Show mm prosperous town will gain many new citizens I 1 climate ard soil look to eastern folks great irrigation projects behag pushed to completion GREEN RIVER utah jan 10 E merett general manager of the green river land and townsite co has just gotten back from ann arbor mich where he spent the holidays with his family mr merett has two sons and a daughter attending school there and mrs is there keep ing house for them As soon as the boys have finished school they will move to green river to make their home mr merett while east spent a day with mr jackson general emi grant agent of the rock island system also a day with the general emigrant agent of the union pacific and reports that both of these lines are expecting to handle even a greater passenger traffic this year to the west than they did last year both agents report that there is a larger call for information about green river faey than any oth er one place in the west it is expect ed there will be more people in here next year than can be conveniently cared for before returning from the east mr merett made a flying trip to duluth dmn to visit with his brother thorn as A who is president of the groen river land and townsite co all ar range ments have been made for the complete financing of the b g irrigation project which is be ng put in by the green city irrigation co the machinery for the power plant has been shipped by the fairbanks morse co which concern is furnishing the complete plant for the west side power lant when this plant is completed it vill increase the acreage under water n the east ide to about 4 acres che work of installing the plant will co just as soon as the macam will arrive here which will be in about two weeks the elgin power and water company f the east side of which mr whisler ind his associates mr Cot trelland mr voorhees are the prime movers are ex pecking their water plant in a very few weeks the ditches are all made and nore than acres has been plowed ind put in readiness for the many fruit trees which have been bought and will be planted m the early spring mr whisler unloaded two carloads of ce nent last week a aich will be used in he erection of the engine and boiler louses for their new plant contractor ramsey was down from grand junction moat of the week look ing after the construction work on the residence of banker H M eldred this residence is to be the most eapen which has been built in green riv ir and is to be fini hed throughout with lard wood mr bamsey has had to lend away for most of the manenal ex the dimension stuff which he got from the merall bol nger lumber co it will be about 90 das before he will be able to occupy the residence as th s kind of a finish must be put in by careful and carpenters this home is being built on one of the 6 acre tracts of orchard home which was planted to peach hiees last spring and which trees have made a marvelous growth last summer G N stevenson has moved into his new cement block mansion in orchard home and has rented his old houe for the winter which he will move onto other property m the spang mrs G N stevenson has been quite ill for the past two weeks rayta fullmer the popular young saleslady who has been in gunnarson Gur narson bros store for some time has gone to salt lake for a couple of weeks to visit wih friends miss mary hermanson has taken her place n the store dur ng her absence etor of the palmer house went to grand junction and pal isaide last monday to spend the week and it is reported by those most antim ate with ed that judging from the several different attires of dress that he took with him that there might mg happen before he returns H S denton of anita la has moved here and has a carload bf fre on the road to green mr den ton has some laid in the valley and in tends building a house on it just as sool as his car gets here carpenters in anita framed his house and got it all ready to put together and loaded it in to a car so that as soon as the car gets here it will only be necessary for them to put the building together A mr thompson of has been here several times looking over the field for a newspaper and has con eluded that he will baart one hebo at an early date mr thompson for the past few years has been principal of the Pal isaide schools ald omes here very veil air J parker and miss minnie bond of grand junction spent the hoi days with mr peck and his sister mr peck accompanied miss bond home where he spent a few peasant das visiting miss bond la one of the most popular young teachers of the grand junction schools and it is reported from very good authority that after this school vear is out that she will move to green kiver to enjoy tho beautiful mountain breezes as they sweep over the hills into the bevly erected cottage of mr peck W miller of center iowa was here the most part of last week looking over the country with a view to making some very substantial investments here he returned hone sunday evening boyd and gentry have installed one of the F P lighting systems and re port their entire satisfaction with the plant this is four of thee plants that are now in green river and all are div ing brilliant lights amman has installed these lights here for the company and is taking care of them for a while until they prove to be what the company guarantees them to be they leave an electric light far in the shade so far as 1 is concerned the building committee of the pres church met monday night and made complete arrangements for the immediate erection of the church basement of the church is already to commence work on and it is expected that force enough will be put on the building jo finish it within 60 days J alvord who has recently grad bated from a medical school in kansas city mo and who has been the country for a place to start a drug store was in town tuesday and so well pleased with prospects here that he an bounces opening up with a full line of drugs within 60 days although a grad aate of a medical college mr alvord prefers the drug business to practicing medicine he is a graduate druggist there are about 75 men at work on he old dam which the green river river city irrigation co is repairing this company intends to raise the old dam about four feet which will give greater possibilities than ever fo the abundant supply of water for all of the land around green river M oppenheimer col G W durant and rod mcdonald made a trip down the river last V ee on the little gasoline boat belonging to oppenheimer the party went as far as the soda spring 24 miles one berr about the tr p was the small amount of brou trou ble in ng the river with this 1 atle boat despite the extremely low water it demonstrated more fully than ever that a boat of this make is the only feasibly fea sibl sort to ply th nver at all stages of water the boat only draws eight inches of water and has a carry ing capacity of about 80 persano in the early spring she will make a tap to he cataracts i private party al cady selected |