Show EMERY COUNTY s H H H A i S t i i at b 1 ih i H FACTS ABOUT EMERY COUNTY ara square m lea 4 area acres 2 4 populate on 7 assessed albat on 2 26 00 i banded indebtedness 6 per cent in terest exp res 1917 8 00 4 amount in s ng fund to redeem 4 bonds f 2 53 4 no float ng indebtedness i t value of county property 11 00 S bate of taxation S m ills of wh ch is for county school D to ind gent poor 1908 8 9 00 1 I expended dur ng san e year on roads s 4 and bridges ott er than poll tax 1 03 S from manti national for est 3 9 54 due emery county from national S forest 9 37 00 fr number of granted 3 S number of marr age 1 censes to de 1 I cember 6 1909 58 4 natural zat on papers issued last year 9 4 1 I number of colv et ons n d str ct art for i 1909 9 2 were fined 6 sent to state ans r 4 on and 1 to industry al school i 4 school populate on 2 A 4 per cap ta expend ture for education 2 16 S 4 county has 10 irr gat on compan es 4 w th a cap tal zat on of 94 n les of 4 4 canals 72 acres under rr eat or a pr ate mortgage indebtedness of 5 8 3 cream 4 cr es 4 grist m 10 dawm Us 1 tate bank 4 4 mills 56 e t ons 2 elec c 4 trie 1 plants 6 incorporated towns 6 censed 44 saloons pay ng an ann al 1 cense fee rang ng 4 4 from to 1200 53 04 miles of ra broad n i track 2 good weekly newspapers h amery 44 county progress castle dale green P ver D s 1 I S patch green P vcr 1 artificial ce plant 1 4 1 I ment block factory 4 4 I 1 WEATHER FACTS ABOUT EMERY COUNTY 44 4 I 1 mean temperature januar 1 march apr 1 45 8 4 may 53 0 2 july 68 8 aug st 67 4 A i september october no ember 4 december annual 44 average prec p tat on tan arv 0 48 44 auary 0 72 march 0 45 apr 1 0 5 may 0 59 41 I june 0 36 july 0 58 august 0 as september 4 82 october denber 0 december i 4 annual 7 36 4 mean temperature january 4 4 30 4 march april 44 5 may 4 58 tuly 5 2 august 65 7 sep 4 t october november de 4 4 cember annual 40 4 prec p ta I 1 4 t on january 0 43 0 as march 0 37 april 0 38 may 0 57 J tie 0 44 J ly 0 41 1 I august september 08 october 0 co no 1 ember december aar 1 6 68 i 1 tem tan arv 4 2 0 february mancl ap 8 cpr 4 may july 9 7 st 4 september 0 october 52 Noi emler 1 I december 20 1 annual 53 0 pro chiv tat on fab 0 ba march 4 april may 0 july t 40 21 gust 0 73 september 0 j octol er 0 20 1 I november 0 56 december 0 31 annual 5 40 S H i H i TiiT iiii STOY OF EMERY COUNTY apart from its measures of coal valued at b 11 ons of dollars the cultural and horti cultural poss b 11 es of emery eo nt are seem angly almost as g gantic vi at is now emery county was settled by the wh te race in the later Os wl en or ango seely then of mt pleasant sanpete county but now of castle dale was commiss boned by the author it es of the dominant church at tl at per od w th the task of s abdu ng th s then wild and barren wilderness save for its sagebrush and greasewood A small party of citizens of sanpete counte ac compan ed mr seely across the mounta ns and others of tl at county rapidly followed for sanpete county even at that day was con a well settled cammi anity and the water for irr gation purposes was considered bract cally 1 claimed the first settlements were n ade in castle alley along the cottonwood Cotton nood II 11 nt ington ferron and muddy creeks th s valley extends from pr ce at the north and on the dem er E grande ra broad gl the heart of the county to below the town of emery at the bouti souti a d sta ce of about e gaty m les in width the nty varies from a half lozen toc thirty les the alt tude var es from to feet above sea level tie cl mate 14 ideal for gran hay and large and small fru t and da ry ng is very bitable the settlers coming oer from sanpete county were ced aga ast the country tl ev came to settle for in sanpete county the land tl e n mountains was for ears looked upon as only dumn ng ground for the eizens of sanpete nty it aia omy vis ted by some few of tl em when ind a s a diventuro s wh tes 01 members of the bobbers boost gang raided their sheep and cattle herds and drove the stock over the stains and down into the valley below the reports brought back by the San peters concern ng the valley were such as to impress the people generally of sanpete county tl at emery county was a sect on tl at would ever remain outs de the poss b 1 ty of reden p tion hence they spoke of it with der sion and sneers WONDERFUL CHANGE OCCURS but what a mighty result has been ga ned the past two decades people who are aea well to do in san pete county are now amon tl e most ardent seekers of emery county land and for the past few years it 1 as not been the idle or the t cla ses of the older county that have m grated to almery county but it has been the more prosperous and educated fan 1 es that have gone across the mounta ns to the county that is now regarded as already possessing son e of the finest school bu id and son e of the best rel g ous aducat onal ons to be found in the state puta de of salt lake ty and provo the day of asprec at on of emery county s fert ie sol its almost in exhaust 1 ie s aply of water for ir ngat on and other p reposes its fine cl mate and 1 m t less t es has but fa ariy riy dawned among the twenty seven count es of the state almery stands ond in the number of acres now under irr be us beaten only by cache nty the record being 07 for cache an 1 2 for emery it is not clam ed tl