Notes on above post.........

------Ft. Duchesne, was a US military installation, set up by the government to keep track of the White River Utes, who had been placed on the Uinta Indian reservation after the Meeker Masacre in Meeker, colorado. Very little ever happened there, except for a few skirmishes over the years on the White river near Rangely, where a few troopers were killed. In Septemeber of 1911 the Uintah ran it only "troop train" - a group of three old ex-D&RG Pullmans, a boxcar, and a tool car - filled with the garrison from the fort as it was closed down. Ft. Duchesne was a constant shipping point for all the goods that the fort needed from the Uintah's inception untill 1911 when the fort closed. Previously all supplies had came by Wagon, via Price Utah. The Uintah made a Slat Lake City paper apear in Vernal or Ft. Duchesne only two days after it was printed, where previuosly it was exactly a week!
------ The "Colthorp Brothers" had two stores at this time, one in Dragon and one in Rangely. The Dragon store would later burn down.
------ I'm sure glad we still don't have things called "US INDIAN SCHOOLS"
------ Mrs. MW Cooley, was the wife of the then general manager of the Uintah Railway, and was the patron saint of Dragon, Utah. While they could have lived in Mack, Colorado ( closer to civilization - Grand Junction) , Mr Cooley chose to live in Dragon, near the mines and in the center of operations at that end of the railroad. The books described here were meant for the "community library" that Mrs. Cooley put together over time in the back of teh one room school house at Dragon. It was said that Mr. Cooley liked Dragon for his arthritis and they had several chicken coops behind their house. The somewhat ecentric nature of Mr. & MRS. Cooley can be explained in the fact that they were BRITISH!!!!
------ the wood joints of pipe, destined for Vernal in stock car #400 weighed in at 39,800# - just shy of the hauling capacity of the stockcar at 40,000#.