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Show q , I- - r ' - DESEREI,NPAIS ' Beavees -- Or al -.--I- and-motets-- w,,4 111 '1"1104- ,- , 0 . , more, It's a lot - amorA too. But- tourist - . are' L,2IIIideanddairying in the -- Important area where fortunes water-sh- 1 I process.", He. figures the mill he is building' for AS&R will pro- vide jobs for 50and put .., rr more money 'in circulation in - -- , ' 4441...i 1 '. ..7. :: ,, ! 4 ' ': ik. 1. ....''' ' , por-- ''', A7 7111111 ) ItAti - t., a , a r ' ; , 44 "4 : Li - 4 :s4. o---- - --- . ovp.... isi t - Lila-A:17- T ,, ,' -, ', the --- thu slasm,00.---- --N, i wild Horn Silver boom days Louis Lessing, Beaver Court- N --before the turn of the cen1 ty's recorder and a part time I,'.,, ; ,,..' l' :.'s V--. Wry. prospector, puts it this way:---- -4,;. 77:2; 'r.."-:- 'ci . . "We're l'''s neither rich, nor "We've got a larger area of t: f . , , , .'''' poor," boasts S. Taylor Yarns- - - uranium exposed than at Ai rya I worth, Beaver City mayor, Alarysvale. Why, there are who like many other townsLEE R. WEBER more than eight square men,lives in the city and op- - miles here,slready exposed.," s ,, "milling sulphur is tricky process." erates a grade A dairy in the Ile was busier filing claim country. "We're making prog- - locations this summer- - than past few years cut Milford's --- :before' in his memory;-----railr'Oid'iiiiiólitor instance, It's apparent, too, to all ex Found Uranium southbound engineers and - the ceptimpatient urbanite firemen complete their runs Lessing was.prospecting for who speeds through friendly And- in PP and- chippect.oft .alllitfouLtat,traemen in - e-- - gold a few green crystals he go on into Las Veconductors big hurry to get somewhere gas. And Milford's 'railroad thought Were tungsten. The ' else. of Mines said they Bureau shops, which used to do a lot Beaver's got two brand new work on of maintenance were uranium pieces. motels, a new. apartment steam locomotives, now have Since then uranium finds building, a new cheese plant little to do. have been made at a half dozand some new homes. Its new en places in. themining disOutfitting Place $40,000 municipal swimming Some ore trict, says, Lessing But Milford, which hadenly pool is claimed to be the most has been shipped. A lot more 12 persons less than Beaver . - modern in Utah. y has been blocked out for City's 1,685 population, aoPipeline Milkers ping. cording to the 1950 census, Lots of. those new fangled Lessing comes by his still is serving as an outfitting A dairy setups have terest in mining naturally. n place for cattlemen, sheep-beebuiltincluding some His grandfather, who had the men and miners. same name, ran a hotel at with pipeline milkers which And now it irbeeoming the move milk from the cow's ud- Minersville and grubstaked of a new enterprise. center der to a tank truck without miners during the Horn Sit- - Certified white rose potatoes' : ver boom days. being exposed to the air. now are being grown on the That was in the 70s and 80s' desert with this can't beat "Why you water from deep when the horn Silver," said country for dairying," says wells, the first of which were to be Utah's richest silver John Anderson, a man with dug about a decade ago. At herd of fine Holsteins and strike, was going 'full blast. Some of the wells are 300 And Frisco, the town it ere- two husky sons. "It's never to 400 feet deep. Several pump too hot in the summersel- - ated, was swarming with 5 second feet of water, a dom above 98. And it scarcely miners, gamblers, gunmen 4 good sized stream in any in the win- - and dance hall girls. Even in gets below Zero .' ter." itt heyday, Frisco didn't have country. more "Nillford produces And.whatts more the entire culinary water. Water was certified potato seed than all hauled seven 'miles and sold , county has high hopes for ,the rest of the,stateputiv--more prosperitylromprortits- - -- - for lour cente-a- - gallon.