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be delivered at the S.E. Corner of Section 6, and the second 50 cords near the center of the SW4 of Section 3." "The wood shall be sold, half dry and half green, or all dry, cedar or pine, or both, and is to be cut in 3 ft. lengths and ricked up at the place of delivery. In consideration of the foregoing, the party of the second part agrees to pay $350.00 to the party of the first part as follows: $100.00 upon the delivery of the first 30 cords of wood and the balance $250.00 upon the delivery of the remaining 70 cords of wood." signed: A. P. Winsor New Castle Reclamation Co. per T. W. Jones" Note: In the 1870's A. Perry Winsor was appointed to superintend the Pipe Spring Cattle Ranch on the Arizona Strip by Pres. Brigham Young. He operated the "Winsor Castle Stock Growing Co." until 1875 and later sold his holdings. Thc Newcastle Reclamation Company owned two Cadillac ..\utomobiles which they used to meet the train and taxi people to the hotel. There was a chauffeur for each car. Once Governor S p y came to the valley and there had been a rainstorm which had left the road very muddy and the chauffeur refused to drive. T. W. said, "By George, I'll drive," and away they went." While Willard was attending the B.N.S. in Cedar City, he met Sophia Fonyth, a girl from Pinto, and a courtship began. The.other boys say that Willard never knew when to come home. "Mother always waited up until the kids were in and, about midnight, she would send Henry and Kumen down to find Willard at Leigh Row ( a group of student houses) to bring him home. Neither Sophia nor Willard appreciated this." They were married a year after Willard returned home from his mission on June 25, 1902. Willard taught school in Cedar City for a year and then moved to Salt Lake and finished his schoolin!: in Engineering. Their first child, Gwendolyn, was born in Cedar City before they left, and the second child, Denton, was born while they were living in Salt Lake City." Late in 1907, when Denton was very young, Willard and Sophia moved to Newcastle to work in connection with the Newcastle Reclamation Co. They came from Salt Lake City on the train and Willard's younger hrother, Lehi M., met them at Lund. Lehi had traveled to Lund with a team and wagon the day before. They left Lund for Newcastle at 8:00 in the morning and arrived at Newcastle at about :3 :00 in the afternoon. They had made arrangements to live in a little shack on the hack of a wash, owned by Sophia's father, Neil Forsyth. Lehi M. says he just dumped their belongings 011 the ground and left

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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 153
Description	be delivered at the S.E. Corner of Section 6, and the second 50 cords near the center of the SW4 of Section 3." "The wood shall be sold, half dry and half green, or all dry, cedar or pine, or both, and is to be cut in 3 ft. lengths and ricked up at the place of delivery. In consideration of the foregoing, the party of the second part agrees to pay $350.00 to the party of the first part as follows: $100.00 upon the delivery of the first 30 cords of wood and the balance $250.00 upon the delivery of the remaining 70 cords of wood." signed: A. P. Winsor New Castle Reclamation Co. per T. W. Jones" Note: In the 1870's A. Perry Winsor was appointed to superintend the Pipe Spring Cattle Ranch on the Arizona Strip by Pres. Brigham Young. He operated the "Winsor Castle Stock Growing Co." until 1875 and later sold his holdings. Thc Newcastle Reclamation Company owned two Cadillac..\utomobiles which they used to meet the train and taxi people to the hotel. There was a chauffeur for each car. Once Governor S p y came to the valley and there had been a rainstorm which had left the road very muddy and the chauffeur refused to drive. T. W. said, "By George, I'll drive" and away they went." While Willard was attending the B.N.S. in Cedar City, he met Sophia Fonyth, a girl from Pinto, and a courtship began. The.other boys say that Willard never knew when to come home. "Mother always waited up until the kids were in and, about midnight, she would send Henry and Kumen down to find Willard at Leigh Row ( a group of student houses) to bring him home. Neither Sophia nor Willard appreciated this." They were married a year after Willard returned home from his mission on June 25, 1902. Willard taught school in Cedar City for a year and then moved to Salt Lake and finished his schoolin !: in Engineering. Their first child, Gwendolyn, was born in Cedar City before they left, and the second child, Denton, was born while they were living in Salt Lake City." Late in 1907, when Denton was very young, Willard and Sophia moved to Newcastle to work in connection with the Newcastle Reclamation Co. They came from Salt Lake City on the train and Willard's younger hrother, Lehi M., met them at Lund. Lehi had traveled to Lund with a team and wagon the day before. They left Lund for Newcastle at 8:00 in the morning and arrived at Newcastle at about :3 :00 in the afternoon. They had made arrangements to live in a little shack on the hack of a wash, owned by Sophia's father, Neil Forsyth. Lehi M. says he just dumped their belongings 011 the ground and left 153
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1232.pdf

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