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Show OR EM MAYOR NO. 4 EMERY MCKELLIP $ r - i - if - ,,, - A h" or a desolate prairie, such as the Provo Bench was in ISM), to am act such a remarkable assortment of people to pui down their roots here, and channel the piccious Pioo Canyon water to the brink of their gieaiest need, in a conundrum that baffles the imaginations ot many people. With no otganiing genius to point the way to this sagebrush Mucken land, and no prophet, directing the colonizing of this grim ground, settlers were, nexciiliclcss, inexplicably determined to wrestle the rocks and the i.iitlesn.ikcs for title to the homesteads ihey claimed Such names as Conlner. Stratton. Wentz, Skinner. Piesiwuh, luNon. Pailridge. Newell, l.unceford. I ,ule , lUmncll. I oxcless. Johnson and Rowley shine hnghilx in the diadem of families who caught the ision ot what this bench lain! could become, and woiked u make thai ision a reality. hist ol ail. thcx discoxercd the means to direct the flowing Ptoxo Canxon water from the streams and spungs onto the paichcd earth, thaxigh open canals and dnehes. Then, thcx tonxs.1 w uh their neighbors to charter a town. Km row mowx. and pipe the axailabie pure dunking xa;et into their Ikmiks. oVuics a;l ftuit trees thrixed here, and ready isu.keis t!t tapped, the whole State of Utah. Ca'.itonita. a:xt exen the Eastern marie:s. By 1935 the I own of 0:?m. just oxer 15 years oil, was s.:;Y'-"i rxw than 5sV freight car kvds of fruit, a xea: . frora the orchar-cis of Orera. These vhW 4 cars of peaches, 203 cars of appcs. o cars of pears. .12 cars of cherries and Rxa-car Rxa-car of -sr. vs IX fact that ui:s fruit trjey r$etaN$ we;v grow.'; .V:? was one achariai? wh3ch trarty ;vse f?; v cul-- CVtrs a nets desuaNif rac? v c.xe- S S.s5. xr-"s jxxOooc was crcvr S ai .vV -.y-'-s ese-s rvreh The yours so5 was he .-.g i-.-ft.vx? .v S sevr-e. who sa as a sruZ awuacxx ;h iac jvcxa2; aa idcai piace a? put ai r.vcs av .tar a rarS U"ac-h.V. three sraras To -a EvMrcs of Tr-ees hx! srvcd xa.rxN It ovs t yarsv 1936-1937 municipal needs of the gaw ing community. Ia the spring of 1919 a group of farmers gathered here at the Parcel! Hall to discuss their need to bceorae aa independent town w ith their own culinary axr system. During that meeting, a petition for a K"aship was incrod jced and signed by 219 citizens. Thai petitsea was presented at the next meeting of the Utah County Commission by community leaders LawTcax J. So?. J. V. Giilman. Emery McKellip, Ne-s A. Jacofcsea and J. A. Loxeless. Afser orderg a complete canxass of proposed rowrsiip. the pecaoc was granted, and the Town of Ores cane ceo be:rg on July '.1919. J. W. C;Z.-ri Err:rx McKellip. Neils A. Urcfrsi- -rd Ja A .oxekss became members of e ft To- Board of Trances, and Lawrence J. Sz-cs ieci-x xs presxjem Snow sened as preaiajyvT &r ytars J. V. Gtllman serxtd is jr53itraxxT fcr sexm ears. and Ivan J. Burr semci It Ixr years as presJjit max or. |