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Bryce Canyon it's a natural wonder home to\h
the world's highest concentration of hudo it\h\h

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hosts a prairie dog Festival every year which is\h
apparently a festival about prairie dogs and not\h\h

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as I'd hoped a festival for prairie dogs over\h
2 million people visit Bryce Canyon every year\h\h

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and they all have to pass through the town outside\h
its one entrance Bryce Canyon City but if you ever\h\h

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pass through Bryce Canyon City you might notice\h
that people you meet seem to be calling it rubies\h\h

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in and then actually just about every building\h
in town says rubies in on it too so what's going\h\h

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on here Well turns out Bryce Kenyon city is\h
Ruby's Inn and vice versa because once upon a\h\h

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time in 2007 this Best Western Resort managed to\h
incorporate and become an official town but how\h\h

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and why and what do they have at the Cowboy\h
Buffet today we're answering 2third of those\h\h

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questions The Story begins in the early 1900s\h
when Ruben Ruby seret and his wife Clara minet\h\h

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set up a homestead on a bit of desolate land not\h
far from Bryce Canyon licensable images of Ruby\h\h

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seret are hard to come by by so instead here's\h
a ruby in a cowboy hat when the settes got there\h\h

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Bryce Canyon wasn't the tourist attraction it is\h
today it wasn't even a national park but as soon\h\h

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as they saw it the settes were blown away and\h
wanted everyone to come visit after a few years\h\h

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of setting up camps for visitors Ruby said there'\h
be money in this year tourism and gave up the meal\h\h

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he'd been running to open tourists rest a cabin\h
and tent housee site in 1920 3 years later he\h\h

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sold tourists dress to the Union Pacific Railroad\h
and the strett retreated to their Ranch around\h\h

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the same time engineers were planning out a road\h
to get to Bryce Canyon and Ruby donated some of\h\h

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the land his Ranch was on to the project so now\h
Ruby's got a major train station nearby and the\h\h

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one road going to a very cool place runs right\h
through his land kind of a good place to build\h\h

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an in wouldn't you say so that's exactly what he\h
did he built rubies in and the family has owned\h\h

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operated and expanded it ever since they even\h
rebuilt it after it burned down in 1984 today\h\h

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it's got 694 rooms three restaurants an RV park\h
a campground a general store some souvenir shops\h\h

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a rodeo and a storefront that just says jail and\h
appears to have fresh cookies oh yeah and it's a\h\h

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town the shat started toying with the idea of\h
incorporating rubies in as a town as early as\h\h

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the 1970s and got really serious about it sometime\h
around 2004 but their County Garfield County had\h\h

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the power to reject their requests and they did\h
repeatedly probably in favor of eating lasagna\h\h

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and legislating against Mondays or because Ruby\h
in raked in so much tourist money that their tax\h\h

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contributions cover 10% of the Garfield County\h
budget their sales taxes alone generated $300,000\h\h

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a year that if the hotel were to incorporate\h
would go to the town the hotel itself instead of\h\h

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the county so it's no wonder the lasagna lovers\h
were against it the gist is this when Ruby in's\h\h

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tourist dollars went to the county a bunch of\h
people who actually lived in rural Utah would\h\h

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benefit if those dollars just went back to the\h
Inn the tourist attraction would improve for its\h\h

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visitors the settes and the small number of people\h
who actually live right outside the entrance to\h\h

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Bryce Canyon and the rest of the county would\h
just watch the counterargument from the third\h\h

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generation threats running the in in 2007 was\h
that they were already self-funding things that\h\h

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you might consider Municipal services like water\h
sewage and plowing snow so school blusters could\h\h

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get around and that's the kind of stuff their tax\h
revenue should have been covering but whether you\h\h

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agree with the county or the company the issue was\h
settled because the county had the power to reject\h\h

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Ruby's in's request for incorporation until 2007\h
that's the year the Utah State Legislature passed\h\h

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the controversial HB 466 titled incorporation\h
of a town amendments which couldn't sound more\h\h

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boring if it tried but was exactly what the\h
settes needed to force their incorporation\h\h

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past the county the point of the law was to make\h
it easier for unincorporated towns that were being\h\h

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neglected by their County to incorporate and start\h
setting up services for themselves and it passed\h\h

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without a single vote against it here's basically\h
what it said if your wouldbe town has between 100\h\h

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and 1,000 full-time residents and at least half\h
of them support incorporation the county has to\h\h

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let you incorporate of course when they read this\h
law the people in the Garfield County Office were\h\h

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like hey whoa this is going to screw us over big\h
time and the state legislator was like oh my like\h\h

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oh no okay yeah we'll look into it but by the\h
time they did it was too late Ruby in claimed to\h\h

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have 138 residents and had already petitioned to\h
incorporate so the county had to approve how did\h\h

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they pull together 70 yes votes that quickly well\h
of those 138 73 were members of the Strat family\h\h

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and the rest were employees of the hotel all\h
they had to do was prove that there were in fact\h\h

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138 people living there because if just 39 of the\h
folks in the headcount were fake dead or seasonal\h\h

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employees the county could reject incorporation\h
that that's why a committee from the state with\h\h

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reps from both the county and the company watching\h
their every move looked through voter roles school\h\h

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records and more to confirm that every single\h
one of those 138 people did in fact live there\h\h

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fulltime they proved there were sufficient\h
residents to force approval and suddenly Ruby's\h\h

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in became Bryce Kenyon City Rob seret Ruby's\h
grandson and the 's owner in 2007 became the\h\h

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mayor a conference room at the hotel became City\h
Hall and five s family members became the Town\h\h

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Council positions they were granted until the\h
first election to years later Bryce Kenyon city\h\h

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became Utah's 244th city/town and the first to\h
be incorporated under HB 466 the state recognized\h\h

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this as to put it lightly not the intention of\h
the bill they passed and quickly amended the\h\h

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law to say an incorporation petition that wanted\h
Auto approval needed five different sponsors who\h\h

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collectively owned less than 40% of the land and\h
also that once you became a town the government\h\h

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had to actually be elected the edit was so Swift\h
that in fact Bryce Kennon city is the only town\h\h

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to have been Incorporated under the original bill\h
but they got grandfathered in when it was amended\h\h

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so they kept their Town status and still collect\h
their own sales taxes on jail cookies Ruby would\h\h

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be proud so if you're looking to ride a horse or\h
celebrate prairie dogs or whatever head to Bryce\h\h

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