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Lamanites were deeply interested. T h e country was strange to me. Near the place of our operations was a river that I could see, the water of which was not quite clear). .4s this dream had left quite an impression on my mind, I asked our mother to interpret it for me, and without hesitating, she said, You will he called with others to go and live among the Indians. This was Dec. 22, 1878, and almut a week after this date, word came from Parowan, Utah, that some young men (including myself) had been called to make a scouting trip out in the country in the neighhorhood of the Four Corners where the state of Colorado and the Tel-ritories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah corner together." T h e Mormon pionem were constantly pushing into new frontiers. I t was Rrigham Young's policy to know the valleys, streams and lakes of the Utah Territory and it was his desire to control all the natural resources therein. Brigham Young- was probably the greatest colonizer America has produced. When he'died in 1877, the colonization program which he had launched had not yet been rompleted. Among the areas not yet settled was southeastern Utah, although for several years church expansion had been in that general direction. The San Juan "Four Corners" area was too remote for natural expansion or so thornoglily unknown that little or no interest had been shown in it; therefore, it was deemed necessary to organize an official colonization "mission." Under the leadership of Silas S. Smith, the explorin~party, of which Kumen Jones was a member, consisting of twenty-six men, two women, and eight children, left Paragonah April 14, 187il. Some did not expect to return to their old homes, but would stay on the San Juan, lending real permanence to the new colony.' One of the men who was leaving- with the expedition felt it was necessary to take some liquor with him. H e asked his old friend. Lehi Jones, with whom he was well acquainted from his pony expres days, to locate some for him. Lehi didn't know if this was good judgment, so he went to Henry Leigh u.ho was the manager of the Co-op Store, the only store that handled liquor. After talking it over, they decided under the circumstances, they'd better get him what he wanted. Lehi's friend must have started in early on his provisions, hecause the following day he was still too ill to ride his horse. Lehi ended up taking his own team and tmcklroard and'by putting his friend in the hark of the buckhoard and leading the horse, he was able to catch up with the exploring party in Rear Valley. Lehi stayed t h e that night and returned the next day thinking of what a waste of timc - and all because of liquor.3 This company of explorers, headed for southeastern Utah, was wellif equipped for a six-months expcditiol~, that much time should he rcquired. Their course took the company u p Little Creek, northeast of 75

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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
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 75
Description	Lamanites were deeply interested. T h e country was strange to me. Near the place of our operations was a river that I could see, the water of which was not quite clear)..4s this dream had left quite an impression on my mind, I asked our mother to interpret it for me, and without hesitating, she said, You will he called with others to go and live among the Indians. This was Dec. 22, 1878, and almut a week after this date, word came from Parowan, Utah, that some young men (including myself) had been called to make a scouting trip out in the country in the neighhorhood of the Four Corners where the state of Colorado and the Tel-ritories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah corner together." T h e Mormon pionem were constantly pushing into new frontiers. I t was Rrigham Young's policy to know the valleys, streams and lakes of the Utah Territory and it was his desire to control all the natural resources therein. Brigham Young- was probably the greatest colonizer America has produced. When he'died in 1877, the colonization program which he had launched had not yet been rompleted. Among the areas not yet settled was southeastern Utah, although for several years church expansion had been in that general direction. The San Juan "Four Corners" area was too remote for natural expansion or so thornoglily unknown that little or no interest had been shown in it; therefore, it was deemed necessary to organize an official colonization "mission." Under the leadership of Silas S. Smith, the explorin~party, of which Kumen Jones was a member, consisting of twenty-six men, two women, and eight children, left Paragonah April 14, 187il. Some did not expect to return to their old homes, but would stay on the San Juan, lending real permanence to the new colony.' One of the men who was leaving- with the expedition felt it was necessary to take some liquor with him. H e asked his old friend. Lehi Jones, with whom he was well acquainted from his pony expres days, to locate some for him. Lehi didn't know if this was good judgment, so he went to Henry Leigh u.ho was the manager of the Co-op Store, the only store that handled liquor. After talking it over, they decided under the circumstances, they'd better get him what he wanted. Lehi's friend must have started in early on his provisions, hecause the following day he was still too ill to ride his horse. Lehi ended up taking his own team and tmcklroard and'by putting his friend in the hark of the buckhoard and leading the horse, he was able to catch up with the exploring party in Rear Valley. Lehi stayed t h e that night and returned the next day thinking of what a waste of timc - and all because of liquor.3 This company of explorers, headed for southeastern Utah, was wellif equipped for a six-months expcditiol~, that much time should he rcquired. Their course took the company u p Little Creek, northeast of 75
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1155.pdf

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