Show at the beginning of 1904 a mineral excitement was touched off in castle dale when oscar beebe of emery discovered some ore in the south end of the san rafael swell that is said to have run 52 28 per cent uranium and 17 80 per cent vanadium at that time uranium was worth 4 00 a pound many claims were staked in that area y first erst 0 ca courthouse the first official courthouse of emery county was built in 1883 at castle dale justice welling ton seely was given the contract to build it at a cost of 00 it was a lumber structure 1418 feet and lined with adobe brick this one room building served until 1892 when a two story building was constructed of native brick burned in the kiln of orange seely s farm in 1880 the official census for emery county listed 5 in habitants at that tune time the lation of green river then known as blake utah was while that of price was emery county then included what is now grand county and part of carbon county that same year the total population of grand county was only |