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Show a THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY DECEMBER 23, 1906. | GREEN RIVER, UTAH, A TOWN IN THE MAKING | O)SE HUNDRED AND SILTY POUVWD SOURS/T -> pees Wa JRAILPOAD REEN RIVER, Utah FOUBL: FT CREEMS FAVE Z2 Dec. 22 eee eae he o J} : Py. es G Down Utah the where railroad toward line, at Rio Gr crosses big. trestle, community fforn:.one the out of of the The th tne de Green there is thet i these ments Colorado-| point Wiestai > river gro ol « of on I be » fin¢ Lpple and pe ( have raised Phe fe ttem] th Renee de 16 ralse TPul f ® been hight iccessful a) claimed Hitl hea Teo ‘thatthe Puli vO a Grand re ad rae les: Ot "« pl mis people ac ‘fit : rit tn i the b 5 eR es co a aera uc re reacn tiaras re p | ind in trot apple cPHT visitor, the visits ho j . a place to grow do}lai m pea loam rich who doe sn't kno and having had. fou | tr } truit-raising He it gy the ul from] fire tut clay, beauty Rimmed Book Is of the Green {ts CJiffs Live north hie} alleys) he i from. ind''s} a 1 j ae i the are J eS COS will OOO make i WW, the picture settler s tell ee reew at en the Gra elk irregulai been have manency has be The alley veal one of ‘ eee OPMINE oe was old Jand, diteh for mar that had re land ra. absolutely plaw, unimproved unle of ment,sagebrush selling can. be at $200 valley of customed an acre Fruita-or owns. @)ten-acre aai.yeat sure income Thestof River I ais uM Febcom-) nd. th ine find untouched a fe at b for men the 1 1 ind valley will pt ho do most {| e Grat th from VET ba are andson they better, wautaient this belict Moreover, tl natter ha certain. demonstration J ware there has not been a Ha came. id the ; ( tine ract own na | tel four by their ‘ on Palisad » older eye ago a Waianae aoe we tee tell Doc ight, th be ihre pahgres on the ettler tructed out-ue real ae ea ! ho ‘ Se ker, "vounk blow} estate m at abe i} st ervit) 3 Bia veri ie a ye He ER Fixe tor f $460 sa C ie he gs a +t nit - an Mamie Nebrasl in eRe. t " it oh nit on todo in ays for RY i Pirst) Time With oy thi slept ‘efor Utestand in: Uncom= torn arora hay bullet scare down A ia ; In} eee : ese.) * subsided. many and stil): by made cur the L ' plain Main g ‘ days a in if wie fine hotel company Blake yn a only the levels, h i UES 1 t wpAs Source is reclamation Sioux facta lint City Tew GUREE the Tana ment SO and ‘ to land, ie to him Cook came, loca-| unfolded $75 even and up-| p you less "Vv a the villi than! un-| diteh ed t er. i a Ooan | oe I] are t act rit fon imples on Fy Green vhoSeto dis : } thet hou 1 Peg received u i t ‘ no means a failure of|sett meine dozens hom ti Ri The hlan out oat of ib his/| school and then went to}indueced hiS father and brother to sell! university at) /2vanston,}out their interest in the East, and: 1885 a course in civil| the three nue up 10,000. making a Cook; Then $75,000 i eapital to Hamp- | total went then in he pot a job in| began quietly Rou eivicie up eon silver Cece ee |sceurea the land. This. price and claims were worthless Wonk: a a Ere rss cite aie \ nm = = the mining | Thasiseieat te _| th a : ee eet ss ‘ eet es EAE horse, sleeping in Boe me the of the acres : | All Now z this j;years ago | readiness | question hiiim,Speeand Bese a the abt long oet dayssue of sunshine} Green Comes in ord iheto tyoop! na nator d the to fromthousand $25 to last the possessions He worked at his pro-|of Cook and Merritt. When this wasj| got interested in mining. |gecomplished, Cook took the last step| claims near Irwin werelof his campaign, by filing on suffictent up, and riches began to loom} water Then silver. came the hard of when went down times to an} | 8.000 ; started I dis a - = at prices ranging and acre, an be- 1$75 hemorrhages but to Colerado to find 4lacres were added vhilk ent climate destinatio rat ee eo aim or) launching line 1a ey i Ollowing the railroad | earnestly that at| ized he came Junetion Grand from ar a3 to the S reen rivei and tarried ajversed in thelr ES aadasike a of such| raépat old vesi- ranches a z River. h bu ominge t town The nearliethii new LiThe Sh «al town fell into a isturbed by the Senger trains as t fort Hrtraarul isdainful shriek roar the of long ages Reppert of the