Show WANT A NEW COUNTY MR MB 0 W lambb of moab emery county is in town he has come with a petition to the legislature asking that body to construct a new county to be called le la sal the plan suggested is to organize the new division partly from emery and the remainder from san ban juan in the language of the petition it would comprise all that portion of emery county lying east of green river and all that portion of san ban juan county lying north of the ath standard parallel to the east boundary of utah the proposition includes the making of moab the county seat among the reasons on which the petition is based are the following the portion of emery in which moab is situated is a hundred and twenty five miles distant from the present county seat with intervening rivers that are during some portions of the yew and by wide stretches of desert country while there to is neither railroad nor telegraphic communication the san juan section it to is proposed to incorporate in the new county is equally distant from its present county seat mat and separated by high mountain steppes it is also claimed that the division of country covered by the plan to is ahead of the situation of many other sections of the territory in material wealth and development at the time they were admitted to the dignity of a county organization mr warner has shown us sam aples of apples raised ekok sf they are whoppers MR e least it to is a fine fruit raising country |