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Show 6 THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER PRESENT AND FUTURE AGRI- EMINENT SPEAKERS FROM CULTURE IN DUCHESNE AND FAR AND NEAR WHO WILL UIUTAH COUNTIFS DISCUSSED BE AT BIG CONVENTION (Continued from page 2.) may not be drained out. The slope being very good many natural channels are running toward gulches and In Millard county for exrivers. the farmers paid $125 an acre ample for land and water, and then found drainage so spoor that $30 to $45 per acre had to be spent for drain- to free it from alkali by open MISS MARTHA LAMOREAUX All in the Uintah Basin will be anxious to hear the whining oration for the U. B,. I. C. loving cup, which will be presented to the Uintah High school to retain for one year, by Miss Martha Lamoreaux, winner of the T. W. ODonnell Medal, U. H. S., on Resources and Problems uf tlie Uintah basin. Miss Laino-ag- e, rcaux will be the first speaker on drains and tile. The Uintah Basin will never need expensive drainage. To make the basin grow more rapidly, we need two things, that is, more peo- With fair, ple, and a real road. natural growth we ourselves can build a railroad within ten years time. But Salt Lake city is oblig- ed to build the railroad into the Basin from the west, otherwise the great wealth of this Inland Empire will go eastward to Denver. The Moffat tunnel will be com- pleted within three years and the road extended as far west as Rang- ely, Colo. People of Colorado are Thursday morning. EVAN PHILLIPS The winner of the C. L. Ashton Medal, D. H. S., was Evan Phillips on The Present and Future Agri- culture of Duchesne and Uintah Counties. Mr. Phillips will give his oration at some time during the convention. HON. E. O. IEATHERAVOOD E. O. Leatherwood, representa- tive of Utah second district, will address the people Thursday after- noon on Our Colorado River Pro- juct. they have been 'assured that rail- road facilities will be given them as far west as Rangely. That means that freight form and to the east- ern half of the Utah section will go east to Denver. Salt Lake city cannot afford to lose this business, Utah may not well afford to lose Our leading citizens realize it. that we have just commenced to By the time that six mile grow. tunnel is bored and ready for use Salt Lake city leaders must have a railroad as far as Green river. Next of importance is the Uintah mountains, the Switzerlands of the United States, as they are sometimes called. They contain over 1000 lakes and many giant We have 8 summits over peaks. Provo 13,000 feet high. people believe that Mt. Timpinogos is a high and mighty peak, it is indeed, but we have some 35 peaks We higher and larger than that. need not go out of our Basin for good game, such as deer, ducks, fish, etc., all can be obtained in various parts of the Basin. To summarize, with our present agriculture, which ranks best in the state and above the average in the world of agriculture, with our coal mines and vast hydrocarbon deposit which has been estimated by government officials to be worth over 10 billions of dollars. We have all the natural resources that we the Utah State Farm Bureau, who "ill be the last speaker Thursday afternoon session. . . need. HON. FRANK EVANS Salvation, will be the address HON REED SMOOT Reed United States Senator Smoot will be the last speaker of the U. B. I. C. and on Friday even- ing at 8 oclock will give an address on Finance and Taxes. WILLIAM WEISER William Weiser, second of the Roosevelt State bank, president of the Grand Valley National bank, Grand Junction, Colo., and chairman of the Colorado State road commission, tells lowr the im- aginary Colorado-- L tali boundary line was obliterated by the Uintah High' -- vice-preside- nt way. DR. E. G. PETERSON The pnsident of the Utah Agricultural college, Logan, will address the assembly Tuesday evening on Dr. The Future of Agriculture. Peterson is also one of the instructors. HON. E. B. MERRITT Hon. E. II. Merritt, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, Washing-ton, D C., will speak on Our In- His talk will be d;an Relations. - 1 nine-tent- hs The Great Uintah Basin snow-cappe- - YdnL rh pre-histor- ic Wednesday evening from 9:00 to 10:00 oclock. DR. W. E. TAYLOR The importance of Agriculture will be Dr. Taylors message to the Dr. Taylor was a Basin fanners. last convention, at year's speaker GOVERNOR CHARLES R. MABEY Governor Mabey will be the first speaker of the convention and will talk on What Utah Thinks of Her Inland Empire. ROBERT L. JUDD The Farmers' Legal Friends will be the subject of Attorney Rob- crt. L. Judd, member of the board of trustees of the Utah Agricultural VERNAL EXPRESS, THE ROOSETHE MYTON VELT STANDARD, FREE PRESS and THE DUCHESNE COURIER, that have given valued space to experimental work, have been most helpfud. What will the U. B. I. C. do for us this year, has been asked by many of the Basins residents, all of whom are most sanguine. The larger corps of instructors, among whom will be some of the most prominent and expert men in Utah and from many other places, its army of speakers and entertainers vouch for such far reaching results as have never been scored by our people be- fore. It will no doubt go down in the history of our Basin as a real red letter season, by which all may profit and be justly proud. college. DR. GEORGE THOMAS On Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Thom pPegi(,cnt cf the University of will as