The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-25
Irrigation viii Bring Great
Prosperity to All Parts of
Reservation.
WILL BUILD CANALS
ON LAND BOARD LOAN
Uintah Railroad Will Con
struct Tunnel and Stand
ardiZe Its Road.

"If the state land board decides to
make the contemplated loan of 1870, 600
for the purpose of promoting irrigation on
the old Ulntah reservation. nothing cnn
prevent Duchesne and other towns on the
reservation from booming" says w. Fl,
Fitzwater. postmaster at Duchesne. Mr
Fitzwater 10 Visiting In Salt Lake City on
business, and incidentally finds time to
put In a few good words for the country
he represents.
''If the irrigation fund Is secured" said
Mr.. Fitzwater. land Indications are that
It will be- we will start building canals
on the Blue bench at once. There are
$4,000 acres OF splendid land on this
bench which can be worked prontably
with Irrigation, and an additional 1000
acres on the West bench can also be
titled TO good advantage.
However. without this we are making
good progress In settlement work. and
Indications for continued growth OF the
reservation country are very promising.
A now $4,000 bridge Is being built over
the n Duchesne river river at Dpehesne' and pro.
plant on the point Of the merging OF the
Duchesne and Strawberry rivers. where
a sheer drop OF $50 feet affords the best
possible site for q plant capable Of de-
veloping almost unlimited power.
Gold Discovery E1cites Public,
reported discovery OF gold about twenty
miles north OF Duchesne on Lake fork,
and Uncle Jesse" Knight and his son.
were out there last week Investigating
the new finds. I am informed that the
flrst assays of the ore show the presence
of gold TO the value OF 80 per pound.
I'VE haven't succeeded in getting our
railroad as yet. but it looks as though
some definite action looking to the con-
struc,ion OF this steel highway would be
people are Of course very anxious for
the road to come through. but in the
meantime we are opening up the country
in readiness fol. II when 1t does come
and altogether the prospects are bright. >"
Will Standardize Road.
Captain M; W. Cooley, general man
ager Of the ulntah railway, has recently
given the assurance. according to late
advices from Duchesne, that the direc-
tors OF the railroad company at their
the spring on a tunnel through Book
cliffs, This tunnel will moan an ex-
pnnditure OF about s1,25o.444. and will
eliminate the Sc degree curves and the
Uintah railroad peoole to standardize
their road. Then the big Baldwin en-
gines In use on the Moffat road will re-
place the little Shea engines now used
on the Uintah road.
Captain Cooley also gave the informa
ton that the fourteen mile extension on
the tn :, road oa ,u out Of Dragon. which was
in about ten days for travel. Standard
gauge tieg are being used on this ex--
tension. and big ties are being used also
In whatever repairs are necessary In
the road below the point where the tun-
mel is to be sent into the mountain. so
that all preparation Is being made for
the VISTA standaTdzatton thIe Of the entire road
automobile station will be moved from
Dragon to Bonanza. and If business
tustifies II Captain Cooley has promised
that the Uintah company will put on three
large passenger automobiles. and extend
the auto service from Bonanza to Ny
ton, This will virtually put Myton as
close to the terminus of the Uintah rail-
road as Fort Duchesne is now
The Barber Asphalt company owns the
Uintah road. and Captain Cooley has
given his OPT ion that the money needed
for building the tunnel Is now In the
company's treasury. ready for expendi-
ture.