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On Friday, April 25, laid hands on Sister Miller who had just become the mother of a fine daughter, the fourth child born in our new town, and without the aid of doctor or midwife, as our county does not afford any such professional characters. During the forepart of the night it rained several hours beautifully. Monday April 28: Brother Shepherd this morning, with four others, reported the death of Sister Swartout and asked for lumber to make a coffin. Brother Whitney found some, takmg part of a wagon bed which he used for a floor. I selected a place for a burying ground northeast of Louisa in a cedar grove. Attended the burying about 3 o'clock. She died at the crossing at Cottonwood, age 22 years, leaving a child three days old.3 Some of the men, who were exploring the creek at Cottonwood, found some stone coal which had washed down from the canyon. On May 3, two men who were exploring Cottonwood Canyon (Cedar Canyon) reported two veins of coal were exposed due to a landslide which took place four miles up the canyon. Brother Whitney tried the coal in his forge and was able to make horseshoe nails and weld pieces of iron together. He pronounced that it was a good quality. However, President Smith stated: "It will cost two thousand dollars or one thousand days' work to make a road to the coal."4 On May 7, Smith sent Brothers Frost, Bringhurst and Green to Iron Springs to procure some specimens of iron ore, and he and Brother Farr rode their horses in search of a site for a city. Smith wrote: "Found a splendid site on both sides of Coal Creek. [The creek] is a rod wide, ik 15 inches deep, very rapid stream, rocky bed, soft water, m l water color, banks covered with scrub cedars and a few serviceberry bushes, some Spanish soap root, and abundant grass--all five miles from coal and ten miles from iron--and large tracts of farming land. This point must become a fine flourishing manufacturing town." Henry Lunt wrote: "May 10: Snow fell this morning six inches deep. President Brigham Young and company (about forty people)
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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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