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Show State F6SS Ass ociati uUetih Supplement to QAL on 1TIKIIE 17 Y Carbon County Is Locale of Utah's Great Coal Industry ' -. .... . m ,-n-, ,, , ' I ! 1 1 1 1 I II IJPII II. IUUIIlMIIIIWUI.il WJIHJII IWITTMMrT-1 ' " I 1 " Price Is Key City ot Eastern Utah's Vast Treasure House; Is Ideally Located Up-to-date City Boasts Wonderful School System; Sys-tem; Coal, Agricultural and Sheep Industries Annually Add Millions to Carbon Metropolis' Store of Wealth; Tourist Business is Given Impetus Through Improved Road System Price, one of the recent hosts to the members of the Utah State Press association, as-sociation, has long been noted as one of the foremost cities of the eastern and southern portion of the state. Four counties utilize the city as their principal shipping point, and exclusive of the vast area of coal which is produced pro-duced in the region surrounding Price, the shipments of produce from this point would compare favorably with those of any other community of like size in the state. Carbon county, of which Price is the county seat, is the center of activities for the major portion of the coal-mining industry in the state of Utah. Tf early more than five million tons of coal are mined in the Carbon county mines, and shipped to other sections of Utah and to other states. The year ly payroll of the county, from the mining industry alone is more than $6,000,000. Coupled with the agricultural agricul-tural industries, and other resources, the county is one of the richest in the state. Price is advantageously situated sit-uated so as to claim its share of the business which these various lines pro duce. Yearly more wool is shipped out of Carbon county and from Price sta tion than from any other shipping point in the state of Utah, Wyoming or Idaho, according to officials oi the Denver and Rio Grande Western rail road, on the Salt Lake division. In the shipping season just closed, more than 80 carloads of wool were shipped ship-ped from Price, consisting of more than a quarter million fleeces. Highways of the eastern portion of the state all find Price as the most convenient point in the section. A concrete highway leads from Price to Castle Gate, a distance of 11 miles. Roads lead from Price up Willow Creek canyon across the 9,200-foot Indian pass into the Uintah Basin. This is a federal highway, and is kept open for most of the year, by main-tainance main-tainance money from the state and county. Another road leads into the basin through Soldier canyon, via Nine-Mile. The Pikes Peak ocean to" ocean highway goes through Price, and thence southward into Emery county. The Midland trail also travels tra-vels through Price. Price canyon road will be open during the summer of 1928, leading into Salt Lake City, a distance of 128 miles. At the present pres-ent time traffic is being diverted through Willow Creek canyon to the Bambereer monument, and thence across the park to Soldier Summit and to the Utah metropolis. Leading eastward out of Price to the Colorado line is the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean highway, and is in good condition throughout Roads branch from this hierhway into Emery, Grand and San . Juan counties, the roads into the latter country leading to the Natural bridges, three of the scenic wonders of the state. Entering Carbon county from the Westward, one enters a veritable fairyland. The regularity of the western slope of the Wasatch range ends abruptly. The country from Col-ton Col-ton eastward on the east of the summit. sum-mit. The country from Colton east ward becomes a group of castles, superb in their coloring and majestic in their grandeur. Castle date, which is mVt.TirpH hpro is hnt nna nf a thous and scenic marvels which Carbon county has to offer to the eye oi the tourist. Price river canyon is the carrier of Price river, which supplies the water for the irrigation of the 225,000 acres of agricultural land in Carbon county. coun-ty. At Spring-Glen the canyon expands, ex-pands, and shortly before it reaches Price widens out until it is eight miles in width. This land is valuable for agricultural purposes, with orchards and farms dotting the countryside. Many stockmen have their range headquarters head-quarters in this region, and operate over extensive ranges from their base in this valley. The products of Carbon county in the agricultural line are sugar beets, corn, potatoes and small grains, with every variety of garden truck produced here. Dairying has recently become a leading industry, and is being developed de-veloped locally. Movements are on foot to secure a sugar beet factory in this locality to care for the acreage of beets planted annually, -and with the realization of the factory plans, it is the anticipation of those working with the dairy industry that it will be stimulated considerably by the es tablishment. Carbon county has an unusually efficient ef-ficient school system