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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1902
Page
2
A brief notice notes a subscription price of $1.50 per year and mentions actions at the Varnal Port office. Details are limited due to damaged text but indicate a payment or rate change connected to the port facility.
On October 25 1962 Uintah County mobilizes for political rallies to be held in every precinct after the registration deadline on October 28 The Uintah Creamery boosts the local economy selling 14000 pounds of cheese and 510 pounds of butter earning over 1500 for the county while beet sugar output at Lehi is 250000 pounds of granulated sugar daily.
The note urges Uintah County to be self supporting with a surplus to sell to outside districts. It warns against continued outside shipments of flour, bacon, and lard and suggests expanding pig farming and planting more crain. It mentions a nearby railroad coming within two years and an expected population influx.
With grain at current prices and home consumption strong, demand is expected to quadruple next year. Uintah County farmers will plant more grain than ever, accepting some seed loss to secure a bumper crop if the season and water supply cooperate.
In twenty four states and territories producing precious metals, Colorado leads with 25 9 million in gold and 29 million in silver. Montana is second with 25 million combined, California third at 16 million mainly gold, Utah fourth with 3 45 million gold and 9 171 million silver. Idaho fifth 6 869 million, South Dakota sixth 6 657 million, Alaska seventh 5 64 million, Arizona eighth 4 606 million.
The coal strike ends with an agreement to refer disputes to a presidentially named board of arbitration. After five months and 150000 miners walking out, strikers vote to return on the 23rd. They claim victory not in concession but in securing arbitration establishing a key labor precedent.
Vendor to close stock of felts overshoes and rubbers with dramatic price cuts. Felts and double rubber overshoes offered at $2.00. rubbers 40 cents. heavy overshoes $1.35 to $1.40. gloves from 20 cents to $1.25.
A New York dispatch reports the Colorado Utah Construction Company awarded by the Denver Northwestern and Pacific to build and equip about 600 miles of railroad from Denver to Salt Lake. The deal includes bonds and stock for each mile and a 60 year mortgage limit of 22.6 million dollars. President Moffat says the line seeks regional development in northwestern Colorado and eastern Utah, not incursion on other lines.
The Uintah Creamery reports rising butter and cheese demand with 14 000 pounds of cheese shipped to Meeker Price and Salt Lake and one butter order of 640 pounds to Salt Lake. Milk supply in September fell 4000 pounds from August, risking 12 000 pounds of winter orders if milk declines continue.
The note recounts an office onion and two garden onions raised near Vernal. A Yellow Globe Danver weighed about two pounds, with a Red Wetherfield and a white onion noted for long keeping. The white onion rested atop a book, claimed as the best keeper with no care.
Polling places listed by ward for the 1902 general election include Riverdale Jensen ward meeting house Merril Ward new school house South Vernal Dillman block North Vernal East End Saloon building Glines Ward South Ashley old school building North Ashley Mill Ward Hall Mountain Dell Dry Work school house Manila school house Deep Creek school house Judges of election for Deep Creek are T J Labrum Jn P Harrison and A S Johnson.
The Santa Fe Route of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Ry Co promotes its line from Utah to Kansas City St. Joseph Chicago Galveston El Paso and mining camps in New Mexico and Arizona. Special emphasis on wool and livestock shipments with details via C F Warren General Gent 111 Douly Block Salt Lake City Utah.
Mr and Mrs A G Jolson of Spuyten Duyvil New York arrived Thursday. Mrs Jolson will stay with her parents Mr and Mrs Eric Stewart and relatives while Arthur attends to interests here. Four model dwellings are under way this fall. Hugh Snow returned from Kansas City with Lees cattle. Upper district school began last Monday with Hugh Woodward as teacher. A Democratic rally Tuesday night featured Warren Johnson Hon Harden Bennion Assessor Ty Zack and Ton George Billings as speakers. Siumi's Hobo Band entertained. Joseph A Arnold has been very sick with rheumatism of the heart but was improving.
Relatives of M. Boran arrived from Wallsburg for a visit. Mrs. Lamb, the mother in law, was thrown from a wagon near Current Creek and injured by the horses. no bones broken. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Roy Duke on Tuesday. Ray Pickup has gone outside and may return with a life partner.
The piece surveys bronze sculpture by John Tweed in Chelsea and a Bulawayo market aim, notes paintings of steam engines and airships, praises American art pottery, and discusses restoration of the Acropolis and loans for St Louis exhibitions. It cites dealer Macbeth on American pictures as profitable while most foreign art loses value over a decade.
A Republican reception for candidate McDonald was hosted by the Ladies Republican Club at Odd Fellows Hall. Attendees included O'Donnell as master of ceremonies and speakers Colton Badger Collett, with music by Miss Francis and Harvey Howard. The event featured decorations, a bee hive emblem, poems, coffee and sandwiches, and a call for further rallies at Local Hall and precincts next week.
A Chicago Tribune item recalls an imported Jersey cow becoming aggressive toward a visiting young woman. The farmer apologizes, the woman refuses to remove her red ribbon, and the cow makes another lunge without causing harm.
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