| Show f EJINTAII COUNTYS RESOURCES I I Ideal CouiltryFo Stock RaisingGreat Mineral Wealth j EVlmston Prosperous I Ifl By virtue of its financial and industrial fl indus-trial ncllvIt Evanston tile county seat of Uinta county situated In them the-m western part of Wyomlznc jusUy cIams l recognition as the third city of Importance In the confines of a fiourif1h1Ilg state Being the center of I a large grazing minIng and farmlng sectIon the town receIves steady substantial I sub-stantial patronage from these sources The year 1899 has markod an epoch I In the industrial advancement of thIs section of Womingone that portends I 1 a glorious future for its commercial I welfare Evanston is the home of a progressive cItizenship Some of the IIi I II-i finest business structures and resI I grace an entire block on the prin < pal thoroughfare and the city is filled with splendid busIness houses and residences The city government of Evanston is under tIle gUidance of Mayor J A BecKwith a well known banker and the county is i1 no lese able hands All professIons and lInes of business are well represented but there is yet room for more good citizens A Railroad Town Evanstcn is division headquarters of the UnIon Pacific and the shops of thIs powerful corporation form an important import-ant adjunct to the place With a monthlr payroll of over 40000 Its in I I I I II I PRANK M FOOTE rReceiver Land Office Evanston fiuence is greatly noticeable and appreciated ap-preciated As the merchants are not slow in their sales the company In return receives early 100000 In revenues reve-nues from freight and eqJress These figures show up the industrial importance Import-ance of Evanston With tho advent of 1000 UInta i count is classed as a firstrate county coun-ty with a valuation of over 5000000 This amount is large represented In real estate and the stock busIness while about onethird of the asstssed valuation is taxed against cor 1ra igie Mineml Wealth at Rand Being just in the edge of a territory of fabulous mIneral wealth we of UIntJ count will some day in the not distant future wield he magic wand of our prodUctive genIus When capItal sees the great undeveloped undevel-opEd wealth of one of the richest regions re-gIons of the west lying dormant great mining projects and enticing dIvidends will surely be the speed result While actual rescnrches do not warrant such n glowing account In thIs article it Is but just t say that YeQ little pros 1 pecUng has been done Yet the fact remains re-mains that rich gold ore copper slIver and Iron have been unearthed coal abounds In untold quantities and coal oil has been dIscovered Scores of mInerals that are making our sIster stateS Utah a capitalists Mecca are awaiting the arrival of a scheduled prosperIty Stock Raising Uinta county is devoted principally to the raisIng of cattle and sheep Many fortunes are being made from I these industries in which marked advances ad-vances have becn made Cattle and sheep have adanced fully 25 per cent in value during the past year and even at thIs advance they are held at a premIum As the leadIng lead-ing industry of this growIng community commu-nIty the stuck busIness aids all classes of trade As In the case of the eastern farmer when the stock grower is prosperous pros-perous all other classes share in the benefits With over 50000 head of cattle and 25000 head of sheep and goats Uinta county is destined to lead In the stock I growing industry Few cattle but I many thousands of sheep are controlled I con-trolled in this vicinity by residents of Utah The sheep IntereSts are In a sound and prosperous condition no branch of the livestock busIness is more prosperous and the rapIdIty with whIch the county has become the land of the golden fleece is an open secret of the cause of much of its thrift Sheep receive a little more attention than cattle but up to date small allowances I al-lowances of hay have been gIven herds The great extent of and wonderful nutrItion in our native ranges together togeth-er wIth the favorable climate have given giv-en UInta county a wide reputation as one of the leading stockraisIng sections sec-tions of the west and which by reason of Its superior advantages it wlll always al-ways maintain But in the future the farm of the valley will supplant the pasture of the hllls and plains and the value and usefulness of both be enhanced en-hanced The anImals raised on the mountain ranges are unsurpassed in quality Long observation has