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Show 122 H. Smart. Homesteaders had come to this area, first called Alexander, in 1905. 1912 Fort Duchesne is abandoned by U. S. Army for militray purposes. It is given over to the U. S. Indian Service for use as agency headquarters. 1912 Duchesne Stage and Transportation Company is organized. 1912 Independence, speculative enterprise of the Independence Townsite and Development Co. of Colorado Springs, Col. is abandoned. It was one of the land rush towns of 1906. 1912 Townsite of Cedarview is laid out. Homesteaders had filed on this land and established a post office in 1905. Discontinued in 1929. 1912 Leota is settled; gets irrigation water in 1916, is abandoned in 19 47. 1912 New building for Uintah Stake Academy in Vernal is completed. 1913 Talmage ( Winn) LDS Ward chapel is built. 1913 Electric power plant is built on Lake Fork River by Uintah Power and Light Co., furnishing power to Roosevelt and Myton. Post office is established and called Upalco. Surrounding settlement which had been called Lake Fork now takes the name of the post office. 1913 Townsite of Antelope is laid out. Homesteaders had come to this area, called Midview, in 1906 to lease irrigated Indian lands in order to grow hay. The post office established in 1907 is discontinued because of dwindling population in 1919. 1914 Power generated by plant built for Strawberry Reclamation Project is furnished to Payson, Salem and Spanish Fork. 1914 E. A. Daniels lays out townsite he calls Banner. Homesteaders had filed in area in 1906 and had leased and purchased surrounding Indian land. LDS church officials renamed, in 1915, the town and post office as Mount Emmons. 1914 State road is built through Uinta Basin. 1914 Taft post office and store are moved one mile north to townsite name LaPoint. |