Show Basin Railroad Gets Financial Assistance Tile fUe DUCHESNE DUCHES E COURIER Duchesne Utah Gentlemen No o doubt you ou have e noted that the State of Utah has take official notice of the time efforts of the time Uintah Basin to get gt a u railroad by b appropriating the sum stun of r five iye thousand dollars for the Uintah Basin Dasin Railroad League We Ye are arc glad that realization has conic come that the 1 fight ht to get et a railroad must be made now that otherwise there ma may be setup set setup up such uch le legal al barriers harriers that we may never uel ue l' l get et n through h railroad however er desirable such a n road ma may be in the future antl however ripe our need mayhe mayhe may maybe he be It ma may well be lie considered in the future that the most useful appropriation ap- ap appropriation appropriation ap ap- made h by the recent Legislature Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature was wn this one item that more good will come to the whole state of Utah from it than from any other thin thing The thanks of the people of the Basin Basin Basin Ba Ba- sin are due to Mr 1 It n E. E Miller who to 0 have hae first thought of the idea of or a 1 legislative appropriation to Hr e Dart who got ot the item into nto the general appropriations and watched ched it so o carefully throughout the session to Speaker Hacking and President President Pres- Pres ident Dillman Dittman who used their influence influence influence ence for It to Secretary Welling and Harden Bennion Reunion who urged the appropriation appropriation appropriation upon the Legislature as an as investment to protect the holdings of the time state of Utah to Mrs Irs Captain Stephen Abbot of Salt Lake who worked for it and to Uintah Basin citizens who worked for it The writer riter is convinced that if the people veople of the Uintah Basin persist in inthe inthe inthe the struggle le that the they will at least preserve their legal rights to get a railroad and will get one Yours truly HORACE HORACE w. w Yo SHELEY Chairman Uintah Basin Basin naS n Railroad Lea League ue |