The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-13
PRICES PROGRESS.
Proposed Extensions of Canals-A
Board Of Trade.

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Board of Trade.
Price Utah, July 12.-It is reported
that Sheriff Danant has sent in his
resignation in accordance with the re-
quest Of the commissioners. and several
! candidates are in the field for the Office.
! Some Of the names suggested are: Elk
| Sheriff H. G. Mathis, Of Price, and for
mer Sheriff L. S. Dickinson, now of
Salt Lake City.
/ 1t is hoped that no mistake viii be
made in the appointment of a good
man to fill this vacancy, for with q
| good sheriff to enforce the law Carbon
county will again be a place where cap
ital can be invested with safety and
settlers can be induced to come in and
locate.
There. is a movement on foot to or
ganize a board of trade or a bureau
of information, so that the advanta ses,
opportunities, etc, of this valley may
be advertised and the inducements put
before the homeseekers. a movement
Of this kind should be encouraged by
the citizens of Price.
Don c. Robbins and other parties of
Salt Lake City, with Robert McKune
of Colorado Springs, have bought and
secured options on some of the best
property in Price and I am informed
will furnish capital for the extension
and completion of the Spring Glenn
and Hill Canals, if the present owners
wish to dispose of q controlling interest
in the capital stock of these canal COM
panies. By extending these canals sew
eral thousand acres Of good govern
ment land could be entered. subject to
the homestead and desert land law. I
am Informed if these canals are eX-
tended this summer and fall Robert
McKune will locate % families from
Colorado here this fall. And w. z.
Hubbard, of Salt Lake. will also locate
several families from Kansas.
c. L. Maxwell of Brooks. who run
bluff on the Provo officers that went
out there with a warrant for his arrest
for stealing cattle from Preston Nut
ter and George c. Whitmore, is evil
IDENTIFY not very much afraid of Car
bon county and Provo officers. as he
has been seen in Price recently.
GEN. OTIS FORCED MARCH
General Otis, commanding officer OF
the department Of the Colorado left
Price at 4:30 a. m. Thursday. arriving
at Fort Duchesne, 80 miles, at 9 p. m.
the same day. making the trip in less
than Il hours. Three relays of four
mules each were used in this flying
overland journey. Returning. General
Otis left Fort Duchesne al Has p. m,
Saturday. and left on the night train
Tor Salt Lake City, for the inspection of
Fort Douglas.
Emery county commissioners and
County Prosecuting Attorney Howard |
left here for Green River station Fri
day. where they have gone for the pur-
pose of letting a contract jointly with |
the Rio Grande Western railway Deo-
pie for the construction of a bridge over |
Green river near the railroad bridge. |
and for the surveying OF wagon roads |
in that vicinity. a good bridge across
the river there will pc a great conven- |
fence for sheep and cattlemen OF east |
ern Utah. as well as for the farmers
of Grand and Emery counties.
Wyatt Bryan, government freight ]
contractor, and the popular manager of
the Bryan Mercantile company OF Price.
forwarded to Fort Duchesne his first
load Of freight under the new contract
Saturday.