Freight Pioneer Keeps Going Through Tough Times
Salt Lake City resident W Wardle recalls the early freight days between Price and Vernal Utah facing canyons cloudbursts deep snow and mud. He later ran freighting outfits from 1897 to 1926 with wagons and horses and shifted to trucks in 1926. He reflects that stagecoach work was steady hard and unglamorous with a slow jog trot and rare speed except on slick winter hills.
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Price
Vernal, Co
W. Wardle
Salt Lake City
Wardle
Tonopah
Ely
Nev
Mr. Wardle
Heber
George Heber Wardle
Utah
Brigham Young
Salt Lake
Vernal
Heber Wardle
John
George
Moffit
Gusher
Ft. Duchesne
Waterfowl Refuges Gain Improvements At Ogden Bay
The past year saw war delayed works completed at Ogden Bay Refuge and the Public Shooting Grounds. Expanded irrigation dikes and new control structures improved water management, promoting duck nesting and food plants. About 250,000 ducks were estimated at Ogden Bay and over 100,000 at the Public Shooting Grounds.
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Ogden Bay
Pub- Ne
Crocker Lake
Pintail Lake
C.C.C
Utah at Oil Venture Era Highlights Early Gains
A 1900 1901 lookback shows Utah's first oil search near Green River led by San Rafael Oil Co with a 1040 foot shaft near the Rio Grande Western line. Early reports describe gas driven out wells and primitive methods while winter scenes reveal gas bubbles rising as exploration continued alongside scarce data from those nascent days.
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Utah
Green River
San Rafal Oil Co
Greenriver
Salt Lake City
Simon Bambrger
Salt Lake
Rio Grande Western
Oil prospects promise United States drilling boom
The article describes widespread, favorable reports on oil production and the belief that a key figure will emerge to lead drilling efforts across the country. It notes heavy pressure, demonstration of the oil field's potential, and plans to return with machinery to extend drilling to new deposits.
Water Loss in West Irrigation Tied to Faulty Canals and Laterals
George Clyde of the U S Department of Agriculture division of irrigation soil conservation says fifty percent of irrigation water is lost en route to farms in western states. He notes potential solutions like canal linings of compact earth and bentonite clay mix, or glass covered with asphalt, though costly, with research conducted at Logan in cooperation with Utah Agricultural Experiment Station and the Bureau of Reclamation.
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George da
Clyde
Logan
Division of Irrigation
Utah Agricultural Experimental Station
Bureau of Reclamation
Ind
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Uintah Basin
Uintah Bank
Earl Warren
California
Hartford
Conn
Grace Lencsyk
Newington
Westinghouse Upright Vacuums
Searle Electric & Appliance
tExaco Lire
Texaco
KEN
Lynn Richardson
Richardson
Frestone I
Searle’s Saving Center
Woopry
Mearle
Mor
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