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We entered Parowan about 5 o'clock, May 17, and I was affectionately greeted by those persons who administered to my sufferings some weeks before. I had changed so much and grown so fat that not one of them knew me. Mrs. Heap, my old landlady, could not believe I was the ugly, emaciated person whose face she washed only three months before. Parowan contains one hundred families, five hundred head of cattle, one hundred and fifty horses and mules, and three hundred sheep. John C. L. Smith is President. Lewis is Bishop, and John Steele is Mayor. Our party arrived at Cedar City, Coal Creek at 2 o'clock on the 18th. Mr. Henry Lunt, a well-informed and generous-hearted Enghshman was, it is supposed, the jira white man who ever entered this valley or the river of the Great basin [to stay] with twenty-two men. He anived at the present site of the city two years and a half ago to form a settlement. Cedar City now contains one thousand inhabitants, meen hundred head of cattle, and a large number of horses, mules and sheep. The city is half a mile square and completely surrounded by an adobe wall twelve feet high, six feet at the base, and two and a half at the top; the building of the wall was attended by a great deal of labor. The persevering industry of these people is unsurpassed. A temple block is in the center of the city covering twenty acres of ground. The building lots are each twenty rods by four rods. The Iron Works are in successful operation, and all the railroad iron necessary to complete a road from there to San Bemardiio can be procured here. This city is destined to become a great place of business and, in case the Pacific Railroad does not come through or near Great Salt Lake City, it will be the channel through which all importations for the
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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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