| Show CARBOJ AND UER USTRIES Agriculture Livestock Mining and Other Resources A Productive Region Agriculturally Carbon county does not rank with her neighbor Emery to the south or Wasatch or UIntah to the north yet she raises much mare than Is consumed and with a good market right here at home the people are seeIng see-Ing the Importance of the cultivation of the soilthe real source of all wealth md there has not been a season since the county was segregated from Emery in 1894 that there has nat been a material ma-terial Increase in all the products of the ranch and farm The soil Is especially adapted to wheat oats lucern and potatoes whIch constitute the principal products The + + + + + + + ii i + 4t = = = + + t 1p t > 2J e + + + + + + + + ± + + 14 5 + + ± f + + Wf i i j S 4J + I r + + + TOWN HALL PRICE + county Is well Irrigated by the several ditch companies that take water from the Price river above the town Of Price the county seat and there Is much available land within a few miles Of the numerous ditch enterprises that only awaits the arrival Of settlers to make It blossom as the proverbial rose Xo section of the state has better markets for that whIch Is produced 3P f I PROP H G WEBB Superintendent of Schools Carbon Co than has thIs county owIng ta the nrorncFs of three good minIng camps and the several railroad Interests and other enterprises where there are numbers num-bers Of people who produce nothing from the roil r Livestock Industry Next to agriculture the livestock Industry In-dustry Is perhaps the most Important There are thousands upon thousands r ot acres of fine range In Cuban caun t1 over which at all times of the year there are thousands and thousands of it head of cattle roaming and One might say millions f head of sheep The c great herds of sheep that arc taken Into the mountains of the north and the west during the summer to range In oj the hills migrate to the lowlands Of this county In the winter where the range Is such that unless the winter Is extremely rough they are capable of subsisting without any feed whatever During the year there are sheared In the count something me 00000 head of sheep and while some of them are driven In from the outside for shearing purposes the most of them belong to Carbon county owners The breeding oC horses Is also an Important Im-portant Industry In Carbon county which brings in thousands and thousands thou-sands of dollars each year having been particularly profitable the past twelvemonths twelve-months by reason of the fact that 90 heavy purchases have been made here for the cavalry of our own country and also of England < Many of the smaller fruits which grow In other portions of Utah and Colorado are successfully raIsed here Wt such as apples pears and the smaller berries There are also men engaged I successCllly in horticulture who depend upon this exclusively for their JIvIng The honey Industry amounts to considerable consid-erable and is increasing with every year Towns of the County The mast important towns of Carbon county are Price Castlegate Helper Scafield Winter Quarters SunnysIde and elllngton Price the county seat and the most Important station In the matter of receipts both Incoming and outgoing Is the third on the line at the RloGrande Western raIhya being ex I ceeded only by Salt Lake City and I Ogden It is the forwarding point for the large country to the south and to the ndrth and west All Of the government govern-ment freight for Fort Duchesne and the several tribes of Indians on the Uintah and Uncampahgre reservations is sent out Cram this station also everything every-thing for what Is known as the Ashley Valley section and Of which Vernal is the final dIstrIbuting point The population Is close to 1000 and is growing steadIly each year witness Ingthe erection of many new homes and business houses The public schools employ three teachers and many pea pie have been Induced to locate here by eason Of the splendid school facilities facilities that are enjoyed by but few towns with much larger population and In every way mare pretentious The revenues of the town are nearly 500 monthly which are expended judiciously jUdicious-ly and ecnamlcally by a board oC five trustees The town is out aC debt and I has money in the treasury There were no city taxes levied for the year of 1893 for the reason that there was no need of money and the officials chose rather to let It remain In the packets of the people than In the treasury idle The town owns a fine brIck hall which Is used joIntly by the county and town Officials There Is rome talk of bonding the county for a new and modern courthouse court-house and as the county Is out Of debt bonds may be Issued wIth thIs object In view County warrants are at par Helper seven miles west Of Price is the railroad center Of the county being be-ing a divisional point for the Rio Grande Western railroad Its population popula-tion is necessarily of the transient kind though there uc many railroad men there who have resided In the place for years The town has as goad school facilities as are to be found in Utah and the railroad company has this year built at Its own cast a magnificent structure costing In the neighborhood of 5000 which It gives to the school district for use free of cost The buildIng buid ing Is also used for church and amuse meat purposes and there are services of a religious character every Sunday in the year There Is no sect or