Show 0 OIL oll IL VS agriculture N M 10 years ago was a yi ti riving oil town of persons today the tho town can boast of inhabitants greatly e expanded expand ed facilities and enormous taxes for the remaining citizens r thin illin wah was an fill example cited by V E peterson equity oil co geologist when lle ho spoke before business and civic lenders leaders two weeks ago rii iri in the field house he cautioned the londers loaders of vernal venial to bo be careful in their planning for oil at best lie sald said the oil workers even should the dahlly field prove to bo be of giant proportions are arc migratory once a field ilas lias been drilled the texas oklahoma and wyoming workers will be off to other fields the tiie desirability of having a large oil field BO so close to venial vernal is great A great deal more money in circulation will mean nican large quantities of business that otherwise would never iid brer hyer bo be received expansion n in living accommodations would be necessary but to take care of migratory workers mainly the possibility of much oil does docs offer opportunities yet on oil the other hand the caution of mr air peterson could be heeded to good advantage over expansion of facilities would be extremely extremely expensive expensive e j construction of echo park dam in contrast would bring permanent dwell dwellers emt to uintah basin more afore land lana would be placed under cultivation quantities Quan guan tite titi es of electrical power would make the phosphates business boom some som 0 land which ilas lias insufficient water at the present time would 1 i A A i n i i i mi llave have additional water to make the land more efficient the recreational possibilities would be enormous agriculture is the backbone of the areas area s economy and it will continue tb be residents should plan for possibilities biliti bili ties cs of oil and carfin certainly nl y reer recreation catlon cation but should always re member rne ine m C er the lle lie caution of people who have w i t n e s s e d 0 i L boo huo in a in ill other areas ONE NE CENT SALES TAX A movement is under way across the state to ask the new llew legislature to enact a law all ail allowing owing a one cent municipal and county sales tax to aid the smaller branches eminent with their administrative expenses vernal and uintah county officials meeting 0 recently J ill lil hithe the city office explained that if the recommendation is made into law the state will require retailers to collect th three ree roe cent cents s on each dollar purchase the money would be collected by the state tax eoll corm commission assion then one third of the amount collected would be returned turned cd back to city and state gov ern ments the loc loe local al officials were apparel apparently antly in favor of th the e statewide state wide move one elec clec elected electea ted tea officer opined at the prese arese present n t time tim Q bil all JJ of the enormous tax load is is carried locally by land lana owner owners high paid workers by not being property owners escape esca pe the tax t ax load de spite this they received the same fire and police protection and have llave use of the same samer roads and their children go to the same schools sas as those citizens who wilo pay all the faicol axes ancs f officials agreed it would be good to have help heip from those workers reduction of property taxes if made possible sales tax would be 1 highly desirable thoy they Li greed agreed r reduction of bany any tax it seems to us its would be desirable abie able if the sales salt tax would make it possible to help pra property P erty own owners ers it would be a good move yet let us remember the purpose behind the new tax tak to id raise money for local gov governments c 11 because the they ydo do no not t have enough money it is not being advocated to give tax reli reil relief efto to property owners more afore money is needed need edIt it is felt by those who advocate theone the one cent sales tax that expense expenses s of local g govern sovern avem ment should be bom by transient worker and tourist his fis as we well weil as property owner H M bieck Bleck blackhurst hurst kurst abbi aisi general of mak mah try and I 1 jr farmers ermers T coif inar and best leeds sim JIM intermor inter mou sint towee S AS ais that reed feed bricea ve liis loon kabe bit cit their corn and barley have advanced the he pt past week aie ale aleace with eon een bertern ra lwe a te barted 1 otoo emed amed series tes teb heavy ie feeding of eattle eue and sheep future wwade treads ia IB faed feed he be up |