Show MOM great country Is held isolated by commission wealth of KD an empire held sealed for a generation lack of rail kail transportation holding back development ve of uintah basin will utah act for her people and for herself I 1 A number or of utah small town editors and newspaper owners all members ot of the utah state press association visited the uintah basin country on sunday and monday ot of this week for many of them it was their first visit to the basin most of them thought thourl it they thae had a fair idea of what the basin really was but few or any of them had a correct conception of 0 tire the immensity inen sity or importance of the region the basin taken in connection with its near neighbor carbon county it if the ferous mines of the state are excluded contains undeveloped wealth many told fold greater than that of the entire state with this truth before us and it is a truth it Is well nigh criminal that it has so long been neglected through lack of transportation on what meat doth our inte antei state commerce commission teai real that it should persistently to place its brand of approval tor for a railroad through this great domain so rich in undeveloped resources sou ices why does the commission persist in refusing to allow a railroad to be built through the basto basin from its present terminus tei minus ot of the road to a connection with salt sall lake city why a ar more than people many ot of whom have waited for a railroad tor for more than twenty years doomed to go down domn to their graves shut off from the world of transportation and commerce these people know only too well that hope long deferred mabeth the heart sad it the members of the commission had a proper appreciation of this great country and its people the extension of the moffat load or a connecting link would surely be encouraged cou raged to build through th basin what Is salt lake city and utah thinking of to allow this great country to continue to be sealed away from the world it if one could but know just what is prompting the commission it might be news indeed Is this great country to be continually isolated for want of transportation at the whim of a bureaucratic commission it seems that it is as long as the people of utah remain subservient to its edicts without protest this week another go good od will delegation front from salt lake city visited the basin but one is inclined to think thin that the delegation dele gatior was more In interested terestea in securing water tor for salt lake city than in helping the basin to secure a railroad salt lake is justified in be curing some of the surplus water from the basin they need it but bin more benefit will redound to salt lake city and utah from transportation por tation into the basin that than from securing an additional water supply i in the dasin are acres ot of reclaimed land perhaps as much as there is in the entire state stat 0 and there as as much more to be reclaimed had there been railroad transportation to the basin many utahna who have emigrated to idaho and adjoining states would have remained in utah and through their efforts added to the wealth wad and prosperity of the state the basin has hag land water coal gilsonite aspli altur timber water power and undeveloped resources for the making of a gr great state the question is will utah ut tee to it that these sturdy pioneers in the basin are treed freed from the bondage of isolation and thereby add millions and millions ot of dollars to our valuation atlon or continue indifferent to great opportunity |