Excerpt from Wealth of the Uintah Basin, UtahThe estimated area of land is acres, of which 540, 000 acres is tillable. The portion not tillable is divided into grazing, timber, oil, mineral and bad lands. Of the tillable land there is probably acres under cultivation. The general slope of the country is east and southeast, with a fall just right for easy irrigation. The character of the soil varies according to the location. In one section of the country is the red sandy loam and in another is the gray clay. The low country is' made soil and is anywhere from five to fifty feet in depth. It has been said that if the Uintah Basin were cut off from all the rest of the world, with no means of ingress or egress, it would be self supporting. It would produce everything with the exception of tropical fruits. The main crops are fruit, alfalfa, sweet clover, oats, wheat, barley, rye, cane, melons, garden truck of all kinds, and sugar beets.It is the best watered country in the West. In order to get an idea of the number of streams the reader is invited to refer to the map. The rivers and creeks, rising in the mountains-hurry in their mad ¿ight, one running into the other, until the identity of all merges into three, near Ouray, and afterwards into one, the great Green, which moves on in search of the mysteries of the Grand canon of the Colorado.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.