Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-14
MUCH BUILDING At
TOWN OF PROCTOR
VIII soon he City-Bulldinr large
Observation-Disclosures In for the
Two Inhabitants OF Place.

With two people as its sole in
habitants. Proctor-on the Western
Pacific "a miles west of Wend1vcr-in
90 days viii be one of the rIp-roaring
towns ~ the west" Such is the pre-
diction voiced at the cullen hotel this
afternoon by A. W Tenant who is
one-half of the population of the
embryo "motrop1lOus This sproutiug
town Is just eight miles out in Nevada
from the Utah state line. John Con-
dron, proprietor of the cullen. win go
out tomorrow and viii Immediately
start e. 40-room hotel having already
bought lots iu the townslte for the pur-
pose
"A Los Angeles merchant win open
store there soon and / ann going
90 build a school house. and the couu-
Is school superintendent assures me
Doc has teacher already in sight. the
railroad company ls ready 90 erect
Nee depot for us. variety thcater
man has been on The ground we got
telephone connection today. and within
80 days YOU win see boom on at
Proctor that win make salt Lake peo-
pie sit up and take notice. said Mr..
Tenant TO-DAY
'The man who gets n there with
the first stock of dry goods ana
groceries will have 90 bonanza. re win
have the trade of "a radius of 50 miles.
which includes many big ranches cm-
ploying scores of men and there is the
famous mining camp of Dolly Warden
and others which viii give Proctor all
the business
Proctor is at the head OF beautiful
valley where the grass grows knee
deep. ] have seen $50 bushels OF SUI
rorb potatoes raised there without
drop OF irrigation water. IN is splendid
Tor cattle grazing purposes. Nearby
Charles Sweet has ranch with 1000
cattle. Eight miles down the valley is
another ranch counting its 5000 10
5000 head of good stock. Some of these
men have been I'm there 20 years. They
raise on their farms the choicest
wheat, barley oat. and potatoes
SEVEN SPRINGS.
Eight miles above tho town there
are seven springs from which are now
pipe 80 600 gallons OF winter "a day. The !
railroad viii Immediately construct
four-iuch pipe 60 increase this supply
20 100000 gallons. which viii be turned !
into three large tanks FOR storage !
Only "a mile and half from town is |
another big spring I have taken up |
a power site only a few miles away.
CLOSE az hand DIS q forest Of cedars |
Of @ 900 adres and lying about boz it un- |
NNfN must ne lfNNN iNINN Nl hIN N''A j
that may be- had for the asking. and |
should be taken out 10 prevent forest |
fires during summer months.
IF F. Morl8n. formerly state FISH /
~ Idaho. has just taken |
up about 40 acres there and win this |
spring stock big fish farm. This /
spring the railroad win begin the cN- /
ponditure of $1,000 600 90 cut out the /
shoe-nv just west Of Proctor and give |
20 the entire road It's maximum ] per |
cent grade The steep grade al pres
ont covers three miles but the pcrma- /
ncnt road win be built down around |
the mountain. a distance of miles |
This must be- completed in rs months. |
Most Of this money win come IN Proc |
tor a postodlcc viii bee established |
az once. Condron expects 10 have his /
hotel open inside ~ 90 days
Near by are several important min /
Ing camps, and "a great $50 foot vein /
NJ silvcr-load ore cuts the toWnsite, I
which contains 100 aCrcs-alrcady plat /
ted, and lots selling from 800 up. a /
l0-inch streak ~ that Proctor ore as |
SAYS gold 0S ounces. silver. 1907 /
ounces. The railrOnd cut i2-f1ot gap /
through the vein which has been Doe |
Gated for five miles down the valley. |
having granite and lime walls. The |
water and wood around there and /
power cite give IL a great future as "a |
mining center. and Dolly Warden win /
send an her ores up % Proctor. which |
has si55 rate 90 the Garfield smelt- |
PRS
There is no getting around it-Proo-
tor is going 20 give Jarbidge a run for /
her money"