Show SALT LAKE PAPER SOUNDS WARNING TO BUSINESS MEN we traveled through miles mile and miles ot of wonderful over in it tile the uintah bashi there were green fields and irrigation ditches on every band unperturbed cattle were grazing on ion green alfalfa and some ot or thern them were sc full of 0 provender that hp knit had laid down to rest thelt v v ej ceafy y legs leg y 8 we were or on tile the inland empire trade excursion aa is conducted by the salt luke lake commercial club wb wont over thero there to try to tell then them how to conduct their business at one 0 of o the first banquets offered by the locate indigenous somebody from salt lake bald this looks to me like the promised land somebody iso else who lived there got up and said it sure to la the promised landall wo we have been getting froam irom salt lake N promises pro wises not a one of them lias has yet mado made good we can get more from colorado in 16 one week than we can get froni from salt lake in a ai year your promises promises are like the anda sa ada odthe green river which 51 break s through the mountain range here tvs lys way one year and next year another can we dev develop lop OUT ou inland empire on such support as that them there was wag tough words and the boys from salt lake began to sit up tip and take notice a man got up on oil his hind lepe and invited all the farmers of the uintah babu to come over to salt lake and borrow money to keep their turkeys honey honay alfa alfalfa ifa grain cattle sheep gilsonite busy ile he said the salt lake bankers would lend the money but he say that they would probably extract the eye tooth before performing the operation then another man got up and told the word that colorado was going after eastern business lie ile said that they wre going to bull build a truck road into eastern utah that would take the products out in a few weeks and let them argue about a railroad tor for three years after lie ile said that you might just as well divorce eastorn eastern utah from the rest of the if you hope to get arty any of that sections money or profits eastern utah including the counties on north are tired of listening to the glit glittering terig promises of the money eban changers cers of salt lake action 1 la what Is required he be said people cannot live on promises we heard this tort sort of conver conversation bation in I 1 several cities of northeastern utah they are shipping their products to colorado now and buying what they need from that state they say that colorado treats them well and Is building good truck roads to get the stuff in and out their turkeys will market just as ai well jn in D denver as aa in III salt lake but there is no good way to get them to salt lake we came away with a feeling 0 emptiness in the stomach plenty of food Is being raised b but ut I 1 it t goes goe s to another state the mere geographical lines laid down by uncle sam dont mean anything in the law of supply and demand it if salt lake city cily the metropolis melro polla or of the in te fain country does doeg not go atter after eastern abet arn utah from thes tha wyoming line to arizona she might rolsy just av as well cede ceda halt half of the state to colorado you have heard enough about the T resources of the uintah basin you have been taught caught to believe that it la is lined with coal and aad gilsonite As aa a matter or of fact act it la Is and besides i hat it has plenty of water to irrigate rich acres you have not heard however that it they produce their products ot of the holl boll how to they are going to get etera out to market that la Is the chief thing that concerns concerns the uintah basin now what is the use they say of producing obese things it we cant get gel thera them to market people have talked railroads until you would arrive at the ion that they are the only means of transportation they belong to thi th old school where rails and iron wheels were the only means ot of getting stuff over the ground then I 1 a new means ot of transporting products of the land and on a good road with a good truck sali salt lake is about to miss a gaoa good opportunity with the expenditure of one hundred thousand or two hun tired thousand dollars a as the caseday case may aroe site she could blued a paved road into the uintah basin and bring the tro products ducts ot of that wonderful country here lere they can be put into cans over there it if you wish but in either even they can go forth to teed feed the world 1 some one said eald that halt ot of the boril world d does not know how the other balf gets along and believe vs us aft h said a mouthful although we had been working on a newspaper in this town tor for years we know any more about uintah basin than of siberia on this last visit of 0 the in development campaign conducted by the salt lake commercial club the utah manufacturers association and allied concerns we got in touch with the men who are try ing to make of 0 that won darful country of northeastern utah they believe in it because they have tried it out they say that if they had bad good roads the could sell all ihde products at a profit they are now situated a long way from a railroad in III the midst ot of one of the richest sections you ever saw they rhey can raise things there thief that the tha world Is 19 crying for or but what sha t he use ite it e of raising them it if you cant get them out I 1 they a great deal of money because they have been bucking ut ui against a hard bard game there Is money iu utah however and the state la Is just beginning to attract attention as one of 0 the richest in natural resources of the whole united family it if we could step out more and oki a few more chances we could make I 1 more money it money ls Is what you want anyway we could bring bar to a large section of the WB cef ern empire it if we operated cooperated co gool fellowship Howship fe with business deseret news |