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Show Emery County I Making Progress1 Bridges and Roads Built Daring The Year 1910 j : The yearl910has recorded its triumphs and disappointments in Emery county as it has done in the rest of the world, j Every year brings its troubles and every I year its rewards for such push and progress pro-gress as is put forth by individuals or by communities. So taking our county as a basis we can look back and see 1 that many things we expected are still i -in the future, and yet if we will look at ' what we have done rather than at what j we have failed to do, we will see that i 1910 has placed us well along the road j of progress. j Perhaps the greatest improvement ', has been in the line of road building. About $35,000 has been spent on the j roads of the county and it has been used j in a way that make3 it a lasting monu- I ment to the enterprise of the county in the year 1910. Most cf our readers are familiar with the bridges at Huntington, Castledale, Orangeville, Ferron and Emery and know what they have cost and how they look. They are all steel , structures and built well above water on concrete piers which gives assurance ! that they will withstand all ordinary conditions con-ditions for many years to come. They are all completed and in use which is a great advantage over the conditions last winter. Besides these $3,000 has been spent on the county road between Castledale and the county line in the grading of the same and in supplying bridges where they were npeded. The old Huntington bridge has been erected across Cedar Creek and with the improvements im-provements taken as a whole the roads are in fine shape to what they were a year ago. Besides these improvements with which nearly all of us are familiar the Green River bridge is built and in use. This has been done through a state ap-priation ap-priation of $19,000 secured by Senator Brinkerhoff and Representatives Nelson of Emery and Hammond of Grand. This fund however was not sufficient for the work and abouc $3,000 had to be dug up by each of the counties to help pay for the bridge. It has been done and the bridge is completed. We herewith here-with show a cut of it when it was nearly completed and as few of the people in the Valley will see it for some time he following description will be of interest. The structure is of three steel spans, each one hundred and sixty-two feet in length, with a space of two and one-half feet between the spans, making its total length four hundred and ninety-one ninety-one feet, aside from its approaches. The west end approach, constructed of trestle work, is eighty-six feet in length. The east approach trestle is fifty-seven feet in length. A dirt fill leads up to the west approach for a distance of one hundred and twenty-five feet and contains con-tains about twenty-five hundred yards of gravel. The east approach fill i3 a much shorter one, containing five hundred hun-dred yards of gravel. The flooring of the bridge provides an eighteen foot roadwav, the bottom cord being five feet above the highest watermark water-mark ever recorded. The overhead clearance is about thirteen feet. The spans are of the camel back pattern, the highest intermediate post being twenty-three feet in height, while the shortest posts are eighteen feet high. The design of the spans is artistic, although al-though strength is the main feature. The bridge rests upon tubular steel piers filled with concrete, reinforced with heavy railroad steel, the two west end piers being forty-two inches in diameter di-ameter and rising thirty-five feet above their foundation, which is in slate shale. The four river piers are each sixty inches in-ches in diameter and rise about thirty feet above their foundations. The east end piers are forty-two inches in diameter di-ameter and rise twenty-five feet. All of the piers are placed one foot into the shale bedrock. Almost a carload of cement or about five Carloads of concrete con-crete was used in their construction. An expansion roller is placed at the east end of each span to provide for the - f . . ..' . ' '.. 1 r". a . 'it .r"r" .... s-? - ------- . K?; ' ;? .7" ..." V-'1 , ' f iW:& iSOV Y-M 'J Vw'. : ; '' -; 1 ; .-'.-l . .' - - - ... . ... ' - 1L. ; ...U .. . - - - .1 Green River BridgeWhen nearing completion contraction and expansion occasioned by extremes of heat and cold. The floor is supported by steel beams, on which rest ten three by fourteen inch joists twenty feet in length, covered with two by fours laid edgewise and spiked together, to-gether, being also spiked firmly to the joists. These are not the only ways that we i have made progress. The coal camp at ! Mohrland has been developed to a good i producer where many men are employed and the excellence of the product is winning a name and attracting attention to the coal possibilities of the county in i the markers of the world. Much coal land has been proved up, thus adding to ' the assessable property of the county and hastening the day when the coal of ! the county will be mined in a way that ' will make the county rich and famous. I The oil possibilities have attracted ' attention