------itiler." notes Grant M. Milford, named for a ford ing new uranium discoveries pun Beaver Couny agent. and a new $300,000 sulphur - on the Beaver River near a Milford growers have brie mill being built at - Sulphur- stamp mill, became the rail- - big advantage. The're right nn head for silver dug out of the dale by American Sulphur & the main U.P. line to southern earth at Frisco 15 miles to Refining Co., north of Beaver California, where the seed pothe west. City against the Juniper andtatoes are being used. . 'Horn' Caved In aspen covered mountains. Midway between Beaver It isn't the first time the But in 1885, the Horn Sil- - and Milford is Alinersville, a deposit at Sulphurdale has ver mine caved in with a once booming mining town figured in Beaver County crash that broke windows in now famous for a big dairy news. Years ago there was a Milford. Frisco became a barn where the community's mill there, but it caught fire town. New were shafts dairymen drive their cows to ghost and burned. That's one of the be milked twice a day. dug, new companies organized difficulties in exploiting sul- Members . of Escalante's and mining later resumed. phur, which is used for such But Frisco never lived again. Party stopped at the present varied things as gunpowder, in the o1,Alinersvillein1776 , site 190(15 Later, early fertilizer --and sulPhuric- a auluuel camp was and threw dice to decide mining In the early 19503 another created a few miles beyond whether to continue their to develop the de-- Frisco and named Newhouse. tempt to blaze a shorter route posit was abandoned as un- Before its ore body ran out between Spanish outposts at economic. , Samdel Newhouse took out Santa Fe, N.M., and Monterey, Calif. Chance decreed that Sulphur Mill Built $3,500,000 in riches, some of ' which built the Newhouse they should turn back. And in "They were using a noteNewhouse Hotel the doing it they breached thefl tion process," explained Lee Bldg., o t h er-- - buildings infoilbidding Coloradd-Canyo- n construction-- - and R. Weber,-an-olat the Crossing of the Salt Lake City. man who learned about min- as 'a boy play- Meantime,. ing first-han-d a division headquarters on Today, Beaver County folk thg on the dumps at Park City. aren't Railroad. Union Pacific talking about booms. "They had to pulverize the the But steam s from U.P.'s switch But optimistic and de of they're it But sulphur. went onto the dump. We're to diesel locomotives in the termined. - , t -r, y ' s rI Beaver City. Uranium finds northeast of Beaver- Mining district have local folks bubbling over with en- - were madeand lostduring ii ' 4,M5At 4':;-- i .1 - .- , - ,, , 414'',44,4. : . , rnmemmovolost,411, 4 41,440,41414141 - 4, - 1 f 4 UI o",,, ; "this tOLTIS LESSING "uranium is Beaver's latest boom. -- , ry Imir IWO . - going to use a new solvent milk and motels with a lot of . - - nd a-la- THE BEAVER - country is a pros' perous land of memories.-- - ,.-,-- of mdk -- also memolles from Horn Silver days., - City,, WdnesdirriDec:ei:tiber 15, 1954 -. istvii-e---- py-"iv.-'etr- Salt Lao AND TELEGRAM, JASPER FITTER tourist trade Is presperia1 be ANDERSON country's fine for dairying.",, , - t0,.t.-,,,"- ,on..1.1.-,S,-.91- . 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It is an important livestock and dairy center. - Mk yAok 1' jo,...11,01 .k fs '4..0) AlUti likAMIMAIO ' 6 kr. t 1 M - Seaver City also is the county seat of Beaver COT.inty It is the home of one of thestatess most progressive high schools and is the business trid commercial hub this area with- efficient, businesses offertn' g excellent service. - AP ' 3.-- - , , oil in 45 years! , ' itthe finest gasoline and motor , S ' -- has become a centerpoint for a of amount uranium large activity. This bonanza metal has been found nearby and the arodhas attrcicted ' hundreds of prospectors. Recently Beaver City S and get expect more from Utoco j1 , Over 700 stations and dealers throughout Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Washington and Oregon lain in sincere season's greetings to our customru - T , - maki it , petit vidt tristitvitAvuti CITY thie year - io Tpi.co.:, J. Nik 111E7 C w , ',, onL T A I. 01-1- .. REF,1,11111G COMPAII , 0 |