Show astounding facts given on uintah basin substance of address given by J 11 slay may in n authority on iain ia in ke he sources at tile the recent Alec alerting ting of t tho lie uintah empire limp iio trade cicur slon sion the population of that large undeveloped region kno known as the ulu tah basin in northeastern utah anil ana northwestern colorado Is about people slightly over living in ili the utah part and in the colorado section this atea is 13 about as large as the new england Bli glana states which have a population ot or millions principle products be because aube of oc not having transportation either railroads or good auto road the basin must depend on oil products which may be moved to the lall roads and hence they must con call line themselves to live stock honey alfalfa and clover seed butter poultry etc in ili this large dittri dai tract ct paralleling tho the uintah mountains running carat and wet abbout three hundred thousand head 0 of sheep arii are grazed very little belne necessary and possibly forty thousand boad bead of cattle milk stock i rapidly becoming important althous although the importance 1 of the dairy demands much more attention to the grade ot of dairy cattle from ten to thirty cars 0 of are shipped lipped el each season varying with the year but the industry I 1 is rapidly growing timber I 1 ig plentiful in fact act more than two thirds of all the timber in tile tho state of 0 utah is on the southern slopes of the uintah range and about the same proportion ot of all the water ln abe state 0 of utah may be found at ouray the geo graphical center and the point to which all st streams reania run tho the united states geographical 1 survey estimates the market value ot of the gilsonite gilso alte at seven billion dollars and the clat has a large value there is much coal varying irom from a lignite to a big grade bl near rangley colo ratio rado oil wells now produce much more gasoline than may be consumed by tle many auto trucks and passenger lines that run in and out of 0 the basin batih to denver grand juno june tion lion price and alid to salt lake cief X W sew new road about completed from arnd junction to hlll let it of this surplus oil be taken ont to reach tile the larger veins ot of gilsonite the uintah railroad a narrow guage road was built from mack colorado to Wat Wats utah and now dow has a permit tor for twenty five mile extension down toward the white river opening up tip new territory the alfalfa and clover seed busl ilece is becoming more important and from a secondary consideration the 1922 crop will be over three million pounds of fancy alfalfa seed the present price of 0 colver seed does not justify the harvesting but it if tile the price were slightly better possibly two million pounds of colver seed could ue ie produced schools although isolated the uintah basin has many good schools even though the average precinct has not sufficient capital for building school drouss as they would like A good high sell ool giving a full course has been b cen established at Mo roosevelt sevelt for fol about ten felt years at vernal a L D S j college and two sectarian high schools are ara operated and excellent district strict li schools in all ot of the thirty live five or more precincts in the Du duchesne chestle and uintah counties in the utah section con continued inked on page 4 |