| Show I EMERY COUNTY AN N EMPIRE WITHIN ITSELF 1 in inthis Int co TY j is an nn empire or of Utah It Is this ls t state or of Con t t as 5 S the thO Its borders bordors the thC within t I and at a 4 posts arc nrc that the per capita In o 0 tonS tonS- ot Of coil coal in the United of a a. ton per Is I the county Emery Emen with fuel for many supplied Huntington In come rations coal to can n hO be traced by out out- D the than mileS mile and andI I lD in for more corner or of the countY count I IL n 0 Just onO one constitute the onlY L does not 1 for Cor from an county reo ot of the horticultural point o of I ral and marvel marve-l True Is a county count the on grow and I rush almost acres ot of the ot of or of the county count and part Is Ics des miles fen rea ot of 4 enough h land but there thero Is intensively farmed i bIch were it with K the country halt half d and from the ground prodUCtS water is turned stock Wherever immediately begins to toem tie he land it I And the county is well waIts waIts waIts wa- wa orn om boundary is one of Its eastern great eat rivers of ot tho country the then river while hUe the Huntington n Rafael RaCael anti and wood Ferron San furnish an abundance of or orr y v rIvers y small streams And r 1 as do 10 man many I of this empire has a mar- mar 1 rrt i-ht i 1 t at its Us door I i eliest ers county count Is named for Coy Cov aery r ry Fro Xe 0 B. B He approved the thc act net creating the county count I included what are arc now tho the thos tes es s of Carbon and Grand Tho The treatIng the county named Samuel eS Cs as probate judge Elms Elias Co Cor Co Peterson eterson and William Taylor Talor to organize tho the county countr 1 T I I a TV I In r V IL v V u. u U The ho he law latr was tras approved F February organization completed b be county 5 z by the appointment of the Win officers Bagley Bagle tie nd recorder E E. E Curtis Sr Iff U it J. J E K Z Reid treasurer Oscar idall dalt assessor and collector W. W J. J i. i on attorney and surveyor sur I e organization of ot the county did occur until settlement of oC oft t e was made in 1878 when I Seely of or Sanpete county was by tho the authorities of ot the theon son on church to settle the count county M a a. cattleman was the tho I settler be he having located in inin 4 in Creek valley about three west st of ot the tho present city of ot ott p t z It was then a wild mid and anden en country a z wilderness save for forbrush brush and greasewood l p party y accompanied Mr Seely county and the they settled creek Five families ped cI d on Huntington creek They i William Avery Ave Ellas Elias and John Johnl l A Anthony Athony thon and Benjamin Others settled on Ferron Perron creek i in this settlement were flam lam a i Taylor Talor and son the two Lar- Lar families Nicholas and tads Made and I ph h.- h. while v. the Wilson lam fam- am- am on tho the Gunnison trail trait In tan fall of ot 1880 Casper Christensen the Lunds headed beaded a colon colony and ded tho the town ton of ot Muddy now EmI Em- Em I near tho the headwaters of ot the Muddy udd I j e settlers from Sanpete were diced against the county they to settle It was regarded as a aI I ty that would remain outside of or F possibility of oC redemption It was 4 ed to be the home borne of or live stock aers ers era and outlaws who raided the theand theand and flocks fiock and drove the tho stock th thc I mountains while it wa sa was the tho quarters of ot the famous l gang of ot outlaws hence the San San- er were soured so to to speak on I I country oUDin The first winter for the rs ra as an extraordinarily severe severo fotTi the Uie cold being Intense Old settlers settler nat t it Jt was not uncommon to se SC see see- e frozen rozen to death in lii the cedar i t where r they had endeavored ored to Protection from the cold 1 t others followed Collo the tho first era rs and in 1890 1530 Grand count county was tee ted and sliced off oft the cast east end ery y and four tour years later Carbon f ty Was created and another slice taken from m tho the cn empire of or Emer Emery he e north and east east- leaving Caving tho the ty 7 as aa It Is I todaY todaY-a a great reat cat empire untold of ot wealth and one ono r counties within the tho ri ra ot or 6 great empire the empire the ot of Utah This much for tor Ul Ue lIe history the tho altitude ude of oC Emery county 4 from to feet feet- the ot of the tho department of ot and ind ag ty tho the thoS fruits or of the ranking among S the best pro pro- tn In the Cf ru u M JL s ed i. i CD c by the tho ot bureau ot of crops estl- estl th the show Ibo department of ot ot of that In ln 1 W 1919 19 there wore were OO Winter Wheat which engO o yield of oC Produced 20 there bushels per Were ere acres acres in in spring II hR With an n avera average go e yield j eld of or pe per acro acre Oats were 5 produced zo acres with an 6 bushels average yield per Vel acre Cre while Sr barley buley grown crown on r O eld Id ot of 21 tC bushels acres with an aver- aver red per por acre seven Se acres were re In n corn and the thc i 4 bushels per acre re than b Li average o yield when al alti- alti considered and tho the unusually alon ot of last year can E Eleven thou- thou yo o hUndred an acres Ca In ln alfalfa average 11 Potatoe yield of ot 1 15 85 tons per pur and md the tho Were