Show roosevelt rumors special to the express ROOSEVELT UTAH march 12 this thia town presents a lively appearance these days people are coming in in here from all parts of the country to take up land or to go into some kind of business it begins to remind one of the days of the rush more than home seekers have reached here since the spring opened up and others are coming utah and colorado are furnishing most of the but there many from other states throughout the union george walker and party from woodland utah are among the latest to arrive one indication of the increased valuation of the land in this section its is the large number of contests that are being filed and that are going to be filed in the near future the land seeker is beginning to realize chatin that in order to hold the homestead he must actually establish his bis home onabe on the land and mako the proper improvements if he expects to hold it when contested he must prove beyond question that he is working in in good faith among the contests coming up is that of mary flynn vs alt alf eiolf the property is located three miles from roosevelt C 11 Shirt leff has received notice that he is contested by bert finn some of the boys who have arrived recently desired a little amusement and they worked up a social for last night at browns hall the occasion was very enjoyable the Milli gians furni furnished the music john caldwell w alo 0 has a ranch on the blue bench has been the guest of the proprietor of the colorado house for a few days many of the farmers are preparing to plant their fruit trees J M roseberry the agent of the nursery has been here during the week in the interest of his company and he reports that many trees have been purchased the real estate dealers are beginning to get busy and a number of deals are pend pending ng it is expected that a great deal of land will change hands this spring as many of the late arrivals are intending to buy rather than locate it Itla is understood that garnett holmes has decided not to sell his ranch at pro pre sent ile he has concluded to faim fai m on an extensive scale this thia coming summer bummer R S collett of vernal was over this thia week attending the meeting ine eting of the dry gulch irrigation company ed 1 I II Il armston chief engineer of this company is ia also here on business mr harmston armston Il is to do some work for the hayden people A townsite town sito is to bo be laid out there will be more small grain raised this year than there was last year the bulk of wheat and oats last year amounted to something like bush bushela elv of course the product is not confined to the small grain sugar beets cabbages potatoes onions will be grown extensively W S henderson of the consolidated lumber company with headquarters at vernal has been hero here for some time the demand for lumber seems to be ba greater than the supply and the yard bereis here is kept cleaned out most of the time the mill is located on mosby mountain joseph hardy of the roosevelt mercantile company has been vernal for a few days floyd carter of vernal has arrived on his ranch located one and a half miles south of town although the roads leading into the town are in in pretty bad shape the townsite is in fine condition the streets are dry and solid and the weather is ideal the merchants are in good humor as trade seems to be better than ever |