Show WHO CAN HELP US MOST DENVER OR SALT LAKE I 1 roosevelt utah march 27 1828 1928 editor roosevelt standard Stan daid roosevelt utah dear sir I 1 have read with much interest Inte iest the splendid articles ai tides appearing in the standard or on who can call help the uintah basin most salt lake or denver aad I 1 wish to highly commend the writers for the points brought out llo however thre there are a tew more views which should be emphasized and which I 1 am submitting lor for publication lul in your paper A good highway between uintah basia and salt lake city would be a great benefit to the people liere here but from a purely economic standpoint the help which denver ean can and eventually will give ghe this commonwealth mon wealth a transcontinental tall lail load would be much greater the building of a faist class highway irom from provo at this time would place us in III it a bondage that would be a baiden to us the rest lest of out our lives w which we would have to hand down to our succeeding progeny and at the same time riot not improve economic conditions so why make our children suiter suffer for our iniquities there are two essentials to the growth and expansion of 0 the uintah basin A dependable means of 0 tian sport atlon tatton and the investment oi of capital for the development of the many industrial possibilities w exist here the construction ot of it i railroad front from craig colorado through th the basin would asslie us both of these and at the same time give us another big lift in a deiy substantial way a reduction in taxes which would inevitably ineita bly conil with the advent of it a railroad salt lake city has never gone out of her way to boost the uintah basin except in the past few months when much propaganda has been broadcast in regard to tup the great benefits that would be derived front from a hard surfaced highway front suit salt lale lake to 0 the basin by salt lane lake on oil the other land hand denver has always been boosting for I 1 thi ill I 1 section and lias has gone a step farther faither by aiding materially in it the completion of the one gibat banier between us the moffat tunnel in III conclusion I 1 will say that if the uintah basin wants to grow ii if Is up tip to the people of bastein uta to cooperate with denver and colorado interests and boost until the desired end is attained and let salt lake city hold the sack respectfully submitted by it a taxpayer HAZEL H |