Show I Does Price Want Us s ry To Have A Railroad Last we week k we printed an article taken from taken from the Price News Advocate in regard to a railroad through the Uintah basin In its efforts to keep a railroad from entering the basin the News News- News News- Advocate has published as facts statements that are misleading in regard regard regard re re- re- re gard to the tonnage of the basin It also speaks of their future production production production tion and leads the reader to believe that the Uintah basin has al already ady reached its peak in tonnage an anthis anthis alad this tonnage not being keep a railroad busy buSY for r ra a week during the tho year Is is enough to demand a road We are publishing this week two replies to the above mentioned ar- ar One by H. H B. B Stone secretary Myton My ton Commercial club and the theother theother theother other by Judge L. L A. A Hollenbeck or of Duchesne which is a copy of ora a lett letter r sent by Judge Hollenbeck to the News The articles follow By H. H B. B Stone I should like to call attention attention to a afew few Cew points in the he article published article published last week in your paper The article to which I refer is th the one quoted from the Price News I Ib b believe lieve that the humor of this article was entirely unintentional and was duo to the fact that the writer did not have the information that he should have ha I had We appreciate the fact that our friends in Price have bave been handling a large part of or the business of the basin A railroad l through the basin would woul mean that this thi business could coula be handled in the ba In Since Thus gnat tess' tess s- s easy r a ais tri I is D- D u q thirteen er c 1111 in the amount of business done in Price would hardly be noticed It Itis is then that it is not for this reason that they do not wish us to have a railroad Regardless of whether the roan comes through the Uintah basin or not Price would still sUll have a road They need a road there and should ha have ye It b by all means Possibly if the road could only be in one place it would be better to have It in tn Price The basin averaging a we will sa say I miles from a railroad is shipping shipping ship ship- ping 1 13 trains a year It is very doubtful If the products of ot the Price s district would amount to near this amount if it it was ne noses es for forr them to ship their produce miles by b- truck or team h Coal ConI is the tho principal pro w ol of o that district This coal co cos us about 15 15 15 a ton here in Myton If U Uthe the railroad were here and nud thc they had to ship the coal hero to load its it ft itis is s doubtful If there would bs he t a very heavy hean demand for it at 15 a ton f r. r I o. o b. b It is especially doubtful when we consider the vast coal roal deposits of or the basin that would then ba bd opened up Another item mentioned was file Price river project This is really a abig abig big thing although some of or orus us here hereIn herein herein in the basin are apt to compare it to some of the tho many projects here that are so much larger I o only do w we have hayo several projects that are larger but we also have some being contemplated con- con that pro pre so very much larger that the Price project big as asIt asIt asIt It Is seems very small in compari compari- son Surely Surel the tho basin road would not hurt this project of or theirs Even if the basin ro road d meant the withdrawal of the railroad from Cram Price surely the project could go on and bo be a success The basin projects have bave been success successful Cui and they aras are ar areas areas as far or further from a railroad I now than the Price project would be bt if the basin road were ore the only roanI roan 1 in eastern Utah I I If It Price has enough business to I keep a railroad they have nothing to worry about c except the tho loss of oC tho the basin 1 business which according to I their figures Is a mere trifle Now Nose let us liS look to o what the basin has hns to Also to what the basin has to otter offer a railroad In the first place it Is not fair to toOn toOn toOn I On Last 1 Page age I From Page Pago One e RAILROAD TWO RAILROAD PROJECTS BEFORE I. I C. C C. C consider what Is being shipped without without without with with- out considering what might be I shipped The long haul to the railroad railroad rail rau- road has hns limited the basin to those products having large va value ue n n small bulk Evidently our friends mends in Price ha have e forgotten the ninny many products of the basin that are here and ready but hut cannot annot be shipper a n hundred miles by truck and still show a profit There are a certain number of miles of railroad in the United States Some of this was built Into country Hl that t was shipping 13 trains a a. year ear or more and some of it was waa I built huilt Into country that was shipping I less than this amount In Iu fact some of ot it was built Into country countr that hat haa hatnot not shipped any produce I believe that if our friends in Price will up these figures they will wiil find them yer very very- interesting They will probably come tonne to the following conclusions First a country is depe dependent dent on ona ona a railroad for its development the same as the railroad is e enden on the country for Cor its support n Ir It the Price district had to wait watt until the they reached their present output before tho the railroad come the tiie I I railroad would probably never get gei there This applies to practically every location In the countr country Second tho the railroad is not looking lookIng looking look look- ing at the present products of a country as much as ns they are arc looking look look- looking ing at the potential products In other words it is not what are you shipping no now but what could you rou ship it if transportation were If the basin were not shipping a pound a year ear it would still be a fertil fertil fer- fer til field for a railroad If It tho the basin di not have haye a single acre under Ir Irrigation irrigation lr- lr it would still sUll be a good place for tor a railroad to come Why Because just just as soon as the road came there thore would be shipments made and received and there would be land put pul under irrigation i lie ilc number of oC acres under cultivation and the shipments s now made are arc merely indications of what can be lie expected with favorable tion The third conclusion comes not riot only from a study of ot the building of tho the past Dut but from Crom the development of the entire country It is that no community ever eer grows to tho the best advantage b by Shy delaying the growth of its n neighbor Our own growth and prosperity prosperity- is dependent dependent dependent de de- pendent on that of or our neighbor The immense development of the basin ba bl- basin sin siu that will follow the tIlo coming of rails will benefit tho the Price district lc more than thau they t realize a 8 ar arthis this time It will not ot only the Price district but the tine entire state slate and adjoining states as well |