| Show v G A 1 v U I I i L If that t man who mB makes kes t two vo wo blades of grass grow gro i where but ork grew Ic before may be he called a It benefactor 11 1 what shall be he said Id of or the man who makes thousands tho o oI oJ of I hu bushels hels of grain and thousands of or barrels of fruit grow grou V tI t. t I where where absolutely absolute nothing nothing- edible or nutritive grew grew ecI ever vf 1 from the Ute beginning of or time f. f t And that Is what the tho Utah Irrl Irrigation company and V the people nen n io arc are doing down nea near r Price t The train started an lour hour Into lato from Salt Sail Lake Lako last Monday onda morning and carried tJ the e officers o of the company com corn pan pany with their friends to the number of a n. dozen or so and and thc they stopped slopped at Soldier Summit for foe four long hours I while a wrecking wrecking- crew was taking taking- taking front from the rails one o of off the most perfect railroad wrecks s I havo o seen In forty fort years ars of travel traI Two great engines and three c cars rs were tangled and twisted and torn in a shock shocking In confusion the was destroyed for tor a hun hundred rell yards thousands thousand of dollars of or had been absolutely destroyed destroyed- cd anti and yet set et not a life was lost One of or the tho firemen said it II art cm easy wreck The was They were approaching tho sum- sum j mit with a bf big overland o passenger train train when the wet Wit c earth rth permitted the track to slip at a a curve and the little headway of the train behind the engines just gent sent gently h. h ly crowded crowded the monster Iron flon horses and sonic some of or their chariots into chariots Into a sort of buckle and toppled them carefully careful careful- l ly over on their sides The men had U tine time timeto no to Jump and th they must have ha done It t. t For a n lone lono tramp on a blind ba baggage gaC contributed a b broken Ies leg as the only Item of oC per personal o injuries GAT GALA A EVE EVENT T FOR FOn PRICE 3 V- V 1 Down D wn at Price the people lm Had como come In from miles 4 J around ro d' d da a and and d ever every vc prepa preparation ha had Le been n made mado d for big Lis 4 doings when lien ot the great irrigation company cam a to t lo i 2 T was was' aS to b u ass mc alb ton t town wn n hall han with speeches and later there was s to be a u banquet In the thc assembly room of oC tho the school hou rouse house e and then dancing In the same town hall cleared hall cleared of oC it its s Ie benches hes and nd chairs till chairs till the dancers were willing to quit But the wreck changed all that The Thc reception of tho the visitors at al the train was accomplished and the the brass band of Price greeted th the belated train with mu mu- mua sic There were the prominent citizens and anil the air all of cordial greeting Anil And a little later there was the meetInG meeting meeting meet meet- ing In fn the town hall But the provender for tho the banquet banquet ban ban- started from Salt SaIt Lake Lako h by that same train which brought the guests had had not been transferred around abound the wreck at al Soldier Summit and the tho good women of oC Price were forced to tn make provision from their own re re- sour sources es I wish I could tell you OU how perfectly the they answered the sudden demand made mado upon them them the the bread brea an and butter butler they supplied th the strawberries and the cake I the tho stimulating coffee and the pretty sago roso lilies laid f at the the side of each plate fl j ELOQUENCE CE IN 10 THE ADDRESSES I There Ther was something Impressive in mo most t. t of pC the t speeches speeches especially especially those of or tho the men who reside 1 in n Price They told of their early struggles In that region of or their faith In Carbon county of their early irrigating Irrigating- fi Jl ditches hes of the operations of coal companies that now not have hac a cash payroll of a a. hun hundred red and fifty thousand t dollars each ach month of or the importance of or Carbon to lo the rest of the state state and and their modest pride in the share they have ha In the making An And then Ihen the officials of the company compan and their a attorneys told of or the big irrigation atlon scheme started and a assured of Its completion by hy the Utah Utah Irrigation company compan I. I There was such a hearty E seconding of the officers b by the people of or Price so fine an exultation in their final rec recognition of a new and a bigger day for fOt their town I. I and county cont and a tardy sense of c compensation for althey all al they and and their loved ones had given gi I In the development r l of that region c I H r In n the thc course of oC the tho tho visit I found a n. goo good 1 d dear deal a tor to r remember pleasantly of or of Price That school chool house one of the best in the state is a testimony to the tho character of the people Along the tho wide halls were pictures pictures copies of famous paintings And nd ever every accessory was wasa as a proof of equipment for the work worl of or education Two of the teachers t were speakers at al the tho meeting and nd they s seemed earnest and efficient men And the children who sang and a the women omen who played played not not not to speak of the i orchestra which provided the major portions of oC the music mu mu- sic all all testified testified to the cultivation of oC the people of oC Price I Along the streets fone one sees so man many comfortable and pretty houses There There Isn't as much paving In tho the town tow n riot ns' there will bd In It a year year re r or two when th the busl bust bustnes ne ness nes g of fruit selling gets getsI I well under wa way But there ar c telephones an and electric lights and the many man little ac ac- ac ces which declare anc ad advancement ment I 1 didn't ask asli any 60 one to what chu church Ch he belonged Th The question didn't seem relevant They were doln loin will well the work vork that camo to their Imn hands s on r this earth aln and I bet the they are doing ve well very In their progress t to 0 th the tho next CAMP CA IP GROUND D FOR FOR IRRIGATORS Price doesn't seem just to io have ha ma made e up its mind min 1 I o i what whal form and outline it shall take and there is n. n a bi big g triangle triangle- of or plaza In the centre centro of th tho e town where e fr freighters and anel movers mo mal make camp romp at night night- Tl