The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-12-16
THE UTAH BUDGET

posits of rock salt, which finds a good
and steady market.
Two miles of the grade is finished
on the Castle Valley road that will
open up the Huntington coal fields in
Emery county.
According to the tree inspectors re-
port there are nearly, 100000 fruit
trees in Emery county, ranging in age
from one to FIVE years.
Emery county's first coal mining
camp Is now being established at
Cedar Creek at a point twelve miles
northwest of Huntington.
W. s. Jacobson and j. b. Fisk
have been arrested In Salt Lake City,
charged with having committed ser
les OF daring hold-ups during the past
two months.
The grain yield of Sewer county of
the past season is estimated at about
100000 bushels. In addition to the
other crops, Sewer valley annually
produces tens of thousands of tons of
alfalfa.
The governor has appointed Mrs.
board of trustees of the Utah commits
sion for the adult blind, to take the
place of Mrs. Josephine Morris
Rowan
The area devoted to sugar beets in
Sewer county the past season was
1,400 acres, which yielded $4,000 tons
The price received was 81. so per ton,
i,,c a - Cot u,
beet-raisers.
During fight between Austrians
and Americans at Bingham, Frank
Mills, William Newton and James
Driscoll, Americans. were all more or
less seriously stabbed. Two of the
foreigners are under arrest.
T. r. Davis, scion of wealthy New
York family, was picked up by the
police of Ogden few days ago. suf-
fering from alcoholism and giving
evidence of deranged mind. The
police have notified his parents in
New York.
John A. Findley, farmer residing
at Layton. while driving across the
Union Pacific railroad tracks at Uin-
tab, was struck by a freight train.
Findley was thrown into a snow drift
and escaped without injury, but his
horses were killed.
The little town of Middleton, in Og-
den valley. is threatened with an epi-
demic of scarlet fever, according to
reports received by the county health
officers. Several cases are reported,
and the whole town is said to be ex-
posed to the disease.
Spring City has shipped more hay
% the outside markets this fall than
ever before. Practically all that was
for sale hos been sold. and only
awaits being bailed for shipment. The
price of alfalfa is near the $11 mark,
with timothy at $3.50.
Walter Wood, aged 20, was killed
at Bingham while trying to couple
his engine to freight car. 1t is not
known how the accident occurred, un-
less the unfortunate mans foot
slipped, he being caught between the
draw-heads and crushed.
The Oasis Land & Irrigation com.
pany, which has the disposal of a.
1888 acres Of land in Millard county,
has sold about 10000 acres, although
water is available for only a part of
the land. Dams and canals are being
built at a cost of 1894 600
AS Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson
of Mayfield were returning from the
theatre at Manti one evening last
week they came nearly losing their
lives in runaway. They were both |
thown from the Sleigh but fortun.
ately not seriously injured
Sewer county has $4,000 acres of |
land under cultivation. and which has
an average value of $75 per acre Ten
thousand additional acres of choice
land will be brought under cultivation
as soon as the reservoirs now under
construction are completed.
The irrigation system of Emery
county consists of ten incorporated
companies owning a few small reser.
voirs and 1913 miles of main canal, the
water being obtained from Green,
Price and San Rafael rivers and the
Cottonwood, Huntington, Ferron and
Muddy creeks.
Work on the new Taylorsville ward
house, which will cost $4,000, is be.
ing pushed steadily forward, 1t is the
intention of the contractors to have
the place ready for occupancy by the
latter part of January One of the
features of the new church will be the
amusement hall and gymnasium.
BY the payment of S9,5OO the Union
Pacific Railroad company has effected
"A settlement at Ogden of the $4,000
verdict obtained against the company
several months ago by NJ. N. Wolff,
the county treasurer at Evanston,
Wyo. Wolff, while walking in the
yards. was run down and had both
legs cut off.
Bryant Thomas, the young man
who escaped from the county iail at