rushed aa ae the w h "4 et tl Fi nou 1 uA i; g thet aa en a Sn ace Ses rhere ws: 1 little break in the monCol when aco eu fifteen tony r0= D> Moor wid a \ urveyors ari i land » Green River the star tirst)ing point for a surv oft eat feey ; fhestapaireenr maleate S ohseeici Renee the fruit crop at Green River, and|\ago, and in years gone by the. place] California wh Was in the thoughespraying and pruning after sci-| was of some consequence axa rallroad|the "perseention" and Col ee entific manner are UNKNOWD, some very division pormt The present activity|« hard Hine Ht tes < . j mvince the \ dat a newspaper Is‘in sight. Posie this, the railroad company has made Green River a division point for local freight wraffle; and several train crews make their headquarters (o} there oe ake new he chase bee ni an active district a and heavily vestigated the . oe pes It is ne a suvIng iteres were Landreth's e ae Phese : C believed that In a n, oth LO as country, had : Looking old Within a year, short Ahead. it is confidenti¥ Palisade | lieved by the Green Riverites, the ge a . I. Shane, } talked-of Salina cut-of| Will be through and passenger E.|and O. Dr. L their ee lipeuea wis-| partly will in-|and been has land of sale the excitement thi sugh the val-} the be Thistle on land have been \ power plant sent argunt Junction. the This belief en thht be- long. built, freight Salina is based with the lished at a point quietly in prog- | has been estab-| six or seven miles| : illustration an growth of of town, it Js will thr neces- absolutely be | rncuecman S23 AS line ae the main ea Summi the: Soldier be eeken be er its imawaten) 1 fur Urenn ra Onsscol tie ley on res f tne recen pointed out ordered and will be in place before} Von Dee rid Ane ay GVETARS At. the end of February seven-mile| tendance at senool is ninety pupil dliteh has been completed having a} With a sehool populaiion of 130 and 500 and of between total population and|# bottom the at feet ten of width sixteen feet at the top. A second ditch; river D, M, happened to irrigate his. Landreth, less measurements than three} Grand and the scandal na taken at the 600. Three Fail areas hout Fert er Se meet the etUintah rese ry ition.a ; Sean jrenae oe in a conyvineing of teachers are employed LUA ree planning to ater put ee above a" vines COUR eS IS! an immense power} in pee Y es eee Se to be transmitted to Salt and the adjac ent mil es . PeeWith aOnGthe AD sale erant of = oF one: thie! i ; } } { i It 1 , e . a pre (and ee Cel a it noe pa neon oD the Green compa iw, oa eave ; eee RLERK, fruit! (ENG VG a \ ae tormy He set out es and ve getables on his ranch, and| ow : what from a living to m ike nanacged raised tea were his pet experi‘" ent id he netted $200 an acre from e vale of navy and lima beans His race ber um Ie own throughout the oy . ae Dae ar fa eae hile . 4 a ek to inhabit-'faculties condttion * OF Upply all requtre-| a little log nhonse, but for the most taremees rt bean ranch he wa nursing his lungs health and trength, Cook's of observation were not idle, | the had ie ease bai che oreaiee® a bes: - em a 1 Rie B which church Davis, re- ceuns eee from present: Castle The several miles from convenient of The charter ae ntually be Dale tohouse. Greei is court a railroad access of the new and in- town Bee |granted In September, this year Lake City | officers were chosen as follows: Menand) we Donela: president; E. L: ‘Undérhill grey years ee W. D. Thompson, D. M, Landreth anc lO}fhomas L. McCarty, trustees. The as Peck E.. A, chosen have officers town clerk. and L. M. MeCatty, mar- many 07 in his Rece ny and W. place Plenty pa Fis Landreth :reShane was elected Resources. found beds of iron manganese, {and oll shale, built by the spires ea ts wai of res sti cwe : ¥ ve ars 180. } ably dry ate H. D of Although the raising of fruit is the principal resource Om whicn Gree River depends for fame and fortune other, oppertunities are not wanting. ar¢ town the ot miles few a w ithin 1, ttt McLain Gantiy Ok ater seen tas de ae aatot Lbe court house site. is reserved in the hope that the county seat of lands Sie there ° | signed shal iefarm wonine 1 aie ¥ He | thee y yw he ld Rivot a = ri eee whieh katlroad rea aid is the