| Show good road to 10 vernal though 1 if costs bouses p F C richmond president ot of thel the commercial club has returned from the uinta basin town ile he said th the u trip watt was most moat successful E B 0 howard vice president ot of walker brothers Ii bankers ankers has also returned front from the trip ile he said the possibilities of the uinta basin have never been realized by salt lake all 11 a ot of the party have not as yol yet returned yesterday mr richmond issued tho the following statement the size and fertility of the uinta basin were a revelation to me it was my first trip and while I 1 had heard a groat great deal about that suction auction I 1 do not think that the possibilities have halt been told it is an empire I 1 it itself with thousands of acres of tho the most fertile land under cultivation and with possibility ls Is of hundreds of thousands of other acres being placed under cultivation it Is my iny opinion that it will only be a matter of 0 a few years when salt lake will consider it as one of its main trading points even now I 1 believe the salt lake merchants should seek business there more energetically the country Is so HO vast tast that it must be seen to be appreciated and to see the entire basin would take at least two weekes time the agricultural possibilities are almont unlimited there la is great wealth in timber minerals coal and other resources left undeveloped the greatest need ot of the uinta basin at this time is good wagon roads and it Is my opinion and the opinion of every man who to Is acquainted with mth that section that good roads should be built by the state irrespective of cost there Is an empire thea there without It bout transportation por tation facilities and it la Is a positive pity that the people in that section have not been given first class roads roada so that they could move their products in and out with less hardships and expense evell though chiye b highways I 1 g eways cost coat several hundred th thou bund nd doll dollars it would pay tile state to do it because it would permit development of tho the largest known agricultural district in fit our state it if not in the entire western estern country surely the twenty live five thousand people who live in that seti oll are entitled to highways which would permit them to got products to market and to receive such supplies as are nee from the outside in ni nii opinion a rall roid can bu be hullt built into tho the basin as soon as aa there la is an la in commercial affairs after the war mar A section of this klud kind grow without attracting tile the audition attention of 0 railroad |