at this vast acreage is ann alev irr gate 1 and cul t bated in en ery clinty for it is a fiet not cred table to the cit au of emery county that there are num I 1 e s of i ery sh atless farmers some of the very worst on the globe some farmers own as many as two three ind four q arter se eions of land nearly every acre of wl cl could be irr gated and t lied with water rights held by tl enneis yet only a bract on of many of these large ind v d al land hold are p t to any se and the land re a ns idle vear after year th a is tl e on to tl e oft heard q est on why emery nt w tl ts tho sands of acres of land n ler on markets so 1 atle of staple crops an otier reason is that for the past few 5 ears tl ere las b en so much team work connected w th the new irnia t on enterer ses in emery and carbon count es and at the old and newly estabi shed coal can ps IP both count es and the h gh wages pa d have been in cash at ny t me they were den tl it n any farmers with n any teams and boys have been i deuced to engage in tl s sort of work preferring weekly paydays to waiting until fall for broj n oney many farmers have made n uch more than b g wages by sub contract ng t it m st not be taken for granted that there are good farmers n ery county for there are scores of them and many of them are getting splendid re tu ns for the r labor in fact the men who have re ma ned at home and farmed have at the end of each vear been able to show better bank balances than the men who have gone to the irrigating and m n ng cam with th tea r ind boys SEED IS KING wh ie d v ers fled far n ng is generally profitable in castle valley and here let it be sa d that except ader tl e spec al relating to the green river sect on th s article refers mostly to castle valley the crop de res stance is that of alfalfa seed corn may be the king of the nat on but alfalfa seed re agns gns supreme in castle valley and why here is the story seed a twenty acie tract of land to alfalfa in the second year it is necessary to irr gate it but once or twice and you harvest from 60 to per acre from it S ch sums as the forego ng are now being taken from the alfalfa fields of castle valley wl ere the threshing season is yet in f 11 sw ng E and ten b chels of seed to the acre is be ng 1 ir vested and is about the average yield of th s asplend d crop the seed we gs e gaty po ads to tl e b shel and buy ers ire runn ng through the county with bank books paying from 12 to 13 cents a pound for it castle valley s but on to the nat on s alfalfa seed crop th s year will be close to th arty carloads allowing 30 pounds to the carlei 1 tl e farm value of the crop w 11 be about loa some farmers have loafed about the towns nr for half the s amer and are now pod eting tl e ind wads wh ie wear ng happy smiles in a few more years th s valley w 11 be annually market ng a m 11 on dol lars worth of alfalfa seed alone no wonder alealia hay is now selling at 13 per ton in emery county at the stack yard and some of the merchants are order ing carloads of flour to be shipped in next month WHITE HONEY CANNOT BE EXCELLED then tl ere is the famous water wh te honey of emery county of wl ch nearly every one in the state has 1 eard it may be that its deputat on abroad is greater than its deputat on at home because most of the honey is sh aped east where the den and for it is far in excess of the supply when t s hone first sh aped to kansas ty and ch cago it created a sensation because of its del gotful flavor and cherev er it is known there is a steady demand for it A sample of it took first prize at the chicago world s fa it is a crop that is aas ly gathered tl t is in h gh dav or w th the average emery county farmer sev eral carloads are annually marketed the farm val e be ng an the ne of 51 cents per pound some honey raisers receive from 1000 to 2000 a year from th s crop all of which is a clean p c p the bees do ng all tl e work but the extracting cann ng and haul ng 0 o market the alfalfa and clover blos are the ma n source from which the honey ia gathered these plants are in no w se injured by what the bes extract from them and the bees themselves render a most valuable sen ce as pollen ers A honey crop is one of the cleanest gains a section can produce AS TO horticulture now a few words abo t 1 ort n emery county everybody knows that creen E ver is destined to lecome one of the world s greatest peach belts but few people yet real ze that castle valley is be corn ng one of the country s greatest anie growing sect ons so ads 11 e b g talk doean doesn t it but wa t and the wa ting won t be long th s vear T II 11 be hun n tl e ty s offic al fr t tree ins actor bro to salt lake in a hand satchel a few wolfe E ver apples from his orchard at berron tl s was flout state fair t n e and wh ie show ng them to a fr end it was suggested by the latter that mr behun n them on t on at the fa r he d d so be gult first pr ze in the r class apples of oti er classes in emery county m 1 av e fared as well for no better jonathans black ben dav s ganos and ehude island green ns n be found anyel ere than those grown n th s valley several carloads of apples have been shipped t of tl e valley th s fall by W M oy lance co of I 1 and others and some of tl e best fr it on tl e aalt lake markets today was grown in emery county but does not bear the name of the county on the