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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1913
Page
1
City health officer Dr George H. Christy announced that all churches, amusements, and public gatherings may resume next Monday if conditions do not worsen. No services will be held next Sunday in houses of worship or Stake Sunday School Union facilities.
A meeting of land owners in Myton is called by W E Broome to unite a ditch project for beach irrigation. A construction company will partner with the South Myton Beach Irrigation district, funding split by acreage fees and cash, with district water filing 324 second feet for over 1000 acres from the Duchesne river.
The Sun Dance opera, postponed from Thursday and Friday, will be staged next Thursday and Friday nights February 20 and 21 at the Orpheus. Management faced great difficulty and expense preparing the production but expects a fine performance.
The dispatch notes rising wool prices with optimistic outlooks from wool buyers and mill managers. It cites a potential 17 to 20 cent per pound wool price, a large market volume, and a related uplift in lamb prices as mining and railroad projects in Green River, Colorado, advance.
Sheriff Richard Pope and Deputy Game Warden FP Dillman report from Linwood country that a constable is needed in the Linwood district. Saloons in Wyoming near the Linwood post office pose a cross border risk as Wyoming officers cannot pursue across the line.
Information reports a reboun accident at Garfield mills injuring Frank Hadlock of Provo. His right arm was torn from the shoulder by machinery. he was rushed to St Mark's hospital with heavy blood loss and transfusion given en route. He is about twenty nine and a son of FY Cy Fadiock formerly of Vernal.
A science summary notes vanadium and uranium deposits in Utah and southwestern Colorado, calls for a Denver bureau lab to study origin and processing, and observes rising vanadium steel use and uncoordinated knowledge hindering western mining efforts.
Logan Utah broker Mr Taylor has spent weeks in reservation country contracting eighty one thousand pounds of alfalfa seed at up to 1140 per hundred. Emory Sevier and Millard counties in the Brent seed belt lead seed production and some favor sweet clover as a profitable alternative. E G Finnup of Garden City Kansas touts sweet clover as comparable to alfalfa, noting similar protein and better drought and cold tolerance. continued on page.
A Utah house bill to reduce coyote bounties from 260 to 150 dollars and lift grey wolf bounties from 10 to 50 dollars passes 34 to 7 though unclear if law. Bears and mountain lions bounties rise from 10 to 20. five mill tax on range livestock. 336000 dollars set for bounties this year, up 15000. Continued on page 6.
Local physicians report an epidemic of meningitis in the valley but urge calm. Trexner's serum is said to greatly reduce fatalities, cutting deaths from about 75-80 per 100 to as low as 20-25 per 100 with treatment. Parents are cautioned to keep ill children at home to prevent spread.
A Utah letter reports that about 250000 acres on the Uintah reservation were set aside for grazing by a 1902 act and 1905 withdrawal. Officials state lands may be cultivable but remain protected for Indian use and entry by settlers is doubtful.
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