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Show SUN ADVOCATE h : -i- ft in l .. f -r Yitf, iiuifH M Movement aims to form new state rr- -- It . -- I . - - r .. kii - .- . - R . ;- W .4 rem-ememb- er : B W ? r TO - - HELLENIC Orthodox Church. The Assumption (above) is shown as it is todav on 61 South Second East in Price. The church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. (Photo by Fossat Studios) and settlement. State register entries include Scofield Cemetery and Cottonwood Canyon and Mummy Cave noted for petroglyphs and pictographs, and Pleasant Valley Coal Company building in Castle Gate all in Carbon County. Emery County State Register listings include Buckhorn Cattleguard Petroglyphs, Buckhorn Reservoir, Buckhorn Wash Petroglyphs, Ferron Box Petroglyphs, Head of Sinbad Pictographs Panels, Black Dragon Canyon Pictographs, Clyde Cavern, Swasey Cabin District, Castle Dale School and Church. LDS Emery Carbon County sites listed on the National Register include Desolation Canyon, Nine Mile Canyon Archaeological Area and the Hellenic Orthodox Church. There are no National Register listed sites in Emery County. The only home listed on the Century Register is the Justus Wellington Seely Home in Castle Dale in Emery County. Hellenic Orthodox Church The Hellenic Orthodox Church, The Assumption is located at 61 South Second East in Price. The original church, dedicated August 15, 1916 was of traditional Byzantine construction in which the dome rests on a square supported by four pillars with the nave of the church in the form of a cross. The basic integrity of the church has been maintained in spite of two remodelings and a renovation which have enhanced the structure and provided needed space. Cast Corinthian columns have replaced the original wooden columns on the face of the church. Icons, stained glass windows and a massive brass and crystal chandelier are included in the interior of the church. Emery LDS Church Work began on the Emery Church at Emery in 1898, 17 years after the first settlers arrived to establish the town. The church, built of local lumber under the direction of Bishop Alonzo Brinkerhoff, was completed in 1900 but because of a problem paying the $7,000 construction cost, the church was not dedicated until July 27, 1902. Unlike other LDS churches which were built of brick or stone, this unaltered wooden building with its white painted frame, brown painted trim and close attention to proportion is one of the few architectural treasurers remaining in this part of the state. The church now owned by the town of Emery was used until 1956. Castle Dale School Construction on the Castle Dale School began in 1907 and the school was ready for classes in the fall of 1909. Architects were Sameul C. Dallas and William S. Hedges of Salt Lake City. Contractor was CP. (Pete) Anderson of Castle Dale. The school was occupied until 1963 and is historically known because it is "a fine example of preserving an important building by making it one of the major recreational and cultural centers of the county," according to the Utah State Historical Society. The gymnasium, added in 1920's has been converted ito at. indoor swimming pool. The Emery County Museum is housed upstairs in the school building. Swasey Cabin District Joe Swasey, his sons and other horse ranchers used the cliff dwelling and a later built cabin which ramains as a reminder of a horse ranching way of life important to the Emery County area in the early 20th century. The Bureau of Land Management is planning its preservation and development of the site for historic and recreational purposes. The produced, but because of the expense production soon ceased. Today the waters of Electric Lake cover the original site. But through a grant to Brigham Young University, Dr. Dale Berge has conducted an archaeological survey of the area and a coke oven, designed by architect Steve Baird, has been constructed near the site. Justus Wellington by R.W. Crockett Manager, Price Sun (1916) Carbon County, named for its great coal and the close of the present calendar year (1916) have produced deposits of will be by Seeley Home Desolation Canyon John Westley Powell in 1869 led an expedition of 11 men and four boats starting where the Union Pacific Railroad crossed the Green River. In Desolation Canyon, the men saw a then unexplored area of the United States and were confronted by dangers and natural wonders, frightening and at the same time (1834-190- awe-inspirin- g. The man gave enduring names to mountains, rapids, streams and other natural land marks that had never been seen by white men. Except for an occasional abandoned ranch, Desolation Canyon is virtually unchanged from its appearance in 1869. Cottonwood Canyon Cottonwood Canyon is located in the lower Nine Mile area. The main panel in the canyon depicts hunting scenes of 32 mountain sheep and four hunters. Mummy Cave Mummy Cave is located in lower Nine Mile Canyon. Most of the panels are petroglyphs, Northern San Raphael in type, with great emphasis on hunting scenes. ic Buckhorn Cattleguard The Buckhorn Cattleguard is located in upper Buckhorn draw east of Castle Dale and is noted for its petroglyphs and charcoal drawings. Closely allied to Northern San Raphael style, the petroglyphs and drawings are well preserved. Buckhorn