Show enough hard work wor k now will bring railroad says pioneer business man R S collett pioneer business man and booster for the uintah basin dasin was a business visitor in vernal on wednesday mr coll collett ett just recently returned from en an extended trip back east and reports business and industrial conditions as most premising M mr r C collett ollett spent some time in st louis visiting with friends he ile was in 11 washington ashington for three weeks attending to business affairs during his trip mr collett reports a long interview with united states senator lawrence C phipps of colorado who ie is one cf of the bond holders of the moffat tunnel he reports mr phipps as being beking very enthusiastic over the potential resources of the uintah basin and of being very anxious to lo see the con rum matlon of our dream of a rail road mr collett aleo also bad the eriv liege of lengthy conferences with general freeman receiver of the moffat railroad and with mr derger a st louis capitalist who Is actively interested in the extension of ot the railroad through the basin dimin mr collett feels after the assurance given him by these gentlemen that the opportune time for the building of the basin railroad is at hand but he admonishes us not to sit idly by and let lot rival interests defeat our prospects a at t the only time when they have shown shon evidence of materializing we cannot he sald too greatly emphasize the necessity for concerted and vigorous action from every available source of power within our command to oppose the ranting granting of a certificate of convenience and necessity for the construction of the thel cutoff if we want to insure the basin NOT having a railroad then meekly set by and allow that certificate to be granted by the interstate commerce Commet ce commission and we have shut tight the door to railroad construction in the aln tab tah basin mr air collett returned to the hill creek oil shale fields on thursday where he has a force of men doing development work |