs About sixteen thousand tisa people oh on 1 S tills this former 1 reservation reservation have nave wait waited d den two twenty two en ty-t ty r years rs for r transportation 01 tra n s JJ is notwithstanding lg the fact fact that Hilt tl many thousands i left rt in iii that i flue le because so they il did not o t o contend i viti vitt- disadvantages vanta es ve we c f nave lave ave that distance anti antt bad had roads loads slake now railroad ad to ia There Is now n a I C 3 dar dal City Cily a and id a railroad has operated oper oper- jJ- jJ aCed iced for Cor mafi many many t years rs through gh county t a and ll on l 19 4 le Utah t needs this large i body bolly of land Iund and U peso eo rh rivers Thc They mean Bonne health v stability progress s. s 13 Ia u it not it ot time tinge that pmt oui our law liw irs r g and 11 big hig ig men of our state tat should find Dar a D away asay way say whereby we wc may secure ono one good ocd auto anto and truck track r road over U tip th thi i Va h ah range l This ibis lis would mea mean IT I Immediate growth here hero and al all tre tro lands finds now 1 Q provided ed with chen cheap water Vo J bo he The Tite great ob- ob would be he solved Air maker Law rr rh mak r and aoel c yon you men n n ol of oC Ih financial and ami inte force force- iu is fur dur tate state does this not demand ou serious consideration consid rat This This is riot not written wi ry T j y joint action ac ae- tion iOn of co communities or 01 t pmt But four tOli pap papers rs our Ui ah h In hein ein nl n l aers rs b believe lieve it i is worthy t r ii l' l ing ng A number of stores 9 on Oil this road rond question on have hav been printed By Dy ly many years of as association fn in Husi- Husi ne neeS s and public affairs the th the write writer knows he lie he lieis heIs Is expressing tho the desire of f his fellow feIlo citizens as n a rule |