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Show Pr: >P & 'f if # A f1 //5 f y • -i i /^ i ce . AJ .... ,i ' js >• '>1.' f ;'{ . If of j P . a .' .0 ' t, • 0 . * i r Good alfalfa hay was selling in the Basin for $9.00 and 510.00 a ton. It is produced in considerable quantities , by both Indians and whites, as It usually is a first crop on raw lands. I found no anxiety among the owners of the hay to dispose of it at tlio prevailing prices. Last year, hay. sold •; in the Basin, during tho winter, at a price as high as $40.00 7/ " _ ,; ?•; ..- a ton. Tho'owners of the hay are awaiting some suoh price for their crops of this season. It i3 scarcely likely, however, that the price -will exceed, at any time during the approaching winter, $13.00 or ^18.00 a ton, aa there are large quantities available, and in the view of local weather sharps, tho winter I V - i s, is scarcely likely to be so severe aa that of last year* 0 t Sugar, which i3 not produced in tha Basin, costs from t t 3-i,7 to 97 a pound, or aven mere, tho price varying with the amount of the purchase. Honey, the finest I ever tasted, ia produced in considerable quantities in the Pasin and is sailing, locally, at a trifle under 67 a pound. It i3 far cheaper than sugar. • • .' . : •'0 J'.AA \r.: .','• 0 ' ''"' '• f'' • ' • ry' Of •-,:•': 0. A 0 A,. ",,. Poultry, y butter and'eggs are produced in considerable quan- t;., i"c,..vicea. titles in the Uintah Basin, and the prices, locally, aro reasonable. Immense quantities of chickons and turkeys are shipped from the Uintah Easin to Salt Lake City and other cities and towns l^n that region. All shipments of that kind, curiously enough, \ \ are*-made by parcel post, because of tho high cost of steam, rail-k |