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Show 8 THE IIERxVLD-REPUBLICA- B as in TT U JLJLJX, Ji.iL K SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1915 N, MMfMMS WEALTIH LfflES HJMTOL ALLEY AMI) 1" Equally as Rich in Scenery as in Natural Wealth, for the Beauty of Its Precipitous Walls and Fantastic Moun- Abounding in Fertile Lowlands, Its Farms Produce a Variety of Crops, While in Minerals It Possesses Coal, Gilsonite, Copper and Most of the h Uranium and Vanadium of the United States. 7'J. S4 - e field nrrf Kofdew tipped ttltk Koliirn tnarltriS and K I the crrrn f t!ie- etrlrelln Mil. rKt f Trrnal K lory.The iuMn Man. mm AM 1 1 lt!i ttui beautift: picture him that the S'juaw man of Kdwtn Milton !.ryl returned to his hom In th beautiful Uintah I aiin. for It was tbTe tfc.it th plot of this n.j.v far famed story was lie!. Th spt in ; ' Tfc haae If S ' r stry town of In thl short distance frnm th nal, th mtropo!h rf the basin, who ram upon th .ve Ver- itt ar.. I : pt in nam h t t If frywhrf wI-com- n-- e. j t the to thern te"mtl the most apprnprl th spring flowers had for prune; up. btddir.K the tr.ivIr Hut thr ar th far mnr this town than fiction to tl of Vernl nnd th ro untry adfa.-rr.thereto, fame, alt. tush nthwa f. pl.- itI "who very floor thtt f it. Th town . taim Know hut liftl ft rteht for a bright nark on th mi? f)f th stat if for t othr reason than thil tt wat th" ftrt of th sitThoo! cf towns of t h stat t hav pavd rt rets. And the jnvfrnrrt laid thre In a rather crtid way a '.f.i.irf r f 3 l tn ai rno'l ami rntury ago as mch of that Jald in the town At a later ptStJ an. I by larger mor modern r n MnrXT.UX or A MM I ALT. In this, however, th town f Vr-n- l hat th advantasr. for nar at hai ! a Is mountain of asphalt n.ttnc only man to rome and take It for h: own Tt it of th-- ' fort known at fand .ph if t rfl all ttiat is put it in a It to plarr- it In hot wnlr f"w minnt,t. apply it to th rth ani Toll it smooth. Ther iiro no ripnsive the, springtime, .'...'vv J:r.viv hut i r. tT V . , , , .. s.,, v ... .... . s. .s , N , , - .f - .. t"- -" r v --- kW. fv . Wvi.vil&S'.sJl.V - . B7 r ---- r- v-j f. proved. nh-tant- c tf p-- . SCREEN Nature has supplied the Uintah basin with everything needed by man.f Hunting is a great sport there, and the tipper photo shows a cub bea;; which strayed from its irother and was captured by sportsmen. The other upper view shows one of Vernal's splendidly paved streets laid more than twenty years ago. The autos are those of the Salt Lake Commercial club boosters on their recent trade trip to the basin. Lower picture, one of the many, cliffs of red sandstone which line the highways through the basing star-dinlike sentinels at the entrance to the valley. t - ur-.i-. g ro-i- by man to mak; himself a home and a t i v i n if. Tor the mountains and valleys of the t'intah basin are nothing legs than still locked prt.it natural storehouses, with the padloek of nature but easy to open for him who their treasure-. There are minerals of every sort, iron, copper and coal predomiand nating. Taerc i: timber for homesacres firewood. Ther are acres atul of land for agricultural purposes which cannot be surpassed and there pre streams of clear, pure water to Klve of . iia im: life to the growing things and the abound in wild and s :. - atti Iajet .'r.f tit asphalt rui r matrhit Vrnat, th lflhl i?ir.:t!y on the rarth. whhh had prepare ! only ty rolling It fiat n.i hy thit tn'hod it hat outlasted murh of the. more espnalve and inor later paveni'-nt.tN'ot only ar the Ktreett of Vernal paved wit this material hut almost everyone hat paved hit hark yard with It. The farmer haw tited it to make floors for the barnt nnd stable and for their eorraht and the city hat ue,i Jt for pldewiilk.t. There la a mountain of th material t hand and despite It - : hn th-tre- t valleys hilltops same. Kveryth'.nt: in fact that man re'i'iires is within this crreat natural storehouse and but little of it has been taken. In addition to th''se various commodities there alsc is a mineral known as cilsonite. so named from the man who first mad use of it. a. mineral not found anywhere eise in the world, and which is the only known successful substitute for rubber in the mak-inof articles in wh!