shown beyond question that dIfferent types are produced pro-duced by the continued operation of cllmatio influences In lowlying countries coun-tries where the soil Is wet the atmosphere atmo-sphere heavy with moIsture and the growth of vegetation rapId coarse breeds of large build are produced with loose soft and flabby muscles poor flat feet and weak lung power I On the other hand the opposite climatic cli-matic conditions produce exactly the opposite animals of compact buIld with fine clean bones muscles of Iron great lung power and constitutions that withstand the greatest strain Such is the character of animals raised in Uinta county This section has no superIor as a grazIng region The thousands of acres of grazing lands are covered with nutritious hh nnlT1 n1 ntn n fattening qualities l are only l second to grain and curing as they grow In an atmosphere whIch scarcely admits of decay are better food In December than in May The large herds of horses and cattle are seldom fed and sheep rarely but roam in theIr fatness the year around upon the carpets of luxuriant bunch grass Stockmen in UInta county are much encouraged by the steady advance In the price of theIr products The wInter thus far has been attended with mUd weather fortune has smiled upon their Industry and the completIon of another sIx months will find stock upon a thousand hills baskIng in the sunshine of an early spring and fattenIng on the fruItful yield of the rejuvenated earth Uintah County WeLI Irigated Irrigation is necessary to the successful suc-cessful cultivation of most of the valleys val-leys and wo cannot call to mind any of the populated valleys In the country coun-try in whIch canals and dItches do not thread the surface from north to south and froni east to west To the eastern farmer the Idea of irrigating Is one whIch strikes his mind with a certain repulsiveness but the rancher of Uinta county contemplates his crops with a degree of absolute certainty whIch the eastern farmer can never do He possesses the power of reguIat ing the moIsture to be conveyed to his land found by experience that irrigation Irriga-tion not only keeps the land up to its original fertility but constantly improves im-proves it In quality Bridger Bench Fort BrItger of today In southwestern southwest-ern Wyoming is only a relic of Its former for-mer greatness Where once were stationed sta-tioned thousands of Uncle Sams soldIers sol-dIers are now located prosperous ranchers Bridger bench Is a most desirable de-sirable place In that country Its story Is full of hope and the narrative Is one of progress During the past I year many have settled on thIs strip of land which Is about fifteen miles In length and ten miles wide The years progress haS brought many fields of waving grain to view and the rich soil Is more successfullY tilled than in any other portion of the county Smiths Fork It Is only a step from the Brldger bench into the valley of SmIths Fork where Mormon settlers from Utah have succeeded In makIng a scene of rural loveliness The valley is a narrow one through whIch wInds the little creek that gives the place its name Vegetation Vege-tation Is dense along Its banks and on each sIde are found broad natural meadows from whIch large crops or the very best of wIld hay are cut every summer Rye oatS and wheat are also grown wIth success and the efficacy of Utah methods are amply demonstrated by the success or the industrious settlers set-tlers Bearing close relationship In an agricultural agri-cultural way to the above localities hi Star Valley a settlement largely coin I I + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + I + + + + i + + L I + 1j j 1 + I + + + + + S I + I t + n = 3 + + + + sI i ZIP i Lii Pl l = + + ± Jz1 = = + + + + + j + + + + + + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + Ii 4 + + t + + 4 + + i i + STATE INSANE ASYLUM EVANSTON I + + + + + + + + + + + + + T + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1 I deuces i1 the state are found here and capItal for years to come will find abundant opportunIties for investment invest-ment The town proper has a population of 3000 and Is steadIly growIng Here the newcomer may find employment In magnificent railway shops and on the railroad in the Almy coal mines five mIles dIstant or he may settle on a tract of most desIrable land of which there is a Vast amount left In thIs 10 cality for industrious people Fine Public Buildings The state Insane asylum Is situated