Show PEACEFUL ASHLEY VALLEY boundless resources of on an isolated section GREAT FUTURE BEFORE IT agricultural AND WEALTH of UTAH I 1 not a community Comann ity of wild and wooly splendid opportunity for irrigation people are Peace full and law lav abiding A region sich rich in rist ry settlement years apo ago when the first pioneers pione ors of uintah county braving the dangers and discomforts comforts dis of bf life on the frontier landed in what was then known as ashley folk fok country there was waa nothing to greet the eye save one vast ex ponso of gray broken only bya by a fringe of green klong along the achley creek which sweeps with one long graceful curve from the ashley gorge whore where it issues from its ita mountain with an endless protest against its stormy passage to the valley of the green standing upon the dry and barren soil their gazo gaze resting upon the bleak and uninviting prospect they little dreamed of the vast possibilities that lay before thoro thern the tans transformation formation is now completo complete where once to use uge an old settlers v i horae would eink to hia in the dry loose soil boil there is s now now ono one vait abt alternating ex hadbo of and shadow a billowy son boa of green and blue with juat now here and there a dash of gold to ono one nv who ho travels over the interminable load from what is inov known n hero as the outside ont side and is compe compelled llod to ko take in the proverbial peck t f dust en toute and carry carry anad other pock on the outside ou taide and a who with an aching oid loid inwardly ex pressed ia is gazing hungrily ahead for the end of what seems an endless road which circles with provoking persistence pers stance istance around every knoll oil in u sight the scene that spreads itself before him when he arrives at the sun mit of the pass which is the commer cud gate way of the valley alley di dispels all other thoughts then the beauty of the paoo pano iama iania before him where once the antelope fed unmolested along t lie toot foot hills and nothing that savored of civilization blared led the complete wildness wil doess of the scene now a scene presents itself that sterns almost marvelous marv olous in light of past conditions As one tarries a moment in contemplation of the scene spread before him lit ho cuenot but admire the pluck I 1 and perseverance of a people that have hae a barren waste into it a land v virtually flowing bowing with milk iud and lioney honey lookin looking oat OAI nv or the valley vail oy one is struck by tho the fact that houses lire pretty evenly over the entire country which is explained by the fact that nearly all of the lendt were hom estolt led necessitating n the building indof of houses agatho and tho improving ot claim towards lo wards the center of the valley where her the trees seem denser than common the lh smoke slowly ascending through the green bran branches chos and the busy hum of industry marks the center of population there lies the town of vernal the county seat of ustah co county coty ty As aa one descends from tho the priss pass and drives briskly along the downward slope toward vernal one passes houses on either hand band in continual succession with ith their grain holds and lucern patches around thona them THE ASHLEY PIONEER PIO NEEn on the alth day of february 1873 pardon doddi who had bad been previously indian agent at uintah drove in tho first wagon that ever made a kracl in ashley valley alley and was as the first white man inan to lo lo locate cateon on ashley creek where here be still cosides lo io bides sides the first white m woman oman to enter tho valley mas mrs mya sender choso whoso husband died here bem and who subsequently tho the sheriff of uin t till th county william mrs lives likes in vernal bo tant the 1 ehst ast alato man and tho the firby white ii woman anian that settled in 10 tho nio alo till with inith us the farist settlers sett lera located along the or creek eek li bottoms atoms and eventually a 8 little town sprang up at what jg is bow known as ald ashley A few of the theold old buildings in 9 s baill remain to mark the site here once ed tho rendezvous tor for till all the wild and wooly men that inhabited this section of utah in the old bygone days la in those days boci soci ety ty was very crude and a man to hold his bis place on the top round of the social ladder must be oble able to drink plenty of bud bad whisky yell like a coyote and handle bundle a gun wl with th all tho the the dexterity that tho average man now BOW exhibits in the uso use of a knife and fork but those days bave havene passed aed away and comparative pence peace and quiet coign roi n where once the desperado whooped to bis bill hearts content ri tent the bad men have bare hied themselves vei to other and more congenial climon and tho the peaceful farmer have now DOW bakon possession and pursues the even tenor