-elasticity is not ii requisite. The basin Is truly an empire In Its Mf. for within the boundaries of Its lofty rim 2o,0o persona could live alone and apart from the world for years and years without the necessity of call'.nc on the outside for help. With the ordinary modern day means of communication and modes of transportation and travel it could held a million persons and none would be crowded for for the necessaries of space or ia-if h tather extenttve use hy th people rf Vernal and th amount taken at fompr,t with the amount remain-ivh-Inlt- y n tt A it ssnal'. xati itAi. sTtmi;iioi:. nr many The mountain of atpbnlt nal, however, i only one of th Ver- wonders of this vast inland empire in the eastern part of t'tah. of whS. h o little- it known even ty peopl of falt Iake. for in that ha sin it contained almost everything needed by man. It would t"m jus though the Go. of the universe after havintt caused this basin to b formed with a rim, nowHere lower than an altitude of friO exeept-J- n at U irer. Iilver Rorpre. whi-- h man cannot travel, realize the diffimen would encounter in culty which In and out of this Immense valley and therefor provided storehoutet well supplied with everything needed k - lire. STATISTICS ON Till; r 4V far-fame- r th- wealth for man. Mother Nature did not forget that man must have some pleasures, and so made room for these. In nil the west there Is not to be found a more beautiful and picturesque country than the Uintah basin, and nowhere Is ttiere such a richness of natural color in the rocks and cliffs of the mountains of the valley. Natural wonders d are everywhere and the Garden of the Gods of Colorado, which attracts thousands of tourists annually, fades into insignificance when compared with the beauties of the Uintah basin. Dotted through the valley along ttye main traveled highways are little natural parks set deep In the earth and surrounded by walls of red sandstone formed in fantastic and grotesque shapes. WIMI.TH OI" SCn.THY. To the lover of this sort of natural beauty and scenery there Is a wealth at hand, enough to keep him traveling days and days, and each evening beholding tiie shadows drawing over the mesas and plateaus in colors which no artist has yet been talented enough to of portray faithfully. The purple haze the desert is here and mingled with the bright red tf the rocky cliffs brings forth a picture unlike any in all the world. And each night it is Just a little bit different than the preceding one. balanced rocks of gigantic proportions can be seen on all Pldes. In the bottom lands are miles and miles of forests of straight trunked, white barked trees. These forests shelter hundreds of deer and elk with now and then a bear, an Ideal hunter's paradise, while the pretty little canyon streams which flow everywhere teem with trout. The open plains are the home of thousands and thousands of wild birds. Including a goodly supply of grouso and sage hens. The basin Is complete and the man who goes there vants for nothing, even to the pleasures of the wild. The basin until ten years ago was IIASIN. The Uintah basin is ICO miles lor.p by seventy miles wide, containing 8400 square miles of land, or 5,376.000 acres, and of this amount more than 00.000 acres are tillable. l!ut in all this broad expanse of territory there ara only 27. ) souls, or just about three persons to the square acre. It. it in providing all these mores of APPARATUS WEARING NEW SHIPWRECKED CAN SURVIVE LONG TIME LHT:-SAVIN- G t r. I it - , ... .... - : V t , f. - X J . 7 , - VN ,. T - "'" v .yv i '- - r--": v - u. . a Ik. - STATE THE I Kstlmated, 'Movies.' Attend Daily There are now 18,000 motion picture houses In the country. The cfallv attendance is estimated at 15,000,000 and the nickels and dimes that the girls tn the glass cages receive aggregate $1,000,000 a day. The number of theatres is probably decreasing, but the volume of attendance isn't, and the receipts are growing. The trend la towards the construction of bigger houses and the elimination of many of movie is with the smaller. The us to stay, but not in so large numbers. With the sudden riseofof any industry thousands of employing hundreds into its service the bringing people, actors of the speaking stage, great into tens of millions of dollars mildrawing a new investment, and taking in lion dollars a day in. cash, it is nota that the theatre has felt surprising The theatrical business last shock. "was In a condition of paralysis year which attacked from this competition, to Times it from country cross-road- s has recovered its Square. The stage confidence. The and ahead with big producers are going assurtheir big productions in serene ance that all's well again. The reception the old and new plays are getting shows the soundness of their Judgment. The people are going to the theatres, as thev used to go before the movie struck, and they are going toa cyclone the movies too. They are spending million dollars a day for movie amusement, without any great curtailment, it now appears, in their expenditure for theatrical amusement. The millionis aa Isn't all added income. There day reduction in expenditure somewhere. Who, then, is the loser by the wideof permanent popularity spread and and wholesome form of enthis cheap tertainment? Syracuse The driest place in the world is that, of Egypt between the two portion lower falls of the Nile. Rain has never bean known to fall there. self-possessi- on -- an Indian reservation, eet apart by the United States government as a home for the remaining tribes of redmen In northern Utah. The number of