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center then became a farmyard or cattle corral. The water of Coal Creek flowed undcr the wall and through the north side of the enclosure and was utilized for a grist n~ill and other industries. Another field was surveyed and clcared dose by; although they continued to farm the other one. Fremont's last expedition passed through Ccdar City May, 1854 and he wrote thc following ahout the city: "Cedar City now contains one thousand inhallitants, who possess fifteen hundred head of rattle: hesides I a I q e number of horses, mules, and sheep. The tit!. is half ; mile square, and (ompletely surrounded by an adobe wall twelve feet high, six fcct at the hasc and two and a half at the top; the h i l d i n g of the wall was attended hy a great deal of labor; and persevering industr! of these people is uniurpaaed. .\ tcrnple block is in the centre of the city, covering twcnry acres of ground, the I~uilding lots arc each tweury rods 111 four rods. . . . "3 Because of the Indian thrcat, somc settlers left. Those who remained, I~anded togcthcr for pl-otcttion. Perhaps more than an:- other colony set out hy the church lenders. thc people of Cedar City realized they had a special mission Ilesides maintaining themsclvcs- the production of iron. Their worn out wapon iron was all the iron to be had on this side of the Mississippi, until thcy were able to produce somc from the vast deposits sleeping in these western hills.' These early settlcrs of Ccdar City and the "Old Fort" were augmentcd by a group of Scotch. English and Welch i n ~ n workers, emigrants whom Pres. Young desiyunted and sent south l~ecause their of specid training. Thornas Joncs fell into this group of people. His rct+ ords state that he was a mining engineer and naturally he ~t-ould be among those sent to develop the vast resourccr of iron in Southern Utah." By Feh. 1852, definite steps had hecn taken in Crdat- City to begin the construction of a blast furnace. A vein of coal was opened in Cedar Canyor~ and a wagon road was made to it. They then hexan huilding a charmal pit and a coke oven. I n August, the roke ovens werc fired for the first t i m e . T h e work was done under the supchtertdency of Richard Harrison, who acted in this capacity until Nov. 1, 1853, when Isaac C . Haight was sent hy Pres. Brigham Yorlng to take ovcr. The following was taken from Henry 1,unt's diary: ',,ruesday Sept. '28, 1852. . . Myself and all hands laboured on the Iron Lt'orks, laboured until ahout 12 o'clork at night with several others." 29. . . Laboul-ed on thc irrm works. Con~menced charging the '%t. furnace and put on the tjlast almut noon. Laboured most of the night. The machinery workcd most c ~ c c l l e n t . ~

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
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Description	center then became a farmyard or cattle corral. The water of Coal Creek flowed undcr the wall and through the north side of the enclosure and was utilized for a grist n~ill and other industries. Another field was surveyed and clcared dose by; although they continued to farm the other one. Fremont's last expedition passed through Ccdar City May, 1854 and he wrote thc following ahout the city: "Cedar City now contains one thousand inhallitants, who possess fifteen hundred head of rattle: hesides I a I q e number of horses, mules, and sheep. The tit !. is half ; mile square, and (ompletely surrounded by an adobe wall twelve feet high, six fcct at the hasc and two and a half at the top; the h i l d i n g of the wall was attended hy a great deal of labor; and persevering industr! of these people is uniurpaaed..\ tcrnple block is in the centre of the city, covering twcnry acres of ground, the I~uilding lots arc each tweury rods 111 four rods.... "3 Because of the Indian thrcat, somc settlers left. Those who remained, I~anded togcthcr for pl-otcttion. Perhaps more than an:- other colony set out hy the church lenders. thc people of Cedar City realized they had a special mission Ilesides maintaining themsclvcs- the production of iron. Their worn out wapon iron was all the iron to be had on this side of the Mississippi, until thcy were able to produce somc from the vast deposits sleeping in these western hills.' These early settlcrs of Ccdar City and the "Old Fort" were augmentcd by a group of Scotch. English and Welch i n ~ n workers, emigrants whom Pres. Young desiyunted and sent south l~ecause their of specid training. Thornas Joncs fell into this group of people. His rct+ ords state that he was a mining engineer and naturally he ~t-ould be among those sent to develop the vast resourccr of iron in Southern Utah." By Feh. 1852, definite steps had hecn taken in Crdat- City to begin the construction of a blast furnace. A vein of coal was opened in Cedar Canyor~ and a wagon road was made to it. They then hexan huilding a charmal pit and a coke oven. I n August, the roke ovens werc fired for the first t i m e. T h e work was done under the supchtertdency of Richard Harrison, who acted in this capacity until Nov. 1, 1853, when Isaac C. Haight was sent hy Pres. Brigham Yorlng to take ovcr. The following was taken from Henry 1,unt's diary: ',,ruesday Sept. '28, 1852... Myself and all hands laboured on the Iron Lt'orks, laboured until ahout 12 o'clork at night with several others." 29... Laboul-ed on thc irrm works. Con~menced charging the '%t. furnace and put on the tjlast almut noon. Laboured most of the night. The machinery workcd most c ~ c c l l e n t. ~ 14
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