of his way sinco since pardon dodds first dru stakes along the banks banis of ashley creek the tide of immigration has steadily poured over the divide and spread itself over the entire valley thero there are a great many people here from cache valley a groat great many from salt lalo lale county and a very generous from utah county and somo some from tom every where peat arul AND AD LAW ABIDING Ani DIKO A great doal deal has been written and moro more hu has been said con concerning corning the conditions existing in ia this section and the class of people inhabiting it the impression impi ossion has gone abroad that uintah county people are in a wild and untamed state that the laws are trampled tram plod plad under foot and no man dare prot pst A greater mistake was never madeford ma made defor tor the there roaro are people here who do not only dare to protest but who dare to uphold the majesty of the law while wo we admit that there are men who he infest the mountain ranges along the border lines of our county who cause us considerable annoyance at t tinoi almog the fact stir still remains that the great majority of the people of this count county are industrious taw law abiding citizens who art are determined to tamp stamp out iwic lawlessness i and see to it that liw law and order prevails it 0 what strange that hut truth idd 4 sacrificed to satisfy an 1 A W 6 petito petite for something sensations sensa tiona we naturally expect at least the moral assistance of the populous sections of the state but can get along probably without it and yet make of uintah county one of the thorest sections of the bo state of utah ilme time a snap ner in an antoniew an individual stated that he be never thought of traveling in countey without wit wt honto hont a winchester now I 1 feel extremely sorry for a person whose nerves are in such a condition perhaps ho he has never gotton over tho the fanciful stories of his boyhood days I 1 would strongly advise him to tale some nervo nerve tonic possibly it might inight help him to swallow a little sand tho the writer has lived here for eight years beare and has nver never owned a gun nor needed ono one during time LOOKING FOR A RAILROAD tho the announcement made some time since in the herald that tho the burlington railroad may build through this section liaa has revived tho the hopes that thai somo some timo time the scream of tho non lion borso may be heard in the land I 1 alit ho people hero have boon been looking and hoping for a railroad from the firest settlement Bott lement of the country tho the advantages I 1 hat would from the advent of a railroad into tins this section are incalculable the great resources that now lie durmant dormant would bo be developed and make of this section an empire within itself ABUNDANCE OK 02 WATER uintah county or more broadly speaking northeastern utah is one of the best water sections of the state in that portion ot of uintah county not included in the reservation thoro there are tour four streams dreams of water green river divor brush creek ashle ashloc Y fork and henrys fork oroon green river divor running along the eastern border is in the largest stream in the state but as 5 ot efa very little of its waters are utilized owing to the difficulty of handling and controlling such juch a large stream by men means and owing to our isolated condition men with the capital necessary to inaugurato inaugurate bir big irrigation sc schemes hernes have not yet found us out the two st realus that aro are made to do duly to their fullest capacity are abbley and brush brabb creeks from which every drop of water is balcia in low water a eason there The roaro are several canals taken from ashley creole crecor which circle around tho the malj valley ey and ii i agate thousands of acres of land upon which anro ro raised a great of agricultural products f brush creek courses along between achley shley creek and aad green rier and raffers ohp highest benches that lie along the latter stream near its mouth acre are splendid at the th boa head of each of these streams for th the aldrage storage of water as aa there are some fine locations for reservoirs reservoirs which mould bo be tho the WORDS moans of increasing tho tillable till ablo area to a considerable extent and with tho the advent of a railroad will come inen of capital n ho will ad soine borne of the boat best opportunities for a to bo be found in this thia intermountain country GREAT LANCH COUNTRY henrys fork on the northern border it is R groat ranch country and is taken principally by cattle men who have thousands of cattle and gorsop roaming on tho the groat great ranges which lio lie contiguous to that tn 1 I RESOURCES BES OUnCES in that portion of uintah and wasatch counties that lies withie u the reservation e er are the undeveloped resource es laying idle that will uno one day make of northeastern utah one of the