| Show URGES RAILROAD FOR BASIN BASIM f Is very Es essential or for the fhe success ot of this great inland empire following an enthusiastic meeting last night at the commercial club when R S collett of roosevelt spoke on the uinta basin president G A steiner was authorized by the club tc appoint a committee to ascertain how a railroad could be built in into the basin A previous commit tee already has gathered some data along this line but has not lot progressed sufficiently to make a report on its work it was said mr cmillett Coll CoIl lett gave surprising facts and figures on the uinta country and its possibilities III H said in part population needed it will be of no benefit to the people of the uinta basin for you men with money to come there and buy land and hold it for speculative purposes we dont want that we want men and women we want population and we want you people of salt lake to help us in some way to connect our district more directly with salt lake our people are thorough citizens of utah their sympathies sy mathies and the hearts are with utah and they point with pride to salt lake the gem city of the west but how can we get close to you if you will not let us we want people and a railroad will bring these people afif fifty ty miles of rail from park city will bring a railroad into the eart of the greatest hydrocarbon district of the basin which will vill insure a tonnage sufficient to maintain the line fifty miles more of line jine will take the road into the agricultural district and we app appeal eal to the people of salt lake to help us get this opening for our prod acts the people of colorado have been courting the friendship of the people of the uinta basin and bidding for their trade not a month has passed this summer that representatives of the denver railroads have not been in the basin goli soliciting citing us to send our business over their lines the moffat line was first built to steamboat springs and there it rested for three years then it was pushed on to craig where it has rested for two years sup posing the line is now construct ed on to vernal or roosevelt and there rested for five years what then will be the chances of salt lakes ever reclaiming 1 i ming the business of that section on of the state of utah land plentiful we have the land there and can care for the people and this land can produce the results in the uinta basin today there remains the last of the cheap irrigated land in the country indian allotment land with primary water rights can be had for from 12 to 20 an acre paten patented tid homestead land at from 15 to 30 an acre the minute a railroad turns a shovel of earth to build into this district that land will be worth an acre there is at the present time sufficient land under canal in the uinta basin to give families 40 acres each and that means 50 people we want those pe people ale As a matter of fact the land under canal wholly and partially in the uinta basin totaling acres is more than one third of the total area of land in n the state subject to irrigating we have now under canal acres and acres more partly bartly under canal compare this area with the irrigated lands in boxelder Box elder cache davis morgan rich tooele thoele and weber which total but and you can in a measure realize the extent of country we have and these irrigated lands cover only a small portion of the total area of this amount only acres are under cultivation and we have but people in the basin which extends for miles east and west and 75 miles north and south timber and minerals of the resources in the basin in one district alone according to government reports there are feet of tim ready for the saw there are gilsonite deposits estimated by government experts to be worth an amount sufficient to pay our national debt seven times coal deposits with a vein 65 feet thick and of value which cannot be estimated asphalt and other minerals which cannot be estimate ed in value for they never have been fully explored including the richest copper deposits of the state to say nothing of the wealth in agriculture and horticulture ti and live stock which await development but we need a railroad and it is up to salt lake to help us get it at the close of mr colletts speech carrol S burcher gave figures on the cost of construct ing the moffat line and said that if salt lake was to participate in te business of the uinta basin it must start building a road from this end he also recited unsuccessful attempts made in salt lake to assist in Anan financing cing the moffat line deseret news sept 24 |
