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Newspaper
Duchesne Courier
Location
Duchesne, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1929
Page
1
The article extols cooperation as a unifying force for home church business and community life. A fable of seven sons shows unity multiplying power, while references to the Civil War, Ford and railroad builders illustrate benefits of teamwork in industry and nation building.
A fragment describes the Cintati Mountains as a unique range in Utah running east to west. It asserts the Uinta Mountains contain Utah's highest peaks, naming Mt. Emmons at 18 395 feet above sea level.
Federal Water Commissioner Horace W. Sheley reports monthly canal water allocations for May and June 1920. The table lists acreages for Dry Gulch and related canals, noting multiple owners and partial month totals, with caveats about missing records and 1928 rating used.
Reports say the Moffat tunnel tie up last Friday was broken on Tuesday and trains are now passing through the six mile tunnel. Debris clearing continued in three shifts as workers removed rock and timber blocks, with a reduced schedule expected to return to normal.
Henry Black Casey, husband of GieM, died after an accident while en route from Parkity to Myton. The vehicle speed reached about thirty miles per hour when brakes failed, causing injuries from which he did not recover at Heber City hospital. Interment was held at Zak City cemetery.
Willard Dickerson suffered a severe laceration to his arm at a rock crusher site near Myton. A special Myton businessmen meeting scheduled for August 12 discussed the annual Labor Day rodeo and committees. Dickerson received emergency care at Holy Cross Hospital Salt Lake City. doctors feared possible loss of the arm but worked to save it. A second meeting will be held August 12 at 8 o clock at the Myton Commercial club to finalize rodeo plans.
University representatives Dean Beal and Professor Levi Young spoke at a Uintah Basin Industrial Congress in Myton. Topics included education for the masses and stock raising, with notes on agriculture, farm sizes, and a modern irrigation and recreation program.
First air mail flight to Uintah Basin carried Salt Lake City papers to Duchesne Myton Roosevelt and Vernal aboard a Curtis Robin of Seagull Airways. Passenger flight Miss Vico landed at Vernal with five travelers including Mayor Johns Bowman and Dr George Allen. Seagull plans daily round trips starting August 13 and aims to build landing fields in Vernal Roosevelt Myton and Duchesne to expand intrastate air service between Salt Lake and the basin.
Wyoming funds authorize a 15 million dollar bond issue by the Wyoming Montana railroad to build a line from Craig Colorado to Miles City Montana and create outlets to Ute Northsweet. If finished the route would link with the Moffat line to Salt Lake City and Belt Lake City traffic, despite earlier failures and high costs.
A scrambled excerpt notes Duchesne County farmers and others facing hardship from crop failures and social strain. It references Slaves of the Poor and public commentary about exploitation and poverty, with a hint of local tension and rural life challenges.
An obituary notes the Friday service at Redteit for Weeo a Desai Desai elder, with Rev WJ Howes of the Apibeepel church presiding at the cemetery in Randlett. Survived by daughter Mable Modoc and son Ben Werte, he was about 70 and famed for wit and intelligence.
L O O No 61 Myton convened a meeting Aug 1 and learned state grand master J R Randall of Ogden will visit Vernal Aug 28 and Myton Aug 29. Alvin Birch of Roosevelt presides with committees arranging an informative program for members.
Young contractors from Richfield started this week on the Paradise Park reservoir dam for the Whiterocks Irrigation Co. A crew of thirty men will expand capacity to about 3000 acre feet. Water Commissioner's release plans to deliver 20 second feet at headgate as inflow from snowmelt and seepage increases. The rock fill dam measures 1100 feet long and 46 feet high when complete, set on Mosby mountain cirque at 11000 feet elevation and fed by alpine streams.
The American Legion and Auxiliary of Duchesne Past No. 24 closed their Get a Turn campaign at Victory Park. Tad Storey, master manager of the Continental Oil Company, won the Ford car and the group hopes to raise around 650 dollars for a new Legion hall. The the event raised funds to benefit the Duchesne and Wilson area units.
Rehm of Myton reports success in his gilsonite venture near Rison, uncovering a good vein and planning greater activity this year following several thousand dollars in development work.
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