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approximately eighteen months . A state of droutb ensued, and Lehi and Dave lost many animals. They were forced to move the cattle out of "Pipe" to various places in order to find more feed. They trailed 2.400 head Inck to Cedar City and on out to Iron Springs, then continued to the "Old Herd Houae" in the Escalante Desert. Henry Jones, Lehi's son, states that he remembers it well "because they brought the entire herd right down the Cedar (:itr mainstreet." T h e cattle were left on the desert for part of the season and then Lehi decided to take all the dry "stuff back to the rar~pc Pipe Spring. Some thought it would be wiser to sell at the steers hut Lehi felt it better to keep them. Consequently, when spring came, the steers and dry cows were taken hack to Pipe Spring, and late in the summer, when it began to rain, the grass grew until it was high and waving. The cattle hecame fat again, and tlie steers were sold that fall. This sale was ahout the only thing that saved then], financially. When LS the dry stock were taken I1ai.k to the "strip," the cows and ca1~.,. were driven north to Deseret and they bought hay to feed them." Henry gives an account of driving the steers from the "Strip" to Dcseret to be sold: "Ben Heywood and I, and others, went down to the Arizona Strip and rounded u p ahout 400 head of large steers and trailed them up through Mt. Carmcl over Cedar Mountain down to Cedar City, and on out through '20-mile Gap to Descret. Father l ~ o u ~ lrattle lt s t Enoch from people who wanted to sell without driving a few head to market in order to get their money, and he added these cattle to the herd. .At the same tinw that he was dl-iving the fattened steers to Deseret to bc' loaded on the tmin to be marketed, Dave was bringing the cows and cahes hack to return them to Pipe Spring where the feed was still good after the rains. The two herds passed each othrr at Rush Lake.'' Lehi hl.. Lehi's fourth son, relxtcs heing nine yeam old when he helped with this drive to Deseret. He stated: "M'hcn we stopped out by tlie remetcry, an Indian was sitting watchina the cattle and horse.; for father. I asked him to catch the little ),lack mare for me, one that I i l ~ i m e d mine. \Shen the Indian roped the horse, he car~~$it t h u m l ~ as his in the rope and pulled all the skin off. 'l'he Indian quit the joh right there and then, and father told me that I would have to take over the $1 of runninr: the horses, which I did." West of Rush Lake, m 20-mile Gap, thcrc was a man drawing water from a well with a harrcl, filling the troughs to watrr the herds that passed through. The drive cnntinued north to 20-mile Spring and on to Hot Springs, west of minersville, then to I\Iilford and north to B l a ~ h Rock. Henry was on n i ~ h herd in the henrh area ixtween Hot Springs and t 20->file G;tp when the cattle l~egan stampede, posihly from liqhtning. to

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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 118
Description	approximately eighteen months. A state of droutb ensued, and Lehi and Dave lost many animals. They were forced to move the cattle out of "Pipe" to various places in order to find more feed. They trailed 2.400 head Inck to Cedar City and on out to Iron Springs, then continued to the "Old Herd Houae" in the Escalante Desert. Henry Jones, Lehi's son, states that he remembers it well "because they brought the entire herd right down the Cedar (:itr mainstreet." T h e cattle were left on the desert for part of the season and then Lehi decided to take all the dry "stuff back to the rar~pc Pipe Spring. Some thought it would be wiser to sell at the steers hut Lehi felt it better to keep them. Consequently, when spring came, the steers and dry cows were taken hack to Pipe Spring, and late in the summer, when it began to rain, the grass grew until it was high and waving. The cattle hecame fat again, and tlie steers were sold that fall. This sale was ahout the only thing that saved then], financially. When LS the dry stock were taken I1ai.k to the "strip" the cows and ca1~. ,. were driven north to Deseret and they bought hay to feed them." Henry gives an account of driving the steers from the "Strip" to Dcseret to be sold: "Ben Heywood and I, and others, went down to the Arizona Strip and rounded u p ahout 400 head of large steers and trailed them up through Mt. Carmcl over Cedar Mountain down to Cedar City, and on out through '20-mile Gap to Descret. Father l ~ o u ~ lrattle lt s t Enoch from people who wanted to sell without driving a few head to market in order to get their money, and he added these cattle to the herd..At the same tinw that he was dl-iving the fattened steers to Deseret to bc' loaded on the tmin to be marketed, Dave was bringing the cows and cahes hack to return them to Pipe Spring where the feed was still good after the rains. The two herds passed each othrr at Rush Lake.' Lehi hl.. Lehi's fourth son, relxtcs heing nine yeam old when he helped with this drive to Deseret. He stated: "M'hcn we stopped out by tlie remetcry, an Indian was sitting watchina the cattle and horse.; for father. I asked him to catch the little ),lack mare for me, one that I i l ~ i m e d mine. \Shen the Indian roped the horse, he car~~$it t h u m l ~ as his in the rope and pulled all the skin off. 'lhe Indian quit the joh right there and then, and father told me that I would have to take over the $1 of runninr: the horses, which I did." West of Rush Lake, m 20-mile Gap, thcrc was a man drawing water from a well with a harrcl, filling the troughs to watrr the herds that passed through. The drive cnntinued north to 20-mile Spring and on to Hot Springs, west of minersville, then to I\Iilford and north to B l a ~ h Rock. Henry was on n i ~ h herd in the henrh area ixtween Hot Springs and t 20->file G;tp when the cattle l~egan stampede, posihly from liqhtning. to 118
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