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had to be cleared of sagebl-ush and greasewood. Heavy d r a p were made of tree trunks and poles, and the t~rushwas hurned. T h e plows were made of mountain mahogany and the shares of iron. Often, the land was hard and dry, and water for the season was scarce because of lack of rain. T h e lands were watered by irrigation with little ditches and canals that had been dug from the main streams that flowed from the tnountains. But, a farmer never ceased to feel that all would he well: for he dealt not with prosaic known t h i n p , but with the sunny future; and he left events in the hands of God. There were various difficulties against which the farmer was compelled to struggle. There was no market at first, and no definite price for produce. Families lived mainly by their own production, and exchanged with their neighbors. Evrry farm was a little kingdom by itself. When the crops failed, the families came together, talked things over, and shared with each other in whatever produce they might have left in their cellars or storerooms. They shared, and in their kindness to one another, they found their greatest Thomas and Sage were no exception. The wild surroundins wilderness necessitated a return to primitive conditions, but it generated in them a new order of adaptahility and they mastered and learned to love the wild country of the West. O n Feh. 11, 1861, twins were horn to Sage and Thomas Jones, a girl and a l~oy, who received the names of Uriah Treharne and Sarah 4 n n . The follow in^ month the Civil [\Tar began. -4s a result, General Johnston with his army was ordered back to the States to participate in the war between the North and the South. Consequently, all the government property and outfits at Camp Floyd were sold at extremely low prices. I t was estimated that four million dollars worth of goods were sold for $lOO,OnO.s Later it was learned that General Albert Sidney Johnston returned to his native land, the south, and served as a Confederate General. H e was killed in lnttle during the course of the war.6 PI-esident Ahraham Lincoln wondered if the western territories ~ r o u l d x sympathetir with the South. On the completion of the overl land teleg-raph to Utah in Oct. of 1861, President Brigham Young sent a message to the president of the Pacific Telegraph Co. in Ueveland, Ohio which read in part: "Utah has not seceded hut is firm for the constitution and laws of our once happy country."' During that summer, President Young visited Cedar City and the other communities of Southern Utah. This was a n exciting and inspirine cmasion for the settlers to see their leader and have their faith r e n w e d . I n Dec. of 1861, a party composed of George : Smith. E~.:~stus A Snow, Horace Eldredge and others, passed through Cedar City nn thrilway to St. George and further south, with a view to locating settlements 31

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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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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
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 31
Description	had to be cleared of sagebl-ush and greasewood. Heavy d r a p were made of tree trunks and poles, and the t~rushwas hurned. T h e plows were made of mountain mahogany and the shares of iron. Often, the land was hard and dry, and water for the season was scarce because of lack of rain. T h e lands were watered by irrigation with little ditches and canals that had been dug from the main streams that flowed from the tnountains. But, a farmer never ceased to feel that all would he well: for he dealt not with prosaic known t h i n p , but with the sunny future; and he left events in the hands of God. There were various difficulties against which the farmer was compelled to struggle. There was no market at first, and no definite price for produce. Families lived mainly by their own production, and exchanged with their neighbors. Evrry farm was a little kingdom by itself. When the crops failed, the families came together, talked things over, and shared with each other in whatever produce they might have left in their cellars or storerooms. They shared, and in their kindness to one another, they found their greatest Thomas and Sage were no exception. The wild surroundins wilderness necessitated a return to primitive conditions, but it generated in them a new order of adaptahility and they mastered and learned to love the wild country of the West. O n Feh. 11, 1861, twins were horn to Sage and Thomas Jones, a girl and a l~oy, who received the names of Uriah Treharne and Sarah 4 n n. The follow in^ month the Civil [\Tar began. -4s a result, General Johnston with his army was ordered back to the States to participate in the war between the North and the South. Consequently, all the government property and outfits at Camp Floyd were sold at extremely low prices. I t was estimated that four million dollars worth of goods were sold for $lOO,OnO.s Later it was learned that General Albert Sidney Johnston returned to his native land, the south, and served as a Confederate General. H e was killed in lnttle during the course of the war.6 PI-esident Ahraham Lincoln wondered if the western territories ~ r o u l d x sympathetir with the South. On the completion of the overl land teleg-raph to Utah in Oct. of 1861, President Brigham Young sent a message to the president of the Pacific Telegraph Co. in Ueveland, Ohio which read in part: "Utah has not seceded hut is firm for the constitution and laws of our once happy country."' During that summer, President Young visited Cedar City and the other communities of Southern Utah. This was a n exciting and inspirine cmasion for the settlers to see their leader and have their faith r e n w e d. I n Dec. of 1861, a party composed of George : Smith. E~.:~stus A Snow, Horace Eldredge and others, passed through Cedar City nn thrilway to St. George and further south, with a view to locating settlements 31
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1113.pdf

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