The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-10
EMERY COUNTY NEWS.
Transfer of Telephone Line Between
Ferron and Price.


Ferron and Price.
Price Feb. 9.-Whitmore Bros. &
Ballinger have sold the telephone line
running from Price to Ferron. dis
lance of forty-five miles, to Levi n.
Harmon, A. E. Wall. Oliver ]. Harmon
and Albert Bryner. All four are iden-
titled with three mercantile houses at
Price. Huntington and Castle Dale, and
the purchase is more for their OWE ac-
commOdation for the chain of stores
than as a revenue getter. though the
line caters to commercial business. A
new schedule of prices and lower
scale of rates is said to be cOntem-
plated
Sam Bernstein, a popular merchant
of Castle Dale, was married at Salt
Lake City yesterday to Miss Esther
Appleman. at the home of the brides
parents. 40 South State street. 1t is
understood the groom and his bride are
to go to NJ eur. where he Will engage
in a merca lie venture.
The people of Emery county. in meet
ing with the board of county commits
sioners, have decided TO ask the state
legislature for an appropriation of 3d.
500 for road and bridge work il that
county. If granted, the money viii be
used to connect the towns of Emery
county with Sunnyside, where the ped
dlers get a market for everything
raised, and which constitutes a consid-
cradle portion of the ready money in
circulation over there.
At the priesthood meeting Of the
Emery stake held at Huntington a few
days ago the principal subject up for
discussion was the one in relation TO
the habit of members of the church of
this stake frequenting and drinking in
saloons. The practice, of course, was
condemned, and it is believed if mem
bers heed not the warning some of
them are TO be made examples of
All four flour mills in Emery county
are now running full time and have
considerable business ahead. For the
first time in number of years at this
season there is being no flour or mill
products shipped into that section of
eastern Utah. Some. however, is going
toward Vernal, the country over there
being pretty well drained of its surplus
farm products of all kinds
There are but a few cases of small
pox at Ferron and Castle Dale. How
ever, a strict quarantine is still en-
forced and no mail is coming out of
Ferron, while the schools are closed
and meetings and gatherings of people
OF all kinds strictly prohibited. Price
has two or three cases of smallpox and
as many of diphtheria. while there are
said TO be ten cases of smallpox at
Cotton
There are now eighty-two students
enrolled at the Emery Stake academy
at Castle Dale. and but two of these
come from Carbon county. the balance
from Emery. So far the academy has
not suffered from the smallpox, though
it exists in the town-four or five cases.
Over 200 oil location notices were
filed with the clerk and recorder of
Emery county during the month of
January, and perhaps half this num-
Der in Carbon county. There is but
very little desirable land in either
county now open to location
Several surveyors working for the
government on an irrigation ditch from
Colorado to and through Grand county
have arrived in the vicinity of Green
River. where they are making tempo
rary headquarters for the present.
District court convened here today.
The calendar is small and it is likely
the cases win be disposed of within the
week, when Judge Johnson will go over
to Castle Dale to try a few small cases
there.
George w. Mccall has purchased
half-interest in the Mint saloon here
with Matt Warner
1T w H-sCdIey Was mere. yesterday,
professionally, TO attend a case or two
of scarlet fever, returning to Castle
Gate in the evening DR.. Cook is look
ing after the practice Of DR.. Fisk dur
ing the absence Of the latter in In
diana
Horticulturists say the cold weather
of the past few days viii not effect the
early fruit hereabouts.
There is more snow in the hills at
Water will be plentiful the present
year.
1t is understood Judge Morse is likely
to appoint c. W. Snow of salt Lake
City water commissioner for this c0un-
ty pending the settlement of rights
along Price river this year.