Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1912-12-26


Some idea of what is doing at i
Price. the biggest little city in the
world" may be had by readers OF
the Red Book when II is stated with
exact truth that more than five hun
dred thousand dollars will have /
gone into new buildings in this city /
during the year closing with Decem-
Der. 1912 -- mercantile, churches. |
high school. residences. dwellings
and public schools And the coming
twelve months promise a still great
or record This In city of less
than two thousand people. and
where II will still pay those Of
means to invest for rental purposes
and the Increase OF property values
for many years TO come. The city
yet needs a hundred to two hun
dred modren residences for rental
to those DESTROYS OF making their
homes at Price, where the educa-
tional and social conditions are
equal to those anywhere in this
Great Golden West.
What makes Price7 In the first
place. II Is the county seat of one
OF the richest counties Of the TWEEN
ty-seyen in Utah. within Carbon
county the assessment rolls show
values OF five millions OF dollars,
with property placed at about one
/ fourth tia real worth. IL IL the cen
ter OF n coal area almost az great
In bitumlnous tonnage as the en-
tire state OF Ponnsylyania In anthra-
cite. Here nine-tenths OF the coal
OF Utah and all OF the coke OF the
state for smelling purposes In the
West IL produced. within a ra-
dlus OF forty miles there ~ a coal
mining and railroad payroll OF close
to four hundred thousand dollars a
month-noarly five million dollars
annually Il Ia Increasing every
day.
Price IL the natural trading point
for not only miners and others from
tho coal camps and railroad towns
adjacent. but for large population
OF farmers. orchardists and live
stock people from the north. includ'
Ing the uintah reservation country
to and including Emery county on
the south. one OF the greatest agri'
cultural sections OF Utah. Thess
territories are tributary TO Price by
wagon haul and stage line. the lat
ter running daily and carrying th'
United states mails. passengers and
express In either direction. II Il
here mostly that n market n fount
for the products Of the two sections
north and south OF Price. and a
J. prices that do not obtain farthcl
east or west. The adjacent Goa
mines seven to twenty miles. an'
close enough 20 be- reached eaail!
% by every tiiler OF the soil-consum'
!. more by far than the country pro
. ducca.
/. South OF Price. from one TO eigh
. miles, some twenty thousand acre
/. OF Irrigable lands are coming undo
/. cultivation under the Price River II
y rlEation company's project, which u
= tlmately will provide homes for sew
' eral thousands OF people. Land VIII
=. exceptional water rights may be haI
. AZ from forty dollars an acre uT
a.. according to improvements. Her
. tho present year about seven thour
. and acres have gone TO crops. pro
= ducing seyenty-flye TO eighty-fiN
&. bushels OF wheat TO the acre. whie
4. last year we're patches OF sag
. brush and shadscale. On the sam
. land alfalfa. lucerne seed. suga
beets and other crops are success
fully grown. On one place SlAt
thousand bushels OF oats were raise
. that sold in the coal camps OF th
Utah Fuel company aud the Consol
. dated Fuel company at fl.6b pe
hundred on the ears at Price, or do
. liyered by wagon az the same figur
al the adjacent towns.
Alfalfa seed Is a popular an
profitable Industry. selling at Pric
M thirteen cents a pound and ne
ting the producer better than
hundred dollars an acre, while 81
gar beets In quality and quanul
are not excelled anywhere on eartl
Farmers get four TO four and ha
tons OF alfalfa 10 the acre, marke
/. able at home In the bale al WOO
10 $3.50 a ton. Sugar beets gro
proliflcally and sell on the ears
price at $3.50 TO $3.50 a ton.
sugar factory in the center OF III
fielA emery and Carbon counties
s coming With the year 1913 b
You'd doubt, -,
M Resides being on the main III
. OF the Denver and Rio Grande. Pri
~ a the terminus OF two branch RAJ
or now TO BANKRUPT DoOToRs