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camps was the product of many small farms and dairies combined. Few families had enough surplus to justify a trip on their own. In 1870. Iron Ciounty had 264 farms, most of them composed of less than 10 acres. Consequently, shipping to the mines had to be a highly co-operative effort. In assembling these goods, the Co-op stores and tithing offices became most efficient mediums. Tithing in those days was paid almost wholly in kind, and a great deal of miscellaneous produce accumulated a t the Tithing Office building which was built in 1856-57.' The Ceda~ Co-op store was organized in 1869 and was a community market place. This store rendered a remarkable service to the people in assembling, grading, and marketing assorted products. The Mormon Church took the initiative in facilitating merchandising in all the settlements in Utah. They organi~cdthe Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (Z.C.M.I.) in Salt Lake City, which was to serve as a mother wholesnling store to supply goods tu other retail stores throughout the territory. Co-op stores were quickly organized in almost every community, and in this way little drihhles of capitalwerc lmughr together to buy a stock of goods. The effect of these stores on Utah was magical. It was wonderful, after their long famine, to go and sec shelves stuckcd with goods and to he able to replace a broken dish or buy enough calico to make a dress.Vhis s a n e \ear, 1R69, ir was recorded that "grasshoppers destroyed a large portion of the growing crops in Iron County and other parts of the territory," so it was helpful to have products brought in from other areas.' About 1869, Lehi started riding the Pony E x p r e ~ from Cedar Citv to Bullionville, Nevada. Actually, the Pony Express was or~anizedin 1860, hy Russell, Majors and Waddell which proposed to carry mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, Calif. in ten days. Five bundred of the fleetest horses were procured and over 200 men employed. Utah was brought within six day? of communication with the Missouri River, and seven days of the nation's capital. U p to that time it had tnkcn from six weeks to three months to receive the mail from Independence and St. Joseph. T h e most lonesome and worst part of this journey was bctwcen Salt Lake City and Sacramento.' The people in the west prized the Pony Express more highly than did their countr!mcn in the East. Evet-yone on the Pacific Coast wanted rapid communication with the rest of the country, hut most o the peof plr east of the Missouri River, k i n g pl-eoccupicd with thc daily unfolding tragedy of the Civil War, were unconcerned.' With the advent of the telegraph across the continent in 1862, the Pony Express hecame a thing of the past as a transcontinental service. However, the Pony Express continued in the outlying areas where thc telegraph had not ).et

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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
Type	Image; Still image
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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 40
Description	camps was the product of many small farms and dairies combined. Few families had enough surplus to justify a trip on their own. In 1870. Iron Ciounty had 264 farms, most of them composed of less than 10 acres. Consequently, shipping to the mines had to be a highly co-operative effort. In assembling these goods, the Co-op stores and tithing offices became most efficient mediums. Tithing in those days was paid almost wholly in kind, and a great deal of miscellaneous produce accumulated a t the Tithing Office building which was built in 1856-57.' The Ceda~ Co-op store was organized in 1869 and was a community market place. This store rendered a remarkable service to the people in assembling, grading, and marketing assorted products. The Mormon Church took the initiative in facilitating merchandising in all the settlements in Utah. They organi~cdthe Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (Z.C.M.I.) in Salt Lake City, which was to serve as a mother wholesnling store to supply goods tu other retail stores throughout the territory. Co-op stores were quickly organized in almost every community, and in this way little drihhles of capitalwerc lmughr together to buy a stock of goods. The effect of these stores on Utah was magical. It was wonderful, after their long famine, to go and sec shelves stuckcd with goods and to he able to replace a broken dish or buy enough calico to make a dress.Vhis s a n e \ear, 1R69, ir was recorded that "grasshoppers destroyed a large portion of the growing crops in Iron County and other parts of the territory" so it was helpful to have products brought in from other areas.' About 1869, Lehi started riding the Pony E x p r e ~ from Cedar Citv to Bullionville, Nevada. Actually, the Pony Express was or~anizedin 1860, hy Russell, Majors and Waddell which proposed to carry mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, Calif. in ten days. Five bundred of the fleetest horses were procured and over 200 men employed. Utah was brought within six day? of communication with the Missouri River, and seven days of the nation's capital. U p to that time it had tnkcn from six weeks to three months to receive the mail from Independence and St. Joseph. T h e most lonesome and worst part of this journey was bctwcen Salt Lake City and Sacramento.' The people in the west prized the Pony Express more highly than did their countr!mcn in the East. Evet-yone on the Pacific Coast wanted rapid communication with the rest of the country, hut most o the peof plr east of the Missouri River, k i n g pl-eoccupicd with thc daily unfolding tragedy of the Civil War, were unconcerned.' With the advent of the telegraph across the continent in 1862, the Pony Express hecame a thing of the past as a transcontinental service. However, the Pony Express continued in the outlying areas where thc telegraph had not ).et 40
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1122.pdf

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