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help with the laying of the pipe. The water system was laid out according to specifications and each councilman supervised a given section. Later, a second bonding of $9,858 covered the cost of piping spring water from higher up in the mountain into the city tank instead of using the creek water. The large covered wooden tanks used for the water storage were hauled to Cedar City from mining property in Nevada." During the installation of the water line, Lehi took young Rass, who was 8 or 9 years old, up the canyon with him to check on the progress of the project. There was a small tunnel which had been made through a ridge for the water line. Rass, noticing the tunnel, decided to crawl through. When he had reached about the half way mark, he became stuck. He could move neither forward nor backward. He became panicky with fear and, to make it worse, no one knew where he was. He started to rationalize and remembered someone telling him that fear made the body tense, and calmness would tend to make a person more agile and even smaller or able to get through smaller places. He gathered his senses and tried to relax and, was relieved to find that it worked. He inched a little at a time and slowly wriggled out." Once Lehi attended a meeting in the office of the first Presidency of the L.D.S. Church in Salt Lake City. After the business at hand was transacted, President Joseph F. Smith drew his chair up in front of Lehi, took hold of his hand and said "Brother Jones, there are rascals in Utah who are trying to defraud our people of their water rights. I want you to go home and see that nothing of that kind happens there. Our people must make their rights secure.'' Perhaps the best work of Lehi's active life was done in fulfillment of that charge. He, with others who realized the situation, worked diligently for many years to get the waters of Coal Creek adjudicated by the court so that all rights would be legally established. Irrigation water has been the biggest bone of contention in our state, and Coal Creek, because of its wide fluctuation, has been one of the hardest streams to equitably adjudicate. It required great patience and fairness and vision and tact to work out a solution of the tangled water problem and list all claimants in the order of their priority.16 The first paper to be published in Cedar City was called "The Iron County News" and was published by Reinhard Naeser. This paper was published Nov. 22,4890. I n March of 1891, after four months, it was discontinued. T h e Iron Count): Record, operated by William E. Higgins, started up on Dec. 16, 1893. In 1895 it was sold to C.S. Wilkinson and Dan hlatheson. I n 1897 hiatheson withdrew and sold to Wilkinson who operated it until 1903. At that time, the Southern Utah Publishing Co. was formed, with L.W. Jones as President, J.S. Woodhury, Vice Pres., and Alex Rollo, Joseph T . Wilkinson, and George W. Decker, 143

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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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Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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 143
Description	help with the laying of the pipe. The water system was laid out according to specifications and each councilman supervised a given section. Later, a second bonding of $9,858 covered the cost of piping spring water from higher up in the mountain into the city tank instead of using the creek water. The large covered wooden tanks used for the water storage were hauled to Cedar City from mining property in Nevada." During the installation of the water line, Lehi took young Rass, who was 8 or 9 years old, up the canyon with him to check on the progress of the project. There was a small tunnel which had been made through a ridge for the water line. Rass, noticing the tunnel, decided to crawl through. When he had reached about the half way mark, he became stuck. He could move neither forward nor backward. He became panicky with fear and, to make it worse, no one knew where he was. He started to rationalize and remembered someone telling him that fear made the body tense, and calmness would tend to make a person more agile and even smaller or able to get through smaller places. He gathered his senses and tried to relax and, was relieved to find that it worked. He inched a little at a time and slowly wriggled out." Once Lehi attended a meeting in the office of the first Presidency of the L.D.S. Church in Salt Lake City. After the business at hand was transacted, President Joseph F. Smith drew his chair up in front of Lehi, took hold of his hand and said "Brother Jones, there are rascals in Utah who are trying to defraud our people of their water rights. I want you to go home and see that nothing of that kind happens there. Our people must make their rights secure.' Perhaps the best work of Lehi's active life was done in fulfillment of that charge. He, with others who realized the situation, worked diligently for many years to get the waters of Coal Creek adjudicated by the court so that all rights would be legally established. Irrigation water has been the biggest bone of contention in our state, and Coal Creek, because of its wide fluctuation, has been one of the hardest streams to equitably adjudicate. It required great patience and fairness and vision and tact to work out a solution of the tangled water problem and list all claimants in the order of their priority.16 The first paper to be published in Cedar City was called "The Iron County News" and was published by Reinhard Naeser. This paper was published Nov. 22,4890. I n March of 1891, after four months, it was discontinued. T h e Iron Count): Record, operated by William E. Higgins, started up on Dec. 16, 1893. In 1895 it was sold to C.S. Wilkinson and Dan hlatheson. I n 1897 hiatheson withdrew and sold to Wilkinson who operated it until 1903. At that time, the Southern Utah Publishing Co. was formed, with L.W. Jones as President, J.S. Woodhury, Vice Pres., and Alex Rollo, Joseph T. Wilkinson, and George W. Decker, 143
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1222.pdf

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