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Show Eastern Utah Offers Great Opportunity to Homeseekers Undeveloped Resources of Castle Valley Offer Opportunity to Settlers Emery County's County Seat is Center of Fertile Valley; Thousands of Acres of Coal Lands Await the Coming of the Miner; Good Schools Are the Pride of the Community; Outside Capital and More Population Greatest Needs A BIIIIIDe118 Bloek Ia Castle Dale. Price is Key City • 000 acres of grazing land is utilized by the stock-growers of this vicinity as well as huge ranges in Emery, Grand, San Juan, San Pete, and Duchesne counties. National forests are also leased by Carbttn growers for range purposes. Transportation facilities for Carbon county are well developed. A branch raj)road of the Denver and Rio Grande runs from Mounds to Sunnyside and Columbia. A branch line of the Utah Railway extends from Utah Junction to Hiawatha, Wattis and Mohrland, and another branch runs from Helper to the various mines and camps in the Spring Canyon regiop. Another extends from Colton to Scofield, Winter Quarters, and Clear Creek. Stage and bus lines, as well as commercial t~;uck lines, operate from Price to the mining towns throughout the county, and to points in the Uintah Basin and Emery county's inland towns. Carbon county has more automobiles per capita than any other county in the state. It excells and exceeds any other county in the state of Utah in the school buildings and equipment per capita; leads the state in amount of payroll per capita, and is the Emery county has never been much inclined to force herself before the public eye, which accounts creatly for ao little being known concerning her great opportunities and vast stores of wealth, beyond her immediate neighbors. A stranger upon entering our limita for tne flnt time, might not be favorably impreued with the view, but by a second glance a third becomes necessary, and upon investigation the advantages and prospects of our A B f E "K' d pmery ecomes mg om 0 parent." The county embraces some two and one-half millions of acres of land, varying from the barren desert to the most fertile of farm land, from the wide open prairie to the high wooded peaks of the Wasatch range. · The climate is delightful, never reaching extreme heat in summer and with mild pleasant winters, the pure invigorating air bear out its claims as a healthful and pleasant place to re• side. Great herds of cattle, sheep and horses range the •mountains in summer, and the plains to the east supply abundance of winter feed of the sportsman's paradise with an abundance of ideal camping localities. Rare and beautiful scenery is to be found Grade School Building in Ferron. • Ce ter H 1 e per IS · n (Continued From Page One.) (Continued from page 1.) Beautiful C. Broeker, J. H. Harrison, Steve throughout the county. year, which will make it a paradise trim- Gianotti and Louis Lowenstein, conncolored highly with canyons for fiaheh&en in the course of one or are cilmen. which in forests great mings, two aumm.._ The reservoir covers This move proved to be a city awakInelk, and deer of herds large found thirtJ'-aix square miles of ground, and for the people of Helpe!. A ening on hieroglyphics ancient mounds, dian is ei&ht miles long at the fartherest the cliffs, great wooded peaks, the franchise to a ~enty-foot strip of point, by three miles wide at the vast broken desert and only recently ground alon, Mam street was secured greatest bredth. Range creek, near number of pre- from the rallroad company, fence, telthe remains of a SUJlD18ide is one of the other feature found among ephone poles, etc., were moved fro~ were animals historic attraetie!UI of the county and has reand Mam the center of the street, ch ' wh1 of one Breaks the 1·8 est1·mated street ceived large trout shipments from both of Helper was widened to fifty ' to have been fully 100 feet in length. feet the state and federal hatcheries. The T~day, Helper has over 3000 popuIt has not yet been determined the ProGame and Fish Carbon County exact number of animals represented lation hundreds of modern up-to-date tective association embodies a memas parts of several are in sight, but reside'nces with four blocks of buaibeiship of 500 sportsmen, and has plans are under way for excavations ness houses on both sides of Main done great service toward serving the aportsmen in the county, securing tl~~~h will no doubt settle the ques- street. With its $15,000 White Way trout and supervising the planting and paved Main street, the industrial A chain of towns varying in popu- activity makes Helper a bustling, and maintaining a vigilance on the lation from 500 to 1400 extend through prosperous western city. right in the game situation in this and neighborthe western part of the county, with very heart of Utah's greatest coal ing counties. County Treasurer Earl N. Radcliff of Price is the president. a number of smaller communities, fields. The stimulus of such improvement by the P. P. 0. 