Routt and Uintah counties seen linked by development plan
Routt County Development Company official C M Maeberton tours Denver to publicize a land reclamation and canal project linking Steamboat Springs Wantland and Daggett areas. He notes a 20 000 acre minimum under Carey act and rail improvements including Moffat road and Union Pacific spur. The program aims at a booming valley with new town Wantland predicted as western Routt county hub.
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Uintah
Issata
Jroutt Cointie Ag
Uinted
C. MM. Maeberton
Hne
Bistay
Lutlote
Carey
Uttle Snake Y Aer Valley
Glace Board of Land
MokEre
Boffat
Tha
Tober Fom
Moffat Road
Steamboat Springs
Wayden
Crate
Wantland
Colo
Wane Autter
Wyo
Baggs
Colorado
Routt County Development Company
Steamloat Springs
Ore
Dagge
Bages
Union Pacific
Wamcutter
Craig
Mowat Road
Kilpatrick Mrogg& Coliing
Watnsutter
Thrrough Dages
A. J. McCune
Isg Grand Valley
Model Farma
Cune
Snate
Routt
Troutt Courty Vp
1Ilroad
Heberton
Routt County
Denver Republican
Moffat Road and Rich Coal Lands Survey Findings
Government surveyor Hoyt Gale reports vast coal lands along the Moffat route through eastern Utah and western Colorado. The Bulletin 416 maps detail coal quality, bed depths, and potential for a major regional rail corridor to Provo and Salt Lake City. Chief Justice Fuller died July 5 at Bar Harbor, Maine, after a long career. Funeral held in Chicago with burial at Graceland.
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Moffat Road
Narre
Utah Coal Feld
Hoyt
Gatdinommenka
Weay Eldment Engineers
Haa
Colorado
Salt Lake
Métrat
Provo
Geological Survey
Larga
Gale
Yampa
Moffat
Steamboat Springs
Itta
Geological Surveys
Dairying Industry Highlights National Economy And Sunday School Conven tion
The text extols dairy farming as central to soil fertility and national prosperity, noting the US dairy herd produces vast value and butter quality has improved with modern creameries. It also announces a Big Sunday School Convention of the Uintah Stake at the Uintah Stake Tabernacle with sessions for officers and teachers and a public evening program led by Deseret Sunday School Board members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Agriculture
Tmes
Uintah Stake
Uintah Stake Tabernacle
Deseret Sunday’ School Ten
Salt Lake
Wallace Galder
Pioneer Gene McKowan of Utah died at Naples home
Pioneer Gene McKowan aged seventy one died at his Naples home July 0 at 330 am from brain inflammation. Funeral was Sunday July 10 at the Naples Meeting House with Bishop A G Goodrich and Elders George A Slaugh Joseph H Gardiner speaking. Interment in Vernal Cemetery. Born in England he emigrated to Utah in 1864 and became a noted pioneer of Utah County. He left eight children seven surviving who attended the funeral: John Edward Mary Glines Kate Gillman Lizzie Belle Watkins Susie Elten and Ellen Shaffer. Henderson traded 160 acres on Henderson bench with improvements to FP Harmston for the Harmston house and corner of 4th street. the Lenderson family will move in about Avanastral.
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Philp McKowan
Naples
A G. Goodrich
George A Slaugh
Joseph H Gardiner
Bishop Goodrich
Vernal
McKowan
England
Utah
Umatah County
John
Edward
Mary Glines
Kate Gillman
Lizza Belle
Watkins
Susie Elten
Ellen Shaffer
Was Henderson
Henderson
Harmston
Gold on Green River Dredge Work Near Jensen Utah
Descriptions from Desert News detail placer mining on Green River at Jensen Utah with the Mitchell dredge in operation. Dirt yields range from 60 cents to 175 dollars a yard, some up to 225 dollars, with concentrates showing iron and rubles. Prospects attract investors like John Bullock, and a new processing method may be adopted to handle fine flaky gold.
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Green River
Jensen
Utah
Vernal
C. Carhart
Assayer
Hermlet
New Windsor
Mra Carhart
John
Jenson
Wyoming
Eheratter
Desert News
Prominent Visitors Tour Vernal Wagon Company
Last Tuesday Director Francia M Lytiun and General Manager Geo T Odell of the Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company visited Vernal for a tour of inspection. They arrived by 12 and met local manager Auellen Johnson, expressing satisfaction with the Vernal plant and its business prospects. Odell noted a 20 percent drop in the prior year but an improved outlook through June first, amid a generally positive regional position. Also reported is a riot in Newark Ohio where a mob freed a jailed ex chief of police after a raid on speakeasies sparked disorder.
