The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-13

ing to waste carried away four of the very
best and newest bridges IN the county fne f6e cnSns
of the county will vote bond proposition 10 'o %
$4,000 replace this loss in bridges alone noo lha
part Of which was appropriated by the last state leg
i?atuTc on the construction Of & 9TdEc &c rcn
that the water courses Of Cast valley nossess great
worth millions of dollars to manufacturers, farmers
and others.
MINERAL AND OIL IN PLENTY.
There is gold and silver. copper and lead in the
hills and mountains of Emery county; Pitchblendc
and other metals have also been found heTei as
well as fair grade of thograph stone Building
Of lime S ao aGG soo eay 0 for 0RG 1
range, which is dotted here and there with sawmils
and strata of shale. Farmers obtain the very best
lubricant in the world by skmming oil springs aud
their mowers and binders in the harvest season,
FINE SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
District sehoolo9ses that IN appearance comGafo re
huntington, Castle Dale, Emery. orangeXe, Green
Castle Dale the beautiful county scat the H. d. s.
church is now completing $4,000 academy, winch
after The holidays AT Ferron the Presbyterian church
has started to buiId an academy, having already a
There is. not a community in Emery county that
is not thrifty and prosperous and pressing tor|HLd a
oldtimer he Of the everlasting faith is stepping high
coming into. its own. Ii is destined to become
one Of the wcalthiest counties in the state Remember
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FIRST COAL MINING CAMP.
Emery county's first coal mining camp is now be-
ing established at Cedar Creek at point twelve
Coal COMPANY hesded by james " II Mays Of
Salt Lake City and James G, Beryman, a multi-ml
up on this properly is over thirty feet thick and
this IS now being taken the first btuminGus coal ever
completed from Price TO Miller Creek, distance of
the latter point 10 Cedar Creek distance Of six miles
The grading Of this extension is now about completed
that the first train from Miller Creek to Cedar creek
will be running not later than the latter part Of Feb
IIiawatha. Boarding houses and residences be-
ing built and the company has nearly everything in
its into the camp IT is the intention of the Utah
Southern company to extend its line of railroad fron
Hiawatha 10 Huntington summer. and perhaps
the line will be to Castle Dale before next fall,
the latter point being ten miles south of Huntington
SECOND coLLIERY OPENED
. Another large coal camp is to be Immediately estab-
sngd ne near the town Of Emery BY the San Rafael
lately incorporated with capitalization of $0000 900
dispatch. The company owns large tract of patented
coal land near the town Of Emery and has also pur
under their farms and pasture lands, giving it one
OF the greatest coal acreages owned by any in
Unless the Utah Southern or the the DGytl Denver Rio
Grande build railroad down through Castle valley
10 Emery, the San Rafael Fuel company will build
line OF It's to some connecting point the Denver
that the Denver Rio Grande extends its line to the
Emery coal fields 1T Will the construction of the
long takcd-of Salina cutoff road. which will run from
Green River to with the nineteen mile piece Of
road the Denver & Rio Grande company built out Of
Salina four years ago TO n point in Salina CANYON
called Nloche. The San Rafael people already have
market for large tonnage Of their product, which
will mostly 90 to the Pacific coast
IN THE PEACH BELT.
The country about Green River city Will ultimately
be the greatest peach belt in the country Nowhere
else IS there found soil that is better adapted TO the
growing of peaches and this applies 10 all other fruits
save tropical than In and around Green River eli y.
In this region there 1000 under irripa-
tior, and in another year there Will be large number
OF peach orchards which set three ago
that will begin bearing OF the producing orchards
the peaches are of the finest quality and flavor and
unusually firm flesh. Between the rows of peach trees
in orchard until the begin bearing low.growne
crops are raised like cantaloupes and the Green River
canteloupe like the Green River peach commands the
highest price the Eastern market.
Ihere are three methods in for irrioatinp in
this locality. Seven miles above Green River CITY
there has been dam constructed Green river
under what IS known the Green River project
Water from this dam is conducted through n gravity
canal and from this laerals distribute the water over
the low lands At this dam site there is also pnmn.
ing plant which raises the water TO a higher level
forty feet and this is carried through the hph-lpe
canals A' Inv
On the east side of the river in what is DESIGNATED
as the Egln district pumping plants raise the water
from Green river TO various levels and il is dstribu ed
then through canals.
Down the river from Green River city are = LARGO
number OF orchards including Pcacharosa The latte
tract containing 1000 acres which has been sold in
five and tcn-acre tracts by company who planted tho
gfer far fhpsn .b.r3o