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Show HISTORY OF EMERY COUNTY. 602 In the year 90 the Legislature passed an act creat? Grand county, and all that portion of Emery lyingeast of Green river and south of the Brown Buttes was given the new county. This county took most of the railroad taxation from Emery, and as many of the largest cattle owners were in the section of the Book and La Salle mountains, much of the revenue of Emery was cut Moab off and became the property of the new division. was made the county seat, and a county organization was ing effected. In '00 the census was taken by the General Government, and the population returned for Emery was 5076, divided among the settlements as follows: Blake, 375; Brocks, 50; Cleveland, 111! Castle Dale, 109; Eniery, 210; Ferron, 399; Huntington, 738; Lawrence, 107; Molen, 131; Orangeville, 353; Price, 502; Scofield, 680; Spring Dale, 12; Spring Glen, 137, and Wellington, 230. The population of Grand county this year was only 511, as returned by Joel Shomaker, the United States census enu- merator for that county. Many of the new colonists in both counties were young men seeking homes, hence the number of families was not so great as in older settled communities. The population was then less established than at present, some being transients seeking new locations. In '92 a fight was made for the removal of the county seat from Castle Dale to Price, and the usual animosities consequent to newr county divisions were stirred up, but better counsel prevailed, and the change was not accomplished. A fine brick courthouse was erected in Castle Dale, at a cost of about f 5000, and the question of removing the county seat w as settled permanently. The regular sessions of the Seventh .Judicial District court for Emery county are held here, and the people are contented r |
