Opportunities in Duchesne County
Duchesne County offers strong livestock growth opportunities in dairy cattle beef and sheep production. Dairy herds use registered bulls and balanced rations while beef expansion builds on range and calf finishing. Sheep farmers push higher wool yields with better pastures and earlier market weights. Turkeys and poultry remain profitable with proper sanitation and breeding selection.
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Tauchesne
Ivestock
Neola Cooperative Holstein Bull Association
Luirley
Duchesne
Pyime
Schools Past Present and Future in Duchesne County
In early Duchesne County, settlers struggled to provide basic needs including schools. The district reports improved conditions with higher attendance, better housing, and qualified teachers. First-month attendance rose from 88.4 in 1927 to 91.3 in 1928 and 92.9 in 1929, with a second month reaching 91.4 percent.
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Duchesne County
América
Lintthe
Mt Emmons History of Early Settlement and Growth
Mt Emmons began with Albert Blood and Ed Blood staking on ranches later known as C A Hansen and August Pearson. Families joined after Uintah Indian Reservation opened. By 1918 Mt Emmons was surveyed as a forty acre townsite from Alwyows homestead. Early governance formed under Minehell ward with Fred Case president. The village, once called Poverty Row, grew into a thriving basin settlement with many fine homes. Continued on Page 5.
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Poverty Row
Vintuh
Ba-sin
Fragmentary phrase on living standards and usefulness
The readable portion discusses raising living standards and usefulness and happiness, hinting at a civic or social aim without clear context or details.
New Year Reflections on Resolutions and Progress
A reflective piece questions personal progress as a year ends and a new page begins. It warns that vague resolutions often fade, urging concrete daily action toward a definite goal to avoid repeating wasted periods.
Roosevelt schools leader home for Thanksgiving
20 Years Ago Prof UL Claire Winslow superintendent of Roosevelt public schools was home for Thanksgiving. Barr Musser becomes bookkeeper at Pioneer Supply Co. W HI Fitzwater to devote all time to the post office as business volume rises. Commercial club votes to disband next Saturday and form a large new club from two old groups amid merger talks and new memberships.
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UL. Claire Winslow
Roosevelt Public Schools
Barr W. Musser
Pioneer Supply Co
W. HI
Fitzwater
Commercial Club
Paul Chi
Samuel Jepperson
Marcellus Pope
Geo. M. Averett
Dickerson
Sennator Smoot
Congress
Duchesne
Strawberry
W. Schonian
Mostmaster Firewater
State Road Commission urges careful driving and sign protection
The State Road Commission urges motorists to exercise care on mountain roads and at railroad crossings, heed signs, and report sign destruction. Destruction of highway signs in Summit County led to fines, with calls to protect public property and promote safety. Shelby Mashew finishes a house on the west 40 of the Van Thompson homestead and plans to move in by the New Year.
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Road Commission
Gumiged
Simmmit
Shelby Mashew
van. Thompson
Blue and Purple Benches to Come Under Water Project
Reports suggest the Blue and Purple Benches will be inundated by water from Khawk Creek to cover both benches. Land owner contracts are being slowed to place title in trust for resale to farmers with long term terms. Promoters plan to move machinery in spring to dig the duach once weather allows. The area is described as fertile and in need of new capital to aid development. Tom Broamhead of Utish and Luren D Beckstead noted local activity and trips to Duchesne.
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Oregon
Khawk Creek
Tinh
Signeng
Gateway Club Party of 1920 Aims for One Night Peace
The Gateway Club hosts a masculine gathering on Thursday night with light music, dancing, and humorous sketches. Members and guests dress in best attire as they attend a long-standing annual event featuring performances, satire, and social mingling among local figures.
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Gateway Club
Gate Way Club
Fiverett
Bill Sexton
Bishop
Mazda
T. G
Sears and
Toebuck
Lowe Ashton
G. V. Billings
Duchesne
New York
Dr. Bishop
Geo. Bowers
New York Times
Winase
Ernest Crocker
Henery Ford Motor Plant
Vic. Duke
Ed Hart
Washington
Wo. H. Fitawnater
LeRoy Punk
Educational Boys
Burea of
W. A. Paxton
O. C. Lockhart
Bud Winslow
Ldeputy
GL. A. Hollenbeck
Boulider
Geo. C. Kohl
Early Settlement History of Talmage and Winn
After the reservation opened, settlers arrived including Joseph Draper H P Otteson John W Davies Ephraim McMillan and Thomas Kenison. They built cabins and a saw mill powered by cedar logs, hauled water from Lake Fork River, and formed the Winn school district with A G Burton Oscar Wilkins and James Mickelson as trustees. The first school met in 1913 with Margaret Todd as teacher and mail came via Boneta six miles away. A post office opened in Whan in September 1911 with Miss Bra Davis as postmistress.
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Joseph Draper
H. P. Otteson
John W. Davies
Ephraim McMillan
Thomas Kenison
N. P. Otteson
Talmage
Ephraim McMilinn
Talmange
Winn
Ait
Home
A. G. Burton
Oscar Wilkins
Mt. Home
James Mickelson
Boneta
Burton
Samuel TH. Draper
Margaret Tood
History of Tabiona and Hanna on the Duchesne River
The 1905 opening of an Indian Reservation spurred Tabiona and Hanna as early commercial hubs. Founders include Hy Jones and A W Maxwell, with Hanna named for a post office agent. Farming, stock raising, and dairying support the community, plus growing schools and modest mercantile activity led by Giles Wickens and others.
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Upper Duchesne
Stockmore
Thomas Rhoades
Carl Wilckens
Bert
Carl Atwood
Hanna
Farm Creek
Frank Defa
Bert White
Tablona
Hy Jones
A. W. Maxwell
Bob Mitchie
Rob Giles
John Barbers
James 3. Jones
A. Wagstaff
Claude Wagstaff
Guy Jones
Wm. Jolly
Duchesne
James Destefano
Charles Bertola
Jep Thomas
John Barbery
Salt Lake
William Wadleigh
Duchesne Utah’s Early Growth and Key Pioneers
The Duchesne area in Utah established as a government townsite in 1905 near the Uintah Reservation and Strawberry River. Notable early settlers include George Hemphill Wm Sweatman Winslow Gros B V Barlow M S Mursing and many others. the town saw a building boom starting around 1914 despite broader national stagnation.
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Duchesne
Utah
Uintah
George Hemphill
Wm. Sweatman
Winslow Gros
B. V. Barlow
MN. S. Mursing
G. S. Bowers
Dan Powell
M. M. Smith
Emil Munz
Lulu Hood
Munz
Chris Merkley
BK. C. Abbott
Mim
Jolley
Barton Bros
Moffatt
Tave Moffat
Denver
Duchesne County
Wasatch County
Roosevelt
Myton
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Tunchesne County
Mt. Emmons
Ander
Iere
State Road Commission
Tom Broamhead
Utish
Luren D Beckstead
Gate Way
Tabiona
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