grOwn on 40 Is he yield field a p. p acre Th Tho acreage sowed Wheat this year Js 13 acres ld remember that the year car was on ot f the driest In the tho his his- and this thia will apparently small average cra e yIeld na and grasses It is estimated n a the farms in tho country on y 7 2 1 or oC this Year ear there were buah ls ot or wheat and oats V Vr r a seed dt t is 3 ono one n of ot the tho larK large crops d i In the count county with ClO clover Second nd In ln lon tho thio of or the Pro- Pro two cr crops cropt ot of nr was rC ti 9 seed that hal I la is that t cd to quantity the Salt SaU Lake 1 and the producer received ed from IS 18 to 33 cents per Pr pound as the seed came camo from the thresher the average being 25 5 cents per pound or for the crop The Thc large majority of ot the farmers grow o alfalfa seed the average eraCe being from 3 2 to 40 acres the product returning re returning returning re- re turning an average of oC oCtO HO tO per aero acre There are arc farmers In the tho region relon about Desert Lake who have hae realized from tho seed crop grown on 38 acres of or orland land the sum of ot 3 11 The farmer producing this Is a William Pilling Filling and this title with his other crop of oC hay netted him more than per acre aero Honey is another profitable crop and this product is shipped all over the country countr and in fn view of ot Its delicious flavor lavor sweet clover er and alfalfa blossoms blossoms blos bios furnishing tho the nectar there Is a af Ii f It II oF it Fruits of Emery county rank among the best and these include apples peaches pears plums prunes and cherries An n idea of oC the value of ot the tho fruit crop is obtained from tho the fact tact that shipments of ot apples and anI pears from Green River alone aro are tift fifty cars cl per year What the production Is ma may maybe maybe I be s-aU s gathered ered from an orchard of ot apples containing but one and quarter one-quarter acres which last year ear yielded 10 1026 6 bushels of the highest grade fruit Live stock men of or the tho county count contemplate contemplate con con- template tho the construction of oC an alfalfa mill at Huntington the mill mm to be runby run runby by electricity which would enable stockmen to secure a better prices for their stock in that the they would feed teed them at home Live Stock Is Extensively Raised Live stock is one of ot the industries of ot Emer Emery county The Tho value value- of the animals that ranged the county county coun coun- ty last year car aggregated approximately Of or course cours the greater reater number were sheep which were valued at and numbered There were 42 7 horse and mules In the the- county county coun coun- i t ty with a valuation of ot Cattle Cat- Cat tic tle numbered valued at 8 while swine numbered with a a valuation of or I In real estate town and city lots In 1919 had a valuation of S. S Improved Im- Im proved pro farm fann land was valued at 1 I Other real estate In acreage acreage acre acre- age c was valued at but hut thero there Is excepted from Crom the latter fruit lands aue at grazing land hand at and waste land at 2755 Improvements Improvements Im Ira- on tou town n or city lots wore valued at and on farm lands at Mining property was as assessed assessed assessed as- as at Personal property proper proper- t ty other than lI live e stock was as assessed as- as at while wIllie the total valuation valuation val val- of ot all aU property In th the count county is given as assessed at 6 From tho the assessed valuation there is raised in taxes the sum of ot 1 In It is 18 divided thus thug State Slate state school and state high school 5 mills state road 3 mills G H county tax C Ii mills mUla a total of or In addition to this owners of ot live lIvo stock are arc assessed 5 mills on sheep and goats 4 mills on horses and cattle c. on the range and 1 mill on domestic cattle cat cat- t- t tie lIe which brings In which is a used as a bounty tax for the destruction destruction destruction tion of ot predatory predator animals Mineral lineral Wealth Greatly Varied In tho the mineral v. v world orld Emer Emery county count Is blest as arc are many marty other sections of ot tho the state stat There are great coal measures within its border there are arc I l large deposits of or silver ores as also tho the baser metals and radium uranium uranIum uran uran- ium bra and vanadium The last three thred arc obtained by chemical treatment o of deposits of ot the latter being found round near fifteen miles mites south of or Green River lUver Tho The first car car- noUte property properly was waa opened up b by Ira R. R Browning state road engineer and his law in a a. number of ot years ago 10 who shipped a quantity of the mineral and sold out the property which is still being being- worked b by a company com corn pany of 01 eastern capitalists The deposits of or arc are alon along alone the cast wall wan of or tho the San Rafael valhey valley val val- Ie hey ley and are aro from five to six miles in fn length Geologists havo defined the theora theore theore ore ora in Emer Emery county a coarse loosely consolidated cross-bedded cross sandstone which sandstone contains petrifactions of oC timber some Homo of ot the tho logs being two I Ilon to three feet teet in diameter and ten feet teet