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Show I tate ress • • SSOCiatiO D • u et1n Supplement to Carboll County Is Locale of U tah's Great Coal Industry Price Is Key City ot Eastern Utah's Vast Treasure House; Is ldeaUy Located Helper Is Center of Great Coal Mining Area Up-to-date City Boasts Wonderful School System; Coal, Agricultural and Sheep Industries Annually Add Millions to Carbon Metropolis' Store of Wealth; Tourist Business is Given Impetus Through Improved Road System Has Payroll of Over a Half Million Dollars and Does Large Volume of Business; Has Had Steady Growth is pictured here is but one of a thousand scenic marvels which Carbon county has to offer to the eye of the tourist. -Price river cai'Iyon is the carrier of Price river, which supplies the water for the irrigation of the 225,000 acres of agricultural land in Carbon county. At Spring Glen the canyon expands, 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 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, corn, potatoes and small grains, with every variety of garden truck produced here. Dairying has recently become a leading industry, and is being developed 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. Carbon county has an unusually efficient school system which is constantly being enlarged to cope successfully 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. 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. Price itself has three thTiving public schools: the Harding school, Price Central and Southside schools. A Catholic parocheal grade school, Notre 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 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. Price has a Carnegie library, established in 1913. The Carbon county court house, where have been tried many historic cases, stands in Price. Price city hall, built in 1895 and remodeled in 1921, is another of the public buildings in the city. Price is sponsor of a city hospital, where three-fifths of the cases in Carbon 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 at Castle Gate, the Independent 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 t he largest star mail route in the United States, operating under U. S. government supervision. The local mail station Helper, the Hub of Carbon county and the most progressive little city in Eastern Utah, is situated right at Price's Main Street is a Model for Towns Many Times its Size. the mouth of both Price and Spring distributes all the mail for the Uintah bees are possessed by Carbon bee Giovannoni in the duties of the church. canyons, with roads radiating from Basin and Emery county. Nearly thir- raisers whose apiaries dot the broad The Greek Orthodox creed is rep- this hub to Kenilworth, Gibson, Coal ty great government mail trucks are meadows of the lower Price river val- resented with a church, presided over City, Castle Gate, Price and the Dinutilized for the carrying of the mail, ley, and the fields of sweet clover and by the Rev. D. Smyrnoupoulous. The tab basin. and a force of men are in the continual alfalfa lend a flavor to the Carbon Rev. H. 1\1. Merkel is pastor of the Forty-eight years ago Helper was employ of the government keeping the county product which makes it in de- Price Community church, where wor- nothing more than a gap in the Price trucks in repair. In the past, the mand in various markets of the Unit- shippers of protestant faith congre- river canyon, with only one log cabin service given the country offices in ed States. gate. Members of the Buddhist re- owned by Teancum Pratt, who settled the Uintah district has been one in Four churches, representing a scope ligion, of whom Carbon county has here on July 5, 1880. This early setwhich Cyril B. Cluff, the superintend- . of creeds, are establi:>hed in Price. The a number, among the Oriental citi- tler was the son of Parley P. Pratt, ent of the routes at Price takes pride. Carbon stake of the L. D. S. church zenry, have no regular place of wor- the widely known Mormon church Despite heavy snows in winter and has a large tabernacle in Price ward, ship, but frequently a high priest leader and early pioneer of Utah. adverse weather conditions in other presided over by President A. W. from Salt Lake conducts private servTeancum Pratt saw in this valley seasons, the mail has been kept mov- Horsley, and ministered by Bishop ices in the ccmnty. a wonderful future and chose this spot The two lodges of Masonry in Car- as his future home, building the first ing. William E. Stoker. The Roman CathPI·ice is the receiving and blending olics have a pretentious church in bon county, the Carbon and the Jop- log cabin and starting the foudatio!'! station for one of the largest branch- Price, with the Very Rev. Monsignor pa lodges, have a temple in Price, of this fast-growing city, known as es of the honey industry in the Unit- A. F. Giovannoni, supervising. The one of tne most artistic of all Price's Helper, Utah. The cabin and other ed States. More than 6,000 stands of Rev. Father A. Galaviz assists Mons. buildings. The Carbon post of the landmarks made by this pioneer are American Legion is the only one in still intact and may be viewed by visithe state of Utah which owns its own tors. Grading for the first line of the ho)lle, !:.he. -Am "rican Legion hall of Price, having been promoted and Denver & Rio Grande Railroad combuilt by the local posts of the serv- pany, under Presixlent Palmer and ice organization. In addition, there Vice-president D o d g e, commenced is a lodge of the Knights of Columbus through Helper in March, 1881. In in Price, organized in 1925, Onward 1883 laying of track was completed Lodge, of the Knights of Pythias, and from Deseret through to Salt Lake numerous other orders, local, national City and Ogden. Regular service beand international. The Rotary and tween Grand Junction and Ogden bethe Kiwanis clubs in Price have a rep- gan May 17, 1883. In 1883 the Denver & Rio Grande resentative membership, from among Railroad company began to build onethe Price business and professional story frame houses for its employes men. The Business Gild Professional Women's club in Price has one of the and thus started the growth of a strongest memberships in the state. town. By the fall of 1887 the railPrice has a up-to-date chamber of road had built twenty-seven frame commerce, presided over by William