The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-02
EMERY COUNTY.
Interesting Facts and Occurrences
at Ornngevi1le.

To the Editor of The Herald:
Recognizing your paper as a very
satisfactory representation of the ter
ritory of Utah, 1 desire to express
through it's columns few facts that
the district of country from which /
write is entitled to have recognized
and recorded, and of which many of the
people of the territory are not aware
This particular district is Orangeville,
Emery county, forming part OF the
section of country known as Castle
Valley Some few years ago, before
our resources and advantages were
known in part, a person writing from
this locality doubtless would have pre-
ferred to leave out the name castle
Valley" it having some humble sig
nificance and being alluded to at times
with a degree of sarcasm; but
that time has passed never 10
return again. We have grown Out Oh
such reproach and above its stigma.
Since the year of 1878, from which
the history of our town begins-a snort
period of fifteen years, we have inn
proved from the humble excavation
of mother earth to happy, comfortable
and beautiful homes. From popula-
ton of tens we number hundreds
From school held in a log cabin With
about ten pupils, we pass into one OF
modern construction having between
200 and 300 pupils between the ages of
is and Is years.
Instead of going to distant quarters
to purchase our merchandise, or pay
ing two or three prices for the same,
we have three prosperous mercantile
companies in our town, also a drug
store and millinery shop, carrying any
and all supplies necessary for use, at
prices as low as in the metropolis.
Our land now under cultivation is
measured by sections and miles, and
this is not more than one-fourth of
the good tillable soil laying dormant
all around us.
Scarcity of water is to us unknown.
the surplus will cover as much again
land as is now irrigated.
Is this not an opportunity to many
seeking homes and desiring to get
something around them that they can
''call their own?" Why should you
ask, what kind of land is this of which
you speak? Certainly it would be
absurd to say it is all the very best
land in the country; but those who are
sufficiently acquainted with it to be
competent judges will bear me out in
the assertion-that most of it is and
land in the territory.
The immense crops of vegetables of
all descriptions, fruits. hay and cereals
every year harvested from the land
that is under cultivation, show at once
its fertility and serve as the best pos
sible proof of the producing quality of
the soil.
Let me now invite your attention
from our wide stretching farms to our
p mil tod
ing a distance of a few hours drive
from our town, we may look upon
ledge after ledge Of this decayed vege-
tatlon standing out in bold relief Fol-
low on up through the main canyon
through which our creek Called Cot
tonwood Creek flows on either side
you lind the coal still inexhaustible
Turn off up one, of the canyons coming
into the main canyon from either the
right or the left, and you still find
a continuation of these unlimited coal
fields. One of these lodges about six
miles from town, now being worked
is twenty-five feet through and its
width is from the mouth of the can
yon to it's head.
You doubtless will feel to renarl,
fuel. then, must be out of the question
with you. Indeed, compared with most
OF localities where coal must be bought
at So or 81 a ton, it is a great advant-
age, And besides this supply of coal,
wood, too, is very plentiful, so that in
about six hours one man with a
team can go and get a good load of
either pine or cedar.
These things readers, are not fakes.
are not hearsays, fancies or illusions.
They are facts true and candid, which
when investigated, need no confirma-
ton.
We are not booming, but we are
growing with a. good solid footing
under every step. We want settlers,
we own, but we do not want them to
speculate on or take in" We want
them to build up the country and de-
yelop its resources; we want them to
foster enterprise and educa ton and
division of labor, which is bound to be
beneficial and which a large commun-
ity. If interested in the right direction.
has the power to do
So much for this time You will hear
from US again. We have some more
facts to tell you yet and a few PROMO
sitions to make. Respectfully.
a RESIDENT OF ORANGEVILLE.