on a pIcturesque lull overlookIng Evanston Evan-ston The city also has a magnificent school house whIch represents an outlay out-lay of 35000 and is conceded to be i one of the best educational Institutions ipthe state A large commodious court house I JOhN H WARD Sheriff of Uintah County Wyoming posed of former residents of Utah whose energies have made of it a garden gar-den spot Evidence of Mineral Wealth Possibly no section of the Rocky MountaIn regIon has been less prospected pros-pected than northern UInta county The mountains east of Star valley bear every evidence of having minerals In them and in a few Instances claims have been staked off and some work done In Dry Creek canyon several miles southeast of Afton prospectors have struck and successfully worked a lead of copper ore running over 50 per ton and carrying some sliver Located directly north of Star valley is a beautiful Valley Imown as Jack sons Hole some day destined to be tho home of thousands of people An un e 3 N ALLRED dN Publisher and Proprietor Evanston News Register usual activity has permeated that see tion during the past year and the po si1Ion enjoyed by stockmen In this valley val-ley Is a lucrative one as the ranges abound with nutritious grasses upon which stock grow lazy fat As a revenue rev-enue yielder the valley is one of great importanceThousands Thousands of Elk Probably no country In the world can boast of the amount of elk found at Jackson Hole A low estimate placed upon the number at present wIntering in the Immediate vicinity of the ranches is 25000 head The officers are as a rule on the alert for game VIolators and for vIolations vIo-lations of thIs offense anq licenses th1 county treasury has been enrIched at least 19000 durIng the past year It is but a few days run from Jack sons Hole to the Yellowstone National park the playground of the gods and I AmerIcas wonderland a part of whIch overlap Uinta county In nil the world there is a no more bewItchIngly beautiful beau-tiful spot and such fantastic creations of nature as are here found cannot be equaled elsewhere upon this or any Other continent Nowhere else In the known universe are there such magnIficent riweinspir ing manIfestations of the Internal I forces of nature as are to be found In the geysers of the Yellowstone park I Countless able writers have attempted attempt-ed to describe the beauties of the park but theIr efforts have all proved futIle f01 these wonders of naturethey are indescribable With these enumerated resources shakIng hands with the prospective future fu-ture Evanston and UInta county close a most prosperous year and render thanks to the natural advantages whIch have made a successful year possIble Assessed Valuation The followIng table showing In detail de-taIl the valuations placed on Uinta county property for 1899 wln readIly demonstrate just how great has been the prosperity enjoyed by this section of Wyoming F No I Value Acres of land listed87O fS06O91 14 Improvements on bands164605 00 Town lots 331t95 00 Improvements on tosri lots 1050 00 I Neat cattle 38144 G95i500 Horses 671j 1tS61 00 Iules and asses 92 374000 Sheep and goats 45 4991a3 to Swine 6400 Dogs 33300 Clocks watches and jewelry I Jew-elry 6212 > Musical Instruments 1063 50 Stocks In corporations and companies 1255 00 Capital employed in manufacturing man-ufacturing and merchandIse mer-chandIse 31727 29 Money and credits291296 00 Carriages and agons 43 00 Farming utensils and tools 21000 00 Housfhbld furniture 15ro 00 Other property not enumerated enu-merated a 4651500 Private lIbraries 21iSO 00 I Total 13390311 OS Railway Lines Assessment of raIlroad and telegraph lines In UInta county for the year 1Sro IMileIValii 1 Piiiii i1p lace C rCO li307IH574 07 Wagner Palace Car Co SJSS 103152 < UnIon Pacific 1allroad Co Main line S3 71S9S0 00 UnIon PacIfic Railroad Co Almy sJ > ur 388 1290100 Oregon Short Line RailJ road nC 8985 5407000 Rocky MountaIn Coal 1 Iron Co 172 5719 00 Central IncIfic Railroo Co 552 cars 130 82S 00 Wtstcrn Uniolr Telegraph Tele-graph Co 172001 1764730 1 Total sinsoii 39 County abstract 339031103 Total valuation 47 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 E + + J = = + = + + = r = + a = m i + = = 4 + dEi di + + ii z c + + IJf 1 j h + r + + t < = = Fill ifV + + ill I = + t + + + + + r < UNION PACIFIC MINE ITO 1 ltOeX SPRINGS + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + f + + + + + + + + + + + + J r > r ol < c > 6 < < J u f |