residences, and in the summer of the Littlejohn. Throughout the season thi.s following year ten more were erected. It was planned by President Palmer body sponsors many projects, inc.luding civic, charitable, and publicity en- of the road to make Helper a freight terprises. A municipal band recently terminal, and in 1889, when the standreorganized is another organization ard gauge track was completed, Helper was made a division point for the which Price citizens support. A new dance hall, an amusement re- road. It remained so for thirty years sort, is being constructed by the Price or up to the time the terminal was municipality in conjunction with the moved to Soldier Summit. In 1891 a large railroad roundhouse, citizenry. A swimming pool was conmachine coaling station, water structed last season, and provides a tank and shops, large hotel recreational center for the county peo- vide for the needs were built to proof the company. In ple. A city park, one of the most up1893 the present commodious passento-date in the state, is situated within ger station was built. The top Price City. The park, while young, was converted into a library andfloo:f' hilhas been the recipient of a great deal liard room for the men, and remained of attention and is frequented by many so until Helper RaiJ.road Y. M. C. A. of the miners throughout the county, was built. who come to Price with their families Aside from these railroad buildings, to attend the various band concerts the first house to be built in Helper and other functions which are staged was a two-story frame house built in the city park. by J. Tom Fitch in 1891. Two tourist camps, eight garages, The first business house was a small seventeen stations, two vulcanizing saloon; this was followed by the first shops and various other places where store building, and in 1893 the first automobile repairs and accessories can log school house was completed. , be secured is Price's bid to tourists. Helper precinct was organized in Numerous highway service stations 1892 and was set off from Spring are also available along the avenues Glen precinct by order of county cominto Price from the four general di- missioners in 1894. rections. Things were fairly booming in HelpThe farming district is irrigated er by this time. The railroad employwith water from the Scofield dam, one ed hundreds of men, coal mines of the 1 of the largest storage reservoirs in Utah Coal company were in operation 1 the state of Utah. The contents of employing many more men, and a the reservoir could be spread out one- number of others began farming the I foot deep over 62,000 acres of laN.d. fertile soil and irrigating their lands. I Diversion dams are situated along the Business houses and residences began 1 Price river from which the water of shooting up with startling rapidity. , Price river is diverte,d for irrigation During October of 1907, Helper townuse. Scofield reservoir has been stock- ship was regularly organized and in' ed with more than a half million trout corporated. The first duly elected of• and more are being 1·eleased there each ficers were J. Tom Fitch, mayor; W. (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on Page Four.) Price, one of the recent hosts to the members of the Utah State Press association, has long been noted as one .of the foremost cities of the eastern aud southern portion of the state. Four counties utilize the city as their principal shipping point, an~ ex~lusive of the vast area of coal wh1ch Is pro.duced in the region surrounding Price, the shipments of produce from t~is point would compare favorably with those of any other community of like size in the state. Carbon county, of which Price 1s the county seat, is the center of activities for the major portion of the coal-mining industry in the state of Utah. Yearly more than five million tons of coal are mined in the Carbon county mines, and shipped to other sections 10f Utah and to other states. The yearly payroll of the coun~y, from the mining industry alone 1s more than $6,000,000. Coupled with the agricultural industries, and other resources, the county is one of the richest in the state. Price is advantageously situated so as to claim its share of the business which these various lines produce. Yearly more wool is shipped out of Carbon county and from Price station than from any other shipping point in the state of Utah, Wyoming -or Idaho, according to officials of t~e Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad, on the Salt Lake division. In the shipping season just closed, more than 80 carloads of wool were shipped from Price, consisting of more than a quarter million fleeces. Highways of the eastern portion of the state all find Price as the most convenient point in the section. A eoncrete highway leads from Price to Castle Gate, a distance of 11 miles. Roads lead from Price up Willow Creek canyon across the 9,200-foot Indian pass into the Uintah Basin. This is a federal highway, and is kept open for most of the year, by maintainance money from the state and county. Another road leads into the basin through Soldier canyon, via Nine-Mile. The Pikes Peak ocean to <Jcean highway goes through Price, and thence southward into Emery county. The Midland trail also travels through Price. Price canyon road will be open during the summer of 1928, leading into Salt Lake City, a distance of 128 miles. At the present time traffic is being diverted through Willow Creek canyon to the :Bamberger monument, and thence across the park to Soldier Summit and to the Utah metropolis. Leading eastward out of Price to the Colorado line is the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean highway, and is in good condition throughout. Roads branch from this highway into Emery, Grand and San Juan counties, the roads into the latter country leading to the Natural bridges, three· of the scenic wonders of the state. Entering Carbon county from the 1Vestward, one enters a veritable i aiz·yland. The regularity of the western slope of the Wasatch range en ds abruptly. The country from Colton eastward on the east of the summit. The country from Colton eastward becomes a group of castles, s upel'b in their coloring and majestic i n t heir grandeur. Castle Gate, which .. - * . . • • ' Helper Volunteer Fire Department. Castle Gate, Nature's Gateway to Eastent Utah's Vast Empire. Main Street, Helper. |