Show IN UINTAH COUNTY the steadily increasing prospect of an early opening of the ul ui tab and uncompahgre comp aligre indian reservations to settlement is drawing more general at to one of the best beat sections of utah for agriculture mining and manufacturing purposes there are included inel eded in those reservations and the immediate vicinity in uintah county broad and fertile valleys where tile the climate is pleasant and healthful extensive mineral deposits depo sitf an abundance ot fuel and timber and an almost unlimited water supply ifor for power and irrigating purposes these conditions give assurance that in comparatively ively low lew years the valleys ol of uintah county that are now reserved mainly for bands of indians whose numbers are steadily decreasing will become the abiding place of thousand of white settlers there are in salt lake today two of the leading citizens of uintah county samuel R bennion bonn ion and R S collett who at vernal the chief town of the county vernal is located on 00 ashley river which flows through ashley valley on the northeast bord r cf the and empties into the green river ashley valley la Is about six miles wide and thirty long and now has about inhabitants its location to is well toward the east line of utah about midway be tween the rio grande western railway in utah and the union pacific in wyoming price station on the rio bio granoe western in emery coun tyis about miles from vernal and carter station on the union pacific in wyoming is about the same distance in the opposite direction heber city in wasatch county is about miles from vernal and bag baa the best befit wagon road the denver short line liine projected to salt lake is to run through the ashley and uintah valleys mr Ben bennion rilon was asked today what the chance was castor for settlers in the ashley valley and vicinity and said there is plenty of room for workers so far as aa drummers clerk agents and insurance men are concer concerned neds we haven it any use for them there yet but fox for good honest hard workers there is plenty ol 01 room and a good chance to do well our climate is just as an good as in the salt lake valley we can raise all kinds of fruit that can be raised here our peaches are the best in the territory and the graceb and other fruits are equal to anything of the kind in other parts ot of utah the people have reached out for land year after year butil the last two seasons there has been more ian land under lateri cultivation than there was W water lor or under existing exist log condit condition ione but there its is plenty of water to be taken out in ditches and arrangements are being made to accomplish the wort work when the reservations are opened there will be plenty of land in the county for settlement Bett lement in the ashley valley now it is cheaper to buy than to take up land though cultivated soil boll commands a good figure mr collett gave in response to a request this information reg re adina gardine uintah there la Is room in th the ashley valley tor for a large number of settlers sett lerp and of course there will be a great deal more in the uintah valley wilen when the reservations are opened there la is not much talk of f land in our section now as we have plenty most moat of the farmers having from 40 to 9 acres acrea most moat of the land talk I 1 heard was after I 1 left price coming this way when the people who have been to strawberry valley get the idea t that hat t the uintah country is lire liae that they are under a mistaken impression there is no more similarity be between strawberry eiry valley and the uintah and ashley abbley valleys than there is between parleys Par leya park and salt lake valley the altitude ot of ashley an and d bui uintah ta bi valleys Is about feet more than that of the great salt lake there is in that part the beet beat fruit country in utah it is in equally good for grain and vegetables the only reason there was not an abundance of water for the ashley valley farmers this year is that it was not taken out othe streams but we are now at work on a plan that will remedy that we have established a saw mill at the head of the valley up dry pork fork and are cutting timber at the mill there will be the timber for a big flume which will be built to take the waters of dry pork forat over to the cari canals cariall alp this stream la is nearly as large as an the ashley river and when it is brought over there will wilt be water for the whole valley the papers for the incorporation formed to do this work were to b be filed today the organization is called the vernal milling and Fl pluming company and the capital stock of is dil vided aided into 1150 shares of 25 each the directors are L johnson dent james hacking vice president john olenn glenn secretary david H Birg bickham hain and B R 8 CO collett I 1 lett T the water of dry fork must be conveyed a distance of fifteen miles to where it is 10 available and the cost will be about 1250 per mile the company has arranged it so that men oan can work on the construction of the flume flu me and waterway a and tid be paid in water right there is ili an abundance of timber to in the hajis there goal coal also exit exists all through those hose mountains there is 19 W mine of good coal opened three miles from vernal and the coal is sold at the mine at from to 2 per ton the country coultry round about to Is splendid lor for sheep and cattle of the indian reservations it may be said that thai the uintah reservation has bag the agricultural land and the reservation which adjoins the uintah on the east has the mineral section though there Is mineral in the uintah reservation and farming and grazing land in the other when the uintah reservation is opened up that will be the great section for settlers sett lere the timber and fuel are abundant and the supply of good water lor for power agricultural and manufacturing purposes almost unlimited the uintah valley is the the best befit watered in utah I 1 it t is as aa large or larger than that portion of cache valley in this thie territory the soil coil in of different nature and very fertile there will some day be a gre reat t city built in that valley some gome whre where near the present fort du and the valley will afford a pleasant home and sustenance for is of families the gilsonite gila onite asphaltum claims were formerly on the eastern edge of the uintah reservation but the own era have recently had bad them opened leven eleven sections of land being out off the reservation for this thia purpose but this does not open to settlement any und land as there is a strip ot of land on the reservation between tue the river anu and the opened sections there ire are min oral ral claims being worked oil OB the uintah reservation to the southwest of the gilsonite location these are the ela mines of judge mcconnell McCon Bell who has a lease on the alai claims me and works them under strict regulations the uncompahgre reservation reper iio wever to la very rich in mineral lt it la jg on that a few miles southeast ot of vernal that are located the vast asphaltum beds that mr perry and others were seeking to get possession of the claims in the gilsonite gila onite locality have asphalt that is ie 99 per cent pure the vein vain there is from eighteen inches to two and a halt half reel feet wide and lass has been un uncovered for about a mile how muc further it extends is yet undetermined ter mined its depth is also aloo unknown though it ha boon been cut ou tin into to in i a places irow irom sixty to eighty feet deep buethe but the aspli asphalt alc beds which mr perry ferry and a file is associates were arter while of equally pure quality are fully ten times the extent of the gilsonite gil gilb bonite ODite claims the vein is at least twenty feet wide ond nd the pure asphalt crops out in large quantities tor for a great distance its lepto in the earth has never been penetrated it does not go down per but in a slanting diorec on tuese beds will be a vast vaa mine of wealth to somebody when tue un jn comp aligre reservation is opened abe ngou W digoin road from price to vernal is rough and thirty five miles of ef it is through a barren section but he radco casper is rougher still rne oho best wagon road is that which comes to heber haber city it is ie good all the way vey in the ummer summer season with plenty ot of water and food feed all along poni rom december to march or april it is g not passable to teams because of mud at the settlers an now W and present of f aihley have a good market tor for I 1 their bay grain and vegetables at fort there to la not hot much money there at present but we do not feel the financial stringency as severely as AB the people seem to elsewhere for we have good comfortable homes and food and the other necessities of life in P 1 abundance |