Reservoir Buckhorn Reservoir is located on the south edge of Cedar Mountain east of Castle Dale. Buckhorn Wash Buckhorn Wash is located in lower Buckhorn Wash east of Castle Dale. Its archaeological characteristics are part of the Barrier Canyon Style but quite different with long narrow bodies, short legs and short outstretched arms with hands. Ferron Box Ferron Box is located three miles east of Ferron on Ferron Creek. Three panels of its archeological characteristics are in the Red Barrier Canyon style plus Fremont of a distinct type and is better done than most. "Head of Sinbad" The "Head of Sinbad" pictographs panels is located at the top of the San Raphael Swell in the sandstone cliffs around the northern and western sides of the wide, grassy flat called the "Head of Sinbad." The site consists of at least three main groups of painted Barrier Canyon style anthropomorphs and related animals. Elack Dragon Canyon Black Dragon Canyon is located east of San Raphael Swell. Its archaeological characteristics are Barrier Canyon Style with elements not present at other sites. The panel in the cave is unique to the area. It is accessible from Interstate Highway Figures show that around Pleasant Valley Coal Company Building in Castle Gate was constructed in 1890 by the Pleasant Valley Coal Company as an office building and store. The building is significant because of its relationship to Utah's coal industry in the company town era in American history, according to the Utah State Historical successful. Several coke ovens were built and a large amount of coal arrived during the 1870's. In 1876 coal was mined from five openings in Coal and Huntington canyons. Reports indicate that a fair quality of coke was t I, . , , ft."-- r it 0 u It ' $375,000 is paid out at the mines for labor, not including top men and clerical and other forces. This money is, for the greater part, spent right here at home, which makes no better market anywhere West for the products of the farm, dairy and ranch than exists in Price River Valley. Peddlers and others find it profitable to haul their surplus to these camps for a ready cash market at the best of prices. Price, being the center of this great industry of mining, derives a great and ever increasing trade from these camps. Many miners have also bought property here at the county seat and are schooling their children locally in advanced studies, though all of these coal camps have schools up to and including the eighth grade, and none better exists anywhere. This has been a year of more than 0. V s, and half. Pleasant Valley Coal Company Building Society. The building's offices and store served as the center for the company town of Castle Gate. The building was the site of the payroll robbery by Butch Cassidy and Elza Lay on April 21, 1897. Connellsville Connellsville, established in 1875 as one of Utah's earlierst coal mining towns, is at the mouth of Coal Canyon in Huntington Canyon. The town, now abandoned, was named after Connellsville, Penna., one of the leading producers of coke in the East. The name Connellsville was apparetly chosen with the hope the endeavors to establish a coke producing operation at the Huntington Canyon site would be as hydro-carbon- fully four million tons of coal. And, had it not been for the great car famine throughout all this western country, the amount would go much in excess of the figures given. Emery and Grande County mines of which there are two producers, one at Mohrland and the other Neslen, tapped by the Denver and Rio Grande System, will add to this on an average of 600 tons a day for the twelve months, making a grand total for Eastern Utah of close to 4,200,000 tons. At $2 a ton, which is a fair average net to the producers at the mines, it will be seen that around, $8,400,000 is close to coal company earnings for the year. Heading the list is Utah Fuel Company with properties at Winter Quarters, Clear Creek, Utah Mine, Castle Gate and Sunny side, which outputs half of the commercial and steam coal of the district.while the United States Fuel Company, with properties at Black Hawk, Hiawatha and Panther Canyon, is second. Then follow Spring Canyon Coal Company at Cameron, Standard Coal Company at Standard, and the Carbon Fuel Company at Raines in production in the order named. Much of the coal in fact, nearly all of it at Sunnyside goes into coke for the Utah smelters and those of Montana and Nevada. The Ketchum Coal Company is a new concern that is just starting in at Castle Gate with a present output of around five railroad cars a day. The Ketchum Company and the Carbon Fuel Company at Raines are new concerns for this year and each promises well for the future. At all of the camps of Eastern Utah the labor situation for the past twelve months has been most satisfactory, and there is no cause for concern in the future in the matter of labor troubles. Any unsatisfactory conditions of the year have been met in the most friendly way by the mine managements, and the outlook for the coming year is indeed most satisfactory. At several of the camps wages of late have been increased voluntarily by the operators, where it was seen that working men were entitled to consideration. Labor troubles in consequence are an unthough of thing. The percentage of English - speaking miners and