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Show April IS. i 1997- - Page 11 Basin Life Uintah Basin Standard Early Roosevelt settlers built up town with hard work, good 2b commemorate the 150th an Mormon Lake Valley the Uintah Baein Standard in conjunction with the Ducheene County Seequeeentennial Committee unu publish etoriee contributions made by those who eettled and pioneered Ducheene and Uintah Countie e. Thoee who have hietoriee of early Uintah Baein eettlere of any nationality, religion or ethnic origin. are invited to submit them consideration to Shar Beneon, sheens County Seequeeentennial i mbaeeador. ; ut mm r x' w I- - CP i raj By George E. Stewart Q This is a history of Roosevelt, yA Utah, a small town in Eastern Utah. !':'j It is short, only an outline, gathered from records here and there and S; from fading memories. The story coven a period when the Old West was still here but was rapidly ending, slipping into the age of technology. sss In 1861, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United Stales, by proclamation set aside a reservation for the Ule Indian Nation. No rr r survey was made beforehand, it had merely a general description as comprising all the lands from the tops of the mountains to the north, to the lops of the mountains to the south, draining into what later defined as the Duchesne River. The area thus set apart was vast. 'gS&Vm 2ESi It was larger than some of the states of the Union and larger than some of the nations of the world. A.C. said, "Early one morning There it lay decade after decade, father showed up with all his a primeval land, inhabited by a few surveying equipment and we began hundred that day to lay but the streets, indians, government employees and some Episcopalian alleys and lots of a town. I thought Missionaries. maybe my old man had been sun Finally, in 1905 and 1906 the struck and Nick knew dam well he Ute Reservation was opened, to had, but we kept on working day after day until the job was done." homesteaders. It has been said that Ed F. Craig milled from the old files Harmston was an enigma. He was in his office, a plat of is town an engineer and mathematician on drawn on linen paper, it was one hand and a dreamer on the labeled at the lop "Dry Gulch other, which he was .when he City," when asked what it was, he founded Roosevelt City, no one answered "Well, you see. Dad and I at first called this town Dry knows. . Ed. F. knew the country Like Gulch City, and that lasted just the back of his hand, he had long enough for my mother, Mtty, surveyed part of it long before the to hear it, then she raised the roof." Mary said, "Not on you life, not opening, yet in spite of his knowledge, he chose that dry little if I live here. Ill never be know as desert bench for his homestead a drygulcher." So Mr. Harmston claim. One wonders if . he was -or dreaming; ifcould have' "Alright. Mama, you name it. Mary Harmston, was a personal a little bit of both. Under the law you picked your friend of President Theodore laid, paid $225 an acre for one Roosevelt. He was, in her belief, hundred and sixty acres. You must the best president this country ever then move on the land, build an had, or ever would have for that abode, improve it and live there matter. She corresponded with five years. After you "proved up" Teddy, his missives being on White you received title in fee simple by House stationary. So when Ed gave way of a patent from the U.S. her the opportunity, she spoke up quick as light, "This town will be Government. Harmston made his entry and named Roosevelt City." The plat was the mud his money, but he was too name was and it now changed a man move to make on and busy improvements. He erected a bears the name of Roosevelt after boarded up lent and installed his Teddy Roosevelt. Well, now, there was a town two sons A.C. (Qaig) and Floyd (Nick) Harmston to begin living platted and named, its residents out his time for him. These sons were two kids, a dog, a cow, and a were the very first residents of small flock of liickcns. Its future didnt look bright because there Roosevelt, Utah. lir'"'rife && . iTW' WA W- teas EBam was no water, bid nevertheless people started to move in and Governors Regional Family Conference Expand your Horizons" ia the theme at the Governor Regional Family Conference to be held Wednesday, April 23 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Utah State University in Rooeevelt. Featured speaker will be Jacalyn S. Leavitt along with keynote speaker, Dr. Wally Goddard. American Legion District 9 Convention American Legion District 9 will have their spring convention Friday, April 25 at the Duchesne Legion Home. Registration at 6 p.m. with dinner to follow at 7 p.m. Interdisciplinary Workshop Offered The USU Family & Human Development Department is sponsoring an interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Too Stubborn To Die" Wednesday, April 16 from 7 - 9:30 p.m. at Roosevelt USU Multipurpose room. Kato Jarmillo will lecture ad her experiences as a prisoner in a Natxi concentration camp. Singers Perform The LD Singers, the show choir from the Ephraim LDS Institute of Religion will present a free variety show entitled "light of the World Wednesday, April 16 at 8 p.m. at the Roosevelt West Stake Center. . t Senior Citizens Spring Fling Everyone is invited to the Rooeevelt Senior Citizens "Hawaiian Spring Fling featuring Tongan dancer Kale Kauflisi Tuesday, April 15 at 8:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. i.Ni Stagalight win sponsor Southern Utah Univeraitiee performing group "Acclamation". The group will perform eong and dance Friday, April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the USU auditorium. Tickets are available from any Stagelight member or at the dew. V- - w ,fr DOWNTOWN ROOSEVELT 1907 were founded because the Uintah Basin was a wonderful dairy country. There was a time when every little