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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
2
In a Vernal Express editorial from August 16 1904 Uintah County residents are urged to focus on suitable candidates for the constitutional convention and to bond the county for a new courthouse. The piece cites economic hard times, argues local growth will keep the county seat, and pressures readers to support Þe home paper and local duties.
Washington August 6. The conference committee recommended allowing asphaltum lands on reservations to be entered under mining laws rather than a fifty dollar per acre fee. The House approved this change but limited claims to two ten acre parcels per person, disappointing the American Asphaltum Company which sought hundreds of acres. No further opposition remains. measures will pass with the Indian appropriation bill.
A Salt Lake Tribune excerpt reports high mining excitement around the Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations. Prospectors push in from Denver Cheyenne and Colorado River areas to Dead Man’s camp near Fort Duchesne. Gold reportedly runs from 280 to 1500 per ton with rock showing visible gold. Travel costs are high while fertile country and grass stretch for miles.
Real estate notice offers 70 acres of farming land for sale at a bargain. Enquire of Bort aight Vernal for details.
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