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Show tTiniiy THE Vi COALVILLE. UTAH. F KM DAY'. OCTOBER 20. XVIII. VOL. The Coalville Eopl Happy PAGES ii)u 1 r TO S NO. -D of Opportunities City and Contacted in Secion Wbsre Contagion Cull LLE INDUSTRIAL AND EDU NATIONAL EDITION SECTION QNE Of I District Court News Are Practically Unknown. A SUMMIT FAIR IB short session of court waa held, here last Moday. Judge C. W. Mom presiding, af which the following tnam-ncs- s was transacted: In the matter of the estate of Loom Richard Bugpt, 'deceased, final dintrifc-ution- , funtjpped. In the matter of the estate of Job Tick, deceased, continued In the matter of the estate of Juk. J. Woods, deceased, return of sale cum SUCCE88 BIO Tribune Representative Finds Prosper- ity and Gives Citisens ; (By A. K tbs Credit. Kenner.) If the civilization of firmed. Ida May Carlson was granted a final decree of divorce from (leorge MC Oarlson. W. V. Armstrong vs. A. R Weelrr. motion for new trial denied. LAW AND MOTION. Burk tlty vs. Henry Shields, motiuci to dismiss continued on court's motion. Yancj Allen vs. Evelvn Allen, ti lined. I ear I Adams vs. K. W. McDonald el ill., set aside default and ease set fus Nov. 21. Martin Kelley v. Beree R. BenUm. people their advancement in attainments a material r me as being which strikes proposition j(n self evident at. to amount to a truism then in all parts of I tah we bae a rising tide of civilized condition whose iood is not far off. This is plainly manifest to all who visited growing towns within the commercial radius of the state some years ago and have not been among them sinee until quite vseurable jral ami ys-ren- 1 v th. & The growth is not generally s0 marked in griat or numerous strictures aa in the additions to and improvement ef those previous existing, and in the adoption of those adjunets oi advanced life which science has unfolded to and Qr continued. O Maniple has piessed upon growing com unities the telephone, paved side assumed that the sorel phase be until the raee ia it generated, whisk, la the Aiafr going Jo language (u js&je la thie part ef Utah, whieh ha m far commanded hot places, a eoatmercial club, Ohe of the a great deal of the finest court houses and stake taberna- even Utah a attention, are eeme evidences of growth and develop-- , meat as well as natural attractions ' whieh entitld it to considerably more ; than a passing mention. Fran ef Contagions. Coslvihc, the county seat of Summit caunty, ie begin with, is one of the most healthful places in the world. l Contagions, I am told, are almost JLVaown. Even when elsewhere the pe; V have been racked with malignant hing disorders, the destroying angel kept away from here. Once small bv some uutiuul means, obtained introduction here, but was stamped so suddenly and effectlvelv that fjrenred as quickly as it came, of the hundred other camps m Utah The altitude is about 5,600 feet on an average, just enough to help the people in the respect mentioned and in others. Everybody has an appetite for thiee square meals a day. and can occasion ally taka a nibble between times, and - sales mentally er faysieally beeet with trouble, can sleep from bedtime till the bell rings for breakfast without a this being the rule iu summer as 'ak, a-as wfnter. j wall The atmosphere is always deilghtful, the water delicious, and the apirita of the people most generally in that effer veecent condition which can not be gained by artificial means. Town Splendidly Lighted. Coalville has more metropolitan fea4 .tarei tbanwny town of ita size I know ef. The streets and most of the bouses are electrically lighted, it has over four miles of paved sidewalks and eross-- ' walks, one of the former sas for a distance of a mile; there are a dozen or more fine business houses, two commodious hotels and a restaui rant, an opera house and lyceum thea tsr, several other halls and gathering vorid y er . i oa A o. et al., denim rer overrub-d- L Jennie Bugtntre vs. William 'q mire, order to show cause continued!. Eaaie Bradley vs. Frank Bradley. continued. J. C. Stewart va. Walter KilfoyW ' v continued, BET POE TBUU NOV. j.. w.k Tama! Tifj ITIE fcye View of CoIn!!e Bird f V fam-cos- after all But eonsidei that it is in a town ot not to exceed 1,000 people, with proli ably 2on taxpayers, and then do your sizing up ot what has been done, and is doing;' that makes it all look like just what it is a plaee where progress and public spirit have taken deep root, where people think something of their town and are disposed to put forth every effoit within their ability to make its commodious and happy homes still better ami more attractive, its public utilities more numerous and serviceable. The Tain lii't elnlil bom in t'oalville ilde . ' V '' If ! hm.