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In 1894, Lehi's younger brother William, at the age of 35, was sent on a mission to Wales, leaving his wife and family in order to serve the church but was released from his mission because of ill health. O n Dec. 3rd of that year, Lehi and Henrietta were blessed with another baby hoy, Erastus Lunt Jones. Just a year later, in December of 1895, Lehi's good friend, Dave Bulloch, found that some property in :\rizona in which they had been interested, was u p for sale. The date of Dec. 2, 1895 must have been a memorable one for Lehi, because of his new involvement in the Arizona Strip and specifically the purchase of the Pipe Spring Ranch. Lehi, Dave Bulloch, Quill Nebeker, and Joe Heywood went in together on this project. They purchased ahout two thousand head of cattle, and the ranrh at Pipe Spring, hiring the money and going into debt $60,000.00 on the venture. Nebeker and Heywood had access to credit, and Bulloch and Jones had the experience and knowledge of running cattle. Pipe Spring was the main waterhole that controlled that area.' Pipe Spring is on the Moccasin Terrace of the RIarkagunt Plateau near the south-facing edge of the Vermillion Cliffs. This area, just south of the interstate line of Utah and .4rizona, is commonly called the "-4rizona Strip." Its elexsation is ahout 5,000 feet ahove sea level, and the climate is fairly temperate. "Pipe" is 15 miles southwest of Fredonia, Aria. Mormon missionaries led by Jacoh Hamhlin camped a t the spring in the autumn of 1858 while enroute to the lands of the Hopi 1ndians.Tradition says that the place derived its name from a shooting incident tliat occurred at this time. William, "Gunlock Bill", Hamblin shot the bottom out of a smoking pipe to demonstrate his marksmanship; hence, the name Pipe Spring.' James M. Whitmore established a claim at Pipe Spring in 1863 and built a dug-out, fenced an area, and started a livestock ranch. Raiding hands of Navajos began crossing the river in search of food. T h e first casualties of the 1866 Navajo raids were James Whitmore and his herder, Robert RlcIntyre, in Jan. of that year. At a point about four miles away from Pipe Spring, they were attacked and killed by the Indians and all the clothing was taken from their hodies. That night, the Indians came hack and raided the place, but did not go into the dugout where Whitmore's eight-year-old boy was hiding. I t was a night of terror for him. The next morning he started, on foot and alone, for St. George, 9fi miles away to report the killing. After walking some distance, the boy met some people who accompanied him the remainder of the distance to St. George. After relating his story, a group of men returned t n Pipe Spring and, after hunting for several days in two feet of snow, found the hodies shot full of arrows. ;\lso, they caught six Indians who 115

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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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Title	Page 115
Description	In 1894, Lehi's younger brother William, at the age of 35, was sent on a mission to Wales, leaving his wife and family in order to serve the church but was released from his mission because of ill health. O n Dec. 3rd of that year, Lehi and Henrietta were blessed with another baby hoy, Erastus Lunt Jones. Just a year later, in December of 1895, Lehi's good friend, Dave Bulloch, found that some property in :\rizona in which they had been interested, was u p for sale. The date of Dec. 2, 1895 must have been a memorable one for Lehi, because of his new involvement in the Arizona Strip and specifically the purchase of the Pipe Spring Ranch. Lehi, Dave Bulloch, Quill Nebeker, and Joe Heywood went in together on this project. They purchased ahout two thousand head of cattle, and the ranrh at Pipe Spring, hiring the money and going into debt $60,000.00 on the venture. Nebeker and Heywood had access to credit, and Bulloch and Jones had the experience and knowledge of running cattle. Pipe Spring was the main waterhole that controlled that area.' Pipe Spring is on the Moccasin Terrace of the RIarkagunt Plateau near the south-facing edge of the Vermillion Cliffs. This area, just south of the interstate line of Utah and.4rizona, is commonly called the "-4rizona Strip." Its elexsation is ahout 5,000 feet ahove sea level, and the climate is fairly temperate. "Pipe" is 15 miles southwest of Fredonia, Aria. Mormon missionaries led by Jacoh Hamhlin camped a t the spring in the autumn of 1858 while enroute to the lands of the Hopi 1ndians.Tradition says that the place derived its name from a shooting incident tliat occurred at this time. William, "Gunlock Bill", Hamblin shot the bottom out of a smoking pipe to demonstrate his marksmanship; hence, the name Pipe Spring.' James M. Whitmore established a claim at Pipe Spring in 1863 and built a dug-out, fenced an area, and started a livestock ranch. Raiding hands of Navajos began crossing the river in search of food. T h e first casualties of the 1866 Navajo raids were James Whitmore and his herder, Robert RlcIntyre, in Jan. of that year. At a point about four miles away from Pipe Spring, they were attacked and killed by the Indians and all the clothing was taken from their hodies. That night, the Indians came hack and raided the place, but did not go into the dugout where Whitmore's eight-year-old boy was hiding. I t was a night of terror for him. The next morning he started, on foot and alone, for St. George, 9fi miles away to report the killing. After walking some distance, the boy met some people who accompanied him the remainder of the distance to St. George. After relating his story, a group of men returned t n Pipe Spring and, after hunting for several days in two feet of snow, found the hodies shot full of arrows. ;\lso, they caught six Indians who 115
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