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Show Li 3, State Press Association Bulletin Supplement to JiviiiMvS (STOW K ate Carbon County Is Locale of Utah's Great Coal Industry Is Key City ot Eastern Utah's Vast Treasure House; rice ana s tate,. of i J 1 aiibl Of Is Ideally Located COpiJ 4 bj melv h of oncer! 1 of 1. Pri City Boasts Wonderful School Sys- tern; Coal, Agricultural and Sheep Industries Annually Add Millions to Carbon Metropolis' Store of Wealth; Tourist Business is Given Impetus Through Improved Road System Win 8 to for Salt the t arej s ins Arj Price al ibers ratioJ ation, ear one of the recent hosts to of the Ulan state rress Vpsl is but one of a thous- and scenic marvels which Carbon nas long Deen noueu as uue county has to offer to the eye of the foremost the i, iies, - Has Payroll of Over a t5V' n ume of Business; Has Had Steady Growtn Price's Main Street is a Model for Towns Many Times its Size. distributes all the mail for the Uintah bees are possessed by Carbon bee Giovannoni in the duties of the church. Basin and Emery county. Nearly thir- raisers whose apiaries dot the broad The Greek Orthodox creed is repty great government mail trucks are meadows of the lower Price river val- resented with a church, presided over utilized for the carrying of the mail, ley, and the fields of sweet clover and by the Rev. D. Smyrnoupoulous. The and a force of men are in the continual alfalfa lend a flavor to the Carbon Rev. H. M. Merkel is pastor of the employ of the government keeping the county product which makes it in de- Price Community church, where wortrucks in repair. In the past, the mand in various markets of the Unit- shippers of protestant faith congreservice given the country offices in ed States. gate. Members of the Buddhist rethe Uintah district has been one in Four churches, representing a scope ligion, of whom Carbon county has which Cyril B. Cluff, the superintend- of creeds, are established in Price. The a number, among the Oriental citient of the routes at Price takes pride. Carbon stake of the L. D. S. church zenry, have no regular place of worDespite heavy snows in winter and has a large tabernacle in Price ward, ship, but frequently a high priest adverse weather conditions in other presided over by President A. W. from Salt Lake conducts private servseasons, the mail has been kept mov- Horsley, and ministered by Bishop ices in the county. ing. Price is the receiving and blending station for one of the largest branches of the honey industry in the United States. More than 6,000 stands of se. 9 ship-fro- m ot 6on -, ISS B three-fifth- 1 ,., ( al 1 - rn- The two lodges of Masonry in CarWilliam E. Stoker. The Roman Catholics have a pretentious church in bon county, the Carbon and the Jop-p- a lodges, have a temple in Price, Price, with the Very Rev. Monsignor A. F. Giovannoni, supervising. Ths one of the most artistic of all Price's The Carbon post of the Rev. Father A. Galaviz assists Mons. buildings. American Legion is the only one in the state of Utah which owns its own home, the American Legion hall of Price, having been promoted and built by the local posts of the servIn addition, there ice organization. is a lodge of the Knights of Columbus in Price, organized in 1925, Onward Lodge, of the Knights of Pythia3, and numerous other orders, local, national and international. The Rotary and the Kiwanis clubs in Price have a representative 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. chamber of Price has a commerce, presided over by William Littlejohn. Throughout the season this body sponsors many projects, including civic, charitable, and publicity enterprises. A municipal band recently reorganized is another organization which Price citizens support. A new dance hall, an amusement resort, is being constructed by the Price municipality in conjunction with the citizenry. A swimming pool was constructed last season, and provides a recreational center for the county peo ple. A city park, one of the most up- 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 eounty, 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 and accessories can be secured is Price's bid to tourists. Numerous highway service stations are also available alone the avenues into Price 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- foot deep over 62,000 acres of 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 with more than a half million trout and more are being released there each (Continued on page 4.) Go .... f 4. Half Million Dollars and Does Large Vol- AlV ed !( Mining Area 1 s- southern U counties r.- . . - the is pictured here cities oi tne eastern tourist. oi the state, Price river canyon is the carrier of portion e dej utilize the city as their Price river, which supplies the water 'oliri inal shipping point, ana exclusive for the irrigation of the 225,000 acres bod vast area of coal which is pro- - of agricultural land in Carbon counsceij in the region surrounding race, ty. At Spring Glen the canyon exacta: this shipments of produce from pands, and shortly before it reaches agri would compare lavoramy wun Price widens out until it is id td eight miles of any other community of like in width. This land is valuable for blical in the state. ike agricultural purposes, with orchards and farms dotting the countryside. Cirbon county, of which Price is the Ider, itv seat, is the center oi activities in Many stockmen have their range headthe major quarters in this region, and operate portion oi tne aro in the state of Utah. over extensive ranges from their base ly more than five million tons of in this valley. lay we mined in the Carbon county The products of Carbon county in and shipped to other sections the agricultural line are sugar beets, RE.I Utah and to other states. 