Show Richest 0 band t I 1 1 A ALn ln i tb 1 le- le leest W est i t. t J D Denver nver n i- i s the Uinta Basin Due 1 Credit o Ji J. JB B. B j i Malin Maling i g Tells Tell elIs q of tJi the V Wonderful l DeY Development ment lt That That r WillS Will i S I o t t. t 5 a. a J Take Place Here 7 Y r D Den Denver ncr cr Ren PPl Republican l The 1 h e Uinta basin I do not hesitate to say is the richest unoccupied land in the United States said J James B. B Haling Maling of Steamboat Springs at the Shirley hotel yesterday But there must be a railroad there and there is going to be he not noton on only ly one but a anum number ber of railroads rail railroads roads built into tile the old reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- reserva- reserva tion in a comparatively short hort time There are arc already settlers in the Uinta basin continued Mr 1 Haling Maling There are under the ditch acres of Df the finest land on earth divided divided di di- vided about equally between government and pr private vate enter enter- prise Uncle has Sam has built huilt miles of uIa plain main l waterways er and Ind laterals and individuals have e done about the same The government oYer ment appropriated appropriate 00 to irrigate ate about acres of land for the Indians Indian and a alread already re acres r es Have lave been jeen irrigated and the appropriation appropriation has lias not been exhaust exhaust- lust lust- ed d. d The liThe basin hasin is in ill the form of 1 n horseshoe three sides sides' being being- surrounded by mountain rang rang- es s. s On all three there is a tremendous tre- tre ous snowfall sno during the thc t winter r and d. d t the ie wi water drains down the mountains from three directions to a common point The he Duchesne river flowing from the Wasatch range auge on the west to the Grand river on the east is the main water Yater course Into the Duchesne flow the Uintah Dry F Fork rk Strawberry Antelope and other rivers and amid numerous creeks s. s The volume of water flowing across the bar basin tI is so so great that there is rip no necessity for for impounding or conserving ng it The average altitude is 1800 f feet et in the basin and and the season season season seas seas- on opens in April closing closing- in November TI Thc greatest nce need for water is in June and then the streams are high highest st affording afford afford- ii ing g an abundance Timothy is cut in J June unc making the season season O one le of the time earliest liest in the thc country coun conn- try rv for this crop For quantity and quality 1 y of all rill of its it products products' the Uinta bas s I In Iii onions for fot i stai e it can match the t 1 hest best th that t Texas can show Inthe Inthe In the fruit line linel would say that that one has fh R what Grand J Junction unction and an P Palisades Palisade are doing doing do do- I ing to know wl what I t the Uinta basin can do Alfalfa Ua Ifa sugar ii f beets potatoes the Hie grains and nud in short anything grown own ii in inthe in the temperate zone except the c citrus rus fruits are adaptable and indeed most of them theist arc are being grown grown ro n. i The rime rai raising ing of silk worms warms in the vicinity of Vernal a Mormon town which is the largest t in the basin has grown to he be quite an nn industry I nt nu- nu t tOne one farmer at Vernal who has I trees full of f silk worms The Mormons ha have been heen in that tha I country for fifty years but its isolation from the railroad has made it so nearly inaccessible that scarcely any but the people who live there know anything about it That fact that there are arc a quarter trillion million acres o of i irrigated land head and intelligent intel intel- settlers there without a railroad creates a condition un umi- in the history of the time I development de of the V West Vest c t. t it flIt baffles the imagination im to tc conceive e that while it is possible pos PS- sible for Stillwell to build aline i iline a aline line across Mexico to the Gulf Gul of California for the Grand Grant Trunk Pacific to build across the Arctic circle to Prince Rupert Rupert Ru Ru- pert a and andI l. l for or the Western Pacific Pa Pa- C and aud time the St. St Ira Paul ll to connect con COll- the Nisso Missouri ri r river cr with the f Pacific coast b by new lines JUnes no road seems to be he able to reach the Uinta basin the gr greatest test treasure hot house se of allBut all But the thc Moffat road will get there one oue day clay mark 1113 my word And I 1 want to say that Denver Dell cannot aid too much in hastening hastening hastening hasten hasten- ing the day Even now there are mutterings of other roads from both east cast and west that will Avill divert at least temporarily ily the vast ast riches of th the basin to Missouri l river points anc and elsewhere elsewhere N li g. g id d-id to Maling did not t touch u upon ron the fact that there are tremendous tremendous tremendous dous fields of gilsonite ite asphalt and the newly discovered dis dis- covered e in the basin The latter is a recent discovery discover and has hns been found by the most expert chemists in New NewYork NewYork NewYork I York to be a valuable ent eat for the rubber mixture used to manufacture automobile tires and to be bc put to a hundred other other other oth oth- er uses As a 1 final nal test tires made with the new discovery disco as asa asa asa a principal ingredient have been placed on oti eight taxicabs in N New w York So far has lias been found only in the Uinta basin hasin Haling Maling believes that if Denver Denver Den Den- ver were the first large larg-e city to tobe tobe tobe be placed in direct railroad communication com com- I with the Uinta hasin has bas basin in it would result in the a addition addition addi addi- di- di tion tion of people to this city as new residents He lIe believes belies s that the citizens of this city city- arc are too lukewarm over the achievements achieve ments already made by the builders of the Moffat 1 road and ancI I that the greatest empire on the theline theline theline line is yet ret ahead but hut that it may be ue lost to Den Denver Dener er if the Mount Moffat road is not the first to reach it a. |