Show The New Town of Helper Frequent reports have reached us lately of the birth of a new town located on the Rio Grande Western near Castle Gate To authenticate these reports which came chiefly from real estate boomers a HERALD reporter inquired of Mr Souter the traveling trav-eling agent oc the Denver Rio Grande Express company who makes frequent trips over the lino if tho reports wero true He replied that they were and furnished fur-nished the information for the account of the town below given This little town comes into existence from necessity like most Institutions and that necessity is the demand of the Rio Grande Western railroad fpr a place somewhere some-where In thafT vicinity where it might establish es-tablish a division terminal Hitherto the terminals have been at Ogden Pleasant Valley Junction and Grand Junction but now Helper is to be the stopping place instead in-stead of Pleasant Valley Junction since it is more centrally located This change of base with the location of a depot railroad yard roundhouse and water tank have furnished 1 healthy stimulus stimu-lus for anew town which bids fair to loom up in a very short time Already the railroad road is grading preparatory to laying the track for a yard and establishing the various ous railroad buildings This movement on the part of the railroad company has suggested sug-gested to some enterprising individual a real estate boom The town to laid out in lots and preparations are being made to erect several sev-eral buildings The town derived its name from an engine called the Helper used in aiding heavy freights to reach tae summit of the Wasatch table land several miles west of the town of The prospective railroad terminal is very prettily located at the head of the Price valey and at the foot of the Wasatch tableland table-land six miles west of Price The country coun-try surrounding is both agricultural and mining Coal is the only mineral mined at present I is thought that the railroad will commence operations in tae town some time in October tme |