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Francia M. Lytiun
Geo T. Odell
Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company Vielted Vernaich
Dragon
Vernal
Auellen Johnson
Ode
Consolidated Wagon and Machine
Newark
Ohio
Melu & Palodit
Flnka
Registry Officers Named for Next Two Years
County commissioners appoint registration officers for Precincts 1 through 15 with listed names including Mra Alla Chatgin Naptes Mrs Annie E Young Frank Hatch H Gillnes Daniel A Adams Nellie P. Stewart John Jarvie Jr Jesse Evans J Mersey Keith Smith J B Whittemore W B Weaver and Pontha Calder.
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Mt. Dell
Daniel A Adams
Manila
Nellie P. Stewart
Bridgeport
John Jarvie Jr
Dragon
Jesse Evans
Linwood
Keith Smith
Whiterocks
Whittemore
South Vernal
Weaver
North Vernal
Pontha Calder
Alma Taylor Injured in Hay Hauling Accident
Last Saturday Alma Taylor, 75, was seriously hurt while hauling hay. A ditch caused a wheel to drop, a ladder broke, and he fell under the team. He suffered a broken ankle, knee injuries, and shoulder bruising. doctors set the bones. Taylor remains optimistic about recovery.
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Alma Taylor
James Winn
Mr. Taylor
Alma
Taylor
Theodore News Highlights Local Social Events and Business Openings
A lively Theodore page details a Saturday card party with prizes won by Mesdames Pope and Sehonian, July celebrations in royal style, and a crowd surpassing prior events. Local business moves include Jonesi opening a clothing store in Breele building and Gowers Fitzwater purchasing the clapper building moving stock to Colton.
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Theodore News
Alia Wimmer
Mesera
Gowers
Fitzwater
Colton
Dbringer
Salt Lake City
Mra M
Pope Lee Meacham
Bernice Petersen Werre
Salt Lake
Marie
Vera Cittes
M. Murdock
Jerf
Heber
New Settlement Proposes Reclamation Scheme in Routt County
Colorado and Utah parties begin a reclamation project in Western Routt County aiming to settle forty families. They plan a reservoir and large scale farming, trading with Vernal forty miles east, seeking a good road and the Jensen bridge, offering to help build them. If Vernal fails, they will move to Colorado towns seventy five miles away.
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Colorado
Utah
Routt County
Econ
Jensen
Indiana Indians Seek 12 Million in Court Fight
Washington DC attorney J M Vale, partner of ex senior Butler, pursues a Supreme Court appeal for US$12 million in interest for Uintah and Wasatch Indians removed from Colorado to Utah after the Mesher massacre. He argues government deprival of lands in Colorado and seeks reimbursement for survivors and heirs across Routt County and rivers feeding the Green.
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Wintah
Wasatch Counties
J M. Vale
Washington DC
Butler
Indiana
Coloradoo
Utah
Mesher
Yale
Thia J
Supreme Court of the United ‘States
Ife
Colorado
Routt County
Uintah
Vale
Ouray
Willow Creek
Etresma
Green River
Oil prospects and railroad needs in Vernal area described
Deseret News reports promising oil indications in the Vernal Uinta county region with a first rig sent, surface asphaltum rocks noted, and plans for immediate development. Projections foresee pumps over gushers and a Moffat railroad aiding access to oil offfshore lands, coal mines, and agricultural gains. Separately, Dr Martin and City Marshall Fred Wood were injured in a buggy accident near the Creamery, with Wood sustaining knee and hand injuries and the doctor escaping unharmed.
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Vernal
Ban Fasa Rock
Adtrréts
C Carhart
Desert News Twelve
Uinta
Caghart
Dragon
Utah
Colorado
Moffat
Jensen
Deseret News
Martin
Fred Wood
Bugsy
Marshall Wood
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Retta
Cail
T. A. Callister
Almeda Perry
Carter Bent
Graal
Provo Post
Melville W. Fuller
Bar Harbor
Maine
Angurs Maine
Chicago
Graceland Cemetery
Ely
Pioneer
Ghia
Riversdale
E Young
North Vernal City
Frank Hatch
North Ashley
H Gillnes
Randlett
J. Mersey
Byron O Colton Jr
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