hls subjoct) given just following that of Gover- a Prosperous Rural Population is Allien answering advertisements nor Mabey and will be preceded by in our Great Common- - in this paper mention the UINTAH Necessary a beautiful Indian pageant parade BASIN FARMER. of progress, esecially gotten up in honor of Sir. Merritt. DR. FRANK S. HARRIS What makes Great Mm is the topic which Dr. Frank S Harris, 5 n,h I Now we need more people to president of the Brigham Young .Uniycrslty of Pl.ivo will han(llc f( the second address on Wednesday. Dr. Harris is also a speaker at the lvviglxtion congress tho d HON WILLIAM H. KING Willlam m KinR, junior Unitod states Senataor from Utah, will ad-- I dress the assembly Wednesday ternoon on Conditions in Europe, Especially in Russia. HON. DON B. COLTON Heart Taking as his subject Throbs of the Uintah Basin, Con-I- f Grossman Don R. Colton, Utah First help us to develop these wonderful resources, and second, we need a way by which to export our products and raw material, and to bring in machinery, to advance this prog- ress much more rapidly. Hits can be done only by having a railroad mto this Great Inland Empire. have shown you that two great are needed to bring about a more rapid growth and larger advancement in the Basin, that is, we need moie people and a railroad. It matters little which comes first. we get a railroad we get the peo- If we get the people we are pie. sure they will demand the rail- So it Is our duty, as young road. and old Uintah Baslnites, to strive all our might to bring intothose improvements this Basin which are absolutely necessary. I am sure our parents have done and are doing all that Is in their power to bring about these advancements at a more rapid pace. It Is our duty as the younsrer natives to make thj a better emwc received u. pire than it was wli This may be done only through our the Basin and its understanding present and future neoessiMs ami our persistent effort to make It a better and bigger place for human Let us all strive to development. one end, thus to make for ourselves and the future generations a bigger and better Uintah Basin. sunshiny days in the year and protected as it is by mountains from severe winds, gives us an ideal climate invigorating and healthful. Perhaps there is no country in the United States so completely indepenBy Francis K. Smith dent of the outside world, as none so wide a range of the The Uintah basin has been proven other offer commodities of life, and to be the most important as to size necessities Add to these boundaries. terits within and richness of all undeveloped of- and and advantages its scenic ourbeauty ritory in the United States, wonderful man the best climatic conditions, d opponuiities for advancement in mountains with their e?ery line of industry. peaKS, where num erJess toarists go - to recuperate, hunt and fish, besides tilrich of Its immense acreage and we have a lable land produces everything adap- - the local sportsmen, basin of Lintah fair our of and picture ted to our zone. Alfalfa, yellow a not It does require proph sweet clover, all kinds of orchards future when hrilliant t et g beets, sugar small . aQd fruits, e(J shall j all ltS present in all varities, vegetables, etc., , ?nd re- m t be and which grow profusely creational values. It is an Eldorarapidly. do that will appeal to the practical. There is an immense quantity search of in in the mountains, water stored progressive man, w e lakes and reservoirs and much more a country J The that wil1 be conserved in the f c- Basins t BB to the valleys This water is brought nALntion 0f home l canals for and streams irriga by Peop,e problems, and united them under purposes. one paternal head as never before. Wealth mkT 'fh then many improvements Since our a have been made, a more minute study of the topography and chargrazing lands. Even our bad lands have their wealth and attractions, in acter of our Basin, crops planted fossils, best adapted to the different localiquarries, and in particularly in the Jensen district,- ties and soil. Thereto has been a scientifically where the Dinosaur, in many varie- greater effort made farm our lands, without depleting ties have been discovered. The altitude of the Uintah basin 0ur soil. In this money and labor-i- s from five to six thousand feet, saving work, our local papers as THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER, THE with WONG SING MERCANTILE i8 The Store With a Complete Lino of af-fact- district, will deal with tho Basin from personal observation, having nvd 1,0.0 all his life. Mr. Colton win ,e the first speaker 011 AVodnes-wit- h ,jv AATLLTAM I Furniture 1 Hardware Stoves Ranges Harness Saddles evening. prtoF. Groceries and Provisions Dry Goods Notions Boots and Shoes Ladies and Gents Furnishings PETERSON The second siwakor AYodnosday evening will he Prof. AAillian Petor- son, director extension work, U. A. C., and eminent geologist, wlio will talk on The Agriculture of the Uintah IVtsin. In the Wool Grow- i's and Stockmen Convention, Prof. Peterson will talk on the Conservation of the Range. Your Patronage Always Appreciated You Will Profit by Trading Here. An Illustrated lecture by Ralph R. AAoolley, U. S. Department of WONG SING MERCANTILE RALPH It. WOOLLEY will Interior, pKdogleal survey, eiitertnhi xlth Boating Through the fp'idds and Canyon (Jorges of the Gren River." Mr. AAoelly will give his lecture the last thing on FT. DUCHESNE VsViW V UTAH iVAr.VVr,.WVAWVJVWVVWJWlI v |