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Show life - O 31 A Supplement to t r"i 1 YC d 'air I the pi jit e 1 lIODfJ .J alJ Carbon c ouniy Is Locale of UtaHf Goal Industry fe ls Key City of Eastern Wast Treasure House; Is Ideally Located Iterate City Boasts Wonderful SchooLSys- tem; Coal, Agricultural ana bneep industries Annually Add Millions to Carbon Metropolis' Store of Wealth; Tourist Business is Given Jmpetus Through Improved Road System Vict, one w iu" icvci-. - iiwi of the Utah State Press as-has as-has lone been noted as one foremost cities t MBthern portion of the - state. tounties utilize tne city as ineir nil ihiDDine point, and exclusive rot area of coal which la pro M IB in legwn bui rwiounis ltaipmrats of produce .from . this would compare favorably with k of any other cpmmunity of like fir the state. Wb county, of which Price is the ftrwat, is the center of activities jit major portion of the coal-min- industry in the state of Utah. more than five million tons of Jot mined in the Carbon county a, and shipped to other sections 'ah and to other states. The year-jnoll year-jnoll of the county, . from the industry alone is more than ,0,000. Coupled with the agricul-1 agricul-1 induitries, and other resources, kmty is one of the richest in the f. Price is advantageously sit-i sit-i 10 as to claim its share of the beas which these various lines pro ?iriy more wool is shipped out of Jos county and from Price sta- than from any other shipping f hfejt&ttJulJUiahJSlKyoming jitho, according to officials of the for and Rio Grande Western rail. Jt the Salt Lake division. In shipping season just closed, more 84 carloads of wool were ship-from ship-from Price, consisting of more quarter million fleeces, j iftvays of the eastern portion of p,t all find Price as the most fWnt point in the section. A We highway leads from Price to 'Gate, a distance of 11 miles. kad from Price no Willow canyon across the 9,200-foot pass into the Uintah Basin. federal highway, and Is kept raw 01 the year, by main- .money from th afata and f Another road leads into the ir? ? 'dier canyon, via . The PikK Pv .o "enee southward Jf L.TrJJidlan(1 trail lo tra-W8h tra-W8h Price. Price canyon road i ODCf) (inrinn U.' ... Jding into Salt Lake City, a " 01 128 miles. At th nraa. ftl' i being diverted monuient, and thence ihfiL?.!-0 Soldier Summit V UUh metropolis." wttLllnU the Pik Peak I tMH,n 'Khwy. nd is in wBfS? ruhout- Roads thu n'Khway into Emery, C? Carbon county from the lwaV tL6 enters veriUble . ie reirularitv f tf Was-.WV.ng; C"nt7 frn Cxilton .st- J. weir COlorinv mnA .jti. tit ' ij4i! is pictured here is but one of a thousand thous-and scenic marvels which Carbon county has to offer to the eye of the tourist. "" Price river canyon is the carrier of Price river, which supplies the water for the irrigation of the 22$,000 acres of agricultural land in Carbon county. coun-ty. At Spring Glen "the canyon expands, ex-pands, and shortly- before it reaches Price widens out until it is eight miles in width. This land is valuable for agricultural purposes, with orchards and farms dotting the countryside. Many stockmen have their range headquarters head-quarters in this region, and operate over extensive ranges from their base in this valley. The products of Carbon county in the agricultural line are sugar beets, cnrn. nAtatnea and amall orain with every variety of garden truck produced 1 v. ; 1 ii 1 nere. uairying nas recently Become a leading industry, and is being developed de-veloped locally. Movements, are. on foot to secure a sugar beet factory in this locality to care for the acreage of beets planted annually," and with the realization of the factory plans, it is the anticipation of those working with the dairy industry that it will be stimulated considerably by the establishment. es-tablishment. Carbon county has an unusually efficient ef-ficient school system which is constantly con-stantly being enlarged to cope successfully success-fully with the increasing demands of the district The Carbon county high school, located at Price, is one of the largest in the state, and annually cares for almost one thousand students. stu-dents. Sunnyside and Helper have junior high schools, and efficient grammar schools are established at every community in the county. The schools in the county are under the supervision of D. C. Woodward, Jr., a graduate of Brigham Young university. uni-versity. Price itself has three thriving public pub-lic schools: the Harding school, Price Central and Southside schools. A Catholic parocheal grade school, Notre No-tre Dame, is located in Price also. In Price are situated two of the three high