Show S t ry r of OJ ip Paved ave d City Where here T Taxes a e Are Unknown 1 Y 1 No city j tax V Five FIe b miles nIk pavements v vA y t ti i A tabernacle V x Telephones ns lles and electric lights X y A stake tako academy and three 1 y schools choat 1 i wool cattle en horses N 1 fanning V Annual exchanged 4 1 X pounds y i Annual mull pieces pece X Altitude ft f y 1 Six three business y z 1 U S lain office X 1 I y Delightful climate y UINTAH COUNTY S 1 loris tor s alfalfa annually x s sy i ii y i 71 f he horses 1 y cattle pounds i hUlley annually y 1 V x 1 51 annually y 1 Wheat at bushels bushe 1 Mercantile u an A Ay 1 y 4 1 business s 4 y County Coun y valuation 1 y 1 X O x X 1 x 1 Bonded Indebtedness X 1 i Mining ranching an J f y Population t i X M M t tA I j A Vernal Verna is one of the tho few tew cities in thu world that does not levy a tax Tho rhe city cRy proper occupying but ono one square sq alc mile is of or course largel filled with wiLh business houses horn f om the tho licenses ot of which the tho city cily gots gets sufficient revenue to pay easily all ati e expenses incurred Usually there thero is about a 1000 1000 surplus In III the U 11 It Is I not nt n g known that thai Ver Vernal nal lini has mote moro paved streets than any other city of Its It size In tile the world worl but such Is a II fact There are at present within the city limits over five miles of ot ni sidewalks sidewalls and the business streets are aio similarly paved ij I hauled front from the large near nearby by Iw heated in Iti a vat mixed with a n little Sd sa sanci lilt I I lUll ann toned Lou ana an flu me the I flO ng Ih Ig l complete I Y i Is Indeed A local C lt ny has has In Ii I ticu a ah telephone h lIe line that thaL reaches with con CO I II rJ alt Lake Litlo and most niost of ot tho the theof town of or Ashley valley and aud the tIie fottner lorinCe I Uintah 1 A light and power po cr company hits constructed a po oi l plant on oli Ashley r mer el anti and now not only are mo I 1 Vet mils homes unc lighted with I Jb It is j I at hand to run inn i I Its ils it plants and ami home The Tho santo same local company has hils franchises froni the thu cities l of Ashley J hley I valley ille I it to construct trolley lIne linos und Itil roped that soon oon the thu I 10 lu riding on Ill interurban j Co l I lr atly the cUi ety b is IJ s talking tall of I a and sou or ortho tho thu only that there Is I not valuation within j I the the fIt mile upon which to is issitt IsI sitt sUe suIl bonds bouti Two Tuo wo things can transpire I I cither etl el the ie city will wUl extend exten its limits I to tl meet mc t the tho necessity lly or tho ho city will unite with prIvate capital In bringing about the improvement The rhe latter method will wiil probably be bo followed The Thc water vater will be taken talen from the mouth of Ashley A hley ean canyon ona distance e of SK six miles mile SIXTY BUSINESS CONCERNS cON J In Vernal thero there are over CO 60 business enterprises of varying size sUe and be besides besides sides thorn thom ono one lodge hall I r O 0 O 0 P F Pa 1 Fa a n line hlaS hand band and orchestra three school buildings and three churches chinches A United State Stae land office is there thore and antI during the first si sK sIx months of its It I 1 the P amounted to over ver As most of the tho land Jand landof of Utah Ulah lies In the territory contiguous to Vernal it is likely that the of oWe office lice will viii be bo permanently situated in that city Somo Sorno idea W of tho the magnitude of the business done lIe at Lt Vernal can call be he b gath crell uie in 10 Ir tub the post JOSl postoffice office handled der or pieces of pf mall mail and the money noncy monc Older eider business was enormous when compared with that of ol even jen much larger larget cities It is unfortunate Innate that largo large sums of or money should thus go jo annually mostly to east eastel eastern el urn ern n mall mail order houses houss The Tho amount of freight hauled Into Vernal by b wagon lust last year eal pounds poun s one ono Grin firm alone aion over Is every eer opportunity opp for the Investment of or capital in Vernal probably probably ably abl the tho most urgent need noo however being a hotel and an a railroad The Uin tali tah railroad which now extends from Mack Colo Cob to Dragon Is already alread con the tho extension of ot its road to Vernal a distance of 65 miles and the tho th hew new Moffat road toad which will connect Denver Denvor with Salt Lake Lale will very likely go down Green river liver fIon which point a spur jur can bp be b run tho the 14 miles to Ser Ver Vernal nal mu and antI Ashley valley Values In the tho whole Uintah country countr are likely to spring upward when the Moffat road enters and for that reason teason tho wise vise is getting his land now non Tho Tue road now Is near the tho Colorado Colora o line linea a mc ad in any case It cannot go far from as aK ml its It route loute is up the Duchesne 11 to Hebel ENTERPRISING CITY CI Y 1 1 t n manufacturing enterprises including a It aci ci y two harness shops a news the Venial E h press two mill mills a II brickyard brIel ard and a lumber company with several jav aw mills Within six sit miles cs of the tho th city there theio are 1110 vast ast deposits of bituminous coal roal The seam scam seam varies Ories from four to tonIno null nine feet feel In Iii thickness and for fori fora Ol Oln n a i distance ce of four foul miles It Is Ib freo fico burning Coal of oC great heating healing power iJO er and LUi tins 1155 pi prIce Ice delivered is ts 4 per pcr ton toll In addition to the coal there thOle are ato thousands ot or curtis curds of If cedar wood woo for COL fuel and there their aro ar outer timbers suitable for building bull purposes purpose Thure is in Iii the neighborhood plenty of building stone slone and many buildings b ll have liae already alread been constructed with brick made from tho the clay Vernal emul ranks lanKs high Tile Thu Central public school schO JI building bundIng is isone Isone one of the tho most modern and arid commod Otis OILS tu be bo found In the tiro state the Con scho school l and ami the Uintah Stake tal academy are uio both In flourishing condition Resting as it does docs do in tho the center of that vast area aiea which is 13 open to o homo home homesteaders and being already tho the nucleus 11 of the tue th commercial activity of ot tho the re region gion Vernal is truly the tho Arcadia |