Show th A I 1 n HI n II 11 i 0 v e FF MAI bak av ca wa F A of aaen rivela 1 a eme I 1 y arm 0 U nt are area a X rich w ich I 1 sn un history city y name aa 2 hanged L junry divided twice this year 1955 is emery diamond jubilee anniversary emery county was first organized seventy five years ago on february 12 1880 shortly before the county was established tom farrer from from england was s first known settler in 1879 the only sign of civilization here when mr farrer came in was a mail station used by a mr blake on his mail route between salma salina and la sal soon the place came to be known as blake city and for eight years it bore that name finally in 1895 when tom far was the postmaster he peti tinned congress to change the name of the town to that which cont continued aued on page a 2 col cal 1 anniversary continued from page 1 was on the railroad station green river utah the petition for county bation submitted by ehas elias cox emanuel bagley and john K reid was granted by act of the state legislature it asked that the name of the new county be castle county however the name designated by the legisla tive assembly was emery this was in honor of the honorable george W emery who had been the territorial governor of utah from june 1875 to january 1880 emery county has the distinction of being the only county in utah to bear the name of any utah governor ten years later in 1890 all that portion of emery county which ix was as east of the green river and north of the brown buttes was taken by the legislature to create grand county four years later in 1894 emery county suffered a second division when the state legislature granted a charter to carbon county on the north which further curtailed its sources of revenue derived from taxation in 1890 the official census of emery county was 5 five years later after the two di dl visions the population of the county had been reduced to 4 it took thirty f five ive years f for or the population to increase to due to the great influx of new people prospectors miners oil men etc it would be impossible to estimate with any accuracy the number of people there are today in emery county most estimates agree that the population of green biver river alone has tripled in the past year |