lon long the ore oro filling titling paces in th the sandstone that appears to ha have havo o been occupied by reeds while It also im impregnates Im- Im tho sandstone and coats the faces of or the tho joints As stated tho the first property was opened by Mr tr Browning and his first shipment to was waa In 1911 where it was Boldon sold Bold soldon soldon on the tho basis of ot per cent of the I combined oxides In the Lost Springs s district ten ton miles west of oC the station of ot Woodside Woodside Woodside Wood Wood- side on tho the Denver Rio Grande railroad railroad rail rail- I road a cOI copper per property has been opened and in 1917 1317 a small quantity of or copper ore which also contains a n small quantity of ot silver wa was j shipped Zinc oro ore has also alan been shipped from tho the district tho the Good Hope claim fur- fur ore In 1917 tho date last given thero there was but ono one property outside of the property that was being worked 1 and the production was The Tho oil district of ot Em Emery ry count county covers an nn area of ot square miles mites southeast of ot Green River niver For more than twenty years this region has been prospected Seven wells have been beon drilled Three yielded oil In small quantities and ono one produced gus gas without without with with- without out oiLIn oiL oiLIn oiLIn In tho the Sin San Rafael Ratael Swell Swett district several wells have been drilled to depths of or 2175 2176 17 to 2655 2665 feet teet and In one ono of or these oil was found An exhaustive survey of ot tho the oil fields of Emery county count county coun coun- t ty was made several years CArS since b by William II IL Forsyth ForSth in which he Ire di divided dl- dl vided the thc geological horizon into three I dl-I sections which he designated as tho the Cedar Ridge e tho the Buckhorn and the tho the Sinbad formation naming them from the locations in which tho they appear re regardless ro- ro of ot their technical al geological g formations which had previously been b by C C. 13 E. Dutton of or the United I States r geological BUnc survey to the tho upper cretaceous and this in the absence of or fossils Coal measures In Emery count county are arc estimated at eight ht billion tons Several Sev eral large e veins from three feet to thirty feet in thickness extend a distance distance dis die tance tanco of oC sixty miles along along- the tho western western west west- em ern part of ot tho the count county Tunnels which h havo hav vf been run Into some somo of or orthe the these so veins are arc largo large enough enouCh to permit permit perraiL per per- mit raiL a team of ot horses and wagon wagon to tobe tobe tobo be bo driven In and tho coal coni hauled to the tho surface At tho the southern end of or orthe the tho county coal outcrops e ItIs It Itis is said that farmers in that section of ot the country can dig up coal from their fields or plow It up with their potatoes Tho The quality of ot the coal is the tho very oer- oer best besL Mohrland a camp of ot the Unit United d States Fuel company where the tho production production pro pro- of coal Is OO 00 tons ton'S dally daily or 3 tons per year ear is regarded as perhaps tho the most moo modern ern and up-to- up dato c collieries In tho the world There Is everything e in tho the way of equipment for the rapid handling of ot tho the output every everything thinS thinS' In the tho way of ot safety guards for tor the tho employee in fact tact everything e that will protect the lives of or the miners rain min ers ere and that will make mako for tho economical eco eco- handling of or the output It Is said that tho the railroad which ends at Mohrland Is 18 to be extended southward southward south south- ward a distance of ot rort forty five miles and will vIll open one ono of or tho the greatest unI un un- unI un- undeveloped I I developed coal fields in tho the world worM I Millions of or dollars have ro been ex expended cx- cx pend cd by the Denver Ii Rio Grande railroad d In Sauna can canyon on with a 11 loW lew of ot changing tho the main line lino of Its road rond I from Crom Green River RI through tho the pass which is the tho lowest through tho the Wasatch Wa- Wa catch satch range e but tho the route has h now been firmly established another way so that other lines of or road rond have havo made mado I surveys with a view of ot reaching and opening up the great beds of or coal which a n. road through the can canyon on would develop elop I While the estimated tonnage of ot coal In the tho count county is given glnn b by f experts at at ono one hundred billion tons a a. survey of oC tho the coal coni fields Is now being made by I I I Proto Prof William Peterson geologist for i tho state board of ot equalization and assessment assessment as- as I and from returns thus far mAde tho the tonnage will greatly g exceed all previous estimates The Tho coal conI measures meas- meas I l ures uses of ot tho count county aro are the tle greatest In tho the world j I Educational 4 Facts and Figures Emery count county school census of ot 1911 un uns s showed owed the tho number of or children be between between be- be tween tho the tl ages of ot 5 G and IS years ears to tobe tobe be Sl Of or this number 1 1230 30 wore were bo boyi boyn and 1131 1151 girls Between the tho ages |
