Show on OUR idl 0 n 91 the farmers of the diamond mountain region have now an organization of which ernest drnest eaton Is president john F P glines vice president wm win F alanson secretary and treasurer from secy W F ilan iian son we learn that interested farmers will be called together soon tor for the purpose of electing officers for or the coming year there are already over a hundred homestead filings on the mountain aagre aggregating 9 abing acres of land that will soon be used by the farmers of that region it Is claimed that there are about acres of jl land that will be taken by the andio anxious is home seeker in the early spring not only are the people from this valley and state grasping this opportunity t ten get valuable homes home offered by tie the government but many from other states are on these lands the country la is close to he file timber and the building of houses bouses fences stables etc is made an easier and quicker possibility the vernal rock springs road cuts cuta through the heart of the country and when finished will give quick transportation to either point from brush creek a quarter of a mile of the heaviest dugway on the road Is completed at a cost of about 2000 as follows 1100 by the sheep meen by the farmers and by the county it to Is estl esti mated by E L oakes county road commissioner who had the w work ark in charge that the work Is about halt half finished to the top of the mountain and it Is expected it will be completed early f in n the spring it Is hoped that work ork from vernal to brush creek will bo be started also as early as the ground can be worked and that soon after the snow is gone automobiles will travel the road when completed the ver nal mountain road will be the finest and also the scenic road of the tha county an even grade Is being made wide enough for teams or cars cara to pass at any point people who travel to the mountain now can hardly imagine a large car going up on the intermediate gear but watch them next summer bummer it if the state should take this thia road over and push it to the county line on the north to be met there by a road from rock springs it would give us one of the finiest outlets for or our ur crops the value to the stock industry and to the coming dry farm indus try can hardly be realized except by those who have traveled the al rost impassable trail roads we no now have when the road la Is finished its it value to uintah county will be great when we recall the fact that many ot of the farmers on diamond mountain last summer averaged ef ag a conservative figure 20 bushels of wheat 30 to 40 bushels of batir with large patches of 0 the binon peas find and other garden truck in the fico face of the driest winter we have had for years without one bit of tion will the country not soon be IL valuable asset to county J W the dry farm arm ex ot of the state agricultural college 19 enthusiastic over the country and has visited it twice and has honea of coming back next season some of the farmers now haye nave land prepared and will plant their crops under his direction through the local arm organization headed by our mr air witwer altwer the farmers are enthusiastic over the tha marquis spring wheat which la Is v ailing eld ing so well there however some ilone will try peas and barley for local I 1 fattening of lambs and hogs ahe the organization will be called together gether tn often to discuss its problems and every one who intends intend to farm there should be present she T the methods are different from those ot of the lower irrigated lands special effort will be made to have all present when mr and cu agent wlter wither visit the district it is expected that as soon as the road to Is finished many will visit friends on the mountain in their cars and that many of the ummer rummer r outings will be made to dia roond mountain |