boxes pretty soon people w II 11 be demand ng emery ltv fr t and then the county w 11 be r ghaly cred ted for the article it produces the present year s apple crop is twenty five carloads accord ng to the tree inspector s report there are icari t fru t trees in amery county rang ng in ae a e from one to five years old when each tree produces the modest amount of ta 50 annually and some trees produce four t mes that amount emery ltv will be turn ng out 5 worth of fru t and that day s not far off peaches pears plums prunes and cherr es all gronau in the county one of tl e most enthus aftic boosters of emery county s hort 1 ral sect on s Ee bowers of prove v pres dent of the state fiort cultural asso aaion his roseate pre 1 ct ons of the county s hort cult ral possie 11 es n ade five ears ago are lust be g nn ng to be real zed as good prophecy SUGAR PRODUCING BELT emery county or castle alley will in t me be the sugar prodoc ng belt of total to quote prof li A merr 11 of the state agricultural college a man who 1 as frequently s ted the nty and who has told its citizens that their s was the beet so 1 in the state lie and other college professors 1 ave baade thorough analis s of the soil observed the cl n ate and other fa arable cond t ons for beet grow ng bes des making chem eal analis s of s gar beets grown there and their verd ct is altogether favorable to the county be ng an ideal place for u eral sugar factor es the agricultural college men also hold emery county in 1 gh esteem as a da sect on but urge as a first step to success tl e shida ng in of a better stra n of da ry animals tl ere are now three cream er es in the county an 1 not one of the n is operated by a bract eal creamery man and for th s reason none are paying div bends about the state s average yield of oats barley hay and potatoes are oata ned in th s county wl ie the eld of wheat per acre is below that of eral other aties corn may be ra sed without irr ga tion LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY the county is also a good 1 bestock section the excellent range of manti national forest affords in the summer and the b abad and san bazael deserts in the anter makes the wool mutton cattle and horse ra s ng dextre nely profitable local pr de is thoroughly aroused toward the h gher grades of 1 flocks of tl orough bred ka abou alet sheep herds of hereford cattle pens of berkshire and poland china p gs colts s red by imported Per cheton and gen an coach stall ons are to be seen every where bully a score of still ons have been sh aped into the county the past thae years and are owned by local cates the result is now sl own in as fine a class of young 1 as can be found any where else in the state it is in emery county that john H seely of sanpete county ranges the greater port on of his fine classes of stock irrigation SYSTEM OF COUNTY the irr gat on system of en ery county cons ats of ten incorporated compan es own ng a few small reserve rs and m les of n canal the water being oata ned from green pr ce and san fafael rivers and the cottonwood hunt agton perron ant muddy creeks it s the best watered county in the state at present ruffic ent water is oata neu to fill these canals with running streams almost to the r full carry ing capac ty dur n the irr gation s ason w th b t oc cas onal recourse to storage water in the reserve rs except in three cases no atten apts have been made to construct riseri rs of areat capacity although at and near the heads of ill the water sources are some of the best reserve r sites to be found any ft he tl new mammoth land reclamation enterer sea have been lately launched the follest of these is the emery county land water company backed by s M nn capital ats their tract embraces some acres of good land lying between perron and the town of ameri that was formerly known as plat the work of construct ng the main canals and laterals and a system of small reserve rs is well under way and cons demable acreage is now under on another great enterer ge is that of the buckhorn plat company ader the d of george H banow and james A melville of salt lake ty wl are backed in th s entebi r se by ch cabo men the r scheme conten plates tt e reclamation of about so acres of as good a ty of land as can be found between tie M assoun river and the fie ocean huntington creek water will be brought to th s tract and tl e cost of this iten alone is estimated at one quarter of a mill on dollars when the mag influx ence of water is g yen to th s lan 1 one of the most beautiful garden spots in utah w 11 spring into 1 fe for buckhorn plat possesses a loamy so I 1 that in ty can scarcely be found elsewhere in utah the flat is protected from ad erse winds by tl e shelter ing he gats of cedar r mountains and the seasons are thus lengthened at both ends so that t e late frosts of the spring and the early frosts of autumn are not to be faired in th s section another irr gat on company has a il ed for several thousands of acres of land in tl e ne of woods de and has also fibel water da ms upon the price ivr the early settlement of these tracts of land will bring thousands of home seekers to emery county MARKET AT DOO OF A story of emery county boull fall short in do ng this empire ustice that male no anent on of its asplen d d markets 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