Presbyterian a for laid church, foundations the | DUldi: ng Duchesne ‘ in} iin y SS ay, ; changed River. ae hey discussed 7 long und | t¢ ees aah : ae vo ony tn) Che promoters finally real- | now, an it. will take thvre ; it, man, | complete live of a services the the selling of real estate, Village Wakes Up. BS ete proposition @lin:| This has are mouths the streams. There are no lz urge bodies or lana above that ever can take the| ETAT mal Henivareth ought hardrars aoe Everything wes then in launch the big boom, The; how and when to do the to of threna oa that ae fhe RaTABIAGd Three or four *mile For awh a neg 20 F- 1 pustatiice changed lo) seemed to put new life in him, Going | needed \fter considerable vity mn th ee aes Tt Sannin 1 ran, acl 5 2 Man plowh It alls Care down the river several miles he camp- } they found the qualities they want as " a ‘ rag = Mia , chad oa | h i ime sinee th land is cre\fter the narrow gauge was super-,€4 oul one entire winter, interested in|i9 the person of DM, Landreth of Se, t platted a ie aa gos ul that plow had. evertouched it eded by the broad gauge line, the di-| nething except the effort to build up| Palisade Col Mr. Landreth was an Menton ay RULE 2 ithe aa roe peal Che brows il elean and brown) Yision pointy moved to WV experienced hustler, a good IHG G 01 } Se a atl oa vt ie. ey cof hi , ce nd ert i" uu could pulverize jt) the bustling aetivicy of the gan Raising Beans land values, a business man from the lal : a mile Nee Br Ck t : 1 a 1 Snes hand T visa 566 anlment suddenly ceased The ; | ground up, and a believer in wdvertis- | htt ee in Oa Ea pect Us ee Bt, Of | NN of the a senor looked | these were Fou River, een strengths wmewhat pring th In wears for Up.iand. closed) Weal inate: i ict ' el fi u \ faid the owner, a°>Mr: White dezvous of tramps and the 3 ‘i he took up a Hittle ranch six > ; carefully, and be at an aver: oe ae ay $ an oe ie from Colorado have be pping plac of waflroad me £ note of the railroad on the intrin ie value Business and re a e a cs a were P meee ft ouldn I 5 oa and put | 40m is demonstrated by the fact that! erection of new coke ovens at Sunnyant every man of them has doubled his ide, Castle Gate and Seofield, making ae money two or three times over during} pecessary om hauling of more than nt the vear 1200 chrs of oal and eoke daily ove: themnorsonsOrsanel Merritt up oil to without friends and 5 and vicinity Ewing, Fred While discourageé right | spreading any t Merritc of Duluth Mir. linto the valley ooking itions, oH swed Coleman eael | declined ne ; ai ane valley partial invest lan hea had went Water It at present When the water; time a division for both freight and iS put on, the land owner must give;{ passenger turaflic will be established up $2 aun acre additional for the! It is rumored that a twelve-stal reundbe will sheds coal new ind house of irrigation privileg Coloradoans S Chi _ ; erected in the near future, Some new Daeaiea eee aan poe | section houses have been started and As illustrating the manner of manj about three and a half miles of sideLandreth is, and the nature of thej track have been completed o the | , ve "pres route' pe-| tween Salina and:Placerville, Colorade!| : gi Ont aint vallehah: Tie. called Green River ‘and th a oy , 3 ae1 tis Se ET )| price completion hem Merritt iw its value, and) above the town, at the site of the old| that last year the-schools had an avera native of Illinois, | vhen he went back to Duluth he in-|; dam built by the early settlers uwenty/#se attendance of about fifty pupil barn forty-two years | (¢ rested his brother and som« other | years ago. This dam has been enlarged |/ Last July a census showed 112 pupils rradueted from theimen and the raised $35,000 Cr reinforced Machinery has been| Of school age "out of a total populn- and unprofitable was t was Blake SAVE 2 " sontheles . "f of made aaa Pent the ard In October it ent hundred mark, and tod: y eee find any for snle t » an UCT ind this i pone CIE WoL Male) pearedin es ; OEE and Discouragements a more | forthcor ling able to|ments of thi seas nies weel secrec Many have|jn the for >; ss : ae re Finally, when all available data lBaant@acuradrcCoolc sat about en : ra ae Teepare ah [ts