and time, drills are now at work testing the field. Much oil land J has been taken up and the chance? are j that the coming spring will see a great rush to the Emery county oil fields. Such a rush will mean much as the field ! is of such proportions as to afford plenty I of room for all. I In addition to these things the people ! have been prosperous and happy and ; the towns have steadily improved and j much new land has been brought under j the plow. All of t ie prospects for future development we had a vear ago, we still have and the time of the coming of a railroad and the irrigation of differ- ent large tracts of land is undoubtedly j m - ' - J. B. MEEKS County Commissioner, who retires from i office January 1, 1910, after two years j of good service. I j coming nearer. The great possibilities I of the county on account of its great ! resources is becoming better known and j these things will not be allowed to re-j re-j main undeveloped much longer, i As we start into the new year of 1911 j let us make it a point to say a good j word for our county whenever we can, ; and look forward and plan for a greater and more modern Valley. We are sur- rounded by great resou rces which afford V Ji V f- -'lIlMllfl llll Illl II !! SAM'L SINGLETON Chairman Emery county board of commissions, com-missions, who was elected for the long term and has two years yet to serve. It is expected that he will be again made chairman of the board. opportunities held out by few places in the country today and these are going to be brought to a producing stage before be-fore many years, perhaps some of them this year. Of course what we need first and foremost is a railroad and we have good prospects of that. The mines will come and when they do the agricultural agri-cultural lands will be developed to market gardens and this county will be the center of health, wealth and the I latest of modern improvements. Here's wishing a happy and prosperous prosper-ous nevv year to each and all. EMEtfY COUNTY ALFALFA ERINCS WAD IF MONEY This year has hardly been an average one for the alfalfa growers of Emery county but the crop has sold a little higher than last year so that nearly as much money has been realized as on the best years for the production of the seed. We have no very accurate figures fig-ures on the crop but from the best we have at present it looks as though the production would reach a total of about twenty-eight cars worth at the price this year $4,000 per car, which brings the value up to $112,000. This is not an insignificant sum for one industry which has taken but little of the farmers time during the year. In addition to the alfalfa crop there is the honey made from its flowers, which might be characterized as a byproduct by-product of the industry, This was about an average crop this year and nine carloads have been shipped out worth $16,200. In addition to this honey has been shipped out by freight and express ex-press so that as a money crop as well as a quality crop honey is a winner in Emery county. In both of these products this county leads the world on the matter of quality. The honey always bringing a fancy price after reaching the wholesaler. Now we feel that this is not a bad showing for the county in the two p ro-ducts ro-ducts mentioned. They are not the only ones. In addition to them nearly everything in the fruit and grain line are grown and make good yields. Many other products could be produced in large quantities if the means of marketing market-ing were at hand. We only need a railroad rail-road to place us in the lead in the mat. ter of production and to help us to market some of the crops which are now not grown to any extent. Our argument is that we are doing well here now while we are waiting for the railroad rail-road to come and that we will do better still when it does come. James Hill, aged 80 years died at his home at Wellington, on Monday last, at 2 p. m., caused from general debility. Mr. Hill is a father of Mrs. R. L. Smith of Castledale, who left on Tuesday to attend the burial. Deceased was one of the first settlers of Wellington and of Carbon county, at that time Emery county. He leaves a wife and a host of children and grand children to mourn his loss. Among his sons and daughters are Mrs. R. L. Smith of Castlrdale, Mrs. D. L. Davis of Huntington, Mrs. Naoma Martin of Boise, Idaho. ; Mrs. Sallie Parker of Bear Lake, Utah; Henry Hill of Big Horn Basin, Ida. Mr. Taliesin Evans of Castledale is building him a nice little cottage of four rooms on his town lot situated on Academy Acad-emy avenue. i t It I , s - . i j J C. A. LARSON Mr. Larson has served the county for four years as commissioner and retires from office January 1, 1911, with a record rec-ord to be proud of. I Mr. and Mrs. James Petersen of Castledale Cas-tledale gave a pleasant and enjoyable Christmas party on Tuesday last, the party being held in the evening. There were present about 30 invited guests. The evening was spent in joyous games, singing and other entertainment, sandwiched sand-wiched with feasting and light refreshments. refresh-ments. The party lasted till the wee small hours of the morning. |