Show CHEOR LAND IN THE ial 31 denver republican gives the tha basin due credit I 1 J B mall malano I 1 lulls ells ot of wonderful development tha will talc tae place here den denver er republican the uintah basin I 1 do no not t hesitate to say eay Is the richest unoccupied lana in the united states said james B baling of steamboat springs at the shirley hotel yesterday but there must be a railroad there and there la Is going to be not only one but a number of railroads built into the old reservation in a comparatively short time there are already settlers in the uinta uenta basin continued mr maling there are under the ditch acres of the finest land on earth divided about equally between government and private enterprise undo sam has haa built miles of maln main waterways and laterals literals late rals and individuals have done about the same the government appropriated to irrigate about acres of land for the indians indiana and already aires have been irrigated and the appropriation has not been exhausted tho the basin Is in the form of a horseshoe three sides being surround ed cd by mountain ranges on all three there Is a tremendous snowfall during the winter and the water drains down the mountains from three directions to a common point the duchesne river flowing from the wasatch range on the west to the braud river on the east la is the main water course into the diu h flow the uintah dry fork straw berry antelope and other rivers and numerous creeks the volume of water flowen flowing across the basin Is so great that there Is no necessity tf i i i eding if i Is 4 sou fo ni tile he sa omi J u i water Is in juru junt j L are arc highest at af f an abundance timthy Is cut la in june making the season one of the earliest in the country for this crop kor quantity and quality of all i its ita products the uinta basin IF IE tilt t wiled in onions for instance it taa i tui matan ignaten the best that texas can a iw in the fruit line I 1 would sa sav r it i t ono one has haa only to seo what grand junction and palisade Pal leade are doln doing g to know what tho the uinta basin can do alfalfa sugar beets potatoes the grains and in short anything biown la in the temperate zone except the citius fruits are adaptable and in davd most of them are being grown groin the rho raising of silk worms in the v oatt f ot 01 ntina li mormon towi Is IR th li ath in the basin baale late krown to t b aft quite an indu industry str 1 nut milt une um fuad nt at vernal who has trees full of EM ellk worms the nor mor mons have haie been in that country for fitly fifty 10 os o but iti 10 isolation fiora the rail lond one has alade it so nearly in accessible access accas able sable thit scarce scarcely v any but the people nho live hie there know any anything thin liba about lit it that tact fact that there are J f r million acres of irrigate bifid I 1 ml jad intelligent sett settled leri thie without ralli oid creates i i 1 unparalleled unparallel led in the history bistor of the development of the west it baffles the imagination to con cehe that while it Is 18 possible for ell to build a line across mexico to the gulf of california for the grand trunk pacific to build the arctic circle to hupert and for the western pacific biml the st paul to connect the missouri Misso url river with the pacific coast by new lines no road seems to be tule to reach the uinta basin the cutest leascie house of all but 10 ta lo moffat rond road will get there one day mark my word and I 1 want ant to say that denver demer cannot aid too much in hastening the day even now there are mutterings rings of other oth er roads from both east cast and west est that will ill flirt rt nt at least temporarily tho the vast rahi rk hi of the basin to river its and elso elsewhere here mating NIt did not touch upon the fact abut ha there ta are tremendous fields 0 gilsonite asphalt and th 01 appia n red argillite arsu argul lUto lite lu in the ohp te re litter ts fl reve t tit U 1 pip nd ILI by tt ti vip t chemists in new york to i bk ingredient for cyp tv ra r to tract bac r TO I 1 11 I 1 ti I 1 id d tr to n ri t n red re other aher aos As a ional final te test t tir tin mid fth rf th the th VOW discovery lery a principal ingredient have been placed on en clait taxicabs cabs in new vaili so far argul argillite lite hai had bt tell on found only in the uinta basin milling bellovia that it if dennar yere were the first large city c tty to bo be placed in ill direct railroad communication kith ith the ulilla basin it would result in tho the addition of 50 people to this 3 city it as neu ne residents lift belie bellewes bel leies es that the citizens of thit city are too lukewarm luko lukeR warm arni oer the a ill al ready made by the builders of the moffat load and that the greatest empire on the line is IB yet ahead but that it may be lost to denver if tho the moffat road Is not the first to reach it |