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Show Emery county progress, PAGE FOUR Price Business Directory EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS Official Newspaper of Emery County, Utah ey Historical Records Per Year Foreign, $2.76 Per Year Prepared by the Utah Administration Service Programs Work Progress Community C. SAUNDERS and JESS E. SAUNDERS, Publishers Subscription, $2.00 Published Every Friday Morning at Castle Dale, Utah INSTALLMENT First Class Publication Entered in the Postofflce in Castle Dale, Utah, as second class maxi matter, under the Act of March A Quality Gasoline and Oils at Lower Prices DRIVE IN AND SAVE South Carbon Avenue and Railroad Tracks 3. 1679. Publication of notice of meetings where admission is chargr ad or collection taken will be charged for at our regular advertising rates. All communications and items for publication must be signed by the writer, whose name need not appear in print. Write on one side of the paper only. Use no abbreviations. All communications subject to acceptance as the judgment of the publishers may determine. DOWN MEMORY PRICE. UTAH For SERVICE WITH SAFETY Price, Utah Member Federal Reserve System and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. LEWIS OPTICAL CO. MAKERS OF GLASSES DR. W. W. LEWIS, Optometrist We make a complete muscular analysis as well as a vision test. Price. Utah Price Sheet Metal Works J. W. Holden. Manager Everything in Sheet Hotel Estimates given on Hot Air Furnaces and Air Conditioning Phone 124J Price, Utah Warrens Flower Shop Say It With Flowers Fpr All Occasions Place orders with local agents Bonded Members of F. T. D. Phone 220 Price, Utah REDD MOTOR CO. ONE SUPERSERVICE STOP Gai, Oil end Accessories Certified Used Cars Agents for Chevrolet! and Buicks. Price, Utah LANE Taken from the files of the Progress of 20 and 40 yean ago this week. Twenty Years Ago Grandfather Valentine Acord arrived home In Castle Dale In June 1921, after an extended visit in California. He was reported to have' been looking fine years. despite his ninety-foMrs. T. W. Dyches and Miss Chrystal Behunin returned to Castle Dale in June 1921 from Sliver City, where they had taught In the district school. Niels Peter Miller, former Casur tle Dale resident, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Vic Olsen, in Price, In June 1921. The body was taken to Emery for burial. Mrs. Annie Rasmussen celebrated her 78th birthday In Castle Dale on June 8, 1921, by preparing a dinner such as many younger housewives could well be proud. Word of the death at Montl-cell- o of James Hansen, formerly of Lawrence, was received by Emery county relatives on June 21, 1921. Mri Hansen had moved to San Juan county following the death of his wife from the flu epidemic. Seven young children were left orphans with the fathers death. Dr. and Mrs. Nixon and little daughter Grace, returned June 22, 1921, from Provo where they had attended the wedding of Miss Nina Nixon. Mr. and MJs. A. P. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wickman, Postmaster Torgerson and others left Emery the middle of June 1921, for a lew days outing at Fish Lake. Frank Pettey, A. M. Sorensen and Marion Albertson were busy in June 1921, making brick for their new homes in Emery. H. D. Maxfields new home in that town was also under construc- tion. Oliveto Furniture and Hardware Price, Utah IRONERS RANGES WASHERS SWEEPERS RADIOS REFRIGERATORS and FURNITURE HANSENS Furniture Exchange The Home of New and GOOD USED FURNITURE 142 West Main PRICE, UTAH O Price Floral Shop Cut Flowers and Wreathes Made to Order MRS. 66 N. JOHN GROSSO, prop. 1st West Price, Utah FRIENDLY HELPFUL ACCOMMODATING Three Reasons WHY YOU will enjoy doing business with the Carbon Emery Bank Price, Utah Member Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. MICKEYS PLACE Home of the his brother John, from the Dakotas, in 1901, whom he had not seen for 30 years. g Charlie Ferr&, for Seymour Olsen, received $10 In bounty money In June 1901, for the skins of a mother bear and cub, killed near the northern boundary line of Emery county. Miss Sybil Seely, daughter of Don Seely, and one of Castle Dales school inarms, was married in the Salt Lake temple on June 18, 1901, to Jos. Jones, of Price. A lively little scuffle was reported to have occurred in Cleveland on June 15, 1901. Two fanners, both old enough to know better, got mixed up In a wrangle over water. One, John Lewis, Jumped on to J. P. Davis, and downed him and by that time he was so mad that he picked up a rock and beat a tattoo on Dovis head. C. M. George, representing the 'Rochester Nursery Company, purchased of Carl Wilberg, a four-actract of land on the bench north of Castle Dale, In June 1901, paying $125 for the sheep-herdin- See First National Bank A shower was given Miss Venice Williams at the home of her sister, Mfrs. Harold Hansen, in Ferron, June 15, 1921. Miss Williams was to be married to Edwin Soderquist the following week in the Salt Lake temple. Barber and Mrs. Carl