-M' . ' ' t ,'XA - V. ' t V(rrry, Was j Jo-da- b COURT HOUSE The Pride of Summit County membered. r- w -- y- . . " dee. I" a ft Vas a Thu Prat 1 r 1. of Utah Ta.red J-' - i. la 1838 the site of tbs present town son. The State of Utah va. Fperee 0. of Kamos was occupied as grating doa. ground by Thomas Rhoades, and was . The State of Utah va. Ellea Burlia The 8tate of Utah va. Albert WiBim. then known as Rhoades Valley. Two Thomas Gibboas va Bobt, N. TTiiW. year later a fow families settled there and in 1862 a ward was organized with jury trial. Asa Bethers vs. Daly West Misiqg; William G. Rnssell a presiding elder. Tb oettlers lived in a fort until Co.; jury trial, Alfred Hewiff vs. Duly Judge Mim1870, when a survey was made and they ing Co. moved out to their" lota. R. M. Bell Tel. to., vs. Samuel Mflefc-elToday Kamaa ia a thriving town of 600 inhabitants, with unlimited natural Ilvrum H. Homer vs Silver facilities, many of whieh nre waiting Mines f'u. (nalition Near for the capitalist to develop. Ily rum S. Unmer vs Daly Wi Kamaa is one of the largest iron dc Co. posits iu this country, with a grmlr of ing Ilvrum S Homer vs. Daly West iron not equaled in the 1nited Sthte. The property ia uow in the ronrts and ing torp( a I. Hvriim S. Homer vs Duly Jud, , as soon a the matter is settled a mine gravity.' In 1881 the Echo and Park City of great proportions will lie opened Hi.. ' Nick Tassaine branch was constructed, doing away Our informant tells us that there is a whole mountain of iron ore and the ing Co. with the old narrow gauge line. John same can be mined a the euper i pi non Mine o. BOCXPOBT. Bingham, with steam shovels. Charles Bigley vs. was road state a Bock-porsurveyed Recently in baek I860, , Away August, Co. then called Enoch City, was set- from Salt Lake through Kamaa and on Joseph Hartle vs lhtly West Mi'uissfr , to the reservation, whieh will connect tled by Henry Reynolds, Edmund Co. Vernal. road the to with John Hortin and Henry Beamons, Henry Shields vs. Evelyn Allen. The people hero have great faith thHt all of whom came from Omaha, "Neb., Baull Bros, k Wilson vs. John Km-- al build will Moffat railroad the through tkere lived built log house and daring et bery to is from it this bs fifty valley, the following winter. forty Fred Johnson vs l)ly West MtIn the spring of 1861 Jesse W. p0x miles shorter than any other route ind t'o. railis counts ia what ing that nowadays surveyed the land and water ditch and laid out a townmte, calling the name roading. theerfulness is a tonir, The pnneipal industries nre farming, Enoch City. Henry Reynolds was the cattle jaising, lumber and hay. The lat a beauty potion, a re juveuotbr mmM i first presiding officer. ter is considered the best raised m the Several settlers arrived during transfiguring agent for all the t run b few spring and summer of 1861, but.fok state. of humanity Habitual eheerfuluess am a beauti The ward meeting house is tne first thrfie years no wheat was a step removed from habituailbzqpes but and bruk of strut ture built ful nicely raised that W6id make good bread, at . ex pincss.. aud to be habitually they were noBfrce from frost even one furnished. Our school facilities are eelletl and the building is built of menus to get the best out of lrfli' Tender vegetable week in the year matter what hapcns, to Hurmuuut zra were also s failure; potatoes no larger brick Xw The bishojirie is composed of Merritt bles in the easiest manner, and than a hickory nut were raised for sevI ami encounrge all with whoi-w- ' an William aud N. Patk. helji 1rp time bishop, eral years About this the Inenures in i outact Wm. B Rnssell. e m!iy4lor dians were very troublesome. Then came the Black Hawk war, OOOOOOOOOOOWO SHCKH9OOHJCHKHKKH'K:KKJ0OKKe0OO0GJ OCHS J causing the setTters to move to Aftyr the Indian trouble had somewhat abated, the settlers ioved i back and built a rock wall, or fort, around one quarter of an acre of ground from which the name Bockport originated. Your correspondent moved hia bouse and family to Baaship, traveling to and from his farm, carrying gun for proteifioa and drill, protecting team and otherwise doing militia dutyf I luring the Indian trouble Ed-'- l win Bryant acted as bishop. Three yeara later your correspondent moved hack to Rodkport. When the stake was organized in 1877, John M. Malin was rhosen bihop of the Ward, at which tune the. organization