Show GRAND JUNCTION TOO BEGINS THE FIGHT Chamber of Commerce Would Build Auto uto Road noad Across Divide In Book Cuff Clift Mountains lount to Ba TIn- Basin sin Distance Miles Grand Junction also wants a slice of the Uintah basin trade The Chamber of or Commerce of that city Is boosting for an auto road over the tho Book Dook Cliff Clift and into tho the basin The Tho claim Is that the distance Is only miles and that by using part of tho the Midland Trail and a n wagon road on this side to Ouray only 21 miles mUes of road will have to be bo built J. J B B. B Whittemore this week ed a letter from the C. C D. D Smith Drug company asking that he and other Myton men take the matter up and discuss it The Grand Junction News News of March 14 has bas the following with reference to Opening up the great Uintah basin country to its natural supply and distributing distributing dis dis- point point Grand Grand was the occasion for tho calling to together together together to- to gether of tho the Chamber of of Commerce in special session last night Grand Junction is the tho natural outlet for all this vast country covering Uintah and Duchesne counties in eastern Utah for this eil city Is the town of or any consequence for the people of that that vast mining oil stock and farmIng farmIng farming farm- farm Ing territory to come come for their sup sup- plies J. J H. H Denby a well known shale oil mining man has been spending the past couple of days in Grand Junction talking with various business business business busi busi- ness men relative to promoting a proposition to build a road Into that country to draw the tho trade this way to the natural point He found a great deal of encouragement and everyone evinced a desire to see the project carried through As outlined to the tho Chamber of Commerce last night Mr Air Denby Denb show showed showed ed cd by a rough map that he had drawn approximately how the tho road would run which was al along mg the same suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- as he lie had previously made of or orThe The Dally Daily News when he ho called upon us yesterday Would Follow Midland Trail The Idea of Mr Denby Is to follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low the Midland trail to a point about ne and one-half one miles over the tho Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado line Into hito Utah thence the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed road w would uld leavo leave the Midland trail and go in a northerly course to the ranch of Tom Larsen about 10 miles distant There is a good road this far From there to the summit of oC Book cliffs a distance of about 21 miles the road would have to be constructed constructed constructed con- con conJ J as now there Is nothing J t more than a trail This road he es estimates estimates es- es would cost about a mIle mIleto to finish to the tho summit of the Book Dook 1 t cliffs cUffs 1 v From Prom there a road runs straight to J 1 Ouray and Vernal a distance of about 50 miles to the tho latter place This road was was was' built years ago by a mining company and has since been maintained by the stockmen It Is a good auto road and It is a gradual decline to White river rl where there Is a good cable bridge and to Vernal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal the country gradually rises again Opens Up Rich Country The Uintah basin Is a wonderfully rich basin sand and tho the heme of oC many prosperous people On the tho rim of the i basin lie Ue the shale shalo hills where thero j is an deposit of or oil- oil bearing shale that will become a vast mining cent center r In the near f future turc Already three producing oil wells are are found In the Uintah basin and the Utah Oil on Shale Shalo company which isa Is Isa Isa a subsidiary company to the American Ameri Ameri- can Asphalt company Is now erecting an oil on refinery thore there Mr Du by y told ho Chamber of Commerce that the Uie people of Vernal and the other 15 towns In the Uintah basin were of oC one mind In regard to connecting up that country with a good road to Grand Junction and they would operate co-operate In any measure measure measure meas meas- ure looking toward that end Many fany Favorable rable to Action Various expressions were ml made e nil nl favorable fa to the opening of this road and It was believed Grand Junction should take the Initiative In the tho mat mat- ter C. C D D. D Smith of the C. C D. D Smith Co whole sale druggists of this city w who o has made several se trips In Into o that country said the people were were alive t to the tho importance of an openIng openIng opening open- open Ing out this way You donot do donot donot not realize the tho extent of that coun- coun coun- coun try ho he said You could set the en entire tn- tn tire Grand Gran valley down In the Uinta Uintah basin and It would not bo be noticed any anymore an any anymore more than if you unloaded all th the people of Colorado In the city of Chicago Chi Chi- Chicago cago In one night The Tho Chicagoans would not riot notice the difference It ItIs Is Is a wonderfully rich country and a country that has Immense possibilities ties for the future If Grand Orand Junction Junction Junction Junc Junc- tion merchants could be bo brought to realize the possibilities for business L development there they would be enthusiastic enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- over the plans to build a arond road rond to the top of the Book Bonk ok cliffs The purpose of the chamber si sl to get et somo experienced road men and send them over o the tho proposed route as soon as ns the spring sprIn opens and make an estimate of tho the cost of building I Ithe the road after which plans will be bo I laid to actually raise tho the money to to construct the tho road making a good start upon It this year and possibly I completing it |