Show GRAND AND SAM JUAN > The section embraced by Grand and San Juan counties has as wide JL range of resources as time most favored sqc lion of the continent and the develop mont of it Is but Just at the conl moncomcnt While In lie past grading grad-ing has been practically all that wns followed the fruit of Hie valleys along the Grand and especially at Moab hn > gained a national reputation and tlffr demand for It from Eastern cities the past season could not be filled by 75 per cent Not onetenth of the acreage that has been set to orchards has y t come Into bearing A Jute frost Killed a large part of many of thai bearing or < I chott yet from Moab there was sent out this season about 7000 boxes of up pies mostly to Chicago and at pricor 2T per cent higher than paid tot fliiit ofother localities About 5000 box st peaches irene shipped mostly to Colq > ratio mining rumps Apples and pears which will stand a longer shipment wont to Chicago t The marked advances for the ycur have been In the development of illi I mining Industry and In the course of another yoar or iwo will surpass all other pursuits Cattleraising has been diminishing1 the past few years while sheopralxlng has increased and It IK < a sifcostlmulo lhat 1500CO sheep will bo pastured this winter on the lower mosaa of Giand and San Juan counties rime wool clip shipped from Thompson this season will reach about 200000 pounds In October 530000 worth oC mutton was sent lo the Chicago ma Itnt from Grand county flocks When time large section of land known as the desert lying between tho Grand and Green rivers estimated nL onehalf a million acres of arable land is brought InJo cultivation which cau be done by I irrigation taking water from the Grand river then Grand oouvv the agricultural ty will rank higher in producix The Stale Imo taken largo f traels of laud laying along the Grcon river near Green River siatlun on tlio < Rio Grawlo Western railway and a canal Is being surveyed lo take waior from time Green river for these iHmly miles south oC At a itoint about ten of tiw Thompsons Spring on time line road to Moab a colony of Emery county coun-ty farmers are arranging to settle next season depending on reservoirs far helm water supply At present the comparative Hmnll area of land under cuRlvatlon In Grand county Is I not sufficient suf-ficient to supply local demands nearly onehalf of the grain used and all time brcadaturrs being shipped in and time demand created by the Increase of time mining population is rapidly growing Oats and corn sell now at Moab for J2 hundred pounds V per Tim road between Moab and Cisco along the Grand river which IR being constructed under a tollroad franuhlMr was so far completed tho past season from Moab to can pass that a wagon Little Castle valley a distance of flT tho miles where 11 connects with loen makes This rood to Cisco old county valleys the principal travel easy between county Tin only means otf of the leys with a wagon before was by fD t passage mind difficult route via La Sat long to threes mountalnu requiring from two five hours It can now be made In days In have become Lake City ptirtlM Kvlt next In the enterprise and by tereutinl believed the rend will be jnit It If April It will enlam In flij trl i4ir 5 rbapi QiiU route I hr on > < Ij popnJar The Rio Grande ASv ttrn railway has I n line surveyed from the main line nt or near Cisco down the river lo Little Oastlo valley and across the La Sal mountains This Is In expectancy of the developments In mining In the La Ills Such a line of railroad would completely revolutionise affairs In thin section and the opportunities there arc for enterprises of every kind and can only be realized by actual inspection oC the country J I j TheCrand and Green rivers are navigable navi-gable for over two hundred miles and with little worl can be made so from wih Itt Cisco down tin Grand to tho calomels I and up the Green to Green River station sta-tion a distance of over 250 miles The main travel over such a line would be sightseers at the commencement but would follow with settlements on the many rich bottom lands along both rivers riv-ers A ride on a steamboat In n canyon will h perpendicular walls two and more thousand feet high Is I an attraction at the cataracts of the Colorado near whpr I catcracs < the and Green Join to form It is also worth seeing This matter has beiiii f tllsdussed in times past but 1e wider known ns this section becomes Icown practical f men arc considering the plac prcHeul ing1 a line of boats on the river and another summer is likely to see a boat pass over it The public schools of Grand county are In n healthy condition there being schools established at Cisco Vest wa ter Little Castle valley and at Moab Moab tel has a lino central school building completed In 1SSS at a cost of over SSOOO Prof A Molynoux Is the County Superintendent Super-intendent and aho principal of the Moab schools The teachers under him are Miss Gertrude Jones and Miss Fanny Fan-ny Brown both of Salt Lake City Mr I lY 1 F A Soefner of Provo and Charles B Lnng teacher of music The mercantile business of Moab Increased I In-creased fully 40 per cent tho past year and has more than doubled In the past two years arising nearly all from the demands for supplies for the mining camps surrounding It Cooper Martin cmus Co and Hammond Co are the leading l merchants the frt named having opened business here on the first holn1 of tho present year Thompsons Springs on the Rio Grande Western railway is the railroad point for Moab and the shipping at this point received shlppinb year hoi raised the and sent pat ltc I station high in Importance on that companys line The otlifials of Grand county are J I A Huff chairman of the Board of Bur Commissioners Arthur A Tay I Jor anl James M Waring completing I tho QI board J M Shiner is CountY Clerk J r Branson Recorder F A Manville Treasurer Jesse Tyler Sheriff Sher-iff J N Corbln County Attorney E 13 Campbell Surveyor A P Mohi Assessor As-sessor A very dry season in San Juan county I coun-ty has been u setback to the agricultural agricul-tural Interests of that count During the past year a twentyfivebarrolca flouring mill was erected at paclty mi erectc pacl OourlnJ is 1 now supplying that section with breadstuff Heretofore this was all shipped In requiring hauling haul-ing it about 100 miles from the nearest nS Is railroad The soil of this county well adapted for the raising of wheat and now that 3 means of grinding It is at hand there will be n largcd acreage I sown |