The e towns town s t to the and tho the south f from jm to Emery Emory r make this their distributing point and md tho hi big wa wagons wagon ons S of or tho the freighters are found there In In the triangle T. r wr little fires looked ed Interesting through the tho night and the themen th e e I men I talked bIked with there In the morning were more Interesting in In- In n still Ono One of or them was as squatting before a little flame nn and frying somo some eggs esS'S II in fn a thin Iron skillet lie Ire IM tossed d and turned th them m with the tho skill 1 of a u master maste r and then laid them across a hi hl big II of or ha bacon con that had hall boon been prepared and waiting Halting Bet nel you yon cant can't guess where I got eggs eggs said heI he her herI I J looked 11 shout about thinking maybe he hall had invaded Invade henhouse I gave e It Il up and waited walled I bought hought em said saki d he he and and grinned Wont yo you oU have havo breakfast nl With mt me lie Ile hind had been heen fr freighting for foi sixteen years mostly In I If Utah And he lie comes Cr from n my mr Indiana country Half Hulf a dozen wagons of movers hail had h boon bien pulled into a little group that looked 1 Interesting and awl I made mad old to ask one ono of or tho the men where he hc was going II Ito tho the possibly important Information that I it It wasn't any of m my business which business 9 which was true In a awn way wn And I gave him good-bye good In the consciousness that lint h ho he hadn't been tong long enough In Price to catch catch tho the prevalent com courtesy tesy I I MAKINGS KT OF A FEAST DI rAYED DELAYED rA At Al the the tho depot th the tho ice Ico cream and and sandwiches nm an 1 berries fr from m Salt La Lake leo arrived at dawn rather dawn rather too lat lal e for the banquet t of the thc evening before a before a sort of or mournful mournful mourn ful CuI reminder of or the sacrifice tho the dol delay 1 had hall cost the menI men the theand n and women of or tho the place men place men and und women who hall had t to o I teed feed two yo hundred IH people and were har hardly J prepared t to todo todo o I do It It since their purchased supplies filled failed to come Over 01 bo beyond the t wn lies Hes a I. I valley of or some twenty Y thousand acres every e foot of or It fertile ferUle and covered wIth will 1 tho Iho S sagebrush eh ush and the cactus that insure power of or pro pro- when the water Is added And down clown below It It through the of the hills Is another narrowing gates sates o valley val al alle le Icy ley even bigger Up In tho mountains more than thousand nd feet feel above o sea level le is a reservoir which when supplied with a a dam will conserve water from seven sc Jiff r ont streams streams that now send semI their riches down to the Pi Price ice I river and sa so on to tho the Gulf Quit of or California Years ago agn agoa agna a company started the construction of or that dam but hul tho promoters Jacl lacked cd h the he experience needed for successful successful success success- ful ul work and abandoned their thell project The present comp company ny succeeds to the work already done clone and t tho 10 Mammoth reservoir will now he be completed Tho The dam clam will vill be bo three hundred feet feel long Jong and a hundred feet high with an equal width at fit tho the base nil ind back bael of oC It fill wll be a bo body of or water three miles In extent and more than han a mile wide It Is capable o of or re redeeming nc nearly arl sixty thousand acres of or this land land which through the centuries has been boon waiting for and vater water and pledging the promise of or the l Ial Maker er to repay with wealth GOOD PLACE FOR FOn I INVESTORS Unless the Judgment of oC the best besl trained men In the Vest Nest goes Gocs wrong this will bo be an nn orchard count country with in un a n few years The sou soli is tho soma samo as unit that a which ha na nas made mado rich men by the hundred at Palisade The mar market ket is s sure SUIe and the demand not likely to be he o while w hile an any of oC us l is live There should bo loo apples a ant and peaches of the cr very finest for Cor the place Is Js located o othe orthe on or n the southern ranges of the mountains where tho the genial gents warl warmth th of or the sun can can reach reach It t and swiftly mature tin the e fruit Cruit fruit The soil is there ther and the water will be bo there whet when n the dam and the ditches arc are completed It all means a good deal to Price In the tho two years year ears s probably to bo be occupied In building this will be th the e headquarters of or th the workmen an and It will add hundreds hundred s to the population of pf o Carbon county's tj capital It will wit I mean the l bringing t pC of df much money lOncy to tho the merchants I In n W irl o oi l i H ln labor r ho Will depart OJ at I lP the file completion ri jW vc v iU M comI completion of or the work wont there will come mc man mans many hundreds of or the very r best hest citizens fruit growers ant and 1 shippers who will evill make their homes hero In n the pleasant pleasant pleas ant places There will be he plenty of pavement in the later days la s plenty plent of or big his houses and the evidences of or wealth ant and amI 1 a bounding abounding prosperity But there will not bo be bona n better class or o people even cen then than there hero was that night o of t trial rial when a sparse population received two hundred I g guests guest and entertained them in spite of oC the failure o of oC f refreshments to arrive arrhe II I II I want to he lie Ie there there when the canal Is' Is finished I w want ant to hear the speeches of or these same men who talked talker 1 that thal Monday onda night I want to see the women who proved pro 1 themselves equal to any ny honest demand In entertain I ment mf And I want to watch the newer town as it enters the era of or its assured prosperity You shall find small farmers then who are m malting making I much money from the modest purchases they ventured In these earlier da days las s. s You shall find the work of or reclaiming deserts gathers strength th as the days clays go b by And AntI you shall shaH find Carbon county count a a destination of or tourists n a refuge for summer a depot for or supplies and a a. community of Utah people who havo have won success b because causo they havo have deserved it L. 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