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Show In The Bood Old Says 70 YEARS AGO Novcinlx r I, I1)!)1; According to visitors at the Leota ranch recently, there has been a tragedy among the fish in the lake formed by the high water last spring. As the water has evaporated shoals of fish have been left upon the banks until some persons estimate the dead fish of various kinds by the wagon loads. It is said that the fish can be seen half out of the water gasping for oxygen and dying for fresh water and feed. The trout seem to have died first but several other good edible varieties have followed follow-ed in the death struggle. The geese and ducks have been growing fat upon the fish and they are seldom molested. It is too bad the water couldn't be turned into the lake and the fish saved. We don't know whether the game warden knows the condition or not, but it seems hard times to know of so many fish dying so near by and one can't get a fresh fish in the market. Bertha, the thirteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Caldwell, is a very sick girl. Her parents came from the reservation to put the children in school ten days ago and Bertha took sick the day they arrived arriv-ed in Vernal. It was found that she was suffering from appendicitis and since that time everything has been done that could be done for her, without performing perform-ing the operation so often necessary in such cases. J.S. Hoy, the veteran Brown's Park rancher, was a Vernal visitor the first of the week. He wanted to buy a bunch of steers, but found them rather scarce here. Allison A. George, who has been on trial in the federal court for the past three days on a charge of stealing cattle from Uintah Reservation Indians, was today found guilty by the jury on all four counts of the indictment, and was sentenced by Judge Page Morris to one year and one day in the Leavenworth national prison. The stage from Colton via, Theodore that was due forty-eight hours ago, has not yet put in an appearance. There was a big snow storm on the divide and it is feared the driver is snowed in with his team. If the first snow storm of the season will delay the stage 48 hours, what are we to expect in the middle of the winter, is the question the people are asking, in considering, just at this time, the new proposed mail route from Colton. Routt County ranchers above Steamboat Steam-boat Springs, are getting $14 a ton for their hay, bailed, on board the cars, in former years hay sold as low as $4 per ton in the stack. That was before they had railroad transportation and they had to depend on the home market. Wonder if it will double the price of crops when the Moffatt road reaches Uintah County. There are eighteen teams and about thirty men working on the Colorado Park canal and the dirt is flying in good shape. They expect to have water on their land next spring. We hear from various sources that the coyotes have been growing exceedingly ex-ceedingly bold during the last two weeks. A newspaper is a power for good in the land but when we published the item two weeks ago, the coyotes need have no further fear for two months, we -didn't think they would get hold of the paper. We hear from outside points and notice in local exchanges that smallpox and scarlet fever are "raging" in Vernal Ver-nal and surrounding country. For the benefit of those who are alarmed we wish to say that there are nine smallpox flags up and two scarlet fever flags. The smallpox is confined to the Naples district which is NOT in Vernal. Miss Hattie Perry is recovering from the typhoid fever, which has held her in its grasp for over two months. Her friends will all be glad to see her again. Mr. Alexander Kidd, a farmer from Manasas, Colorado, has been looking over the Ashley Valley and the reservation reserva-tion country with a view to locating. He, is very favorably impressed and may get some of his friends to come here also. After November 30, the mail route to Maeser will be discontinued and the mail for that office will be carried by the R. D. carrier number one, Mr. Wiliam Wimmer has been the carrier for the Maeser post office for a long time. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hacking's baby has been very ill for several days, but is better again. The doctor says the child has been suffering from autointoxication, auto-intoxication, or self poisoning from some internal cause. A.N. Timothy has sold his coal mine to Phil Stringham, the consideration being be-ing $2,500. We understand that Vene Collett will have charge of the mine and will add to the facilities for furnishing coal. Dr. A. Rose and wife are traveling south by team and wagon and expect to keep going until they find the climate they want. Calder Brothers have quit delivering ice for the season in small quantities, and are now cleaning out their ice house of all the old ice. This they will deliver around town in load lots until the new crop comes on. Allie Bascom and Allen Hodso'n left for Salt Lake City this week with two wagon loads of turkeys. Its a long way 30 YEARS AGO November 2.J, 1919 More than half of the Christmas street decorations being planned for Vernal's