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per day. AU of the money for this machinery was raised locaily. The end product of the factory was sold through cooperative stores in southem Utah, and to Z.C.M.I. in Salt Lake City. The factory operated until 1910.6 The foliowing letter &en by Henry Lunt appeared in the Deseret News January 28, 1871. The article was entitled, "Iron Company to Make Iron." It was aiso pnnted in The Milennial S@: The Deseret Telegraph Line is in fine working order, and a railroad to Colorado from Salt Lake City is in contemplation. Thus the lightening serves the Lord and a highway is cast up for his Saints. The Iron Company at Iron City is preparing to make iron at an early date [Iron City was located southwest of Iron Mountain, about 30 miles from Cedar City].
When the Deseret Telegraph line was built in 1867, Henry's first wife, Ellen, was one of the first operators and was in charge of the telegraph o5ce in the Tithing Office. Later the telegraph was moved into the Lunt home, which was known as the Lunt Hotel and Stage Stop. It remained there until Bell Telephone Company instalied telephones in Cedar City and took over the telegraph in 1903. On Apnl 17, 1871, the Bishop of the Pinto Ward, Richard R. Robinson, m o t e the foUowing letter which was published in the Deseret News:
On Friday, April 14, 1 visited the Iron Works in our ward and saw the brethren actually making iron. After three years of hard struggle, success has actualiy crowned their efforts. 1 saw severai tons stacked by the Works and they were tapping the fumace at regular intervals and running out some eight hundred pounds every eight hours. No intemptions or stoppages by non-fluxing or chilling or uncontrollable obstructions occur, as perpiexed the brethren at Cedar City years ago, but everything seems to work very
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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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