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Show 110 dustry to whioh oonsidorabl o attention is paid, "uanti-ties of turkeys and ohiokans are sent to Salt Lake City by Parcel Post where they find a ready market. One of the most profitable industries of the Basin is bee-raising. In 12L9, there wears about 40 apiaries in the Basin, containing about 50CO hlvea of bees and representing aa investment of ^60,000. During that year, about 600,000 lbs. of honey was produced valued at $108,000. it is estimated th at wi th the increase in the products of alfalfa and sweet clover, tha hensy orop will shortly be worth ^200,000 anually. It is said that tls Uintah Basin ho any haa no superior. liarkets:- The lack of ad a quate transportation facilities has greatly retarded the dsvdlopment ^>f tbs. Basin. This 13 due to the surrounding mountains, whioh have prsvented tha entrance of a railroad. 'Ihe nearest point ona standard gage road i3 Price, on the Denver and Bio Cranio Bailroad, about eighty miles to the south. Watson, on the eastern edge of the Basin is on a narrow h'age railroad, that connects at Back, Colorador seventy miles to the southeast, with the Denver & Bio Grande Bailroad. Tho neireet markets othor than the local ones in the Basin and along the railroads are ~3io mining camps on the Denver & Hio Grande Railroad, ninoty miles to the south, |