Nielson, of Ferron, made the return trip home from Salt Lake City In June 1921, with their new Chevrolet car, purchased tn that city. Miss Irene Day and Byron Oviatt, of Elmo, were married in Salt Lake City on June 22, re same. Win. J. one of Castle Dales most highly respected young men, and son of J. W. Seely, was married in the Salt Lake temple on June 19, 1901, to Lucy Barton, of Salt Lake Seely, City. June 2p, 1901, was bargain sale day In Castle Dale at Constable Frandsens corral, when two estray mares and tljree colts were offered for sale. One mare colt was knocked down to Mrs. Kathinka Anderson for $5.50, and Orange Seely purchased another mare and colt for $4.50 and a yearling colt for $3.00. After her purchase, Mrs. Anderson was pained to learn that her animal had never been broken, and after a few hours canvassing sold the wild steed to Constable Frandsen for $7.00 and purchased of Orange Seely the $4.50 colt for $8.00. Dr. Pearson was called to Orangeville June 21, 1901, to attend son of Milton, Will Peacock, who had dislocated his left elbow by tailing from five-year-o- ld a granary door. In the June session of district court in Castle Dale, Hyrum E. Petersen, charged with stabbing James Evarts in the back with a pocket knife at a social gathering in Castle Dale, the defendant was fined $75 of 75 days in the county jail. The dobies for the society hall in Huntington were all ricked on the ground in June 1901, and the brick for the outside was under way. W. J. Green, 1921. contractor for the brick, took A new newspaper, published about $1Q0 worth of quilts and by E I. Tomkins, made Its ap- carpet as part of his remuneraIn Greenrlver In June tions. pearance 1921. High waters of the Cottonwood creek undermined half of the approach to the bridge at Castle Dale on the night of June 15, 1921. Heavy damage was also done to the property of E. L. Peacock in Orangeville, taking out ground that formerly composed their backyard. Many of the canals were badly damaged. Ranger Thursby of the Mantl forest, and Miss Silvia Dalton, were married in June 1921. - o The Holy Land prints postage stamps in three different languages. o Blind as a bat is misleading, because bats can.' see very well In semi-darknes- s. o Forty Years Ago Miss Hannah Larsen and Miss Rose Anderson were employed at the court house as deputy recorders, in June 1901, so great was the rush of recording locations. Clerk Ole Sitte-ru- d was enjoying a visit from Ex-Cou- A o Burma, alone among eastern countries, allows women many liberties. They need not marry untill they want and may select their own mates. Cows give richer weather milk In cold than In summer, a o Nathaniel Hawthorn, a dood-lin his day, continuously er wrote the number 64 believing it held some fatal meaning for him he died in '1864. WITBECK FUNERAL HOME sympathetic Phone Understanding of your Individual Needs Ambulance Service Day 22 One block HOME COOKING By Women Cooks Only Taste the Difference Mrs. J. H. Jones, Prop. PRICE UTAH re- cent experiment reveals. or Night Lady Assistant south of Huntington's Store, Castle Dale Scotch Meat Pie We Specialize in bill approved February F Established.. 1900 A. WASATCH SERVICE castle dale, utah NEW EQUIPMENT- Enables ns to give g arid Creasing Work Long-Lastin- Pressing Most Modern Cleaning and Pressing Shop in Eastern Utah ALL WORK GUARANTEED ACME CLEANERS UTAH PRICE, HI Still another settlement was made in 1878 at Greenriver, at first called Blake, by Thomas Farrer and his sons, Mathew Hartman and Irvin Wilson and his sons. The Wilsons stayed only until 1879, when they moved on to Moab. The final settlement of this year was along the old Gunnison trail, a town called Wilsonville, which since has disappeared. Settlers here were Silvester Wilson and his brother, with families, and Charles Swa-se- y and his brothers. One additional early settlement was Lawrence, where the ground was broken in 1879 by H. 8. Loveless, P. C. Burch, Robert Hill, David Dlmmick, Sim-so- n Drollinger, Rufus Johnson, William Alma Staker, and many others. These men enlarged the Avery ditch. Their crops of 1879 did not mature, but they built a number of cabins to house their families. Other settlers followed to the site, between 1880 and 1883, and good crops were raised. Continued breaking of the irrigation ditches were overcome by planting grass along the canal banks. Immigration into the Emery area was by rather a roundabout route, circling the mountains south of Salina, and thence north via Salina canyon. The more direct routes across the mountains were too difficult for general use, and In winter were impassable. By 1879 the number of settlers had so grown that the advisability of seeking creation of a new county became manifest. Manti, seat of the Sanpete county, was '150 miles distant during the winter, when only the Salina route could be traversed, a hazardous journey by team, horseback, or snowshoes. Therefore a committee, consisting of Ellas Cox, Emanuel Bagley, and J. K. Reid, petitioned the legislature for creation