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Paragonah, through Bear Valley and over into the Sevier Valley, following ri well-estahlished wagon road. The complete list of officers is not known, hut Silas S. Smith was sustained as captain with Robert Bulloch as Assistant Captain. The old wagon road crossed the. Sevier River a short distance southeast of Panpitch. They traveled this road upstream through Hillsdale and on to the summit at the head of the West Fork of the Sevier River. From here the party continued down Johnson Creek to the Johnson Settlement, then turned east, following a wason road toward Lee's Ferry. T h r route took the company to the Navajo Well, then southeastward over Buckskin Mountain and thence down House Rock Valley to House Rock Spring. Skirting the Vermillion Cliffs, they camped at Jacoh's pool, Soap Creek and Badger Creek hefore arriving on April 30 at the Colorado River Ferry, six miles upstream from thc present Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon. Once across the Colorado, there was a difficult climb out of the river gorge and up over "Lee's Backhone." Distances between waterholes seemed endless. At Lioenkopi, leaders of the expedition made the acquaintance of Seth Tanner and hired him and an unidentified Navajo to guide the company to the San Juan. Thales Haskell also joined thc expedition at this timc. I n addition to these three men, members of the expedition were also uamed as scouts to precede the main company of wagons. Kunien Jones is ~ ~ s u a l l y mentioned as head scout with Robert Bulloch, Hobhs, Derker and Dunran helping." Kumcn Jones wrote: "It soon became apparent that water was going to 1,e the source of our greatest anxiety, and wherever a damp place was fonnd. shovels, spades and picks were soon brought out and digging for water commenced and, as a rule, plenty of water was soon secured, which fact was easily used to our advantage with the quickwitted Navajos, as they were told that the watering places would he theirs as soon as we passed on. 'This news was soon spread, and the Indians ahead werr all anxious and gave us a hearty welcome, occasionally bringing a mutton out to show their appreciation." Havinx arrived safely at the San Juan, the company spent the next several we& explorin~the whole river hottom, from well above LIIP Elmo Wash to Butlcr Waqh. Every piece of possihle farmland was discovered and claimed and a few houses were built, some just a mile upstream from the present site of Bluff. They called this site Montezuma. Work mews finished the dam acl-oss the San Juan at McElmo Creek and duq ditches to mnvey water to the parching land, to no avail. This dam constructed of logs, stones, sticks, and mud was a structure some twohundred feet long which raised the river water three feet. But the irrigation project was doomed to failure because the water level fell off too

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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	Paragonah, through Bear Valley and over into the Sevier Valley, following ri well-estahlished wagon road. The complete list of officers is not known, hut Silas S. Smith was sustained as captain with Robert Bulloch as Assistant Captain. The old wagon road crossed the. Sevier River a short distance southeast of Panpitch. They traveled this road upstream through Hillsdale and on to the summit at the head of the West Fork of the Sevier River. From here the party continued down Johnson Creek to the Johnson Settlement, then turned east, following a wason road toward Lee's Ferry. T h r route took the company to the Navajo Well, then southeastward over Buckskin Mountain and thence down House Rock Valley to House Rock Spring. Skirting the Vermillion Cliffs, they camped at Jacoh's pool, Soap Creek and Badger Creek hefore arriving on April 30 at the Colorado River Ferry, six miles upstream from thc present Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon. Once across the Colorado, there was a difficult climb out of the river gorge and up over "Lee's Backhone." Distances between waterholes seemed endless. At Lioenkopi, leaders of the expedition made the acquaintance of Seth Tanner and hired him and an unidentified Navajo to guide the company to the San Juan. Thales Haskell also joined thc expedition at this timc. I n addition to these three men, members of the expedition were also uamed as scouts to precede the main company of wagons. Kunien Jones is ~ ~ s u a l l y mentioned as head scout with Robert Bulloch, Hobhs, Derker and Dunran helping." Kumcn Jones wrote: "It soon became apparent that water was going to 1,e the source of our greatest anxiety, and wherever a damp place was fonnd. shovels, spades and picks were soon brought out and digging for water commenced and, as a rule, plenty of water was soon secured, which fact was easily used to our advantage with the quickwitted Navajos, as they were told that the watering places would he theirs as soon as we passed on. 'This news was soon spread, and the Indians ahead werr all anxious and gave us a hearty welcome, occasionally bringing a mutton out to show their appreciation." Havinx arrived safely at the San Juan, the company spent the next several we& explorin~the whole river hottom, from well above LIIP Elmo Wash to Butlcr Waqh. Every piece of possihle farmland was discovered and claimed and a few houses were built, some just a mile upstream from the present site of Bluff. They called this site Montezuma. Work mews finished the dam acl-oss the San Juan at McElmo Creek and duq ditches to mnvey water to the parching land, to no avail. This dam constructed of logs, stones, sticks, and mud was a structure some twohundred feet long which raised the river water three feet. But the irrigation project was doomed to failure because the water level fell off too 76
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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