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That wintcr Lchi, who was 36 year old, and Dave Bulloch's son, Rolxrt Will, who was 14 or 15 years old, stayed with the herd and lived in a tent on the Mesa. Their main sustenance was bread and molasses. For some time after Lehi and Dave Bulloch acquired sheep, they as kept as many of the ewe laml~s they could in order to build up the herd. The only sheep that they sold were the weathers, and they weren't sold nntil they wcre two or three years old. This way, the sheep herd huilt up fairly rapidly. When the weathers were sold, they were driven on foot and by horsel~ark market in Chicago or Kansas City. The other sheep to ownen accun~ulated what livestock they wanted sold and the sheep were driven in one great herd, sometimes contain in^ as many as 4,000 head. The route was through Sevier Valley, over Salina Canyon, Utah and on to Grand Junction. Colorado. The shecpmen arranged it so that they traveled throuxh the mountains in the summer and reached the cornfields of Nchraska and Iowa in the fall, after the crops had been harvested. They ran into many problems during these treks. O n occasion, they hit had feed and sometimes were attacked by coyotes or other animals. Some people were even after them for trespassing. However, hy herding the sheep this way, the livestockmen could eliminate freight costs and the sheep could Sraze along the way saving the cost of feed.3 As the sheep business grew and became better established, the men hegan to take advantage of the railroad facilities and shipped their animals to market. l'hey also became hctrer oriented with the country and the climate and range facilities. Eventually, the people of Cedar City began rnnning sheep on the mountains east of the city during the summer and found that the larkspur plant, which was poisonous to the cattle, did not affect the sheep. I n winter, Lehi and Dave not only mn sheep at Beaver Dam and other areas some distances from Cedar City, hut they I~egan using the rangeland west of Cedar City for their sheep, as well as for cattle. Lehi's business affairs seemed to become more complex each year and as the size of the family increased and the children Srew, Lehi and Henrietta beramc very involved. O n the 15th of Feb., 1893, a daughter was born to them, but she died the same day. They named her Martha. Lelii had a heart attack in approximately 1894 when he was about 40 yean old. T h e attack rame one evening as he was on the way home from doing the field work. When this happened, Lehi was unable to get to his home, so he was taken to Uriah's home, where he stayed for several days until he was able to be moved. H e was told by the doctor that, if he wonld quit work and just lie around, he might live another twenty years. He did not obey the doctor's advise, but continued to work as hefore and lived for more than fifty yean. 114

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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

Title	Page 114
Description	That wintcr Lchi, who was 36 year old, and Dave Bulloch's son, Rolxrt Will, who was 14 or 15 years old, stayed with the herd and lived in a tent on the Mesa. Their main sustenance was bread and molasses. For some time after Lehi and Dave Bulloch acquired sheep, they as kept as many of the ewe laml~s they could in order to build up the herd. The only sheep that they sold were the weathers, and they weren't sold nntil they wcre two or three years old. This way, the sheep herd huilt up fairly rapidly. When the weathers were sold, they were driven on foot and by horsel~ark market in Chicago or Kansas City. The other sheep to ownen accun~ulated what livestock they wanted sold and the sheep were driven in one great herd, sometimes contain in^ as many as 4,000 head. The route was through Sevier Valley, over Salina Canyon, Utah and on to Grand Junction. Colorado. The shecpmen arranged it so that they traveled throuxh the mountains in the summer and reached the cornfields of Nchraska and Iowa in the fall, after the crops had been harvested. They ran into many problems during these treks. O n occasion, they hit had feed and sometimes were attacked by coyotes or other animals. Some people were even after them for trespassing. However, hy herding the sheep this way, the livestockmen could eliminate freight costs and the sheep could Sraze along the way saving the cost of feed.3 As the sheep business grew and became better established, the men hegan to take advantage of the railroad facilities and shipped their animals to market. l'hey also became hctrer oriented with the country and the climate and range facilities. Eventually, the people of Cedar City began rnnning sheep on the mountains east of the city during the summer and found that the larkspur plant, which was poisonous to the cattle, did not affect the sheep. I n winter, Lehi and Dave not only mn sheep at Beaver Dam and other areas some distances from Cedar City, hut they I~egan using the rangeland west of Cedar City for their sheep, as well as for cattle. Lehi's business affairs seemed to become more complex each year and as the size of the family increased and the children Srew, Lehi and Henrietta beramc very involved. O n the 15th of Feb., 1893, a daughter was born to them, but she died the same day. They named her Martha. Lelii had a heart attack in approximately 1894 when he was about 40 yean old. T h e attack rame one evening as he was on the way home from doing the field work. When this happened, Lehi was unable to get to his home, so he was taken to Uriah's home, where he stayed for several days until he was able to be moved. H e was told by the doctor that, if he wonld quit work and just lie around, he might live another twenty years. He did not obey the doctor's advise, but continued to work as hefore and lived for more than fifty yean. 114
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1194.pdf

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