creed on the contrary It I open to every denomination de-nomination alike The company has some thlrtfive cottages here for employees em-ployees a number of which were built the past year Cheap fuel light and water mae Helper an ideal raUroad mans town and the company here maintains one of the very fnes and most attractive eating stations In the entire west which Is under the personal direction of Mr and Irs G G Russell Rus-sell selProsperu meting Camps Caleate twelve miles west of Price Is the home of the man who delve In the bowels pf the earth for er black dIamonds and here the greater portion of the counts coal product has in the past came from The great cok Ine plant of the Pleasant Valley Coal company Is also situated here In the mater of population It excees slightly anY other place In the county The popplatlon Is mostly foreign but it Is not of an undesIrable class There are good schools churches and eve Incen tire to draw those who are looking far homes About all the ground for home al say eral miles around Is owned by the company com-pany enabling i to practically say who o shall live the and who shall not he result Is good order at all times very little drinking and gambling In fact a most desirable place In which to raise a f ly The order of the Knights of PytLLs has a magnificent opera house there with lodge rooms In connection which are also utilized by other lodges and numerous socIetes Besides thl Mormon church there Is a credItable structure owned by the Catholics and In whIch services are frequently held Scofeld and WInter uaters are two towns lyIng adjacent to each other In the extreme northwestern portion of the count where arc located some of count the big mines of the county mining be lag the chief and real the only industry lIn though nearby there Is fine grazing for sheep and cattle There are some 800 men now at work In the properties thee and with the improvements that have been made durIng the past year new territory opened up and plane I i I B G MR Price Prominent Owner and Business Sheep Ower ad Buiness M made far the future this number will be materially increase The popula ton Is ninetentJs American with splendid shoals god churches and I every attraction for the man wit a family to care far and children ta r Wellington whIch has a population or 500 to 700 people lies SIX miles to the east of the county seat In the center or the bet agricultural section of Carbon county and In one Of the most fertile spats In the entire state The people are very much interested In the great irrigation problem and to their energy and perseverance some of the big I canals of the county awe their existence exist-ence The d elnpment of the coal beds In Whimore canyon to the est Of the will give them a maket second ta none In easternUtah Good schools churches and Intelligence are In evidence evi-dence and the time Js not fa distant when the farmers there wllrbe feeIng this part of the atate The soil Js not exceeded anywhere in the west The HIs canal which come out of the Price river just below Helper will reclaim re-claim many thousands of acres of hid in that section to say nothing of 100 aces before it passes by the town of Price The canal Is now below Price two miles and will next year be eXtended eX-tended The biggest price ever received far a ranch was that l1mded aver to C H Taylor lately for hs place jut below Wellington There are less than 70 acres and the figure waS 15000 SunnyFdc up hltmore canyon some twenty miles from the town of Mound and twentelght miles from Price as the crow files Is the baby town Or Car boa cQunty Here are the fine bode of coking coal In Utah The people who now number abut 500 have just convinced their Uncle Samuel that they should have a posffice Before the end of the coming year It I confidently 0 pected there will be no less tha 1000 men there mining and coking the coal product There Is a splendid agricultural agrIcul-tural country tributary Public Schools Carbon counts publc schools are second to none in this or any other state of the great and growing west population and resources considered They are under the direction Of Pro lessor H G Webb a most thorough educator a gentleman and citizen who takes an unusual pride In their maintenance main-tenance and success There is no religion re-ligion mixed up In the schools of Carbon Car-bon county and none but teachers of the highest standing professionally are employed In any department whatever The school population Is close to 1200 tvhiile the per capita fund Is nearly 250 Not a district In the county but has a modern school building wIth all the modern methods and appliances employed em-ployed Examinations are held yearly and every applicant as teacher must stand the most rigid test Mineral Resources The mineral resources Of the county aside from coal are varied There Is vare capper In many portions and silver and gold in the mountains to the west of Price with some nickel and zinc In the Icnity of Sunnslde and along the Vernal road there re great deposits de-posits of asphaltm nnd glsonle The people have ben too busy at farming In the past and at stock raising togive togve thee thlns the attention they deserve ant would certainly receive in any other country in the world There Is as good a field In Carbon county today lar the intelligent andlndustrlous prr pee tor as exists anywhere In the world The capitalist can also increase his bank account In Carbon count |