Indians has been reduced hy death, however, until there are little more than 1000 of the original holders of the land on the former reservation, and these are groupfll mostly in the vicinity of Fort Duchesne, where they await eagerly each month their allowance from the Great White father. It has been the scene of many terrible Indian outbreaks and until six years ago there was a squadron of United States cav alry constantly In garrison at Fort Duchesne. The days of necessity for soldiers, however, are gone. The few remaining Indians are peaceful and rapidly adopting the white man's ways. In fact there aro many among the number who now drive about the lands on which their fathers formerly lived In savage fashion, In their own automobiles and oversee their growing crops. WAYS OF TRAVEL.. There are several ways In which to reach the Uintah basin nnd enter into this land of wealth. Probably the most frequently traveled route of today 13 from Colton, Utah, through Indian canyon into Duchesne, to Myton, Roosevelt and Vernal. The most traveled route if from the Colorado side is from Mack, Colo., to Watson over the Uintah railroad and thence to Vernal by stage. A good road into the basin also is to be found by the way of 1'rovo. through Spanish I'ork and Diamond Fork canyons, through Strawberry valley and thence to Duchesne and eastward. A splendid highway also is now available from lleber City through Daniel canis known as the Pike's yon. This route n Peak highway and Joins the Diamond Fork road to Duchesne on the brink of the Strawberry reservoir, a great body of water formed by damming a mountain canyon and which resembles more a natural body of water than one formed by man. And the country In the immediate vicinity of the reservoir is alive ".vith game birds, the state having set it asido as a bird. sanctuary. Walts for Development. only a glance at a map Tttrequircs to realise the immense area embraced in the Uintah basin which Is awaiting development. And by development Is not meant the mere cultivation of the now vacant agricultural lands, but the bringing to a state of productiveness the great fields of timber, of minerals and the utilizing of range lands In the production of cattle and sheep. The basin ranges In altitude from 4500 to 6000 feet,' but this higher land ls such as cannot be used for agricultural purpose, but which is l.deal for cattle and sheep raising. There Is no (uestIon as to the productiveness of the land. The seasons are as long as anywhere in the state with the exception of a few isolated spots, and peaches equal to any grown in the state have been produced In the basin land. Tit's of itself Is an Indication that the more hardy fruits can be cultivated and produced with good results. Tomatoes, sugar beets of moro than the average quality are now grown in abundance, but there Is no outlet for the product and much of the tomato crop goes to waste, while the sugar beets are used as feed for cattle. Water Is plentiful. An Inventory of the natural wealth of the Uintah basin shows that of the uranium and vanadium ores in the United States Is found in Utah and Colorado and that most of the deposits are in the State of Utah and still better. In the Uintah basin. Tiie Green river, so named from its appearance by the early explorers who made their way through the basin. Is encased in banks which are rich in The Blue mountains placer gold. abound In rich deposits of copper, gold and zinc and much of this con-pore la hll srade, Some of the run Lodgepole pine predominates in the deposits producing copper forests of the Uintah basin, taking up from 45 to 55 per cent copper. There is in Ashley valley sufficient probably 67 per cent of the entire coal to keep the United States in fuel timber. It ls estimated that there are for more than a century and a half, now in the basin several billion feet the coal beds extending over an area of timber ready for the saw. This of more than 300 miles with a known area also will supply food for thouaverage thickness of four to sixty sands of head of beef cattle. feet. Government experts who have made The whole of the mountain range surveys of the gilsonite deposits in is covthe Uintah basin estimate that there surroundinga the Uintah basin ered with million thick growth of timber, are now in sight thirty-tw- o ready for the sawmill. Including Al- tons of this mineral of an estimated pine fir and Kngleman spruce. These value at its present market price of are to be found on the higher growth, $7,000,000. The asphalt deposits are while in the lower lands cedar, pinon the largest in the state and their value and other tree of this variety are never has been estimated. It comes found. With the aspen, western yel- in whole mountain deposits. low pine and aspen groves, with the The underlying ground carries rich lodgepole, Douglas fir 1 ower down. streams of crude oil, which have been ore Post-Standar- d. CALIEORNIA GIRLS