Show GREEN RIVER Dr UTAH Ail A TOWN IN T TIE THE M MAKING u 11 t t J f r Y i r f. f a t 4 a r f I IQ 1 c i r Y 1 1 i is lf s al Q I I c i RED YD 1 r r. r fry fry- t f SIXTY Y Ol Sll I f t. t 1 t I t tt t J J Jr l II 1 4 I A A- A i ti f I l t fr 1 a d R AD JD L R A 6 YEP O err I m m mrm F 1 rm I a h r a ZE L J d E h OL EE E RJ HIVEn Utah Dec Dee 2 22 G Down Do toward the Colorado Colorado- Utah line at ut the point where the Rio Ulo Grande Western I I railroad cios cro crosses es the Green Gren river r on abig a abig arC big big- rC trestle there is growing up a community that is going to be heard from one ono o of th those these tays It has Intact in- in fact tact been heen heard from already alread but hut at nt present nt It Is In a raw crude tate tata and it Jt Is a town of or promise e rather thana than u a town to of fie reality To Io male make tho reality reality real real- ity ily out nut of or tile orthe the promise IK Is tho the business of the people down own that wa way The first impression of the casual a I visitor Ilor lor the visitor who is not seeking a place to prow grow dollars on peach trees and who doesn't know Inow rich loam from fire lire clay Is the remarkable natural beauty blaut of of the Gr Green en River fil valley valle Rimmed on Its Hs northern side by the Hook Book CHITs Cliffs which rise sheer from the th- valley to their th flat Ilat tops th the l land md slopes b by gentle and md easy degrees down to the river rl To ro the west rises the SIlent Silent Si Silent Si- Si lent the City CIt City the Sari San Rafael range range- range who whose e ragged e peaks pens form an almost startling likeness to an ancient deserted deserted de de- le- le city Seen in the golden light o of the setting sun stun the vision islon is most impressive s Far to th the southeast t rise rl the snots now cap caps of the La I-a Sal Ral moun moun- The river J Itself a quiet placid pl stream tream at nt this point decked hero I e and there thero with rowboats and ond with the tho lit little Ill Ill- tie tle riding at anchor Is ts an at attractive attractive at- at feature of or the picture Some Some- S mo- mo moda da day the settlers tell you ou this steamer will make mak regular trips down downto to the iho Colorado pa past t the ruins of ancient an- an clont cliff dwellings d and through the canyons canons wh who we e precipitous cliffs tow tower r overhead O like S scylla c lla and Char In f fact ct the boat has followed the stream more than mil miles s to th the tho south 1 past the tho junction of or the Iho Green and the tho Grand but Its trips so o far tar have been irregular In Once their permanency permanency per per- has been heen established Green River nl will be a Ins fn favorite onto stopping slopping place for tourists Recent Bomil The land Loom boons that the Green River nl valley valle ha has enjoyed during that tha past year renT is one of oC the most remarkable things in the history of or the tho arl arld lan Land that sold Id la last t January and andI Feb February ob- ob for or 75 i to o 90 O an nn acre now commands commands com com- mands mans from rom 00 to OO an n acre One sale Salo has bus been heen ma made at nt GOO but hut this was old land that had been under th the tho e ditch for or man many years ar When you find absolutely raw law lan land untouched b by y unless few Cew patches s plow t unimproved Cd a 0 of sagebrush can enn be he called Improvement Improve Improve- Improvement ment selling at 00 an acre and ond upward upward up up- ward you ou are arc apt to gasp especially ir If your Id ideas ail of land land values arc th the e ideas fi of ot the middle West est r h The Ic secret of ot those these e extraordinary I prices is the belief e lIe of the Iho purchasers that hat the Jan land watered by hy the Green I river r at this particular point paint is tho the finest fin On- finest est elt fruit land In the Suites States The purchasers ers are aIe for the tho most part palt experienced fruit men mn from the Grand valley of or Colorado and th they ar are arc ae- ae loj rices o of 1000 to In 1500 nn an acre aero for or laud land Around Palisade I or Grand Giand Junction the man who owns own a fl ten len peach orchard orchal hr ha haa s sa a n. sure suro income of or from flom to GOnOa GOnO a a year The These men Uc hr Given River r valley will do just jul ns well or better hetter and the they thc a are 1 basing thc their lr In Investment int in- in this belief heller t yo- yo vestment on un t Moreover I 7 tilt the matter has lias received certain d demonstration mon For twelve years there hat has not been a a. failure of thu tho fruit crop rop at Green River and anal after scientific Ien I- I pruning en tine manner are me unknown sotto some very fine apples fles r u lS l'S s hav been I raised I ft few t- t attempts that have hav peen ben made mn to I a 10 fruit it scientifically ha have be been n Highly SUC successful N It la Is claimed that the tho p peaches 11 hero here h fUll fully two weeks sooner than tho those c c df the he Grand 9 which gives them command best bet markets t Sonic Specific Ca I II I met on ono one man here W. W II Shano Shane who is so firmly convinced of ot this that he refused reused offer of or cash cosh for ton acres of land set not out in young peach and amI apple trees tree