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evening and found in his gizzard some tivo dollars worth of gold dust. It has produced no small excitement in town. February 25: I examined the gold taken out of Pugmire's rooster and believe it to be brass. I placed my magnet in it and it took it up as it would steel filings, an evidence to me that it was mixed with iron A bricklayer, Robert Wiley, and his twelve-year-old son lived in a dugout with Henry Lunt. In the 1851 Census it states that Lunt was a storekeeper. The settlement was receiving supplies from general church headquarters from time to time such as flour, food supplies, tools, and whatever could be assembled to help in building roads and buildings. It was necessary to keep an account of the distribution of these items, and Henry was assigned to keep an inventory and record of all the transactions. This was certainly the closest thing they had to a store at that time. Most of this work was done in the evening. They lived on wheat which many ground into flour for bread, but Henry and his companion preferred to eat the wheat boiled into sort of a gruel. For three months they spent every day, from daybreak to sundown, working on the walls of the fort which were constructed of vertical logs and large pine pickets. Each evening Hemy went to Smith's wagon to write down the events of the day. One evening as Henry was about to leave, Brother Smith put a sack of flour on his shoulder which in Henry's words, "seemed the most precious thing I had ever possessed." The flour had just arrived from Salt Lake City. Henry also purchased a hen from one of his neighbors and fifteen eggs from another. Henry and Wiley had the luxury of supplementing their diet with eggs as every egg hatched and the chickens grew to maturity." The next large task that the company faced was that of developing the water from Center Creek for irrigation. Planting crops and growing food was an absolute necessity for their survival. They built a rather makeshift school which was called the "wickiup." The teacher and the students assembled at night after a hard day's work to study English Grammar. When the Council House was completed,
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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