other employed in Carbon County and foreigners is about half The Justus Wellington Seeley Home in Castle Dale was constructed of red brick in 1889 by Justus Wellington Seeley, born in old Pioneer Fort in Salt Lake City, who was an original settler of Castle Valley in 1879. Active in church, political and educational affairs, Seeley was president of the Emery Stake Academy Board of Education, mayor of Castle Dale and state delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1924. The town of Wellington in Carbon County was named after him. semi-realist- 1 S state-financ- programs were to be maintained at quality levels. J. Bracken Lee, then Price mayor, injected a note of humor into the discussion by observing that "the bad thing would be taking people out of Utah where they are so badly needed." 1916 newspaperman relates coal's impact Carbon, Emery historic sites total 19 Seven historic sites in Carbon County and 12 in Emery County have been listed and recognized on State, National and Century registers, according to the Utah State Historical Society. The State Register contains sites of significance to Utah, while the National Register shows sites within Utah of national significance. The Century Register is a list of homesteads of significance to early colonization exact. Backers of the plan also hoped to increase the area's economic prosperity. Those who objected to separation were quick to point out that sparse settlement would place heavy burdens on the individual taxpayer if educational standards, public roads, that 28 years ago a movement was afoot to create a new state out of southeastern Utah and western Colorado. Proponents of the ideas said it would give the sparsely settled area a greater representation in two United Congress States senators and at least one Representative, to be - MMfcft& WUjUb&4Si.u1Utfeai and the other Carbon Most County residents will long-tim- e 2&mmmmi .. a..-- d 2, 1975 28 years ago .. , '" ....-i- HELPER JOURNAL & Thursday, January i J PLEASANT VALLEY Coal Co., office in Castle Gate has served as quarters for the various coal companies which owned the townsite and milling operation throughout the years. The building, the site of a payroll robbery by Butch Cassidy, is one of Carbon County's historic iites. the ordinary for surface improvements at the thirteen producing camps of Carbon and Emery Counties, where large sums of money have been spent for dwellings, amusement halls and the like for the comfort and enjoyment of employes, it being found that these considerations attract a much better class of labor than where such conveniences are not considered. Every camp in the county has progressed along these lines, and it is estimated that $250,000 has been thus expended. The miners' homes, as a general rule, are of better construction and more comfortable than are those of the average dweller in the smaller cities and towns. Close attention has also s been given to better sanitary and in every new camp, as soon as population warrants, new school buildings have been erected. Notably is this the case at the Utah Fuel Company camps and at Storrs, Standardville and elsewhere. Where there are no school buildings pupils are hauled free to the nearest ones. Raines, above Helper and not far from Standardville, is the "baby" camp of this year, but with the output increasing another 12 months as it has the past four or five, will soon emerge from its swaddling clothes. Crystal Coal Company, and Ogden concern with the Brownings at its head, was to have opened this year on a large scale, but will do nothing now until next spring. Its properties are reached by the Denver and Rio Grande, a short distance west of Helper, and comprises some 600 acres. When work begins something like $1,000,000 will" be spent before anything is sent to market. The coal is of the same excellent quality as that sent out from Castle Gate, Storrs, Cameron, Standardville and Raines. The "wagon haul" mines that supply a large portion of the coal to settlements have Price and near-bdone well the past year. field the mines In the of the Uintah Basin are sending in their usual consignments of elaterite, gilsonite, asphaltum and other "wax" products. Utah Ozokerite Company at Colton has been working a large force of men, and, owning to the European war, finds a splendid market in New York for everything produced. L.V. Shearer is at the head of this proposition. Between Soldier Summit and Colton big things are soon looked for in the oil refinery business from the vast deposits of shales there. A Salt Lake company has 10,000 acres and is soon to put in a refinery for working these deposits and caring for the The Scott process will be used. CM. McNeill and Spencer Penrose of the Utah Copper Company are interested to a large extent. Utah Asphalt will soon begin work on a large acreage of asphaltum land seven miles above Sunnyside. The product goes into paving at Salt Lake City and other cities west. The company is now patenting several hundred acres of ground. They have mountains of the very finest paving materials. Altogether, great are Carbon and Emery Counties, as well as all of Eastern Utah. The year 1917 will break all previous records in coal and coke production and in the hydrocarbon fields. A good place to live. cond-tion- y hydro-carbo- n |
