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"Father took me to Milford, north of Lund, in a bug,^ and I proceeded on my way to Salt Lake City. 'This was the first time I had heen on a train, I had never been to Salt Lake City hcfore, nor stayed in a hotel or bought food in a restaurant. No farewell was held at the ward home party or as this was not the custom in those days and no welcon~e meeting, either." "I was in Salt Lake City about two days and then I went right on to San Francisco hy train. I left on the ship Ventura on October 20 as scheduled and was 21 days on the ocean to Australia, landing in Sydney. We stopped at the Hawaiian Islands, the Samoan Islands, Auckland and New Zealand." U'licn Henry left Cedar City his mother, Henrietta, pinned $150.00 to his underwear which was to last him until they were able to get his address and send more. They always sent cash to Henry - greenbacks in an envelope. Henry didn't have the address of the blission Home in Australia and didn't have any idea where it was even located. He met a family on the ship going over that offered to let him stay with them until he found where to go. When the ship docked and all the passenxers got off, Henry was the last one standing on the deck. Finally, a man dressed in a suit and a big straw hat came up to him and asked if he were a hlormon Elder. Henry served a successful mission, staying in Australia for two years and five months. He left there March 1907 and arrived home April 7, 1907.4 The same fall that Henry left on a mission, Willard graduated from thc University of Utah where he received a degree in Chemical Engineering (1904). After graduating, he was employed for a number of years as an engineer with the ;\merican Consolidated Smelting and Refining Co. in Bingham, Utah. Willard had spent the summers, while going to school, working with the Jones family herding cows and farming. He hecame interested in the vast open valley west of Cedar City, the Esralante Desert or the New Castle Valley. Lehi was well acquainted with this area froni his past involvement as Pony Express Rider where he passed by the head waters of the Pinto area. He, also, had learned about this country from running cattle on the ranse. With the passins of the Federal Reclamation Act. on June 17, 1902. a great deal of interest was being given to new areas of this nature. IYillard, knowing many people in the Salt Lake area who were interested in such projects, became involved in the "New Cactle Reclamation Co." It was May 20, 1908 when the Articles of Incorporation of the "h'ew Castle Reclamation Co." were signed. A statement at the beginnins of thc agreement read as follows: "This agreement was made and entered into by and between Georse It'. Middleton. Thomas W. Jones, N.7. 149

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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
Format	image/pdf
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 149
Description	"Father took me to Milford, north of Lund, in a bug,^ and I proceeded on my way to Salt Lake City. 'This was the first time I had heen on a train, I had never been to Salt Lake City hcfore, nor stayed in a hotel or bought food in a restaurant. No farewell was held at the ward home party or as this was not the custom in those days and no welcon~e meeting, either." "I was in Salt Lake City about two days and then I went right on to San Francisco hy train. I left on the ship Ventura on October 20 as scheduled and was 21 days on the ocean to Australia, landing in Sydney. We stopped at the Hawaiian Islands, the Samoan Islands, Auckland and New Zealand." U'licn Henry left Cedar City his mother, Henrietta, pinned $150.00 to his underwear which was to last him until they were able to get his address and send more. They always sent cash to Henry - greenbacks in an envelope. Henry didn't have the address of the blission Home in Australia and didn't have any idea where it was even located. He met a family on the ship going over that offered to let him stay with them until he found where to go. When the ship docked and all the passenxers got off, Henry was the last one standing on the deck. Finally, a man dressed in a suit and a big straw hat came up to him and asked if he were a hlormon Elder. Henry served a successful mission, staying in Australia for two years and five months. He left there March 1907 and arrived home April 7, 1907.4 The same fall that Henry left on a mission, Willard graduated from thc University of Utah where he received a degree in Chemical Engineering (1904). After graduating, he was employed for a number of years as an engineer with the ;\merican Consolidated Smelting and Refining Co. in Bingham, Utah. Willard had spent the summers, while going to school, working with the Jones family herding cows and farming. He hecame interested in the vast open valley west of Cedar City, the Esralante Desert or the New Castle Valley. Lehi was well acquainted with this area froni his past involvement as Pony Express Rider where he passed by the head waters of the Pinto area. He, also, had learned about this country from running cattle on the ranse. With the passins of the Federal Reclamation Act. on June 17, 1902. a great deal of interest was being given to new areas of this nature. IYillard, knowing many people in the Salt Lake area who were interested in such projects, became involved in the "New Cactle Reclamation Co." It was May 20, 1908 when the Articles of Incorporation of the "h'ew Castle Reclamation Co." were signed. A statement at the beginnins of thc agreement read as follows: "This agreement was made and entered into by and between Georse It'. Middleton. Thomas W. Jones, N.7. 149
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1228.pdf

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