which is constantly con-stantly beine enlarged to cope success fully with the increasing demands of the district. The Carbon county high school, located at Price, is one of the largest in the state, and annually cares for almost one thousand stu dents. Sunnyside and Helper have junior high schools, and efficient grammar schools are established at every community in the county. The schools in the county are under the supervision of D. C. Woodward, Jr., a graduate of Brigham Young university. Price itself has three thriving pub lic schools: the Harding school, Price Central and Southside schools. A Catholic parocheal grade school, No tre Dame, is located in Price also. In Price are situated two of the three high school dormitories in the United States, making it possible for the patrons pa-trons of the high school from the most remote districts of the county to avail themselves of the school. Bus lines are operated also to every portion of the county for the high school students. stu-dents. Price has a Carnegie library, established es-tablished in 1913. The Carbon county coun-ty court house, where have been tried many historic cases, stands in Price. Price city hall, built in 1895 and remodeled re-modeled in 1921, is another of the public buildings in the city. Price is sponsor of a city hospital, where three-fifths of the cases in Carbon Car-bon county are brought for treatment. The balance of the cases are mine company cases under agreement with some one of the hospitals in Salt Lake. The Utah Fuel company has a hospital hos-pital at Castle Gate, the Independent Independ-ent Coal and Coke company has one at Kenilworth, and the Spring Canyon Coal company has a hospital at Spring canyon. Price is the center of the largest star mail route in the United States, operating under U. S. government I supervision. The local mail station J r ! -- - aJ Price's Main Street is a Model for Towns Many Times its Size. distributes all the mail for the Uintah Basin and Emery county. Nearly thir ty great government mail trucks are utilized for the carrying of the mail, and a force of men are in the continual employ of the government keeping the trucks in repair. In the past, tne service given the country offices in the Uintah district has been one in which Cvril B. Cluff, the superintend ent of the routes at Price takes pride. Despite heavy snows in winter and adverse weather conditions in other seasons, the mail has been kept mov ing. Price is the receiving and blending station for one of the largest branches branch-es of the honey industry in the United Unit-ed States. More than 6,000 stands of bees are possessed by Carbon bee raisers whose apiaries dot the broad meadows of the lower Price river valley, val-ley, and the fields of sweet clover and alfalfa lend a flavor to the Carbon county product which makes it in demand de-mand in various markets of the United Unit-ed States. Four churches, representing a scope of creeds, are established in Price. The Carbon stake of the L. D. S. church has a large tabernacle in Price ward, presided over by President A. W. Horsley, and ministered by Bishop William E. Stoker. The Roman Catholics Cath-olics have a pretentious church in Price, with the Very Rev. Monsignor A. F. Giovannoni, supervising. The Rev. Father A. Galaviz assists Mons. on Go0" 1, .. mm i i ' - - - r ,' " V - f -,. -i--r-, . - -rv - - --- - Giovannoni in the duties of the church. The Greek Orthodox creed is represented rep-resented with a church, presided over by the Rev. D. Smyrnoupoulous. The Rev. H. M. Merkel is pastor of the Price Community church, where worshippers wor-shippers of protestant faith congregate. congre-gate. Members of the Buddhist religion, re-ligion, of whom Carbon county has a number, among the Oriental citizenry, citi-zenry, have no regular place of worship, wor-ship, but frequently a high priest from Salt Lake conducts private services serv-ices in the county. The two lodges of Masonry in Carbon Car-bon county, the Carbon and the Jop-pa Jop-pa lodges, have a temple in Price, one of the most artistic of all Price's buildings. . The Carbon post of the American Legion is the only one in the state of Utah which owns its own home, the American Legion hall of Price, having been promoted and built by the local posts of the service serv-ice organization. In addition, there is a lodge of the Knights of Columbus in Price, organized in 1925, Onward Lodge, of the Knights of Pythias, and numerous other erders, local, national and international. The Rotary and the Kiwanis clubs in Price have a representative rep-resentative membership, from among the Price business and professional men. The Business and Professional Women's club in Price has one of the strongest memberships in the state. Price has a up-to-date chamber of commerce, presided over by William Littlejohn. Throughout the season ttois body sponsors many projects, including includ-ing civic, charitable, and publicity enterprises. en-terprises. A