| Show IN CASTLE VALLEY A stranger in that district describes the country and people editor of the ENQUIRER having occasion to make a trip through castle valley I 1 thought I 1 would make a short report for publication oa arriving at price station on the D R G W ry we found a few people located on a dry looking bench a few hundred yards east from the station with but little signs of life or energy isaiah bays As with the priest to with the people and we should judge it was the case here however vie found mr L M olsen general superintendent in of emery county mercantile establishment in his usual independent and dignified mood with a beautiful hoock in his line and preparing for additional dit ional buildings the establishment of MrS is run by some boys there who seem to be wideawake wide awake and on the push and rustle we also found mr D C robins unloading two cars of harvesting machinery As we continued our journey southward through the county we met him in every settlement we visited doing a lively s and making the bearta of many in furnishing iliam machinery at figurea he is endeavoring to open up the re ourtcea our cea of the county and provide ways whereby people can obtain employment he also lias largo and extensive fields of coal which will be of greab in the near future mr kabin ii highly booken of by llie thinking people of the county as a man of sterling worth to a community in from price en route for we passed to our left alil ana explained a the cleveland flat an area of country of over thirty thousand acres of choice land crossing llie cleveland canal which est enila ovet fifteen in length and over thirty thousand dollars much credit is duo the hard laborers who haaf completed great ul canal it acs ics on this cleveland flat that many ol 01 the welch people aliu have been en caged in llie coal mines of pleasant valley are making homes and a great bent fit has been derived from aid in furnishing money anil supplying ma lerial as well as doing much hard Ou reaching huntington we found that beautiful townsite town sito steadily improving denoting a marked contrast from two years ago when passing through it ia without doubt the attraction of emery county and e everything very thing bids fair for pru gress and prosperity its natural resources are second to none aud ere long the busy hum of manufactures of lauy kinds with railroad will surprise the people wha ary low living there the people have secured an agent for the purpose and propose to take estepa to develop the great wealth that now lies dormant iu eliat locality we are surprised chit ene gutic people who are without homes areba backward in securing independent and wealthy homes in so favorable a locality and alien ere long it will be impossible for to got a foot of land without purchasing it at an price continuing to castle dale the present county seat of emery county we found beveral very creditable buildings and marks of industry ant why the county seat is established there is a stumper to intelligence as it is very evident it is located in the wrong place castle dale Is a small place with some two hundred souls or more it is stretched along the foot of a bench near cottonwood creek which has not the resources to boom a great town orange ville a nice little hamlet with deigns of life and energy has the appearance of becoming a nico little place from here we went to ferron city from alie name expecting to see something for the new county we found a very creditable feeling hauae erected of brick but not completed also samo good buildings with fair surroundings their fields look nice we were surprised to find healthy growth of trees shrubs and in fact everything in what is known as that horrible castle valley we could scarcely give credit to the view before us the only regret we have to offer is to a feeling of complaint and dissatisfaction A good pruning and transplanting by n thorough blaster of the vineyard would result in the growth and tv of alie people P J B |
