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Show Dcrotej. fOL. II 3ASIN UePi-ofres- s DevelopneatoJ AfricuUm-- e in Xo. 15 ROOSEVELT, tie W, UintahBask UTAH, AUGUST 13, 1926 FIFTY CENTS TER YEAR FIGHTS NOXIOUS )ISTRICT to WEED Fourth U. SAID TO BE SECOND ALFALFA GREATEST AREA IN COUNTRY SEED State Weed Officials Are Pleased With Success of Weed Ccntrol in Basin B. I. C. is Most Successful Event I I follow up work is being the weed eradication campaigns throughout the Uintah Basin Harden Bennion, state When The three-day- s of the I have seen here, and I know he in the opinion of officials of the state gathering and of JiomniFsioner agriculture, Uintah Vasin Industrial Convention will be pleased to hear you are department of agriculture, says the President E. G. Peterson of the Utah which ended Friday, August 6. at building so homes and becom- Deseret News. many of leaders the Fort Duchesne, was the most suc- ing so industrious as farmers, Mr. Agricultural College, Harden Bennion, commissioner, jwo forces which are combining in cessful in every detail of the four Smith said. inH. J. Webb, agricultural and thus conventions weeds far held. The the noxioifp gena fight against One aged chief, gray haired, proud state the fer lon Utah farms, visited the Uintah eral committee of the affair received and spector department, restraight of stature, his eyes much for success the of this weed well in praise noxious the held turned up toward the sky, ported ,Basin at this years convention, immense educational from gathering hand in and WaDuchesne never Uintah, focused upon the speaker, last week, they found the weeds and state and government officials, col- said. satch counties. other impurities (were being chopped lege professors, specialists and other The cnly patch of white top known I am, getting old. It is not so land pulled and burned from Basin authorities who visited the convento exist in .Uintah County is being much or older the Indians 1 fields myself at a fast pace. Commissioner tion. I care that for. have We out and satisfactory control stamped always Bennion expressed the opinion that The convention in its three years lived like Indians and want to con-tni- measures are cobeing followed in hanin the Basin the farmers were of existence has done more for the to live like Indians, but it is dling infested fields of Canada thisoperating with the state department progression of the Uintah Basin the younger ones we want fgiven than any ether one thing. It has much help. We know this land of tle and morning glcry. of agriculture and Agricultural ColWeed infested lands in Duchesne Basin to such promi- ours will grow plenty, and weiwant lege in weed eradication work bet- brought the have all been mowed once to prevent nence its traveled fame has that the young Indians to have homes. I ter than were farmers in any other to the have been one from of continent' end their the seeding and while some of the Inlearning the young part of the state. convention the dians t have livestock, cattle, sheep, patches are again attaining a good the other. Through At a recent meeting of leaders undeveloped resources of the Basin and to grow good crops like the growth and threaten to seed the from all parts of the Basin, a gen- have been heralded to thousands of white man. I have been learning county is renewing its control work. d committee was eral homeseekers who are turning their them to do the things the great In Wasatch County all streets and The aim of this committ- eyes toward the unlimited opportu- white father wants them to do. roads are being cleared of noxious ee is to bring realization on the nities of this great inland empire. Other tribe leaders felt the im- weeds preventing them from seeding part of all farmers that the weed r Two days before the big conven- pulse to make speeches and in turn and spreading. The private land menace is serious, particolarly to tion opened campers iwere already spoke to the geological survey di- owners are following this leadership the Basins most important agricult- cn the ground making ready far the rector. there has been no drastic though ural activity, alfalfa seed product- gathering and for two days afterlin-it Dr. Smith took notes of their re- action taken to force clean-upme of which iwere commark ion. and there is need for vigor- was over numbers cf campers The noxious weed control camthe camp grounds, at enticing gered these will be turned and ous control measures. In instances plaints. hardly able to realize that the big over to the Indian affairs deDart-me- paigns have resulted in much good where this appeal for time of the year had been brought at Washington. One aged In- being acc mplished in Cache County fails, the committee will direct the to a close in such a short time. dian complained be thought the and Inspector Harry J. Parker reenforcement of the law, which auIn the barnyard golf series. W. L. mountain forage for his livestock ported to the state department Satthorizes the cleaning of badly in- Whitlock of Leeton won the honors was