| Show alpha A ballinger of price given unstinted praise alpha ballinger lawyer merchant and nd enterprising citizen of price i is a elf if made man he undertook the job at 12 year years af aee age ind has b succeeded uc admirably in youth he selected the law as his profession and entered the office office of colonel D W felshow of ogden emitted dmit ted to the bar bir in 1883 af utter ter studying for two year years and practiced until 1892 coming to whak what was then emery county he was elected prosecuting attorney for two year years and resigned Sep september timber 0 1892 entering the mercantile business busineau and in which he be is now engaged being ono of a firm of three men who constitute the arite trading company it waa was mr ballinger who more than any other man conceived the idea of the creation of carbon county and which was cut off from emery in 1894 in this work he spent at one time alone itty sixty days in salt lake like city and when the bill was finally passed it was left to him to bestow the name he chose chone upon carbon so christened by him by reason of the carboniferous nature of abo th territory in 1891 2 he drafted and presented to the county court the petition which resulted in the establishment of the town of price another thing which few men would have undertaken wae wac put through by mr ballinger and the whitmore brothers and that was wa the building of sixty miles of telephone from price through the county of emery conne connecting eting every town and settlement with tin the railroad on the north mr ballinger has been a life lone long republican republic in and at the present time stands close to the administration ile was county chairman and an active worker for bears er going to edn the subject of thi this sketch resided irs aided at springville Spring ville and in later years married mis miss ella sanford daughter of P F T sauford sanford of this city mr ballinger cannot be classed as a rich man though rank ranks as about the fourth largest taxpayer tax payer in the count county he hai has given away more than many bo so called rich men ure worth salt lak lake herald june 24 1899 commenting on the above laudatory sketch the eastern utah ad a few days later said salt lake herald of last lait saturday publishes a biographical sketch and the picture of mr alpha ballin gerof of this city the engraving wag was made from a photograph taken sea se eral years ago and while it is not much like the ballenger of today is easily recognized the article is of about five hundred words word and sand recite the principal events in his 11 life fe and the achievements of the subject of the sketch since ho lie first located in carbon county the half has never neier been told however for it would take tako volumes to recite his good qualities and traits of character when the advocate attempts to alf ballinger it will get out a spall edition about four times its present size |