1 he yearcorn, potatoes and small grains, with E payroll of the county, from the every variety of garden truck produced mg industry alone is more than here. Dairying has recently become on Coupled with the agricui a leading industry, and is being der oa industries, and other resources, veloped locally. Movements are on county is one of the richest in the foot to secure a sugar beet factory in eceij Price is advantageously sit this locality to care for the acreage n til so as to claim its share of the of beets planted annually, and with Casf iiess which these various lines pro the realization of the factory plans, ephl it is the anticipation of those working l'early more wool is shipped out of with the dairy industry that it will n county and from Price sta- - be stimulated considerably by the esbJ than from any mother shipping tablishment. at in the state of Utah, Wyoming Carbon county has an unusually ef, according to officials of the ficient school system which is conaver and Rio Grande Western rail- stantly being enlarged to cope successBJ pi on the Salt Lake division. In fully with the increasing demands of shipping season just closed, more the district The Carbon county high eu carloads of wool were school, located at Price, is one of the Price, consisting of more largest in the state, and annually a quarter million fleeces. cares for almost one thousand stuways of the eastern portion of dents. Sunnyside and Helper have state all find Price as the most schools, and efficient high junior ement point in the section. A grammar schools are established at oete hitrhwav leads from Price to every community in the county. The pie Gate, a distance of 11 miles. schools in the county are under tne m lead from Price up Willow supervision of D. C. Woodward, Jr., w canyon across the 9,200-foa graduate of Brigham Young uni"an pass into the Uintah Basm. versity. B a federal Price itself has three thriving pub highway, and is kept ior most of the year, by main- - lic schools: the Harding school, Price mce A money from the state and Central and Southside schools. "ty. Another road leads into the Catholic school, Nograde parocheal an through Soldi or canvnn. via tre Dame, is located in Price also. The Pikes Peak ocean to In Price are situated two of the three " highway goes through Price, high school dormitories in the United thence southward int.n Emery States, making it possible for the pa nty. TVip Miriion oiot ro. trons of the high school from the most J through Price. Price canyon road remote districts of the county to avail ? open during the summer of themselves of the school Bus lines rf. leading into Salt Lake City, a are operated also to every portion oi nee of 128 miles. At the pres the county for the high school stu ume traffic ia haint Hivorr.pd dents. Ugh Willnur Pfool. fn tVio Price has a Carnegie library, es Buerger and thence tablished in 1913. The Carbon counmonument, the nnrlr tn infAar Summit ty court house, where have been tried f to the Utah metropolis. many historic cases, stands in Price. fading eastward out of Price to Price city hall, built in 1895 and re Wlorado line is thf Pikes Peak modeled in 1921, is another oi tne Ocean highway, and is in public buildings in the city. condition throughout. Roads Price is sponsor of a city nospitai, cn from of the cases in Cars this highway into Emery, where Sfln Juan counties, the bon county are brought for treatment. into tho Air. The balance of the cases are mine Natural KriJ.. k.n n fha comnanv cases under agreement with some one of the hospitals in Salt Lake. P. ,""uh oi uie state. Lwnnor PnvKn 4.., w, The Utah Fuel company has a nos- i!;l,war.d one enters a veritable nital at Castle Gate, the Independ wm. Xhe regularity of the ent Coal and Coke company has one - "'fc ui me wasatcn range at Kenilworth, and the Spring Canyon fj, abruptly. The. mnnfrtr f rnm f!nl. Coal company has a hospital at Spring H eastward on the east of the sum- - canyon. Pnlf-nL . lne COUntrv frnm coot. Price is the center oi tne largest wuuw u ua jw loecomao tta a giwuu oj. castles, star mail route in the United States, ;tok Ik.; vviuiiiiK uu majestic operating under U. S. government "Kit eranHoiK. u:.i i supervision. The local mail station .uvui, uasue- usie, wuiui the the Helper Is Center of Great Coal I to-da- te y 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 Gate, Price and the Uintah basin. Forty-eigyears 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 5, 1880. This early settler was the son of Parley P. Pratt, the widely known Mormon church leader and early pioneer of Utah. Teancum Pratt saw in this valley a wonderful future and chose this spot as his future home, building the first log cabin and starting the foudation of this city, known as Helper, Utah. The cabin and other landmarks made by this pioneer are still intact and may be viewed by visitors. t Grading for the first line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company, under President Palmer and 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 Grand Junction and Ogden began May 17, 1883. In 1883 the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad company began to build one-stoframe nouses for its employes and thus started the growth of a town. By the fall of 1887 the railframe road had built twenty-seve- n 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 gauge track was completed, Helper was made a division point for the road. It remained so for thirty years or up 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 for the needs of the company. In 1893 the present commodious passenger station was built. The top floor was converted into a library and billiard 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-stor- y 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 in 1894. Things were fairly booming in Helper by this time. The railroad employed hundreds of men, coal mines of the Utah Coal company were in operation employing many more men, and a ht fast-growi- Vice-preside- nt ry number of others began fanning the fertile soil and irrigating their lands. Business houses and residences began shooting up with startling rapidity. During October of 1907, Helper township was regularly organized and incorporated. The first duly elected officers were J. Tom Fitch, mayor; W. (Continued on Page Four.) f4 . r it a O i A i Helper Volunteer Fire Department j vf, . 1 1-- ''HI Castle Gate, Nature Gateway to Eastern Utah's Vast Empire. Main Street, Helper. |