0. highway connected c!lub, Carbon county has a country and other good all-year roads over brought many people to buy suitable with a golf course and tennis courts which many tourists travel each sea- residence sites and build comfortable at the former townsite of Carbonville. son, and Green River standing alone and attractive homes. The coming A preten~ious club house, with comin the eastern part of the county, prosperity of the town was then very modious quarters and locker rooms, . far removed from her sister much in evidence. though a course with well-planned fairways, and several tough hazards are a part very~st ~alli~ wh~ ~_w_n_._f_~_d_c_it_i_e_s_i_s_s_t_il_l_o_n_e~o_f_u_s~·~a~n=d~c=r_e~a_te~d~a~~H=e~lp~e=r~h~a=s~n=o~t~g~r~o~w~n~u~p~o~v=er~n=~~hl of the equipment of the club. Mat Gilmour, of Price, is president of the club which has a membership of 75 members. The course bids fair to becoming one of the most popular sources of amusement and sport in the county. The Eastern Utah baseball league, organization playing some of the fasteat semi-profesaional baseball in the west, is located within Carbon county. This season there are four teams, but the usual membership is six or eight teams. Price, Helper, and Kenilworth among the cities, and Carbon county at large represented through the Wanderers squad, are the teams in the 1928 aggregation. Elmer Young, of Hiawatha, is president of the association. Price City offers seven tennis courts to citizens who are interested in that ·form of diversion. Numerous tennis <Clube exist in the city and this phase On the Edge of the Desert. Central High School, Castle Dale. of sport is well developed. -----------------~ --------------------~--------------------------------------------~------------------------------~roes the industries, which are --~------------------------------~---~~~~---~---developed in the county one in the em- wealthiest county per capita in the by the large number of sleek, fat reputation for her products of which as has been the case with many western cities. Its growth has been steadanimals annually shiped to a market the entire county is proud. bryonic state, bids fair to rival some state. ily and healthy along with the develCastle county: the of towns The ·them. receive to eager largest the Carbon county has of the older ones. This is the proopment ef our industries, the developFerElmo, Emery, Cleveland, Dale, failing never the by fed rivers, Six in district producing coal duction of rock asphalt for road-sur- bituminous facing material. A mountain of rock the state of Utah, and one of the waters of the Wasatch range, supply ron, Green River, Hul}tington, Mohr- ment of the coal mines and the railasphalt, or silica, is situated about largest and most valuable in the west. an abundance of water to irrigate land and Orangeville, besides a num- road in this district. Helper, the Hub of Carbon county, five miles from Sunnyside. A cor- Geologists claint that there is enough every acre of land available, a crop her of smaller communities, are all poration of Colorado men has invest- unmined coal in the mountain fast- failure having never been known from up-to-date and busy communities and is the center of industrial activity and ed nearly a half million dollars in the nesses of Carbon county to supply the a lack of moisture. Corn, wheat, oats, extend a hearty welcome to all who has become the great trading center of Eastern Utah. During last year development of the production there, world with fuel for one hundred years. alfalfa, both for hay and for seed, come. Helper received on an average monthgovernof seat the Dale, Castle vegetables garden of kinds all and coal of tons million six than More is amount that c011ting and a factory being constructed at the present time. were produced during the season of are successfully raised, a ready mar- ment of the county, is ideally located ly, sixty carloacls of merchandise, A spur line of the Denver and Rio 1927 in Carbon county, and the total ket being found for the surplus pro- near the center of population, there- twenty-five cars of buildint materials, Grande railroad is being built from payroll of the coal industry in Carbon duced. Fruit raising has also been fore being able to serve its inhabitants fifteen cars food materia s, ten cars gasoline. and four cars automobiles, followed since the first settlements to the best advantage. Sunnyside to the factory site, and will county was more than $5,000,000. and ten cars miscellaneous materials. Twenty-eight mines are being op- were made in the county, apples, supply a ready avenue to a market. Helper forwarded on a monthly avThe silica deposita in this county