settlement. Bluebell, Mt. Emmons, Ml Home, Altonah and Boneta and others had stations where cream, butter and eggs were Gentrys cattle brand quilt sought for museum Ioka resident, Edith Gentry is quilting again, this time at the request of the Utah Arts Council who has offered to purchase one of Gentry's popular "cattle brand quilts for display in the upcoming Utah Folklore exhibiL The exhibit will be held in the Chase Home in Liberty Park and run April 20 through October 20 and will display over 200 folk art pieces gathered throughout the state. SOON ON DISPLAY-Ed- ith Gentry displays her original "cattle brand quilL" The Utah Arts Council has asked Edith to create a brand quilt for inclusion in their folk art collection which will be displayed in Salt Lake Gty this summer. "We cant lose people like Edith Gentry, her brand quilt is a perfect example of folk art. It reflects the attitudes, concerns, and values of our people," said Folk Aits Coordinator Carol Edison. Gentry, who put away her needle and thread after loosing her quilting companion and husband. Thomas, said yea to the Councils 26-2- 7 Horses survive cool times to run in final championship By Aldon Rachels Race aplit personality aa they switched from Weekend being a event to one with a break between horse racing action duo to conflicts, ana this past weekend, owners, trainers, jockeys watched their horses take top prises at the annual event Raring action will resume at the Petroleum Downs, with posttime at 1 April 26-2- 7 p.m. Last year waa the first year that the Petroleum Downa want to the new meet format Basin Bred, Appalooaa A Print Back-TfrBa- ck Double Down pocketed second at 16.62. Dun It Earn owned by Gary Goodrich and keyed by Larry Knudsen, didnt have it Too Eaey in the race as it had to work red hard to edge Dave Swetfs Streririn Blend at the finish fine, 1823 to 18.25, to taka first in the No. 1 heat of the Quarter Horae "ft boughL Roosevelt at one time had six cream stations in iL Usually cream was saved up through the week and taken to the station on Saturday for sale. Needless to say. Continued on page 18 ' By Cheryl Mecham Maupini Conatantia placed first in the No. 2 heat of toe Quarter Horse Derby 3 1 at 1725. Jumungi waa second at 1727 GG Keep Stake, owned by Goodrich ana ridden by Knudeen, won the No. 1 heat in the Quarter Horae Futurity, Sunday, in a time of 16.07. Eaeyriinninnimbo lived up to its running name as it pieced second at 1622. The No. 2 Quarter Horae Futurity heat was won by Jim Nebekers Goaty Bar Daah at Continued on page 18 request and his already begun the process. The quilt will depict the original 90 brands of the Dry Gulch and Horse Growers Association of 1915 which Gentry made as a present for Thomas years ago. The Association was organized by W.G. Gentry (Thomas' father), Duncan Marehant and John Galloway. "He knew every brand and every man on that range," Gentry recalled. The Arts Council discovered Gentry about 10 years ago, Edison said, when a field worker involved in the Artist in Residence program identified Gentrys quilt work as folk art and documented iL At that time Gentry was invited into the schools to show her quilts and teach the children the significance of the brand quilL The Council remembered Gentry's work and asked her to display the original brand quilt for six months during a ranching exhibit hosted in 1995. Even before Gentrys artistry was displayed in Utah, her work gained national recognition when a picture of the quilt was published in the National Quilt Magazine because of its originality. Requests for her quilts began pouring in from all over the country, Gamy said, and that is when she and Thomas became quilting companions. The Gentrys made 40 of the popular cattle brand quilts between 1982 and 1992. "People would send me their brand book and ask me to do a quilt, I did tea for the State of Louisiana alone," Edith remembers. Edison said that when Gentry accepted the councils proposal she responded, "I made die first one by myself, I guest I can make die last one by myself" I Futurities and Quarter Hone Derby triala wars held Saturday and Quarter Horse Open Futurity heats took place Sunday. Merry The Rich made owner Brad Jensen and jockey Tory Guymon merry and rich as they won the No. 1 heat in the Basin Brad Futurity at 16.44. Financial Mastermind, owned by Robert Williams and ridden by Packer, helped to provide the racing finances by taking first place in the No. 2 heat of the serin Bred Futurity in a time of 1657. Could of Been A Boat had to settle for being a horse as it riled down the course to place second at 16.65. SSK Hes A Convoy, owned by Shyrlan T. Whiteley and jockeyed by Stagelight Sponsors Performing Group streets and alleys of the town. What the people of the Reservation needed most was a "cash crop", to buy the incidentals and pay their taxes, so they went to livestock. Everybody went either sheep or cattle, sometimes both. Then the creamery companies hauled water for their use from far away. But Harmston had his plans. He formed the Dry Gulch Irrigation Company, along with others, and soon there were canals, ditches and laterals. Water flowed down many Finals April IMAGE of the Uintah Basin will meet Saturday, April 19 at 11 a.m. in the Conference Room at the Natural Reaource Conservation office, 240 West Highway 40 in Roosevelt. The Utah State Chapter preaident and officers will attend to explain our mission and answer queationa. jrV! ipih Ssssbal IMAGE Meeting a fm MM 1- LD sense Nattal, won the Appalooaa A 16.42. Chick the No. 1 heat in Print Futurity at A Scout, owned by Lewie Moosman and ridden by Knudaon, blared trail to the firiah line for first place in the No. 2 heat in the Appalooaa A Print .Futurity jp a time of 16.54.. tar&c'w STARTING GATE DASH-G- O left to rigid, leave the gate in Futurity. The heat was won by K. A April 26-2- 7 at r C Hackfotd's ' Strealdn Rond in a time of 1529. Finals we set for |