Show CARBON COUNTY UTAH The year of lOOO has been the greatest great-est building era In the history of Carbon Car-bon county Lumber dealers and hardware hard-ware merchants of the towns of lie county estimate that the business done In their lines Is fully 25 per cent greater than last year and they give it generally us an opinion that the first > ear of the twentieth century will boa bo-a still better one At Price the town has built a mw jail for city uoe that was comilctccl In December at a cone of 1000 while the Price school district dis-trict voted bonds in the I sum of 10000 for schoolhouse purposes and a new modern brick building of eight rooms and basement Is now well under way The Emery County Mercantile company com-pany has the foundation In four an1 SSOPO brick business establishment which will be ready for occupancy at an early dale In the spring L Lowcn stein has during the year erected a modern brick building at a cost of COOO to GOOO while Price Trading company has made additions to Its store buildIng build-Ing In the i elghborhood of 3000 Next year the Mormon people will erect a meetinghouse to be modern in every respect and torost several thousands of dollars At Sunnysldc and Clear Creek the Pleasant Valley Coal company has erected some forty new buildings for residences about equally divided between be-tween the two camps at an outlay o some 530000 to pay nothing of numerous numer-ous buildings for use In connection with the machinery of their big plants Aside from this there have been built by private parties employees In these camps as many more dwellings The record at Scofield Winter Quarters and Castle Gate among private persons is equally gratifying It Js the policy of this corporation to lease miners and others ground at a nominal rent and to encourage them to make homes as in this way they secure a better class and more contented workmen as V rule At Scofleld the company does not control lie I ground but nevertheless this camp Is not behind the others In u most excellent building record There have been no less than llfty new edifices edi-fices business blocks and private residences resi-dences during the past year Wellington and Spring Glen and I Helper show material progress in the building line At llclpcr the materials are on the ground for ten new cottages for the railroad company and additional addi-tional hotel room for u very large number num-ber of guests In fact the hotel accommodations ac-commodations there are to be more than dubled when the frost Is out of the ground Several thousands of dollars dol-lars have been also expended hero In new water tanks more trackage and surface improvements for terminal1 convenience all of which has given employment to hundreds of men at remunerative re-munerative wages and there Is not today to-day an Idle man In the county who cannot obtain employment if he wants work Emory county to the south of here has had a splendid building year and there is hardly a town or a hamlet which has not marked improvements In buildings the past year to point to Out at Fort Duchesne the new system of waterworks being put In by the Government has scattered among the people of eastern Utah in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 50000 all told to say nothing noth-ing of substantial improvements at the two Indian agencies White Rocks and Ouray AGRICULTURAL While Carbon county produces nine tcnlhs of the coal of the State of Utah It must not be inferred that this Is all she raises On the contrary she 13 a great agricultural county and enough of tfle products of the solh Ingrain In-grain and fruit Is produced to supply home consumption and some to spare Where there Is water for Irrigation the land Is fertile and responds most bounteously boun-teously to Intelligent cultivation In hay potatoes oats and apples and the smaller fruits there arc vast quantities shipped out every year The county Is third In eastern Utah In strained honey and the year 1000 shipped out about two carloads At Helper as fine apples as are grown anywhere in the world are raised and there is an ever eager market for them in the several mining camps of the county Next year will see the completion of two more large canals which Is to bring several thousands of acres underwater under-water and will materialy Increase the farm products up and down the valley of the Price river The llnest quality of potatoes In Utah are grown in this soil LIVE STOCK The sheepowners of Carbon county and In fact the entire eastern portion of the State have no cause for corn plaint of condifions for the year except ex-cept perhaps at this time of the scarcity scar-city of water and this Is in a manner being overcome by many flockmasfers who can move them herds or as has been the case with a number the buildIng build-Ing of reservoirs In the neighborhood of their ranges The low price of wool has kept a great deal of money out oC circulation but It has not had a depressing de-pressing effect for the reason that merchant were prcptired for It and there has been no curtailments o1 v credits Many woolowners have this years clip stored at home In Salt Lake and elsewhere and they will hold until better prices come The desert ranges are this winter as good as they havo been for years the weather has so far been mild and unless all calculations calcula-tions fall there will be slight losses from the elements and varmints when lab Is taken the coming spring Any estimate of the number of shecrc In the county or any given area ii eastern Utah Is men gucssuork from the fact that herds are continually on the move and while they may be assessed as-sessed in this county today tomorrow they arc on a range In some other couiu tv and In a month they may be moved again At this time ninetenths of the sheep of Carbon Emery and some from Ulntah ate on the lower deserts In San Juan and Wavne counties and thousands thou-sands of them are ranging on leased lands on the IJInlah reservation and some over In Utah county It would however be safe to say that seventy five thousand sheep arc sheared hero and fully a hundred thousand at Colton Col-ton every spring Then there are such owners of Hon Reuben G Miller who has some ten thousand head who shear at their own private pens The tendency ten-dency of raisers is to improve thai breed and each year sees a better grade of stuff on the ranges Numbers of highbred bucks have been brought Into the country the past year Tho poor stuff is gradually being weeded out as owners have come to the con elusion that It is ns cheap to raise a good grade of mutton as the poorer stuff For two or three years the cattle rnlslnor proposItion 1ms not been what It should in this immediate section of the State for the reason that the sheep men have encroached on the ranges and again there has not been sufficient moisture lo bring the kind of gross for steers to thrive upon However It must not be Inferred that the cattlemen cattle-men have abandoned all for on the contrary with an Increased rainfall the herd will Increase As one cattleman cattle-man expresses It We are only waitIng wait-Ing for changed conditions The Increase in-crease for the year will about make up for the losses by storm and theft There are many good horses on tho range and during the summer thcro was a splendid demand nt fair prices Better tImings are hoped for as to both cattle and horses next year u |