of a new county. The wisdom of this decision was demonstrated during this very winter of 1879-8a difficult winter during which much livestock was lost. It was considered impossible to haul In freight at Christmas time, and no one would accept the offer of 10 cents a pound for freighting in supplies from Manti; Christmas goods, however, were carried by J. K. Reid, Joseph T. Burnett, M. 0, E. Johnson, and John Wake- field. In the spring of 1880, the first townsite on Cottonwood creek was surveyed by J. M. Shelton, John K. Reid donated 80 acres, Alma G. Jewkes donated 40 acres and Andrew Anderson donated 40 acres of their homesteads for the townsite. It was named for the Castle Dale postofflce that was established a year earlier to serve the settlement. F. M. Lyman visited both Castle Dale and the upper settlement and consented for the people to move on to the Reid townsite and to build a school because the settlement on Cottonwood creek would need two school buildings. At this time the people were advised to settle on the Castle Dale townsite and build schools and meeting house and C. G. Larsen was named president of the new stake. In 1883 Samuel R. Jenkins gathered the musical talent together at Castle Dale and formed a brass band. It made its first appearance on election day. A large meeting house was erected in 1880 on the northeast corner of what Is now block 28 of the Orangeville survey. It served church, school and social purposes until 1888 when It was replaced by a social hall. The first settlers of Orangeville were principally young married people who came from Fountain Green and Manti. Most of them were called by the church and went to Castle Valley in answer to the call. Stockmen Thomas Sinpers and Israel Bennlon in 1875 built a rock house at the upper end of the box canyon on Ferron creek. Michael W. Molen built a dugout at the mouth of Ferron canyon, but no farmers attempted to settle on this creek until Swen Larsen and his son, Neils Christian Nicholas Larsen, took up land claims December 3. 1877. In January 1878, William Taylor, Jr., Joseph Wrigley, Sam Singleton and a number of others took up claims along the creek and returned to American Fork for their livestock. Settlers began to arrive in March, bringing livestock and fanning equipment. Work began on the Molen ditch. May '1, 1878. Swen Larsen and William Taylor, Jr., built the first log house on Ferron lf creek, approximately mile east of the present city of Ferron. Other people built homes on their land and new settlers continued to arrive through the one-ha- Mads year. William Taylor, Sr., Joseph Larsen, Jens Christensen, S. Thorton, Lyman Beach and Seth Wareham took up land A. claims and returned home.were there the close of the year the revery few people living in William gion. Nicholas Larsen, H. Cook Taylor, Jr., and James had their wives and a few children living on Ferron creek. A gin ail crop of wheat, corn, oats and potatoes were raised in 1878, just enough to prove that cereals and vegetables would grow well in that region. Along Muddy creek, near the future town of Emery, Casper Christensen, Miles Miller and the Lund brothers, Joseph and Marinus, from Spring City began a settlement, constructing canals and planting crops. Excepting Christensen, these men became discouraged and abandoned their farms, so that further colonization here awaited the coming in 1879 of new settlers. The lack of water here was a serious obstacle, and while some settlers left, others stuck to their guns and by tunneling 1,200 feet through the mountain, successfully tapped Mluddy creek and was an Important enterprise, which cost the settlers $20j000. On January 23, 1880, a petition signed by Elias Cox and others, requesting creation of a new county, to be called Castle County, was presented to the legislature. Twelve days previous a petition from Warren Peacock and 26 others, asking that the petition for a new county be not granted, had also been presented, indicating the existence of a substantial minority opposed to the proposed new county. The Castle county petition was approved, and a bill was drawn up. The bill passed the house, but after third reading in the council, or upper house, the name of the new county was changed from Castle to Emery. The approved bill was sent to the governor on February 11, and signed by him the next day. Created from Sanpete and Sevier counties, the boundaries of the new county were described as follows: commencing at a point where parallel 38 30' north latitude crosses Green river thence along said parallel, to a point six miles west of the first guide meridian east of the Sail Lake meridian, thence north along the township line between ranges five and six east, to the third standard parallel south thence east to the first guid meridian, thence north alonj said first guide meridian to th township line between townshipi eleven and twelve south; thenc east along the last mentlonec township line to Green river thence down the main channe of Green river to the place o: beginning. The