Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

good ice plant. cement block factory
| Two large lumber yards two brick
| yards, several small hotels and apart
| ment houses, a fine bank building, and
| churches and schools The district Is
! contemplating the erection of a large
| High school building this winter Tho
| population OF the place is now about
| 1.5o0.'
EEES AND POULTRY.
There are other Industries in this re-
| Gion besides the raising OF fruit. For
instance. three carloads OF honey were
shipped from the county this season.
PouitrY Is especially profitable. free
from pests. 1t being fed upon residue OF
orchards, melon and garden crops. High
prices OF meat and eggs make the IN
dustry valuable offset to grocery bills
AS it takes about three years for n
fruit orchard to bring any returns. the
prospective settler may be curious to
khoW what are the means of livelihood
in the meantime. The answer is easy:
BY growing melons, vegetables and
raising poultry. Green River canta-
loupeS bring highest prices paid in
eastern markets and are used exclusive
~ by the d. r. C. dining car and eating
house service, being recognized in all
market centers as tho best quality pro-
duced anywhere. From 100 to 200 crates
per acre is the yield. Potatoes also are
nowhere produced at greater net profit
and In better quality and quantity than
in this valley. Full crops can be grown
conveniently between orchard rows
without injury to trees. Notwlthstand-
ing the alluring profits from above
crops. the enormous earnings Of the
fruit industry 80 vastly exceed general
farming that exclusive attention Is CIV
en- to orchardlng as soon as trees COM
mence to bear.
DIVERSIONS.
One would think a new country to be
devoid of amusement and diversion,
but antelopes. deer. bear. wolves, foxes.
coyotes are found, especially in the near
by mountains. Close at hand are rab
bits. duck, geese. quail and doves.
A number of gasoline and steam
launches travel southwark from Green
River through the most beautiful scenic
canyon in tho world, to the ancient
homes of the Clir dwellers. and to the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
In tho city arc Masonic, Modern
Woodmen, and knights of Pythias
lodges. all in a thriving condition. Be
ing on the main line of the Denver &
Rio Grande. Green River also receives
some of the best smaller theatrtoals in
the country.
There are now in Green River five
general stores. two drug stores. two
barber shops. one blacksmith shop, two
hotels, boarding houses, butcher shop.
livery stable, cobbler, hardware store,
lumber yard. bakery, newspaper, arti-
fetal Ice plant. telephone system, feed
store, cement block factory. jeweler. u
state bank. franchise granted for an
electric plant, opera house, finest depot
between Grand Junction and Salt Lake
Already parties are considering the
construction of fine hotel as people
arc fiockng to the city with the inten-
ton of buying lands or homes.
A bridge Is about to be built over the
river at the city by the two counties in
tcreSted Emery and Grand. The Mid
land Bridge company of Kansas City
has been awarded the contract for S26-
195
This wondrous country Is a veritablc
oasis a stretch OF fertility midst a
broad eXpanSe of geologic grandurc.
The region about 1t partakes largely of
The characteristics of that marvellous
country just below, the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado.
At one time over this whole region
-csted a series of lakes connected by
narrow straits as our lakes are in the
Great lakes region
In trip up one of the rivers of this
region one comes upon great towers.
cliffs. rocks and banks each havir$
part and even at times all of the fol-
lowing marvellous succession of strata
and variety of color; red sandstone:
7ellow and white sandStones; yarie-
sated red. yellow, and blush marls
,andstones and clays. blush and black
beds brownish red sand
tone: soft greenish argilIaceous
hales green sandstone shales, mass
We sandstoneS in pinkiSll white and
'ellow kray layers with interlaminat-
ID greeniSh shaleS; series of soft varie-
,ated beds, yellow, reddish and black;
ray sandstone. Greenish gray sand
tone: red shales passing up into
,reen; red and greenish gray shales
ounded at the top; massive coarse
-raincd yellow sandstone With angu-
ar fractures breaking into large
quare blocks, greenish arGillaceous
nd sandy saales red and yellow
andy gypSiferous beds; micaceous
andstones and shales, fossiliferous, ,.r
obtaining fragments Of bones. red
nd yellow mottled massive sandstone
gathering into rounded masses. yell
1w sandstones with bones imbedded
nd Greenish gray sandstones. lamiat-
d, some of the layers having mud
marks on the surfaces.
What a wonderouS region this isl
Whether for farmer, fruit raiser, coal
inner or scientist. IT IS novel, surpriS-
lG. The mayor, TaoS Turner, and
he council consisting OF George Salt
aver. E. !. Cook and J. NJ. French
ill all willingly direct the inquirer .
,ward further information on this
lorious land of opportunity.
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