school dormitories in the United States, making it possible for the patrons pa-trons of the high school from the most remote districts of the county to avail themselves of the schooL Bus lines are operated also to every portion of the county for the high school students. stu-dents. , Price has a Carnegie library, established es-tablished in 1913. The Carbon county coun-ty court house, where have been tried many historic cases, stands in Price. Price city hall, built in 1895 and remodeled re-modeled in 1921, .is another of the public buildings in the. city. ..t Price is sponsor of a city hospital, where three-fifths of the cases in Carbon Car-bon county are brought for treatment The balance of the cases are mine company cases under agreement with some one of the hospitals in Salt Lake. The Utah Fuel company has a hospital hos-pital at Castle Gate, the Independent Independ-ent Coal and Coke company has one at Kenilworth, and the Spring Canyon Coal company has a hospital at Spring canyon. . , . Price is the center of the largest star mail route in the United States, operating under U. S. government supervision. The local mail station Helper Volunteer Fira Department ....U-- 1 i f - .J-- I "!,"'sE'" ', .. L. 1 ! 1 . . """T. . . , -. i , . ; .... ' :. . ... ,",,, ' , . . . -A- i 1 - i . v . - . . 1 -, - . y Price's Main Street is a Model for Towns Many Times its Size. distributes all the mail for the Uintah liasm and Emery county. Nearly thirty thir-ty great government mail trucks are utilized for the carrying of the mail, and a force of men are in the continual employ of the government keeping the trucks in repair. In the past tne service given the country offices in the Uintah district has been one in which Cyril B. Cluff, the superintend ent of the routes at Price takes pride. Despite heavy snows in winter and adverse weather conditions in other seasons, the mail has been kept moving. Price is the receiving and blending station for one of the largest branch es of the honey industry in the United Unit-ed States. More than 6,000 stands of bees are possessed by Carbon bee raisers whose apiaries dot the broad meadows of the lower Price river -valley, and the fields of sweet clover and alfalfa . lend . a. . flavor to the Carbon county product which makes it in demand de-mand in various markets of the United Unit-ed States.- ....... Four churches, representing a scope of creeds, are established in Price. The Carbon stake of the L. D. S. church has a large tabernacle in Price ward, presided over by President A. W. Horaley, and ministered by Bishop William E. Stoker. The Roman Catholics Cath-olics have a pretentious church in Price, with the Very Rev. Monsignor A. F. Giovannoni, supervising. The Rev. Father A. Galavix assists Mons. m r ' ' I v . "-.. ; ' .s ' : ' ' ' t ? - - - r ' I . 1 - ! 4 f t j :v':: - -- ! Giovannoni in the duties of the church. The Greek Orthodox creed is represented rep-resented with a. churchy presided over by the Rev. D. SmyrnoupoulouS. The Rev. H, M.- Merkel is- pastor of the Price Community church, where worshippers wor-shippers of protestant faith congregate. congre-gate. Members of the Buddhist religion, re-ligion, of whom Carbon county has a- number, among the Oriental citi senrv. have no rearular nlace of wor ship, but frequently high priest from Salt Lake conducts private services serv-ices in the county. ' The two lodges of Masonry in Carbon Car-bon county, the Carbon and the Jop- pa lodges, have a temple in Price, one of the most artistic 01 all Price s buildings. The Carbon post of the American Legion is the only one in the state of Utah which owns its own home, the American Legion hall of PncjL-hmng . , been promoteaand built Ty the local posts of the service serv-ice organization. In addition. " there is a lodge of the Knights of Columbus in Price, organized in 1925, Onward Lodge, of the Knights of Pythias, and numerous other orders, local, national and international The Rotary and the Kiwanis clubs in Price have a representative rep-resentative membership, from among the Price business and professional men. The Business and Professional Women's club in Price has one of the strongest memberships in the state. Price has a up-to-date chamber of commerce, presided over by , William Littlejohn. .Throughout the season tnis body sponsors many projects, including includ-ing civic, charitable, and publicity enterprises. en-terprises. A municipal band recently reorganized is another organization which Price citizens support A new dance hall,' an amusement resort, re-sort, is being constructed by the Price municipality in conjunction with the citizenry. A swimming pool was constructed con-structed last season, and provides a recreational center for the county people. peo-ple. A city park, one of the most up- to-date in the state, is situated within Price City. The park.