getting less from year to year. urday that the situation there was loving He could not understand whv. and fested grounds, the expense to be and was awarded a silver successful in wanted the great white father to good. charged to the owner of the prop- cup. If Mr Witlock is County roads have been generally series he will know about it. erty. The personnel of this com- winning next years and while the state roads cleaned retain the cup as his permanent assem-blto Tn the general talk his C. John mittee includes: I. y have not been adeMayor Fcur sets of handsome Old term. the said Smith Dr. son. of Rcosevelt, chairman; W. K. possession. cared fer the ccntrol meahorseshoes were awarded to the West. should be outlawed as ob- quately Dye. if Neola, county commissioner four had have telling effect. All highest scores. The neiw term to d0cribe sures solete. of Duchesne County; C. A. Schrae-de- r. thouin several the county are joining in Besides addressing progressing lands f the West. agencies movement are cutting, burnand chairman of the agricultural sand people at the general assem- the New the should bp ho continued, lands. infested committee of the Roosevelt Cham- blies. Governor George H- - Dern. and and If clearing ing Ever (New West. In- West, or ber of Commerce; R. R. Todd of Dr George Ottis Smith of the. In- gives me great pleasure to visit the follow up work be;ng done in The to the I see so much County is Cedarview; H. L. Allred, cf Roose- terior Department, spoke listened Wet. for hereover which I walked the Basin and in who groups, Trails be velt. and Arthur Wiscomb of Roose- dians in large all that may reasonably expected, big a rack on mv back are now said Mr. Webb. eagerly to the words asof their are velt. wth they or "Monch. marked by surfaced highways, and Commissioner Bennion and the chiefs The extent of the work is govthe tribes. Interpreters draws through iwhich I once led called by alerned college authorities point out the largely by the ability to pay were used to translate the language strings of government mules are this phase is considered falfa seed industry is endangered if and when, into their native tongue. traversed by transcontinental railten to work is being done effective much the noxious weed evil is not conme greatly "It- will please roads. Where I once saw sagebrush what about cut ever a period followed of if which fields actrolled. at Washington There is not icnly an my chief there now thrives big mean the complete will of tual annual loss suffered, years wheat. . explains Smith declared that this eradication of theuee-- menace. the commissioner, "but the ultimate built for its alfalfa seed, believes Dr The rise, of the Bain Industrial Conloss is likely to be a total ban the state commissioner. of this see ptnirif of the SOME QUARTET spirit of vention. asaint alfalfa seed froimi this territ- the Basin in production in the most needed total Us 1921 spirit the was ory if the weeds are not kept has been rapid. In It was 20 years male quartet of The thirty-voic- e 0 0,0 0 0 whole of America. but was 1,0 down. Basin last, the visited production will sing sevchurch he Methodist the U ao that exThe year following The J. G. Peppard Seed Company, pounds. he that at thP evening trip numbers eral in recalling special and and 20 years that big operators in the Basin, wish Colorado amounted to 3,500.000 pounds, of the paper. hour worship. to 6,000.000 pressedhe be privileged to make anin the tweed work by equip- by 1924 it had jumped hence The year following, a year other pilgrimage t'rh the convention. MARKED DOWN, WE PRESUME ping a car with specimens of the pounds. The excursion to the Agricultural nost damaging weeds and sending of drought, an increased acreage bv Dr. "I owe all to The Herald Tribune Experiment Farm, conducted it to all corners of the Basin. The yielded but the same volume inter-pcitiverv proved year, Stewart, for Last Oeoree disposing of my car, which, by pounds. firpose of thi3 display was to teach seed, 6,000,000 New to the more than 140 people the way, ost only 80 cents. amounte tte seed growers to identify the however, production rartv. Mr. Stew- York Herald Tribune. th formed who PePP the exeeds most deadly to their crops. At 8,000,000 pounds, and the art showed and explained on its alfalfa seed conducted adjacent places and until the last periments being experiment station, company, cl seen, station. the alfalta at in near here, the night the eonventrn was not interseed culture Agricultural College pet dealers the for the as ideal fered with by inclement .weather. iwas Basin is ;'secont weather mhe studying the weed problem as it rte Uintah dav heavy But on Friday nieht a storm gathfirst The alfalfa rathering. exists in the Basin. the and somewhat' hampered the west ered and during Tn the United rains fell to the e must guard In the outside gatherings. fell zealously the showers little three days reputation the Uintah Basin has Good done in ys ue anti-wee- s. nt u-- v. right-ofiwa- - Wa-am- h - l rg - dis-W- et seed-produci- al-fa- |