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reached. In Southern Utah, the telegraph covered some areas that early, but it wasn't until later that this service extended from Southern Utah into Nevada. I t was this area that was covered by the mail contracts handled by one man nanied Salisbury from Salt Lake City. He had several contracts covering routes between Salt Lake City and the "Muddy" River. He sub-leased the contract involving the mail from Cedar City to Bullionville, a town across the valley north of Panaca, Kevada, to the Harris family. The mail was delivered by their sons, Johnny and Dave Harris. Sister Harris was a Welch woman, and because of their similar hackgrounds, she and Lehi's mother, Sage Jones, got along very well. The roundtrip took nearly six days and the boys would return to Cedar City Saturday, rest on Sunday, and begin the trip a p i n Monday. Sometimes, however, they would find entertainment in Bullion\~illeand the trip would take longer. They became increasingly occupied with the interesting and divertins t h i n ~ p that were going on in that mining and gamhling town and, because of this, it became necessary to find someone to help with the mail contract. Many times Sister Harris would come to Sage on Saturday night, when John and Dave hadn't returned, an;l ask Lehi to start out on Monday with the mail. When he met the Harris boys, they wonld take the mail and continue the trip, never having reached Cedar City. Sometimes Lehi ended u p taking the mail thc entire distance to Bullionville. Eventually, Sister Harris and Sage agreed to operate the contract jointly, with their boys as riders until Salihury became aware of this arrangement. He approached Sage and her son, Lehi, who was 16 years old, and offered them the contract.' I t was an eventful day when, with the help of Henry Leigh, the contract hecame entirely theirs, and Sage assumed the role of postmistress. Lehi and Kumen, who was just two years younger than Lehi, took over the responsibility of riding the pony express that distance of over 120 miles to Nevada and back. The route took them past Old Irontown the first day, and on to Pinto that night where they stayed with the Thales Haskell farnil>-. The next day they passed through Hehron, a town u p the canyon west of Enterprise, where they stopped for lunch then continued on to Clover Valley where they stopped for the night. They delivered mail at each farm and town along the way. The following day thry rode to Bullionville, wherc they usually spent the day, then returned home by the same route, bringing the mail from the opposite direction." In order to take the Pony Express route the Jones family needed horses to change. off cnch trip. r\l)out this time, Lehi bought a horse from the town poundkeeper at one of the town auctions. He bought the horse for $8.00 and the family named him "Old Frank." This horse was

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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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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

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Description	reached. In Southern Utah, the telegraph covered some areas that early, but it wasn't until later that this service extended from Southern Utah into Nevada. I t was this area that was covered by the mail contracts handled by one man nanied Salisbury from Salt Lake City. He had several contracts covering routes between Salt Lake City and the "Muddy" River. He sub-leased the contract involving the mail from Cedar City to Bullionville, a town across the valley north of Panaca, Kevada, to the Harris family. The mail was delivered by their sons, Johnny and Dave Harris. Sister Harris was a Welch woman, and because of their similar hackgrounds, she and Lehi's mother, Sage Jones, got along very well. The roundtrip took nearly six days and the boys would return to Cedar City Saturday, rest on Sunday, and begin the trip a p i n Monday. Sometimes, however, they would find entertainment in Bullion\~illeand the trip would take longer. They became increasingly occupied with the interesting and divertins t h i n ~ p that were going on in that mining and gamhling town and, because of this, it became necessary to find someone to help with the mail contract. Many times Sister Harris would come to Sage on Saturday night, when John and Dave hadn't returned, an;l ask Lehi to start out on Monday with the mail. When he met the Harris boys, they wonld take the mail and continue the trip, never having reached Cedar City. Sometimes Lehi ended u p taking the mail thc entire distance to Bullionville. Eventually, Sister Harris and Sage agreed to operate the contract jointly, with their boys as riders until Salihury became aware of this arrangement. He approached Sage and her son, Lehi, who was 16 years old, and offered them the contract.' I t was an eventful day when, with the help of Henry Leigh, the contract hecame entirely theirs, and Sage assumed the role of postmistress. Lehi and Kumen, who was just two years younger than Lehi, took over the responsibility of riding the pony express that distance of over 120 miles to Nevada and back. The route took them past Old Irontown the first day, and on to Pinto that night where they stayed with the Thales Haskell farnil>-. The next day they passed through Hehron, a town u p the canyon west of Enterprise, where they stopped for lunch then continued on to Clover Valley where they stopped for the night. They delivered mail at each farm and town along the way. The following day thry rode to Bullionville, wherc they usually spent the day, then returned home by the same route, bringing the mail from the opposite direction." In order to take the Pony Express route the Jones family needed horses to change. off cnch trip. r\l)out this time, Lehi bought a horse from the town poundkeeper at one of the town auctions. He bought the horse for $8.00 and the family named him "Old Frank." This horse was 41
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1123.pdf

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