municipal band recently reorganized is another organization which Price citizens support. A new dance hall, an amusement re sort, is being constructed by the Price municipality in conjunction with the citizenry. A Bwimming pool was constructed con-structed last season, and provides a recreational center for the county people. peo-ple. A city park, one of the most up- to-date in the state, is situated within Price City. The park, while young, has been the recipient of a great deal of attention and is frequented by many of the miners throughout the eounty, who come to Price with their families to attend the various band concerts and other functions which are staged in the city park. Two tourist camps, eight garages, seventeen stations, two vulcanizing shops and various other places where automobile repairs and accessories can be secured is Price s bid to tourists. Numerous highway service stations are also available along the avenues into Price from the four general di rections. The farming district is irrigated with water from the Scofield dam, one of the largest storage reservoirs in the state of Utah. The contents of the reservoir could be spread out one- foot deep over 62,000 acres of land. Diversion dams are situated along the Price river from which the water of Price river is diverted for irrigation use. Scofield reservoir has been stocked stock-ed with more than a half million trout and more are being released there each (Continued on page 4.) Helper Volunteer Fire Department. ' Castle Gate, Nature's Gateway to Eastern Utah'i Vast Empire. Helper Is Center ot Great Coal Mining Area Has Payroll of Over a Half Million Dollars and Does Large Volume Vol-ume of Business; Has Had Steady Growtn Helper, the Hub of Carbon county and the moRt progressive little city in Eastern Utah, is situated right at the mouth of both Price and Spring canyons, with roads radiating from this hub to Kenilworth, Gibson, Coal City, Castle Gate, Price and the Uintah Uin-tah basin. Forty-eight years ago Helper wast nothing more than a gap in the Price river canyon, with only one log cabin owned by Teancum Pratt, who settled here on July 5, 1880. This early Bet-tier Bet-tier was the son of Parley P. Pratt, the widely known Mormon church leader and early pioneer of Utah. Teancum Pratt saw in this valley a wonderful future and chose this spot as his future home, building the first log cabin and starting the foudation of this fast-growing city, known aa Helper, Utah. The cabin and other landmarks made by this pioneer are still intact and may be viewed by visitors. visi-tors. Grading for the first line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, com-pany, under President , Palmer and Vice-president Dodge, commenced through Helper in March, 1881. In 1883 laying of track was completed from Deseret through to Salt Lake City and Ogden. Regular service between be-tween Grand Junction and Ogden began be-gan May 17, 1883. In 1883 the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company began to build one-story one-story frame nouses for its employes and thus started the growth of a town. By the fall of 1887 the railroad rail-road had built twenty-seven frame residences, and in the summer of the following year ten more were erected. It was planned by President Palmer of the road to make Helper a freight terminal, and in 1889, when the stand' ard gauge track was completed, Helper Help-er was made a division point for the road. It remained so for thirty years or up to the time the terminal was moved to Soldier Summit. In 1891 a large railroad roundhouse, machine shops, coaling station, water tank and large hotel were built to provide pro-vide for the needs of the company. In 1893 the present commodious passenger passen-ger station was built. The top floor was converted into a library and billiard bil-liard room for the men, and remained so until Helper Railroad Y. M. C. A. was built. Aside from these railroad buildings, the first house to be built in Helper was a two-story frame house built by J. Tom Fitch in 1891. The first business house was a small saloon; this was followed by the first store building, and in 1893 the first log school house was completed. Helper precinct was organized in 1892 and was set off from Spring Glen precinct by order of county commissioners com-missioners in 1894. Things were fairly booming in Helper Help-er by this time. The railroad employed employ-ed hundreds of men, coal mines of the Utah Coal company were in operation employing many more men, and a number of others began farming the fertile soil and irrigating their lands. Business houses and residences began shooting up with startling rapidity. During October of 1907, Helper township town-ship was regularly organized and incorporated. in-corporated. The first duly elected officers of-ficers were J. Tom Fitch, mayor; W. (Continued on Page Four.) I f. ' - Br. f ' . . , v" " . 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