county was named in honor of George W. Emery, who hac been territorial governor of Utah between June 9, 1875 and January 19, 1880. Unlike most o! the men who had been appointed to the governorship of Utah Emery was liighly respected ir the territory. No other Utah county bears the name of an Utah governor. Although, as has been seen no effectual legal authority hac been exercised over the Emerj region until the creation of Emery county; this part of Utah from March 3, 1852 had beer nominally Included in Sanpet county, which stretched as fai east as the Indefinite territoria line along the summit of th Rocky mountains through whai is now central Colorado. Sanpete county was whlttlec down by creation of new anc smaller counties In Utah and b the creation of the territory ol Colorado in 1861, when the permanent boundary at 32 wesl longitude was established Colorado and Utah. Ox loon063!1?11 0f Emefy county ir territory was taken two counties, Sevier and fron San T1?. couthrn, least popu lated half of the countv are: 315 Sevler county wiich had been created in 1865 on Febriiary was bounded on tiireation 1880, Ehnery Sf by 2u,te 12 county-- and Sanpeh counties, aid on the north hr Wasatch county. The easteri boundary, established at th Green river, requires comment Creation of San Juan and Uintah counties was then under consid tended b. to extend thi San Juan boundary far up thi east line of the territory, bu the act creating San Juan coun ty was vetoed by the governo n grounds that the ed boundaries were too prop sive for public convenience.expan Con sequently the new San SttSi?fad 17, 1880, attached a rider incorporating In Emery county all that portion of this territory lying east of Greenriver and between the a line runparallel 38 30', and the mouth from east due ning of Price river to the summit of Brown cliffs, thence following the summit of said cliffs to the eastern boundary of Utah terriwas creattory. Uintah county San Juan, to after the ed day and north the on adjoin Emery the period east. During in which the eastern boundary was located along the Green Emriver, that territory east of ay ameemg to W with required boffi to reject any or aii J1 5 served. Cash, certified ers check for chok- or f ble to the sion must accomSf as evidence of goodLS a? guarantee that" if contract, the biddw1 tt cute the contract and J? b5 as required. STATE ROAD CCftfurt, patro: risiting v week family I beery county technically still Sevier and to Sanpete longed counties, so that Emery lay athwart these two counties, NOTICE FOR roughly dividing them In half. United States DenartmllS (Continued next week) the Interior, General?8?1 ' fice at Salt : "S&88? Legal Department i live. charg here to jndM Jaf UteaJW June 14, 1941. Notice is hereby J Junius P. Winters I4 Dale, Utah who, on' A made stock raising NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS sfvSS entry, No. 051186, State of Utah, Office of State SWy4NEy4, Salt Lake Road Commission, Sec. 19, NWi4swy4 sec City, Utah, June 16, 1941. SE4. NEjViSWVi Sealed bids will be received by NlVzNEy4, Section NWy, 30 t&J of Commission Road 18 South, Range 12 the State Lake Lake Meridian, has fSK Utah, State Capitol, Salt City, Utah, at 2 oclock p. m. of intention to make Tuesday, July 1, 1941, and at to establish claim tot that time publicly opened for above described; construction of 1V2 Road Mix Clerk of the District Bituminous Surface Road in Castle Dale, Utah, on Sevier and Emery Counties the day of July, 1941. 4 WS eR 2ft ft same being eft W Lard v names as witJ (2) and State Wilford Larsen and Project No. Project No. 796 between Ferron of clevelaild. Utah chS and Forest Boundary. and Feiril 1 Magnuson conto be The length of road Castle Dale, Utah. structed or improved is 15.322 S- BROWN, Regigg 7 miles, and the principal items First publication June 20 m as of work are approximately Last publication July 18, 19& follows: 284,300 Gals. Bituminous Materials and '15.322 Miles Scarifying and Mixing. The attention of bidders is diHOTEL rected to the Special Provisions or subletting assigning covering SN-Fede- ral 28-- A - NEW the contract. The minimum wage paid to all skilled labor employed of this contract shall be 80 cents per SEMLOII NEW MOTEL SCNIOH hour. The minimum wage paid to all intermediate labor employed on this contract shall be 60 cents per hour. The minimum wage paid to all unskilled labor employed on this contract shall be 50 cents per hour. Plans and specifications are on file in the office of the State Road Commission, Salt Lake City, and at District Engineers office at Price, Utah, where they may be reviewed by prospective bidders. Specifications, office at Price, Utah, where they may be reviewed by prospective bidders. Specifications, proposals, bidding blanks and plans will be furnished at Salt Lake City, on depositing $2.00, which will be returned, providing contractor submits an acceptable bid and returns the plans within seven days after bids are received. 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