Uintah Basin Promises Great Irrigated Future and Rail Links
Denver reports J Healing of Steamboat says Uintah Basin holds vast irrigable land under government and private enterprise. He notes 26,000 petitioners, 490 miles of waterways, $600,000 federal irrigation funds, and early April to November growing seasons. He highlights crops, silk worms in Vernal, isolation from rail, and potential railroad routes accelerating the basin’s development.
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Denver
J. Healing
Steamboat
United States
Uncle Sam
Ures
Duchesne
Wasatch Range
Grand Tivey
Uintah
Texas
Uintah Basin
Vernal
Mexikane Gulf of California
Trunk Pacific
Liretia Circle
Prince Rupert
Estern Pacific
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Alger Pointe
Roosevelt rumors and community notices in Vernal column
Local notes report melon thefts affecting patches near Vernal and Roose velt with crops damaged. Mrs. Creer leaves to teach in Provo. farewell at hall with WTU gift. Prof Winslow arrives as Roosevlt school principal. Septem ber term begins. Road, bridge and sanitation concerns voiced by residents. requests for county action and material aid.
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Theodore Ripe
Archie Jenkins
R GL Woodward
Roosevelt
Moving Picture
Frank Creer
Provo
W. OG. T UL
Laber
McCurdy
Jos
Pierce
le Hia
L Claire Winslow
Roosvelt
Farmers Institute Weld at Vernal Inspires Local Farmers
The Weld at Vernal Farmers Institute opened Saturday August 20 with speeches by Prof Merrill, State Agricultural Inspector J Edward Taylor, and Prof John T Calne. They discussed crop possibilities water conservation fruit care and livestock improvements to guide about fifty attendees toward better farming practices.
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M. Young
L A Mervilil
J. Edward Taylor
Merrill
Nanole
Utah
J Edward Taylor
Taylor
John T Calne
Roosevelt
Calne
Brave sisters escape as runaway buggy frightens herd
Last Saturday a buggy with Disa Loss Trim Stella and a baby set off, the horse bolted through yards and ditches, throwing Mike Talim. The girls bounced from the seat but Stella clung to the buggy bow and the baby, both uninjured though terrified. Several witnesses watched the dramatic escape near Enos Bounions.
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Disa
Trim
Stella
Mike Talim
Uliton Avenue
Anna L Youngs
Enos Bounions
James
Bennett News Notes Changes and Movements
Bennett news reports Mr and Mrs Golding of Wellington visiting their daughter Mire in Waren Locks Thomas Gunn moves his house to Meredian Avenue to observe activity Logs arrived Thursday for the Tenhkeit Echoel Trouse and readiness for September school start Our Branch president plans to return home and the meetinghouse should be ready before snow A new mall route will connect Whiterocks Hayden Dennett and Roosevelt John Undberg will manage the Bennett Post Office
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Bennett News
Golding
Wellington
Waren Locks
Thomas Gunn
Meredian Avene
Whiterocks
Hayden
Dennett
Roosevelt
John Undberg
Bennett
Naples Amusement Hall Project Advances in District
Naples planning group led by Alfred Powell pushes a 46 by 40 foot amusement hall with future stage addition. They hold a permit for 6000 feet of lumber and expect rapid progress on the grounds north of the Naples meeting house. Ward members praise the initiative as a strong community effort. G Bingham reports seventy bushels per acre wheat and will display at the September fair.
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Naples
Alfred Powell
Naples Ward
G. Bingham
Freigth Aut
Big freight autos make trial runs to Vernal carrying 6260 pounds of freight, five men and a gasoline barrel. The one day trip used two new Cooper wagons with fifty passengers for a joy ride. Demonstrations showed turning ability and long distance run with several stops. Also reports of a threshing separator fire near Bennion farm burning eight bushels and several hundred bushels of grain, with damage. Telephone insulators shot, services between Vernal and neighboring towns halted by vandalism.
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Auto
Diagon
Thia
Murray
Bric Bennion
Machiine
Now Hydrocarbon Company Field Operations Begin
The text notes Now Hydrocarbon Company planning field work near Gonanaa with Rock AL Pope as field manager and George Silvey involved. It mentions land agents, reservations, and homestead candidacy, while weaving in unrelated local references and fragmented details about fires and distant mountains.
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Hydracarlon Ca
Gonanaa
AL Pope Clalms
George Silvey
Mr Pope
Iolika
Forest Fires Devastate Idats Region Across Panhandle
A series of fires devastate Idats and the Tiwagi Bosa area, forcing depopulation and widespread damage to timber and lakes. Troops and foresters battle the blazes, with reports of hundreds of structures burned and thousands displaced as government aid follows for the homeless.
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Tiwagi
Bosa
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John Nowland
Leland Beach
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Costa
Merri
Lotr
Farmers’ Institute, Weld
Nellie
Ashton
Los Angeles
Daniel
Lupene Hamilton
Theodo
Bessie May Danner
Illinois
William
Francis
Poy Duchesns
Bertha J
Justice
Mortat
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Mery
Fern Young
Richard Towler
Salt Lake
Mr. Samilatch
Peter G Wait
Manila
Mr. Walls
Wall
Chicago Post
BIG Freight
AUTS
Soma
Servica
Hobart
Hobart M. Cable
Rebeau Calder
Lee Thorne
Ashley Valley
Davis House Varnishing Company
Henderson
Mer
Hydrogarbonm Company
Mr Wanna
Geveral Weeka
Loardy
Lo N Meredith
Mercolin
Ashlep Wat Joy
Uintah Mountains
Ousiad
Thisle
Idats
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