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Show HISTORY OF EMERY COUNTY. BOo Many good prospects remain without any attempt at development, while others are being uncovered and preparations are made for active work. Eniery county has over 1100 miles of irrigating canals and ditches, constructed since '78, at a cost for labor and materials of about |200,000. The work of building these canals, dams and flumes required no money, as labor was the basis of every transaction, being co-operation of individual energies without any monetary consideration. One magnificent specimen of what can be accomplished by poor men without capital, through union of labor for colonial good, is the immense tunnel cut through the mountain at Emery to shorten the canal at least two miles. When this work w as completed and the water was turned in the people whose crops were too be saved and homes blessed engaged in a general jollification and feast of rejoicing at the mouth of the tunnel. The citizens of Emery county are enterprising and Many fine brick residences have been industrious. erected and numerous homes are surrounded by wehkept grounds.. The county has three roller mills, one burr mill, several steam saw and shingle mills, supplying abundant building material. Each town has general merchandise stores apparently doing a good busiThe retail liquor traffic is limited to one saloon, ness. located at Castle Dale, the county seat. The San Rafael mountains have long been regarded stone and mineral wax. T as a safe retreat for thieves and outlaws, and Emery county has been shunned by some people because of the existence of the famous ''Robbers' Roost" But the vigilant officers of the law have made such inroads upon those dark hiding-places as to almost exterminate the bands of outlaws. In the early days George P. Billings, |