are erated in Carbon county, by twenty- peaches, plums, cherries and apricots erage 2580 carloads of coal and five said to be the lar&'9St known in the two companies. The Columbia Steel being successfully grown, as well as carloads of miscellaneous: seeds, scrap world. But one other corporation in corporation has its mines at Colum- the smaller fruits, and the famous iron, bottles, etc. This amount carried the United States exists engaged in bia, and the coal produced there is Green River melons have a natiorlby the railroads and that done by on reputation. wide Ironton. at plant steel the at the same line. This is at Bowling used system, truck of auto extensive the ) Th p 1 V 1 h k d 1' be '11 d as Helperone activity sees the readily ree. (Continued From age ery litt e development of natural ec 1pse .Hiawat a, Kenilworth, Caste Gate, Green, Kentuc y, an WI center. commercial a by the factory now going up in Car- Sunnyside, Rolapp, Wattis, Spring resources has been made in the connHelper merchants keep on hand a Canyon, Heiner, Scofield, Clear Cretlk, ty to date, but the time is not far service, are owned and financed lobon ceunty. splendid line of merchandise and every The climate of Carbon county is one Gordon Creek, Maple Creek, Gibson, off when these resources must be tap- cally. The twenty-acre county fair grounds, evening one sees the entire Main of its greatest assets. The winters Consumers, Mutual, Peerless, Stand- ped to supply the ever increasing deTh ·1 k d "th are mild and brief, the springs are ardville, and numerous other com- mand which will make Emery coun- in the city, has a splendid race track 8 t ese reet par e W1 automobl es. d 1" h'b' ear'y and pleasant, and the summers munJ'tJ·es are exclusive coal mining ty one of the commercial districts of and a very attractive ex 1 1t an 1ve- cars are owner by miners who come h ' t e state. Unlimited quantities of stock building. It is also being put to Helper to do their evening shopare not excessively hot. The autumns towns. ping and visit the various amusement The coking ovens at Sunnyside are coal, of the very best quality, and in shape as an airplane field. are the pride of the Carbon county Vernal was awarded the first prize places in Helper. The monthly paysection. The average altitude of the the largest in the world. The two practically untouched, underlay the county is 6,000 feet, and presents a great tipples, those of the United entire western portion of the toun- for being the cleanest and most enter- roll in Helper and vicinity reaches range from about 4,800 to 7,500 feet. States Fuel at Hiawatha and of the ty, some of the veins reaching the prising city of the third class in the over a half million and with this Price has an elevation of 5,480 feet, Utah Fuel at Castle Gate, are the great thickness of 62 feet. The grades state, and is the most up-to-date city amount in circulation business is alvary from bituminous in the north to in the United States off the railroad. ways good. lying one mile above the level of the la~gest in the world. Helper has an ideal climate, both An average of 215 ,000 pounds of In the heaviest season nearly 10,000 a high grade of cannel coal in the sea. The valley of the Price river, sheltered as it is from severe winds, men are employed in the mines of southern part of the c~unty. The parcel post is handled per month winter and summer, making it a fine by the precipitous cliff-s to the north- Carbon county. It is necessary for the presence of oil is very noticeable through the local posto!fice. The de- place to live the year round. Lawns ward, is one of the most desirable resi- operators to schedule three eight-hour throughout the county in several lo- posits in the two first-class banks are and gardens are planted by most resshifts to keep pace with the demand calitieal being so abundant as to seep over $SoO,OOO. The public library has idents, and the city has on the resultdential sections in the state. In the valley below Price City lies during the rush coal season. Hun- naturally to the surface, forming over five thousand books in circula- ant cloak of natural beauty, nestling as it does in the palm of the hills. the town of Wellington, with a popu- dreds of miners in the county own pools where it may be dipped with a ti Helper is a beautiful spot and is an on. fua insures oil of supply This cup. numthe Iation of 400. On the outskirts of their homes, and aside from The assessed valuation of Vernal ideal location for a home. this town is situated an experimental ber of company mine houses in the ture supply as soon as demand and There is ample water supply for a farm of the state af Utah, made pos- varioUB mining towns perhaps a transportation reach the district. City is over one million dollars, and Bible by the appropriation of $10,000 greater number of persons