Tse the}itpe might to | In | aaa wt : : bs opp gad sa He the place and made oe cle : Ke var spe Nebraska,where " Some the) was built by! Thisa" wane City whi the n bore youne Mr. z ols ted however, it: toiling Mer bank He was a sieht! adath bank | was easy enough, as it was state land,| higher up is under construction and When ue new townsite was latd o1 lcler! ind: att : s time rose'-to ay and obtainable for $2 an acre.) about half completed This will pre-|Squares were reserved To! : cae coek | ositior fa ath \ : {Seven thousund acres were secured' yide for about 3,000 acres ;A. a high school, & Court house, sey zt ra ie Tor as ee ea . fat this price from the stat The next As to the quantity of water availeral churches, and a public library. So are ae ee e confine si Re at ae } ask was to get hold of the cultivated | apie it te ae Bee et the flo a only one Fe ee has take Pas ( iol agree with his hea {ia = = ver Opttons were! .e at : : ; neuf vantage of this offer of free land it a and 73 : 7 ne community began to ‘take notice} taken predict wonderful It-| ahead \ regular division:things point. for was}'1893, and . i = of TINPRECIAGH a bears | Bre an ception, J work, intentions | Pledged u spe bn tater rig "Seana ad i nationt‘c bec j -* sis |ton» his : lonPesthiiererc i : ties 4 ; ngineering ‘ara raye : When the Railroad Came. 188261} ; : the railroad came, and established | busy lt on, years ae at tee eee that rr rn ble government spy traveling The M: Wi 10 Siw. an " 5 Hive after the Colorado ---_-$-_-__- country 3 i id there BO | sendirastliix SOM... WErG TENG the' the as years before the railroad Es Ie he ‘has > ) a : api ; ati a cae na i ho a ;: : See Plowed little indif a } ig SKI ‘) ; nis ee has goo oo I lan 1 pa om In nae ho "1 ao ne a a iNage in- | ee seemed that too. Soon at Meeker, ere gradually nd M ay Télldw ON adie + " of ls nd ; ent fell due a nee bou ha Gri36,0 bari lesathe Aa disguise i. an umics were ivaneing through Utah.) *@ brought:to: irpath rhe little band of Frank Cook hasttl rot logether and con-|) Where he 4 a tockade for defense, and | ago He wa eight | sSlockade ca tay Hhige. wéeKs they: avere ; ge hte many the re ling, |) eve night the entire population as-| Plano High audd i sembled inthis fortifieation for safety. | Northwestern: But the Indians' did "not. ¢omé . He finished » 1D.) ought Pa GUC. VaLY-.-' "Clin ord;came-that place aed can See of the vorid troublous |} tamous. m to| to} long but about Ler acquired Shans from spear ind -_ of we ling aneedote of those times. ‘Ths de natal ort first familic st ibis hed |. s litthe ranehe along che Stee ti rf. the tream and raised their! soit i Or -thi bout to, ab IO the selling Halsted, fron to Green ees <R CIN " iz Cah $4,000 lieve to ju ths iuand wesup- to 2 1 his) 01 } Bo por th Colora: grew = than |ants a odav~ during | !™migran nt : intr Tidred, tht Lene beh pardwor a PEE "sees When you to prics ol L,000° for nl Around, Grand Junction the ne l OAc rather pOUE A m9 that the sell eame up from Richfield and. nd set ' G ree apy a on0 el i d on : os saxPy i " a revival 1 ersion. . ' : peopl ar nearly) rou times. : is tte emnriin Within ble DLO nd a con _ Valley ago Later, some of the me n community: jomed "a. band ‘of ho chad Ja' "pit h lb l vit j : . a : sarah pat ba en ne sian aoe ae mn oats - in OUNTRUINS (Near NoOaD ward, you are apt to p. especiall if your ide ef tand u ur i ideas of the middl ves {he seers or these extraordi prices the bel of the purchase that the lan red by tt es river at this parti point is th B 1 land fruit est The purchase! experienced fruit | out the eres at $90. an' acre be old it! ithin three months for $250 an aci nd it wa old later for $250 You couldn't buy it now 1 FOO: 4 Ler harks 1 Reece nah iu ootauiveh fs ROE cory : : 54 1> Tive past now : i scale an acre he than Gandreth) PIACG) nar] things in the history of th Land that sold last Januat et vhi thre about >-Shan Shi ee fer Not Boom ruary for $75 to $99 an acre mands fromm i ee ves ; sale has been ma t OU aus three changed his mind instead bought fis What he already had to : AAAS? of Sy j te th a ae th nul fall, better is-al 1 boom the Green enjoyedthat during the land has is on trees ne Macge,a