| Show strawberry route to salt q a lake favored at hearing held at vernal tuesday 11 T 11 HINING IT VT 1 R 13 1 arv ill boits 1 I TIE STR 11 biml kolta 14 4 MOST LOGIC VL IL t a hearing bold ft at the county cou court rt house tuesday morning br by the utah P public utilities commission A compromise comp romle be affected between the sterling transportation cot company pay see eking king a franchise to salt lake and I 1 he individual trucking concern concerns ot of tie ile basin seeking a to price under the terms of the compromise the he sterling company i w will III operate between salt lake and vernal and the basin companies ill operate between price and ernal president elmer E cortman of the commil solon who with alth commis contrails loner stoner thomas E mckay both of 8 salt a it lake ity had charge of 0 the hearing in brief told the parties to the irea that the meeting wag being held at N emal strause the were ot of the that the moat most direct information could be obtained from the people living in the bashiri and acquainted with its transportation problems benator A B irvins of the firm of f irvine skeen and thurman of io salt lake city representing the application of the sterling company proposed that inasmuch as there were two route routes to the railroad to ithe the west that all the franchises with the exception of the sterling transportation por port tation atlon company be withdrawn he further suggested that a cepres tentative lenta tive party of the price vernal i route draft an application appl catlon for a tran ran achl ahlee which whick could be used by all the parties interested in this mute route that a corporation be formed la in or der to secure the franchise under this arrangement the route from vernal to duchesne Duche sEe a distance of 65 amiles I 1 mile will be served by both tran fran 4 chalees h imes mr irvine said that the parties were not in a position to submit ralles at the present time but mould have them ready tor for the adjourned meeting to be held within the next few weeks he lie sa said 4 that I 1 the freight would be classified and that rates would be fixed according to the class of the article transport ed d the senator eald said that the ster ling ung company auld eire give one of 0 the best test services that could be bad for the money that loudl en enco courne diversification of crois cros as bad had for the money that they baila wo ila depended on one oae crop system of farming and that the company would not jonly aa encourage divers fled tied farming but would make it a reality several set oral persons from vernal I 1 Rait Robt velt duchesne ani price testified as to the need of the two routes A theodore johnson president of the county farm bureau said that the land of the blein was as prodoc produce I 1 five tive as any auy in the state that bund reds of sheep wk a being shipped out of the bisin fo to be fattened became cala e they could not be driven out after being fattened here that there were stacks and stacks of bay laying unused in n the basin which could be sed for this purpose I 1 arar ip r tation could be provided he lie bald said 1 that hat livestock bad had to be held until a way could be found to chip ship them I 1 cut and in almost every case thel the animals ate their heads off before they could be placed on the markot mr johnson said there was scarcely a farmer mho could afford to stay on his farm the year round becaas of the lack of transportation to ret get the returns on hie his chopi ile said sald that farming ais is the big thing tor for j country and the big problem vias as not so mich ich what could be raised as it was whit what could be shipped oat out J W bastian of ashley A DC de mar dudley of jennen I 1 eroy leroy car roll of mateer L it goodrich good rich or of aples an I 1 1 11 horrocks of I 1 ernal all officers emot of the farm bureau bloke rry favorably of the proposed ruu through the strawberry to S lake and were partial to the R ling transportation co company wany th i aleo also stated that the price ron ro ai would be ar nd 30 ar i TJ giving awn diw outlets to the ILIN th ohp hid had the greated i f f I 1 tl continued on pa e 8 tt TO S SILT 1 LIKI 1110 tm CITI loigu lOI FU IT lib III biltl MG N G lit 11 IT T I V IL continued from page 1 farmers under their jurisdiction and found them to be of at the same opinion I 1 attorney A N alt of duchesne representing the business busl nese men ot of that city strongly endorsed the granting of 0 the franchise to the sterling transportation company matt mott gillmore of price spoke ot of the advantages of 0 the price route and that the people ot of price desired the basin trade but would not stand in the way ay ot of anything which would be tor for the basin a betterment E peterson county farm agent spoke ot of the lack ot of transportation aa a it limiting factor in the develop ament ot of the basin a resources lie ile said he had visited the country east and west vest ot of the basin but had never found a more ideal isec tiou for hog raising than the uintah basin just as soon as adequate transportation ie Is provided the basin will be shipp bt to the markets hundreds ot at carloads car loaia of hoes hogs annually he ile said tie tle strawberry route was aas juat just as feasible as the price route as an outto for or the basin J P may of 0 roosevelt gave some very interesting data on the irrigation i aton project ot at the basin and the land under each project he lie the he need at 0 a tran storia alon for basin produce to the railroad and to a good market the hearing was adjourned until the of july when rates will have been submitted and the fran allees will vill be granted on the two tao routes the basin companies were ere 1 scented by attorneys thos IN 0 don nell dell and ray E dillman with the inauguration of the new freight line between vern il and salt lake city and intermediate points and a fleet of trucks to take care ot of the products Dro ducts ot of the farms arms and to transport them to the markets with mith speed and safety if it will III be the biggest thing short of 0 a railroad that could come to the uintah basin undoubtedly stations tat lons will ill be maintain ed along the route by the sterling company where freight will be re calved for im shipment at all imes times ot of the day the large trucks hlll III be loaded promptly and deliver their goods to the destination on schedule time the basin will be getting an express service to tho the f capitol of our state on a freight scale even on railroads it would be impossible to get euch such rapid service by freight already farmers are beginning to make plans for the fattening ot of live stock to ship out over the new route this fall larger crops will be planted for next season and an era of net hope will gradually spread over the basin farmers who have heretofore had to leave their fertile farms and go to mining camps to make a few dollars on which to k kep keip their famines families supplied with the necessities essi ties of life will cow now be able to remain at their homes the rising young agriculturist trained and schooled in the state agricultural I 1 lc school h oo 00 I 1 w will III come back to the basin and cast hia his lot rather than wander ft it as bonnery ton forr nery to greener and more I 1 rem remunerative cunera uve fields |
