Show duchesne Is gateway to great uintah basin and its wealth IV of resources hope of development of stored up treasures of coal and Oil Spurs citizens to interest outside capital in developing basin agriculture has large part in growth of region thus far optimism is creed of citizens duchesne t the st e gateway city of the uintah basin ba and the capitol city of duchesne county is situated at the junction of the duchesne and strawberry rivers in a verdant little valley between the hills it is also the junction point of all roads leading into and out of the uintah basin from the west th through r ough this town in the course of a year pass millions of pounds of freight including wool alfalfa seed honey gilsonite ela tente sheep cattle hogs and turkeys together with the incoming machinery and supplies for the twenty two thousand people who comprise the population of this vast inland empire the potential wealth of the uintah basin is practically unlimited it is the best watered section of the state of utah contains more than 60 of all the timber 10 of the sheep and cattle 10 1070 of the horses 35 of the honey estimated hydrocarbon wealth of vast mountains of sand asphaltum the largest coal veins in the united states the best average climate in the intermountain country mountain lakes and streams where fishing is excellent and the scenery is unexcelled thousands of acres of available agricultural lands which offer potential homes to a hundred thousand more families duchesne city with a present population of approximately a thousand people is the hub of nearly one half this vast section comprising a territory larger than the combined areas of connecticut rhode island and massachusetts it is a modern modem town in in every respect with modern modem water system electric lights macadamized macada mazed roads ads good schools churches stores and garages at the present time business houses of the town comprises two general tile st stores ores two drug stores one clothing s tore store one harness store a bakery a creamery a sawmill an alfalfa seed plant an up to date flour mill and tour four ga for the government air mail service which also happens to be the largest rural free delivery route in the world it is ie the freight depot for the large trucking companies operating through indian indian canyon to the south and the strawberry valley to the west and acting as a connecting link with the railroads sixty and one hundred miles away respectively duchesne has a first class school system consisting of ten grades and ten teachers she has a school population po pu of three hundred seventy pupils the pupils are housed in a four room brick building and eight rooms of a new modern stucco structure the first f programs in the nation it may justly ly be de supposed that Du chesnes school system compares favorably with the detter better districts of the state iler her teachers are all graduates of two year normal schools and several are graduates of modern modem universities the territory contiguous to duchesne comprises the fertile valleys of the strawberry and Du duchesne chegne rivers the ranches and grazing lands of indian canyon and the Avin where thousands of cattle and vast herds berds of sheep are ranged begin ning at the corporate limits of duchesne city on the north is the famous blue bench probably the most extensive fertile and beautiful tract in in the th e in t ermo buntain section it contains approximately of land of this amount between seven and eight thousand acres are under cultivation the greater portion 0 of f which is comprised in the knight investment companas comp anys ranch this is one of the show spots of the basin A modern up to date and efficient sheep ranch where wool growing and alfalfa raising have been reduced to a science to the west of duchesne lies the en entire tire supply of the mining of which has been in 0 operation era since 1899 twenty five miles west in the currant creek district is one of the largest undeveloped coal fields in the world one vein has been exposed which measures forty feet in thickness said to be the largest known in the united states yearly nearly everything that can be raised in the temperate zone can be and is successfully produced in this vicinity vegetables especially potatoes and beets make enormous yields small fruits yield abundantly strawberries raspberries rasp berries currants and gooseberries goose berries produce heavily apples plums melons wheat oats and small grains are staple products pio duets ducts of the farms adjacent to duchesne Du chesno and these crops alone would be an I 1 important factor in the maikels of the world if improved transportation facilities could be obtained A railroad from denver to salt lake city would shorten the east and west haul of the country by more than a hundred miles and at the same time open to the world an agricultural territory larger than many of our eastern astern states it would afford homes to io thousands of families it would bring development to the vast min mill ral deposits within the basin afford ing employment to thousands water power is available everywhere millions ajl of potential horsepower could be put to practical use cities would spring up where now only sagebrush glows gi aws some day this is bound to come and when it does duchesne city holds a strategic position the natural contour of the country is such that all roads must load lead through this town it is indeed the gateway city the hospitable outa outpost 0 st of a hospitable country a country whose people invite the world at large to come and see sec thorn them to investigate the possibilities and to abide with them and to help them in the develops development of this vast empire |