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filled it with grain that summer. That wa5 the only time they ever planted anything. there. They fenced everything in to protect the crops from the animals. The garden produced very well. Henry didn't get hack until after school had let out late in May when he should have ~ r a d u a t e d .The principal said that Henry would have completed the work had he been there so he gave him a certificate of graduation." In the fall of 1'302, after the sale of Pipe Springs, Nov. 3, it was necessary to bring the sheep, which Lehi had taken as part of the payment in the transaction, back to the Cedar City area to the winter range. Lehi and Dave Bulloch had each taken a herd of sheep which had to be moved out of the Kanab area where they had been running. They hrought the sheep over the mountain and planned on dipping them at the Jones Ranch near Corry Point, as the sheep were infected with "Scah." There was an "outfit" which had to be moved in for this process, and arrangements had been made to take care of this at Corry Point hefore bringing the herd off the mountain. That night it snowed eighteen inches. All they could do was tramp a trail and bring the sheep down the mountain. T h e tents were all set u p and the dipping vats were ready hut, because of the snow, the entire operation was halted. After h r i n p i n ~ herd to Cedar City, there was still the prohlem of having the them dipped, so they continued about a mile and a half east of Summit where there was another dipping corral u p against the hill. This corral had been huilt to take care of thr sheep herds in the Summit and Parowan area. Practically all the sheep in the country and snrrounding area; became infected with a "Scab" disease and, in order to combat this infection, every animal had to he dipped periodically in heated lime and sulphur. Most herds were dipped once a year and sometimes twice. Henry and Kumen helped build the dipping corral at Corry Point 11). haulinx logs from "down in" Swains Creek. The huge dipping vats were made out of the logs. Even the vat made to boil the dip was made from 1: covered with a steel plate hoked together so tightly that it 0 s couldn't leak. The first dipping vat was built around 1885, some 10 miles west of Cedar City, just west of the Iron Spring-s Gap. When sheep were dipped it was necessary to have the procedure supervised by an authorized person emplqed hy the government who mixed the solution properly. After the sheepmen huilt the dipping corral at Corry Point, they huilt anothrr one at Hay Canyon near the hexd of Zion to take care of the sheep that ran on the "plains" in East and Upper Zion Country. The Shcep Chnpany built a dipping vat in approximately 1900. It was located near the Bauer Knoll west of Cedar City on the property that is called 8-mile. Sheep dipping continued until around 1'315. I t took that 140

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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
Type	Image; Still image
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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

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Description	filled it with grain that summer. That wa5 the only time they ever planted anything. there. They fenced everything in to protect the crops from the animals. The garden produced very well. Henry didn't get hack until after school had let out late in May when he should have ~ r a d u a t e d.The principal said that Henry would have completed the work had he been there so he gave him a certificate of graduation." In the fall of 1'302, after the sale of Pipe Springs, Nov. 3, it was necessary to bring the sheep, which Lehi had taken as part of the payment in the transaction, back to the Cedar City area to the winter range. Lehi and Dave Bulloch had each taken a herd of sheep which had to be moved out of the Kanab area where they had been running. They hrought the sheep over the mountain and planned on dipping them at the Jones Ranch near Corry Point, as the sheep were infected with "Scah." There was an "outfit" which had to be moved in for this process, and arrangements had been made to take care of this at Corry Point hefore bringing the herd off the mountain. That night it snowed eighteen inches. All they could do was tramp a trail and bring the sheep down the mountain. T h e tents were all set u p and the dipping vats were ready hut, because of the snow, the entire operation was halted. After h r i n p i n ~ herd to Cedar City, there was still the prohlem of having the them dipped, so they continued about a mile and a half east of Summit where there was another dipping corral u p against the hill. This corral had been huilt to take care of thr sheep herds in the Summit and Parowan area. Practically all the sheep in the country and snrrounding area; became infected with a "Scab" disease and, in order to combat this infection, every animal had to he dipped periodically in heated lime and sulphur. Most herds were dipped once a year and sometimes twice. Henry and Kumen helped build the dipping corral at Corry Point 11). haulinx logs from "down in" Swains Creek. The huge dipping vats were made out of the logs. Even the vat made to boil the dip was made from 1: covered with a steel plate hoked together so tightly that it 0 s couldn't leak. The first dipping vat was built around 1885, some 10 miles west of Cedar City, just west of the Iron Spring-s Gap. When sheep were dipped it was necessary to have the procedure supervised by an authorized person emplqed hy the government who mixed the solution properly. After the sheepmen huilt the dipping corral at Corry Point, they huilt anothrr one at Hay Canyon near the hexd of Zion to take care of the sheep that ran on the "plains" in East and Upper Zion Country. The Shcep Chnpany built a dipping vat in approximately 1900. It was located near the Bauer Knoll west of Cedar City on the property that is called 8-mile. Sheep dipping continued until around 1'315. I t took that 140
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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