Show mutual interests EDITOR EXPRESS it does not take a long head to discover at the first glance that the entire reservation country has interests uncommon in common that whether it be theodore myton or roosevelt that take a step in the direction of enterprise and progress that it will benefit their entire section proportionally neither does it take a long head long to discover that really vernal although located in another county and outside of the reservation proper is nearer by far to theodore The edore than the county seat across the mountain range which seven m nintha ninths out of twelve is impassable and t lat from the ashley valley principally this thia part of the reservation will have to look for its supply for some time to come all this may seem paradoxical to those who have not studied the situation geographically but to those who have wintered it here it is as plain as the daylight day light that this sentiment is general throughout this part of the reservation was evinced by the past that two representatives were sent to vernal to advocate an extension of the telephone line to this place direct and as the case may be to connect with the mainline main line it is a pleasure to note the prompt response to this thia proposition by the ver na ria lites who evidently soon discovered the benefits which eventually would accuro to both towns by building the line the enterprise being now likely to materialize there can be but little doubt that shareholders in the company will not wa wait it many years before a large dividend will be realized it is difficult to conceive of any proposition which promises greater certainty of financial success the report read at mass meet ing fully outlined the intention of the company to take in all of the most important points on the reservation with an outlet at the nearest and most moat practicable point there are in contemplation two outlets both of which have been mentioned by the writer in a A former article in tho the Ek express press the outlet via indian canyon has this great and essential advantage that the road readia is hard with a comparatively easy grade an be kept open the entire year at a t jail aall expense and is shorter while tl tle the e sn n atut nit road possesses but few of these sumitr if the th cost of building eee two roar road from theodore to the main 5 to I 1 that while only 1 I 1 line ime Is as will but baiad id the e line to the nearest owe via indian canyon connecting i near elliou ranch on willow creek it would tike take fully to make the road from here to the summit would have to cross the strawberry river wenty twenty times in a distance of forty miles the writer is not interested one way or the other but would like to see the time coming when the present dreary isolation may cease with the moffat road in operation the new mail and telephone line established direct there is ia no reason why vernal on the east and theodore on the west should not make the two great centers of northeast utah theodore feb 7 1907 VERITAS |