own their Great beds of valuable flux shale. the annual cash receipts of its mer- city of 20,000, which is fresh and pure from bubbling mountain springs near br the laat session of the state legis- own homes in Carbon than in any manganeae, gypsum, etc., are located chants are over $500,000. Colton, and piped through a recently United the The best little city in within our limits, as well as consideral&ture. The farm is being operated other county in the state. pipe line costing $150,000. completed tramp, a or railroad, a without States, iron lead, silver, Carbon county has an assessed val- ble quantities of gQid, with a -view to securing first-hand water in the state drinking other No who all to welcome cordial a extends ores. and minerals valuable other and than More '27,000,000. of nation possibilities agricultural data on tbe can compare with its cool, refreshing, Our mountains and streams are a desire a real home. three-fourths of this amount is emot Carlion eounty. healthful qualities. The city of HelpSo&Q of tbe largest berda in the bodied in the various mines of the er has now under construction a $25state of Utah are the property of county, which pay that proportion of Price resident&. A portion of the 500,- the county's taxes. vernal Modern Inland Town 000.00 concrete reservoir of over one million gallons capacity as a storage and supply for the new additions, b&ing added to Helper. These seventy five new homes will be made attractive, and its plan of sanitation makes Helper a clean and healthy community, where one can live happily and enjoy himself. Helper has a new $26,009.00 city hall, $12,000 fire engine, a splendid city park with trees and lawn growing and the most up-to-date baseball Utah te d . d" · Iamon m eas rn Helper has three dance halls, namely, Liberty .hall, Amusu and the new $26,000 Rambow Gardens, the most up-to-date dance hall in eastern Utah, and a modern and up-to-date theatre. These with the baseball games fumish entertainments and amu~m~nts thro'!ghout the year. Good f1shmg, boatmg and hunting are only short distances from Helper. The Mormon, Catholic, Episcopal churches conduct Sunday Schools and hold services weekly. Their auxiliaries are in working and do much to aid in the betterment of this industrial center. Helper has a live chamber of com- mere~&sinessa~Profussi@alW~ men's club, American Legion, American Legion auxiliary and numerous lodges all working for the betterment and growth of Helper and Utah. Helper has a seventeen room school house equipped with a sewing room and manual training department, and is modern in every respect. Its enrollment last year was 690 pnpils doing splendid work in the well organized classes under the supervision of Principal A. S. Horsley. Plans have been proposed for Helper to have high school accommodations in the near future. Helper is under the Price river conservation district and is aided in her agriculture by using water stored in the mountains. The building of the Horsley dam at Scofield and storing of water in the large reservoir have aided our farmers to increase the amount of acreage cultivated and their splendid crops. Some of the best vegetables, fruits, grains and hay of eastern Utah are provided and produced by Helper farmers. Poultry and dairy farms are growing and supplying our needs with fresh products. Helper is the home of the commercial traveler and tourist. Their wants are readily supplied by the numerous service stations, garages, grocery and dry-goods stores. Helper has four modern, clean and sanitary restaurants, which never close, serving the best quality of food to the hungry. Her twenty clean modern hotels and rooming house are always filled. The civic improvements, the devel opment of industry and the large growth of population seen in Helper the past year is very encouraging to those who have chosen this city as their home. The end of Helper's. enlargement and development is not in sight, and Helper's future is full of promise to the homeseeker and investor. Four Tribes (Continued From Page Three.) are attracting more and more attention every year. The Indians boast of having won a number of prizes in competitio11. with white farmers. Like the Indians of many other tribes the Red men in the Uintah reservation are decreasing in numbers. Many of the young braves of the Uintah reservation served lvith merit on the battle fields of Europe. A few laid down their lives there for God and country. Approximately 22,000 acres of valuable Indian land have been sold during recent years to the white farmer. It is now nearly four decades ago since the whites began to settle the extreme eastern part of the Baaill. The remaining portion of the Basin eo comprise an Indian reservation, fertile that for a very long period the Indian deemed it a paradise in the mountain west. • . |