greatest sections of the state it would make alo average Utah farmer weep to stand upon the bauls of the luo beautiful uintah and lake fork streams and watch the ceaseless flow ol 01 of the put ater on earth whilo along their banks are thousand of acres of land upon which bouw be grown every ablo able variety of agricultural products known to this latitude tho the day will como come when this great country wll will bo be a no network of canala Is add thousands of comfor ablo homo homes i will appear upon the ruins ruina of tho me prairie dogs ancestral haunt a minnil WitAL WEALTH TIT groat great as are tho agricultural section its iti mineral wealth aa is even greater in tho the un reservation are the VA geak jt il deposits that havo ae at the wiling will W 1 rubw log sty mf 11 la l A lt ll 11 maj t ra 3 1 solved T ta V pave the way of atam ra airi orations erat ions in every quarter of the globe in tho the hills which skirt the ashley valley on the south ure are great beds of what is known as aa sand rap rop hilt a commercial rrt do cle chich only mv aw tits als clieaf transportation to place it upon tipon the clio market marker john beck tho the well all known mining mon men is the il owner of those deposits and annually expend ti from 2000 to in us cs monts Ela tonto and mineral wax n are also found in a number of places and till ill around achley valley on tho the baht and north uro tire veins of coal which furnish an abunda abundance ico of cheap cheal fuel promising prospects of arld silver and copper tire aro found on cn orv liand hand at tho the head of brush creek creck lies the eanious dyer copper lamp winch lias his shipped oro over oer one of the worst roads imaginable for it a ditta uco of DO 90 ariles and mado made it pay pud cud alach aich recently sold for unfortunately Un tortu this mine lias kati bacri in litigation tor and has luin adlo m conie qu quinci enc all around alis hamoui anions mino mine lire are numerous prospects that would spring into prominence with tho the ad vent of a railroad there are a number of 0 silver lead propositions that aro are awaiting development along the same bolt belt splendid specimens ot of copper are arc brou brought glit in from tho the blue mountains on the thelast nast aar and the parties interested think they have bavo a barrel of money on tap aside from agriculture and mining there are tho the great ranges on tile the north which from strawberry valley on the west to browns park on tho the east along the great uintah feeds thou thousands 1 ands of cattle dorfie s and and which will fled thousand tho wiand more floon the is thrown open to tho the public uintah county shipped pounds of wool this season ond and a great deal of mutton knutton libb axi 11 anor fruit a few yen years re ngo ago ws wai brou glit in from the I 1 out Fido but now thu tho or chardi of Uin tili county urn aro boin ing to give tin an account of thief ches 4 small mall fruits do splendidly splendid lly and al a ples plen pears and plums plains do well el 1 and in i n somo 0 locations peaches are concluded on ith pao PEACEFUL ASHLEY VALLEY continued from ht pane page grown this season the fruit w is excellent cel lent both iu in quality anti quantity with the advent of a railroad to transport tran its ita pio products ducts this will be one of we best locations in the state lor for a diat kloct sugar factory as aa there are am thousands ot of acres of elevated bench beach land that is well adapted to the growth of the sugar beet beel the climate and all other essentials necessary to the sue cess of such euch an enterprise are to be found here this thin is in the home of the honey bee and thousands of pounds of honey are annually transported in wagons into western colorado and sold tons and tons are used in preserving of fruits and is made to take the place of sugar for a great many purpose Fies the people here can laugh in the face of the sugar trust in the mountains to the north are countless count loBB thou thousands sanda of posts posta poles house honse logs and sufficient tie timber to build a railway across the continent there are several saw mills that keep the people well supplied with lumber there tire are 1628 school children at prof lont in uintah county and the number i is s constantly increasing twenty two teachers are engaged in the pleasant task of teaching the young idea how to shoot not with a gun as outsiders would like to tobe bo fiovo love but in the new regulation way northeastern utah is 5 a country with a future before it and not behind it as aa some one rem raked of a 4 boy and though wo we are just now hanging banging on the ragged edge of civilization we look confidently forward to the time when the car of progress will arrive and carry ni na to the front rank whore where this section is donlin od eventually to take its place vernal correspondence to the salt lake herall herald u V i |