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Show Ashley Valley This section comprises the valleys of the Ashley and Brush creek and the Jensen-Alhandra section of the (Ireen River valley, together with the adjacent mountainous areas, and un-irrlgated un-irrlgated lands. Ashley valley was llrst settled by white men during Fremont's early explorations at the west, and was named for one of the early white explorers. It was first settled near old Ashley Ash-ley by Cnpt. P. Dodds, in the early 70'9, soon followed by other pioneers who Hettled along the Ashley creek, the largest Influx of settlers occurring occur-ring about 1S79. The soli of this section varies from a light sandy loam to u heavy clay well adapted to the production of alfalfa, cereals, vegetables and all kinds of fruits grown in this latitude. lat-itude. Vernal Is the renter of a very extensive live stock industry, consisting con-sisting principally of sheep, cattle and horses. The care exercised in the selection and breeding of live stock is very noticeable; the Cotswold and Ram-houlette Ram-houlette sheep, t lie Jersey. Durham and Hereford cattle and the l'erche-ron l'erche-ron and other leading breeds oi j horses present many of the finest specimens to be found anywhere. The excellent summer ranges In the rintah mountains, the fine winter win-ter ranges in the foot hills and benches, and the facilities for winter feeding afforded by the valleys combine com-bine to make this an ideal section for stork growing. As agriculture becomes more intensive, in-tensive, the wonderful posslbilltlee of the soil of the i-ection become more apparent. Wheat, oats, barley, rye, alfalfa and vegetables of all kinds grow tc perfection; the yield is heavy and the quality unexcelled. While the" lack of transportation has prevented the growing of fruit on a commercial scale, the many line private orchards have demonstrated demon-strated the possibilities of this section sec-tion as a fruit-raising district; all kinds of fruits common to the temperate tem-perate zone thrive here and produce lavishly of the finest colored and llavored fruit grown anywhere, while eertaln localities nrodure peaches of excellent size, color and flavor. The hills to the north and north-j west are . a my""""" triifir-vfiy "t1 dlately to the west contain large deposits of asphaltum, which has been extensively used In paving sidewalks side-walks in Vernal. The rintah mountains moun-tains contain extensive deposits of topper, lead, gold, silver and limited quantities of vanadium and uranium. The Ashley valley proper is watered water-ed by the Ashley Upper, the Ashley Central, the Uock Point and Steln-aker Steln-aker ditches. The valley of Ilrush ereek is comparatively narrow until near Its mouth, so that a number of private ditches are used to Irrigate. tho farms In this section. The Burns Bench and Upper Burn9 Bench canals Irrigate an etxensive tract lying on the south side of Brush creek and west sid of Green river, using water from Brush creek..; Kxteuslve reservoir systems have been planned for the Ashley valley. The Vernal Canal anti Irrigation com-j pony Isjnow building r high line i canal toVater several thousand acres j of laud. A reservoir Is to be constructed con-structed in the Uintah mountains. Vernal. County seal of Uintah county, was founded in 1SS2, and has grown steadily ever since, until it ,s now a metropolitan little city of 1,200 Inhabitants, elevation 5,330 eet, and is the most important commercial com-mercial center In northeastern Utah. United Slates land office located here. The city has water works, electric lights, telephone and telegraph, daily into mail service with Watson, the terminus of the Uintah railroad, and Helper, on the D. & It. G.; many excellent ex-cellent public buildings and private pri-vate residences, and will one day have a $50,000 Federal building to house the United States land oflice. post-office post-office and office of supervisor Ashley Ash-ley National forest. Rural delivery outes radiate from Vernal postoffice. streets and sidewalks paved with asphaltum. Educational center. Uintah Academy, Willcox Academy, jublic schools. Public library. L- j D. S., Episcopal and Congregational i .hurdies. Handsome court house. Orpheus hall. Uintah gymnasium. Population tributary to Vernal. 10.000. A list of business industries indus-tries : Two banks, five general merchandise stores, one hardware nore, three hotels, two bakeries, one reamcry, four restaurants, two jewelry jew-elry stores, one bottling works, one newspaper, one brickyard, one shoe ?hop. two harness shops, two drug itores, one undertaking establishment, establish-ment, two planing mills, onel ivery stable, three meat markets, two millinery mil-linery stores, one music store, two parages, three lodging houses, three Macksmlth shops, one express office, -ne tailor shop, local lodges I. O. O. F. and W. of W., one photograph gallery, two flour mills, dose to city: three Implement and vehicle dealers, one clothing store, two barber shops. ! one tin shop, one bath house, archi-j tccts. brick masons, painters, plasterers. plas-terers. rOji,sat dealers, inwur- I'-vtA? ffucldfa, iV.vycrs, skating rink, picture show, confestlonery, lumber yard, laundry. The Vernal Commercial Commer-cial club, with eighty members. Is the most successful organization of Its kind In the state. Other Towns and Postoffices. The other towns in this district are: Jen-'sen, Jen-'sen, on the Green river, fourteen J miles southeast of Vernal, at which ! point the state and county construcl-jed construcl-jed a substantial steel bridge; Naples, four miles southeast of Vernal, on I road to Jensen and Alhandra; Maeser, three miles northwest of Vernal. I |