The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-04
POINTS FROM PRICE.
The FlOurishing Town ON the
D. & b. G. w.
MR. WILLIAMS ENTERPRISE.
The Project OF a Re Road to the
Uintah Reservation Sow Under
Serious Consideration.

The many resources for development
which are amply taken advantage of by
the industrious inhabitants of Price
seem to create news which perhaps
viii be interesting for other people to
follow up.
First ION the list" may be mentioned
the erection of a large building opposite
the D. & R. G. R. r. depot, by our
worthy friend and enterprising mer-
chant David ]. Williams, in which he
intends to establish a wholesale as we'll
as retail mercantile business. The cree
ton of this building was decided on
only few weeks ago, but it
did not take David J. nor his superin
tendent, B. F. Cummings. Jr., very long
to determine on the spot. wherein
| to build, nor did it take those gentlemen
long to get men employed to comm ence
operations. The following morning
several teams, with scrapers, com
menced excayating for the basement.
land also as many hands as coulu con-
veniently work. Hardly was this COM
pleted, before our boss mason, w. II.
| Branch, met with his host of men, and
the rock work for the large basement
went mp as by magic; while the mason
work was going on, carpenters were
| busy framing timber for the building
and before the last rock was laid
in the foundation, the carpen-
tiers had taken possession of the
ground. and commenced placing
! the ti,Lber in its place, and the
! framework also went up in business
like manner, Now the workmen are
engaged in putting on the roof, and ii
is certainly amusing as well as intereS'-
ing to notice, at an early hour in the
morning, the twenty-five carpenters
mount the scaffolds, headed by the
master mechanic, S. Cox, and not less
interesting during the daytime to listen
to the sound of the many hammers,
which loudly echo from the surround
/ ing hills. The inside work, as also the
! fine, attractive front, is progressing
! favoTably with the rest, and shortly our
artist, Samuel Cox. with his men
will be there, to give the
building the finishing touches in
! the shape of ornamental painting
and when all is completed this stTUc-
! ture will be a credit to this or any other
place, and certainly viii have great
attraction from strangers who pass b.
on the trains. No doubt, it must create
wonder in the ni1ds of a travelling
public, coming from east and west
of here through those romantic
mountains, with their lofty peaks
and narrow canyons, with their many
/ curves, in short, the finest mountain
scenery IL the world, and then. after
beholding all this, suddenly roll into
Price, with Its many improvements by
the station.
We will now ask the reader TO fol- ow rs
about half a mile east of the station,
where we arrive at the town of Price,
with its many dwellings, and some Of
them of modern architecture, and con
sidering it is only one year and hall
since the townsite was laid OFF, the IN
dustry and labor performed by the
people speaks highly for their enter
prise.
We. rejoice in the constita
tional promise, which guarantees u
protection to life, liberty and thc
pursuit OF happiness. Peace prevails IL
our midst. We need no lawyer tn
settle our difficulties before courts: Tor
we are careful not to create diffirnt.y
with each other We have no Nan,ier-
cook or any other cook, VINO atten.a
to commit lewd and laSciviouS C,Ii-
duct among us. Even if he
men here are not quite rs handsome -
Eli the handsome. still the wives h..n'r
and respect those husbands with whom
they have made covenants.
We find through the newspapers n
prosecution and persecution exist r.r:.
great extent In parts of some of tls'
dicial districts, bat still our COWS here. l
Price give about the same amOui4. -!
milk, our chickens lay about the spun.
number of eggs, and everything mave'
about as usual, and the PEOPLE f1ou'i i
and are happy.
Another grand project IS in contev"
plRtion .here-namtly, the making ui
new road from Price 10 the Uintali Re-
servatiun, and our enterprising frietti.
+. f. Cummings, Jun, with his long
seeing eye to business, has lately been
giving this enterprise his personal az
iention If the gentleman 5 proposition
is accepted, it certainly will be of great
benefit 10 this community. Mr.. j. I.
has been west for week or more in the
interest OF the matter. Z. ii.
PRICE. Utah. Dec g 1885.