Show OBJECTS TO BLOCKING OUR OU resources SOURCES nE if you will examine a map of the state of utah you will possibly be attracted by certain features of it because of questions these futures es will bring to your mind you will notice that the entire e eastern half of the state supports very few people although it has more water than the west half As moisture is the important element in this arid and climate one naturally concludes that where there are so many streams and with green grcen river largest str stream running through the country there s should be some good farming goad farms with plenty of them means towns and development in P dl 11 lines eastern utah has the wat water er and the land but the development is rather slow no large towns and only the main li line ne of the D R G with them uinta inta railway companas comp anys stub line to watson the map tells a true story that is eastern utah lias has a largo large part of the states wealth arid and it is largely undeveloped why lets examine the facts pos sibly we can see sec and understand bomeli something in we did rot not know about G ga per cent of aalthe ail the running iv water ter in utah goes brough the canyon near ouray wn the green river gorge apa and 1 I kiac aig part of this water d drains ains Z arm vm v m me iho fer fertile lile acres of the uin vi t basin about 11 60 per pc r c ent cent of i the ile stites st ites tal timber aber is on the range r g the basin we have ss es much lard land lar d with water for it all red ajr r use as there is to b found in n uso use act between acen provo prove and preston in tho the r 0 d si part of ul utah L ah I 1 ii I 1 i lie U unica ita bf b 3 ii yve ve have n as s I 1 arch I 1 1 I 1 A aa rendy for uc rs thare is in the re cf f iha state with adaha in thais Tnt 3 ch in the uinta moo ni hiis we ve have a nit mt ural wc nairi 11 nl 1 equal to the yel listone lw stone nark in beauty and huvers IU vers timber ig rs r s caves of lakes and a natural 1 I park farm every viewpoint thru i we nye have h vo vast beds of lignite coal one of the coun I 1 arys b ge geologists ingists states that ca the 0 oil barin in the he coun cound try iry is in iha it uinta hii ta ba basin ahn very lax lre e oil shale still pub I 1 1 lip lie d domain main waiting only for cap capital these beds run as hi high gh as 65 per cent oil and none of the A below 80 30 per cent Th the famous scotland beds are far I 1 less ic ss valuable and yet they have furnished kerosene for the brit I 1 irh ich isles for a long time I 1 As if nature did not have any other place for her mammoth stores of cf great wealth tha th supply of hydro carbona axe are stored here hav having iniza a present vatus value of 0 S n q COO wb r is tris 1 i api piro re not settled up LIM wil a railroad or two running ing into it il anti and through it tho the answering of this question is 13 the real purpose of chis this article in early days the ute indians were given this big country as i their part of cf the state and an army post poet was established at fort duchesne the heart oi of the basin was known as ah in than dian reservation the indians nave have dwindled in number until they are possibly 1000 all told in 1905 the reservation was thrown open to entry under certain restrictions about acres was reserved as farming lind for the indians and a large drea area was set aside as their grazing lands the remainder of the country was thrown open to entry under the homestead law that is that part which was not included in the forest re serves there is a great big game being played out here in eastern utah a game that has escaped attention of the citizens of utah because of its unusual ma magnitude add unheard of daring the garrie ganic concerns eastern utah but it is of course being played in I 1 washington or in some offices jr n A and out of our state As if utah needs federal supervision per vision and management eternally the government aids and certain capitalists recent recently y had congress withdraw between and acres of our uinta b basin sin lands from entry taking away from the settlers their rights under the red tape appertaining thereto this last big reservation is mads made so that a reservoir may be made here to irrigate land ladd down in california utah must duvvy divvy up a big block of her soil so gd that they may benefit down in the imperial valley country it is well to be magnanimous and broadminded broad minded it is well to bo be liberal and not to begrudge california enough utah ground for a reservoir reservoir I 1 if and therein is the question uncle samuel will not be too generous with uinta basin land an and nd if the reverend ge gentleman i nolenia ii will let thi tha people of cf utah have some say in the matt matter ar utah was a territory forn for a long time while sur rounding states with fewer people enjoyed the privileges of statehood but utah is a state now and as a state rather than as a distant territory utah should be consulted in such im por tint matters as the giving of a few hundred thousand acres acre cf her land so that california Californi my may have a res reservoir ervol r this propos proposed cd res r va jalcs the heart out of th this is ng big uinta basin if W we e had co control of our own soil w m e would never I 1 let t cali fornia forna have the strategic ic point of eastern utah t th viz tic the country o bave 1 the I le junction tion cf cf white ate r river vcr duchesne river n and nd green grcen river at this poira we should soon have bave a lar large e sug sugar r factory and pipe beet aulce iu ice thi e from all Y points rf cf the basin brause because the fall is ample to make the matter simple arid and the correct method of handl ing beets at ouray we v e have a s strategic point and in the days day that are to come this fact will be brought out in bold relief relief on the map that abat is if utah can bianc hansge ge her own affairs of course ol seli if cang congress can give some ether sr diate ate a reservoir ir site most any old place then the matter is quite different but hold congress apparently thinks this binl uinta basin is all for general national pu purposes reposes Dc december cember 3 the report came from washington that secretary lane recommended to president wilson that acres in utah and acres in colorado be withdrawn from entry this last big nationalization of utah ands is known know n in t the he books as athe green river form formation aaion that i is the oil shale and oil lands in the green river ever drainage in utah and colorado it is estimated that there is one billion barrels of fuel oil in this shale and alid tho the sc secretary believes that the government should reserve it utah is of course a public land state and must bear a certain amount of supervision in land matters our citizens must obtain title from uncle sam ell all ri right but there is such w a tiling thing as overdoing over doing a good thing E fig aside agid from efrom this pil gil shale we nave have appears TO oe me largest lake of oil known in this country but if the government reserves the oil shale and then lets california people corr comer er the oil land by making a reser reservoir volf site out of it utah will fare rather poorly lets look over the proposition a little more after the order of a birds eye view first we have a vast area set aside as a forest reserve it takes in the uinta range and much of the wa mya satch range the timber god made for the use of the settlers of these arid and benches must come through the hands of the federal official and we must pay for the federalization its all right to have supervision of the forests that is essential but utah might handle its own timber no wo we concluded on page 8 |