Mr 11 Sh ne came from rom Palisade e last February having had four years years' experience In fruit raising lie Ile bou bought ht ten acres under the gravity ditch ch close clop to the 11 river elver 1 and in April be lH set l out jut ut n nearly arly LOGO 1000 fruit trees on his Jr un l. l lIe He watered the trees three times during th the t summer r. r and they all grew and thrived except pt about twenty or so Mr Shane raised about worth of or tomatoes watermelons etc elc among these little ll trees 5 In the thc fall he put tile the tract on the market at GOO an acre nero About this lime he made a n trip back to Palisade lle and there he saw Raw orchards no older or better than his own selling at al over 1000 an acre He tic came bud buck to I Green Creen River and rals raised his Ills price to 00 an n acre A buyer A-buyer buyer dame came alon along and rind offered bim hie t o an tn n acre cash cah buthe but Lut buthe he hc changed his mind about s selling and instead bought live acres to ad add to what he already aheady nh ul had acquired II Not far from flom Shane's place D D. 1 1 I Landreth a year ear ago bought eight acres at 90 an un acre lie He sold It Il within three months for rOI 50 60 an nn acre an and It was sold uld later for 01 you couldn't buy Imy It now to for I an acre Charles E E. Farrer Ferrer had an option on twenty acres at 50 0 an nn aero acre Half Hal of or this ho bought but he lie let lot the option J 1 expire on the other ten acres and I within throe three weeks eks they were sold to Mr 1 F El lett a the banker r. r for 01 4 00 an acre I heard heard- of a a. young oung fellow named I Starry Harry from rota Nebraska who came camo to Green River nl in the spring with about He got work inthe Inthe in inthe I the cement block lo l factory and anti got ot a teal ical cs estate man n to Invest his r 00 for him hen making the fil first t payment on n a apiece piece of ot Jn laud land 1 Before the lie second payment payment pay pay- ment fell duo due he sold the tho land laud at an nn advance anco hou bought ht another tract sold that and now he has 2600 GOO besides his original capital nil capital all in about nine months lie He still gUll holds his jo job in the facto factory hint J Time lime me Three or four miles from town I ran across a n man plowing It was vas tho the first time since that thai was WMS r ore ore- r N that a r pIO had ul-ev ul ever tt touched Jl ii It The brown soil was clean said and brown bronn an and gritty and you could pulverize c it easily in your YOUl hand I 1 paid 50 an acre acte for tor eleven en acres here last lost Feb Fob said eald the owner owne r a a. Mr 11 Whitesides White White- sides l from flom Colorado I l r 11 have bt been n offered 00 nn un at acre Ie for It it but I wouldn't nt for fot 50 ThORO are arc samples of or dozens o 01 such flUch stories you can call hear heal n from om the recent settlers River The Tho at nt Green Creen I old residents resi resi- dents tentH who sold out their ranches a 0 ye year 1 or m so 50 ago ninny many of th them m aru allI buyIng buy buy- In Ing ba back cI at nt hi higher 8 her Pi prices price ices Though Green River HI has 1115 but hut recently tO re- re recently sprung into prominence It Isby Is ts isby by ll lr means a n. n new lIeW to town The fee first firs t settlers carne came unc lucre nearly thirty years rs ago and In lit years gono gone by ly the tho place I was of or um some som Consequence con a as A 4 railroad d division point rh The rite resent present lt r. r F i I a 1 T 1 1 I 4 I L or W I r I I J i 1 I I II i I 4 I I r F b. b I I 01 I I I i I I LOOK FC Y TOUN d Ol GE FEh z- z L In the valley Is a a. revival ha I rather rathel than thana a a. conversion It was about 1879 1870 that the fi first t people pOOI came up lip from Richfield and Salina lUna and settled settle on the Green river J J. J T T. Farr Farrer er who J keeps a a. storo store in tho the town today was one of these earl early Immigrants and can cnn tell many an Interesting in interesting In- In I anecdote of those times The rite four tour or t five vC first families established their little ranches along 1 iho ho w west st bank of oc th iho sit cant and raised their children and their crops serenely oblivious ob ob- livious of or the world that seemed sotar so eo tar far far fal away But nut there thelo were some troublous tines times too Soon after the famous mo at Meeker Colorado Colora o word came that the Utes and wore Vor advancing through Utah on oty the warpath Th The JJ little band hand of settlers hastily got sot together and cot con constructed a stockade for 01 defense nse and every night hight the tho th entire population assembled assembled as ns- In this fortification for far safety safet But nut the tle Indians did not come near and gradually the scare subsided i ed The stockade stockade- was torn lorn down many years yea ago Lat Later r same somo of the mon men of or thu the community jotted joined n a a band hand of rangers rang who had a pitched I battle with tho the Indians and renegades over in the tho LaSal LaSal La Lu Sal mountains near Moab Noah Mr Ir Farrel Far- Far 1 rel er was wa-l ono one of or these and still bears bear bearson on nn hl his han hand tho the Seal scar s made by an nn Indian In Indian In- In dian an bullet buliN When 