- while young, has been the recipient of a great deal of attention and is frequented by many of the miners throughout the county, who come to Price with their families to attend the various band concerts and other functions which are staged in the city park. Two tourist camps, eight garages, seventeen stations, two ' vulcanizing shops and various other places where automobile repairs ana accessories can be secured is Price's bid. to tourists. Numerous hisrhway service stations are also available along "the-avenues into-Priee from- the four general di rections. The farming district is irrigated with water from the Scofield dam, one of the largest storage reservoirs in the state of Utah. The contents of the reservoir could be spread out one- root deep over 6Z.0OO acres 01 land. Diversion dams are situated along the Price river from which the water of Price river is diverted for irrigation use. Scofield reservoir has been stocked stock-ed with mora than a half million trout and more are being released there each (Continued on page 4.) Csstle Gate, Neture'e Getewsy U Easter Utah'a Vast Empire. Ilolpr Is fester ol Great Ccnl .lining Area Has Payroll of Over a Half Million Dollars m and. Does Large Volume Vol-ume of Business; Has Had Steady Grovkn Helper, the Hub of Carbon county and the most progressive little city in Eastern Utah, is situated right at the mouth of both Price and Spring canyons, with roads radiating from this hub to Kenilworth, Gibson, Coal City, Castle GatePrice and the Uintah Uin-tah basing--;;-'--. : - . Forty-eight years -ago. Helper was nothing more than a gap in the Price river canyon, with only one log cabin owned by Teancum Pratt who settled here on July 6, 1880. This early settler set-tler was the son of Parley P. Pratt, the widely known Mormon church leader and early pioneer of Utah, Teancum Pratt saw in this vafley a wonderful future and chose this spot as his future home, building the first log cabin and starting the foudation of this fast-growing city, known as Helper, Utah. The cabin and other ' landmarks made by this pioneer are still intact and may be viewed by vial-tors. vial-tors. Grading for the first line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, com-pany, under President Palmer and Vice-president Dodge, commenced through Helper in March, 1881. In 1883 -laying of track was completed from Deseret through to Salt . Lake City and Ogden. Regular service between be-tween Grand Junction and Ogden began be-gan May 17,. 1883. - In 1883 the Denver 4 Rio Grande Railroad company began to build one-story one-story frame houses for its .employes and thus started the growth of town. By the fall of 1887 the railroad rail-road had built twenty-seven frame, residences, and in the summer of the , following year ten more were erected. It was planned by President Palmer . of the road to make Helper a freight terminal, and in 1889, when the standard stand-ard gauge track was completed. Helper Help-er was made a division point for the road. It remained so for thirty years orup to the time the terminal was moved to Soldier Summit In 1891 a large railroad roundhouse, machine shops, coaling station, water tank and large hotel were built to provide pro-vide for the needs of the company. In 1893 the present commodious passenger passen-ger station was built The top floor was converted into a library and billiard bil-liard room for the men, and: remained so until Helper Railroad Y. M. C. A. was built Aside from these railroad buildings, the first house to be built in Helper was a two-story frame house built by J. Tom Fitch, in 1891. The first business house was a small saloon; this was followed by the first store building, and in 1893 the first log school house was completed. .Helper precinct was organized in: 1892 and was-set off from Spring Glen precinct by order of county commissioners com-missioners in 1894. Things were fairly booming in Helper Help-er by this time. The railroad employed employ-ed hundreds of men, coal mines of the Utah Coal company .were in operation employing many more men, and a amber of other began farming the fertile soil and irrigating their lands. Business houses and residences began shooting up with startling rapidity. During October of 1907, Helper town-ship town-ship was regularly organized and incorporated. in-corporated. The first duly elected officers of-ficers were J. Tom Fitch, mayor; W. (Continued on Page Four.) I ' I V - l 1 1 1' - - - - 1 Mala Street, Helper. , |