BRING PRESIDENT INVITATION EROM SCHOOL CHILDREN t 2 4 1 XX ERE are the California $rirls Avho brought to Washington an invitation to President Wilson to attend the San Francisco exposition. This invitation was signed bv 30,000 California school children. This dele- - jration also presented the President with a bar of gold from which to fashion a wedding quartz fashioned like a rose ring-an- I a piece of -- 4- jTki, we V Ocean-to-Ocea- - AND Fifteen Million reople, It fin-condit- ion fr in is all, and judg"tapped.' and that made by government ing from reports surveyors who have traversed the day bo country the basin will some the scene of the largest oil producing lands in the country. None of these many resources of more than the, basla has been scratched. And the, reason is simple no means of enough. There has been and no to market the product getting one has come tr seek them and cause these storehouses of wealth to be opened to man. The TTintah basin is apart and alone. Tt is sparsely settled and nestles within the mountains, and on its plains and in its valleys is a treasure land which one day will be unlocked and made to give up its stores of wealth. But that time will not come until transportation facilities have been im- wat ITbefore fart md famous the West; Here Was the Habitat of The Squaw Man tains Is Unsurpassed 1 it 6 ;: 47 lv.-- ;:. x: . o'jr'Vi.? . " twrt tr w kt,'V'"A 'vV' j I'v ' .. -- - v l w: t . .... . "v. 5 kW. ' , i -w x i 1 t i-- rch. two-thir- New demonstrate contention that form of life he hs perfected TOpreserver which wilt enable a shiphis & to off water, cold, wrecked . for several and thirst keep hunger days. went A. Youngren of Shrldan. Wyo.. harbor on a tusr boat down Net York and. garted In the costume, remained In the water for forty minutes. Th costume Is a affair re- cemtllng k diver's suit. It Ls made of J p-rs- ort one-piec- e life-savin- g apparatus and how it is used. rubber-roate- d cloth and has an Inch thick lining of kapok, a new substance cotton, used in life preservresembling ers. The feet of the costume are with five pounds of Jead each weighted no matter how the person so that the costume may go overboard, wearing he will Immediately ufsume an upright position. He showed how to draw fresh water from a pouch at the side of the suit by means of a rubber tube. Then he one arm from the sleeve, to his 'pushed the elastic neckpiece and fedtiphimself the free hand eyes with on the inside of the from a food suit. At left,pouch he Is shown in his suit before taking the dive. In the upper diving right he is seen inonthehisact of and In overboard. landing back, the bottom right he. is seen after the weights In hid led have righted Liu-- . de-.tach- ed ds ur There is a all may .visit the Panama-Pacifi- c at San exposition n Hi P70 fair Air Trrannlcn si nrl t c Wilson's reluctance about making the! been that he would long Journey"to has make many stops which, be required would consume much time. If the could be shortened by going Journey there and back, he may charge straight his mind. This possible change in his plans became known after two California bar had presented to the President a girls of gold from California's oldest mine, with a beautiful piece of togetherfashioned like a rose. In addiquartz tion the President received a petition California school chilsigned by 30,000 dren urging him to come to the'eoast. air. Wilson was greatly pleased with. WASHINGTON. Oct. 30. from California and the of esteem, which inbunch "of orange blossoms for Mrs. Gait. The California party included Miss Starr and Miss Esther Bull, Dorothy each 18 years of age; little Mias Altha McCtien; 11,asand Mrs. Gaillard Stoney, who acted When they chaperon. .got through advancing to show why the. Presiarguments dent should relent and make at least a across the continent, he flying trip some signs of yielding to their showed desires. The bar of gold and the piece of came from the mine of Miss quartz as the Kmpire Starr's father, known was mine. The President told that California hoped he would have fashioned from the golden bar the band ring which he will place upon the fin the greetings' tokens various that President cluded a Vi . - - - . -- . : I. of Mrs. Norman Gait, wnen she beger comes his bride. .Mr. Wilson seemed highly pleased. Little Miss, McCuen, who won the journey totheWashington because she had best essay reciting the written reasons why the President should visit the exposition, made a whispered to too was him excited to (she speech in a louder tone), advancing speak some grave reasons why he should make the trip. Miss Bull, however, could not rebroke in with: strain herself, and Mrs. and Gait come to "Can't you California on your wedding accordThe President laughed, a nd,trip" to his callers, said: ing'There never has been a time when I had to be urged to go to California. a question of findIt has been merely ing the time to go." |