of Belief. Society, Y. M. and Y. L. Bocietjpg were In 1872 a Rt6fiice was completed. established, with Henry Seartions a postmaster At the d Malin, Mr. Seamons a op of the ward, and at tion of the stake Ja present bishop, WI ebh. t'oal being very scarce at this time, the territory offered a prize of $1,000 to the person first discovering coal within TO miles of Salt Lake. This prize being captured bv John Spriggs, who (list discovered coal here in the fall of Sot. Thus this citv ricelved the name it so proudly bears, t'oiilville. The first irrigation ditch was built in l'Mi. Jamb Huffman brought the first and its educational and general advan threshing machine here in 1861. Leontagea equal to the best. 'To put the ard Randall built the first sawmill on matter in a few words, Coalville is t'halk Creek in theame year In 1862 Rhead established a about as metropolitan a little town as pottery. hourt state run ot. any The first meeting and school bouse Successful County Fair. was built iu i860, W. H. Smith, Mr. The remit v fair, just concluded here, had its principal support and push from the town, though other nearby lie fruit. uch a, peuehe. These are cut oil entirely by reason of the more places contributed quite liberally. The exhibits were in every ease equal, rigorous climate resultant upon the eleon the average, to Minilar displays any- vation; but in the way of apples of all where. the onlv omission being in re kindN, pears, pluuia. prunes and no on. a high standard of excellence has been gard to some ot the finer and more gained and maintained. No livestock exhibitionanywhere, with numbers taken into consideration, could outrank the Summit county show ' r-- ' very much if at all, and many of these will be seen at the state fair. One feature of the sheep exhibit is, I believe, without a parallel; it is a ewe with quadruplets four lambs born nt the same time, in June last, all healthy and strong" and now nearly as big as their nfofher. Bishop Cannon of Bar ley s Bark hns a little Jersey 'bull which the sotik adjudicators pronounced a jierfeet animal and is valued at filjOOO, though not for sale at any price. Instances of this kind might be largely added if space were available for the but with the re ports-o- f purpose; the day and what is herein contained, u good idea should be had of the fair which was largely attended and splendidly maintained throughout. -- The premium list' shows a total "of nearly Iuo awards. The Tribunes enterprise and liberality in having a representative on the ground is appreciated a ad will be re fire. - 7! V' V Early History of Coalville - being-eontinu- Gtj cles both of eul stone in the state, a well patronized and able newspaper, and last and least two saloons whose hoohxhooooooooiooooooooooioooogoooooooucI span of existence cuds with the week In 185. the first settlers arrived ia Dixon and Mr. Spragna being the tri and will uot be renewed, the town and teachers. county having gone dry by a derided t'oalville, then called Chalk Creed setThe first eouaty judge sailed fra majority in the eleetion of lat June. tlement, among them being Edmund t Vanes. John The foundation of what is to lie one Kees and family, William Wilde and There still stands on the east side f of the largest and best appointed school family, Henry Browne Wilde and Main street a small buildiag whli houses in f'tah is completed, and the William 11. Smith and family, claims the distinction of being ta taimlv, work of erection is lieing pushed as occupied by tke first store, hoLf fast as men and means can do it. This John Spriggs and family, James Lewis place and ia this yity, its propria poatoffice t when finished and furnished, will have!"1'! family, Leonard Phillips and tor being Mr. Walton, better known in the neighborhood ot ily and SI. M. t'shoon and family. the Coldwater Doctor." The fir This i. not the whole torv bv anv The first marriage ceremony perform mayor of Coalville was W. W. (,'luff.4 means, anil it .1! were told doubtless The first railroad was built fret m 1859. the contracting parties there would be those who till would ed was Echo to the mines in 1873, being a ate fell to appreciate as it living John Staley and Karab Wilde, row the care were drawn to tks gauge, the solemnized being by much marriage stands, and say it mine by mules and brought down ky H. Uilde. ' ' 30 Mining and diflusion. walks, water control commercial clubs, health regulations, at eness and adornment, and so on, - t L r' t, Hor-tin- , kaf-psp- Wan-shipT- i ' HEN EAM0N8. 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