trip back there he aw orehar ce pe thel Onee established, Gree River. will be a favor for tourists Recent Land + Vans trees ib Wr. in I lane Bebruaies agin: the months over his notes, crawing maps) and charts, analyzing the soil, measur-| ing the flow of the water The set-; hi noted if they valley, the in jtlers feomings and goings, paid no attention land apparently had no curiosity as to }the purpose of his movements rhe ;men whe worked on his ranch wer -_- = om eal experience in > ourNnt. ten acr ah "close Aaltchi in the t me ad cient cliff' dwellings an OP ee canyons whose precipitous clif ‘ overhead ‘Ike Seyi! . pe ee In: fact; the boat has follo a O°) stream more t} 1 100 mil f the south; past the junction of | Green nd this of nh a1 : in of noting the fall of the ground, and in |\fact, considering it from every stand| point S to its possibilitte fo) igesl tion For several year he continued pe thea LO UN L000. % here He came -buacl placid!) Green River and raised his pri cee bam OP EE LeTe \ ,buyer came lit and offered him $600 an acre cash. you eae d I ele mast sal quiet, d her th steamer nd fruit. t he ummeé) thrived <« 1 Inele tal Si) uf yorth staat ast) ' 1,0 | see a l thet ile steamer riding tractive feature of Some day, the | vi fdecbyeth seb tre tena kin CMArvKanse the on Ney r tna Mich I { ARiCy of*t been have Neatly | Cases Specifie Some t : { from ready, Du raw, ¢ d tat ne I met one man I H. Shar promi rathe han|[ who i oO flemly ihi convineed Po make 1i@ real-}th he refused anrotfer of $6,000 cash ; fact, been heard present it is in a j sa town of u n " lity ity the ACRORS ClPELIS FO] VLD ' and it was not long hefore ne realized other large "ad." in some of the agri-! costing $7,000 or $8,000.> The foundathat the great opportunt y of his life | cultural journals, } tions have been laid. Several' brick tad been placed in his path. The That was last January, less than al and cement stores have been efected, |gentle, easy slope of the valley from) year ago, but the results were imme-|and the business section, which. one | Une Pook cliffs dawn to the river.) aiate." At first the land was offered at} vear ago consisted of two stores, two fihe fine gual of the ret its aey 1h an'nere, and jt was' hard to get} saloons and the. postoffica, now -In‘and rilehness, the boundless Siow rid of that price, but in a fewrweeks/) cludesta blac Ksmith shép, an opera iwater in ‘the tream, made up a the price, was idvance and ninety! heuse, three stores, a luniber yard, na i bination too attractive to be overt day after the I atc yee URS ments | Orie store a bakery, five baareine ' by a practical inan wer printed there wa brisk selling! houses, a cement block factory, a at $45 and $50 an acre, for the same; hardware store, a flour and feed store, Before the close of the econ summer he wa fine 11 ut oOW with land which previously had dragged at; two buteher shops, a bank, an adaditransit and rod, cing the measure$15 Before the middle of the sum-/tionel saloon, two real estate offices, ; JDAILIIEF 2s hoe . BRIDGE aes = gypsum, cement which, obs, asphaltum, ¢ lav, shale need. Dae industfles. a BTL Bae ore and mild lt ts sald nee re Bee capita) The cliSear n= the sun rhe ras howedof > i : § :his: yy hen © Ww. i ‘ Trt le, tt veSee Pte idl Oo tb eee feet land faith on his} since. a ' ! th? proprietor, makes itwe s particularly _ugreeable for Chen he set of the hotel, pay S the ; | comconsumptives and others who can not 1 ; {stand high levels, the fo $5 of rental monthly a The | pany booming Mailroad comuse of the big two-story structur No rmention of Green River would insert a descripThe bank and the office of the Lowhbe complet without some mention at tiver valley in its); site company: are located in the hotel,|of the winter watermelons and eantato refer to the} w hile buildings are being put up: for loupes which are the peculiar boast ot account of aign : 1 Grand Valley of of Prospective t Landreth in-| in the papers on! Colorado, and an- ther ; _ | the people. T had an idea that a winThe bank was established inthe, ters' watermelon" wis Something tou with Prank Cook as its president Ce a aap ee a new building will be of conerete blocks (Continued on page Te ‘ight, ) |