Main Street have already been readied for use. Naples residents are in for a wonderful wonder-ful Christmas present which, Ross Mer-rell, Mer-rell, president of the Naples Water Co., says is bound to be delivered: water. The $85,000 project which will take water to 123 homes between 5th West and 5th South and outlaying sections of Naples will be completed by December 20, according to the plan. The project will bring to a conclusion, dreams of a lifetime. A mass meeting will be held Friday at 8 p.m. in the Uintah High School auditorium to consider a location for the long awaited community swimming pool. Under consideration at the present time are locations at Vernal City Park and on Uintah High School grounds. Announcing the opening of their new Vernal store, recently completed on East Main, one half mile from the city limits on Highway 40, officials of the Utah-Colorado Gas Company will become local distributors for butane and propane gas. Charles "Bart" Bartlett, 80, former editor of the Vernal Express and early settler of Ashley Valley, died in a Salt Lake hospital of a heart ailment, Sunday Sun-day at 8 a.m. Returning from Denver, Colo., Tuesday Tues-day were Francis Feltch and B. Frank Ward, executive secretary, Vernal Chamber of Commerce, who reported organization of the national Highway 40 association. Mr. Feltch was elected by Utah delegates as Utah director on the board. Even though October 1949 sales in both E and F and G savings bonds exceeded ex-ceeded 1948, and despite a splendid showing during the spring Opportunity Drive, Utah needs to sell $2 1-3 million in Series E, U.S. Savings Bonds before January 1 to maintain the splendid record of the state in cooperation with the government. Few Utahns ever see a wild moose on the march and of those who have witnessed the majestic beast in its native habitat Uintah Basin has its share. Once in awhile forestry officials and rangers find the bullet ridden bodies of moose, victims of an excited hunter's gun. Moose, like men are out of season all year and heavy fines face the hunter who bags one of these for his meat locker and trophy room. Nearly 1.000,000 housing units were turned out in 1948. Something new has been added to Uintah school this year a debate class under the direction of Harvey Hull-inger. Hull-inger. Plans for the second annual Utah Turkey show were announced recently. Turkey growers will show off their prize birds at the show which will be held in Salt Lake City on November 17, 18 and 19. to haul turkeys by wagon but how nice it will be for the fortunate ones who get Vernal turkeys for Thanksgiving. As we go to press we learn that Miss Bertha Caldwell died today at 11:30. "Her death was caused by appedicites from which she has suffered over a week. 20 YEARS AGO NovciiiImt 19, 1959 An estimated total of $5,000 damage was caused to a home and contents at the rear of Dinosaur Utoco Service Station Sta-tion on U.S. 40 in Jensen. The house was occupied by Albert L. Murray and fami- iy. DeKalb Agricultural Assn., Inc., has completed two more gas producers at its huge Ute Trail Unit in Southern Uintah Uin-tah County. Theft of a cash register valued at several hundred dollars was discovered Wednesday at 1 a.m. at Buzz Larsen's service station in Alterra. The transferr of Superintendent Jess H. Lombard, Dinosaur National Monument Monu-ment to Superintendent of Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, was announced an-nounced this week by National Park Service Director Conrad L. Wirth. The unbeatable Uintah Utes face Judge Memorial of Salt Lake City twice state winners, Friday in the Class B football finals at Brigham Young University. If the brawny Utes grab the Class B crown it will be the first time. Judge Memorial were state champs in 1948-49. Work is beginning on the first dual-purpose dual-purpose reservoir ever financed by the state of Utah. The project is the Red Creek Dam, seven miles north of Fruitland, Duchesne County. It will create a reservoir reser-voir of 5,800 acre-feet of water under a lake surface of 140 acres. For the first time, the State Fish and Game Commission is cooperating in a project engineered and financed by the State Water and Power board. Senator B. H. Stringham and secretary-manager L.Y. Siddoway attended at-tended a tri-state oil development meeting in Denver last week. Much of the discussion at the meeting was relative to reserving water for future oil shale development in Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah, said Mr. Siddoway. It has been said that through the development of oil shale and oil resources that Rangely would become a city of 100,000 population. Water is essential for the growth of industry in-dustry and provisions must be made for future needs. Diversion this week of the Green River through a 26-foot, diameter tunnel tun-nel will empty the river bed so that construction con-struction men can start preparation of the base for the Flaming Gorge Dam. Albert L. Gooden of Vernal part Chippewa Chip-pewa Indian, plays the part of a Mexican Mex-ican in the war with Mexico in the movie "They Came to Cordura", now playing at the Vernal Theater. It was filmed near Moab. |