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Show WHY DAGGET COUNTY CUfOFF I'ormcr Trip dim of Tliousmiil .Mile lo County Svut. I'crhnv neirly over) body lu henpl the alory of the nbsentmlndeil man who went nrouml Ilia block to go to hi next door neighbor house. Thero la a rtor bImiiiI rondltlou once iter-tnlnlng iter-tnlnlng to Ulntnh county nnd nil n eoclated roundnlxiul Journey, nnd It fits, except that the long dolour wn compulMir) nnd was Inkeii deliberately end not nhscntmludedly. Incident to the story I tho creation of the new I county of Daggett out of tho extreme northern part of Ulntnh, the division having been brouglrt. nlxiul by the condition hereinafter described. Tho town of Manila hna been made the county seat cf Daggett, while Vernal remain the county sent of Uintah. I'lfty .Mile llMiuand. A the crow film from Manila to Vernal he wing hi aerial way fifty mile. Hut Just nfter leaving Manila for the eolith ho lift himself over n rry high range of mountain, which 1 1 strewn with great boulders, unit where throo nro not In evident o n thick nnd nn almost Imepenelrnblo growth of timber Imr the wuy by road, Thero wero time In euch twelve month when Mallla, then In , Uintah county, wit abut out from icomparntlvoly direct nccea to Vernal, Ihe county sent. In thl vontlngctic) thero wero two other route open to lrael htwen, Manila and Vernal. One wna north lo Orren Ittvrr, Wyo. thence to Cheyenne, Ornnd Junction, .Colo, nnd thence oxer thn Ulntnh rail-!wa rail-!wa 'nnd stage lino to Vernal, An-lolher An-lolher nnd optional route wna lo go west to Ogdru, take thn Denver nnd jltlu (Irnndn train, pasa through Halt .I-ak. Provo nnd Hprlngvllle on tho way to Muck. Colo.. 11 ml there tnko 'the Ulntnh railway nnd stage line for Vernal. Or, either of theso routed might be taken to Price nud tho ill-lonce ill-lonce from lwre to Vernal staged or made by private convuyance. New County Created.. Ily either of the three optional roundnlHiut routr-t It wna nearly one thousand mile between Manila and Vernal. Ho r clllren or Manila desiring desir-ing to go to hl old county sent, nud taking one route going nnd the other route returning, would see, a considerable consider-able part of the United Rtntei, especially especi-ally or the llocky Mountain country, In n Journey which ho could cover In fifty mile by nlrr'ne. Ami so It cumo u.Kiut thnt state official of-ficial have created Oaggett county, according to Harden llennlnn. secretary secre-tary or stale, the les than rive hundred hun-dred rltliena or that political ub-dlvl-sloii, who cost fewer than ono hundred nte nt nny election, consenting to n-sume n-sume tho responsibility nnd expense of county government to obvlato a thousand mile Journey lo their county seat. The politico! stump apeaker who would be Inclined to eatnlilUh iv re-uord re-uord for rapidity In rovernlg county would undoubtedly select Daggett for hi. Bo would the honk ngent who would send favorable report to headquarter head-quarter In nil but the number of wilHwrlptlniHi and roaultant cash received. |