Identifier: wealthofuintahba00cook (find matches)
Title: Wealth of the Uintah Basin, Utah, and automobile guide ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Charles Booker, 1863- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Denver, Printed by the Carson-Harper co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Cozy Corner, Fort Duchesne. Utah, showing asphaltum pavement17
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\yEALTH OF THE UINTAH BASIN, UTAH Physical Features of Uintah Basin (By Earl Douglass) To those who have spent their lives in the Uintah Basin itsphysical features seem quite matter-of-fact. The stranger seesit as a strange land indeed, a chaos of rocks, hills, buttes, bad-hinds, valleys, caiions, benches, foot-hills and mountains. Thosewlio have an eye for the wild and out-of-the-way, the beautifuland picturesque, who are weary of cities and artificiality, revelin its wildness. The practical man sees the billions in money-value in itsgilsonite, asphalt, and other hydro-carbons, in its prospects ofgreat oil-outputs, in the forests and minerals of its mountains,and its great engineering possibilities which will make streamsof water in the deserts, causing them to blossom as the rose,and in other sources of wealth and progress too numerous tomention here. The man whose chief interest is in human progress sees invision a land transformed, sees hundreds of thousands of farmsand pleasant h

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