Show VERNAL PEOPLE ARE HAPPY Caused by the Probable Selection of That Place For Land Office Vernal Feb news from Wash Vash hunon as contained d In the press dig patches published Sn In The Herald to the effect that Vernal ha has been selected by bythe bythe the interior department and endorsed b by Smoot and Howell as th the location for the now new land office has caused general re rejoicing rejoicing In this section It been con all along that Vernal had the b best St of the ar argument in point of reasons masons whY It would be the most convenient for br all concerned S SOne One point upon which particular stress was laid in the petition from Vernal was that the th irrigable lands of the reservation Wore In the Uintah and Duchesne valleys which hl h Is along the eastern portion of oC the and nearest Vernal while Price sail and Heber were much moro dl din tant and were cut off by mountain ranges The selection of Vernal will ill mean con considerable to th the town as it will iII not only be a big advertisement but trill make ft t the point where all Intending settlers will congregate beford the opening and spend their surl surplus lus cash About twenty men anti and ten teams are engaged at presEnt on the White hite River Darn Dam Canal ditch at Chipe tn ton ten miles above ernal Is fast Cast filling CHUng UI with Colorado p people plc and the Indications are that with the coming of the railroad and the open Jag of th the reservation tintah county SOOn be n a as far as the Is concerned |