11 11 the thu Railroad Came In ln 1883 the tho railroad came and the little community began to take notice and nail predict wonderful things for or It it- it self A regular division point Wase was vas e established and it was only a few years before heror a fine fino hotel was built by bythe bythe the tile railroad company compan These wore won busy days das in Blake Blako City which was tho name the town then bore lore It was wasso wasso so set named after a young Mr rr Blake BIake who had the pony POll express route roulo nc- nc tween Salina and an Colorado allu The railroad station how however cr was call called Green Given River Hi and the townspeople townspeople towns town people in order to save confusion had the name oC of the changed to corre correspond After the narrow gauge was sup super super- superseded r- r soiled b by the bl broad nl gauge line tho di division U- U vision point was moved mO to Helper H anthe an and the bustling hustling activity r of the little settle settle- settlement ment suddenly C ceased The hotel was clu closed clowd d up and for rOI years was the tho r. r rendezvous rendezvous ren ren- n- n of or tramps and the occasional slopping place of or railroad 1 The town tow fell rell Into 1110 a n long long- sic hardly baldly disturbed t by the roar of th the tho swift passenger pas pas- PUB lK- lK Hengel trains as they i rushed ll through at forty miles hour cut un with on only 1 a U disdainful of tho the whistle tJ to In toan an announce an- an then their There There as ivas nR a little break in the thc monotony monotony mon men fifteen years ears ago O when Col Cui C C. C D D. Moore and C a l party rt of surveyors arrived ar- ar rived Rut alii made Green River the start starl ing point for a tt survey of a n railroad lino line for or the Iho Burlington to Southern California lt This s was in the days of ot ho tho persecution and Co Col Munro o had hada hadJ a J hoard hard time thou to convince the inhabit Inhabit- ants of the tho country countr that his Intentions I were amicable The They suspected that ho was a government gO nt spy P traveling In disguise Tho Ille Man an ho 1 Saw With this Hits exception however the village slept on on and It might have slept for Cor years ars longer cI but for the thc acci nce- accidental dental presence of one onu man who saw v the possibilities of the place nn and made It his life tiCe work worl to develop Us its re re- sources This man was Frank Cook and there is not In Utah today a more Interesting example of a n. man able to conceive a a. large Jarge Idea to work it out ou In patient nl detail cm and to hang hang- on ill hi spit spile of all discouragements emms until it H was brought ht to completion ol Frank Cook is a native o of Illinois where he ho was horn born two forty two Olt years eal ago ogo He lie was graduated from the Piano Plano High school chool and then wont went w nt lo to Northwestern te In university at 1 Evans E ton Ho to finished 1 In 1885 1385 a n course coarse in civil engineering an and then went to Hampton Hamp ton tOil Nebraska where he got a job Ina in ina a 0 hank bank n I. I II lie Ile was 19 a right t good bank n k clerk un and after a time rose to the position of assistant cashier But Bui the Rise confinement of Indoor work Voll did lid not ant agree with his health and lung trouble developed lo He lie fought It ofT oIT for Cor awhile but lut hemorrhages began hegan be her gan gait and anti he ho went wont to In Colorado to find a abettor bettor belter climate Ho He worked at his profession pro pro- profession e and got interested In mining Some silver sll claims near Irwin lr were taken laken up and ami riches began to loom ahead Then canto camo the hard times of or 1893 when sliver silver went event w nt down to an nn unprofitable price and tho the mining claims were worthless Weary ealY and sick and dL disgusted Cook started out for tor the West est on foot Coot an and leading lending n a pack horse sleeping In tho ho hoopen open cv every no night an and without aim or destination Following the tho railroad hue lino from Grand Grund Junction h he came at last to the Green river and tarried a aI few fety I days The lower altitude suited him and tho the long days of sunshine seamed R to put now life In him Going I 7 down the rivet river several miles mlle he crimped crimp mp camp led ed out ono one entire entin winter Interested d in nothing except the ff to build up n new w hill lungs I o. o Ill nt ui mi I In Iii the spring I somewhat strengthened strength strength- ened he tool look up a little ranch sl six i I miles north of or th the railroad on Iho tho west bank of nf the iho river and mill diverted cn enough ugh water to lo supply all require require- requirements ments lie Ile built hullt a little tittle log house which still t stands hut but for fOI the most part he II slept out of or doors door using only I Ithe the tho shelter of a u. little tnt tent when the I w r W was WI I stormy nty 11 Ho lIe sol set out nUL fruit I trees and vegetables on his hll ranch and to lo make mal maln a n living from what I- I ho lie raised ml etl Means Beans were welp his pet rient antI and ho netted 00 OO an aero acre from Crom the tho rule rale of or navy and lima beans Leans His place became known throughout the valley as us Cooks While |