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Bids were let out for the construction of these tunnels which were to be six feet in diameter and four feet high. Men who worked on the canal received a wage of $2.00 per day and they were paid $1.50 per day for a team of horses. Another bid was let out for the delivery of Quaking Aspen, Spruce and Red Pine poles for the transmission line. The poles were to be cut and delivered to Cedar City for the price of $1.50 per pole. The power house was erected at the point of the Red hill, and was built out of rock. The rock was quarried hy Frank Adams." -4 dynamo was ordered for the power plant. It arrived by train at Lund, during the summer of 1907. Evan Williams and Neil Bladen took a "Shutler" size 3%" wagon and four horses to Lund to haul the dynamo. In attempting to load it, they "monkeyed" around for quite some time thinking that it was nailed down to the bottom of the car. Finally when they found out that the dynamo weighed 10,000 pounds they devised a method by which it could be moved and managed to get it loaded on to the wagon. Young Lehi M. happened to be headed out on the desert with the team, "Jet and Bessie", between Tucker's Point and Dick's Reservoir, when he met the two men coming back to Cedar with the dynamo. They were stopping about every 300 yards to rest their horses. Because of the tremendous weight, the hones had to get right down and dig whenever they started out, just like it was a "dead outfit." As Lehi approached them they told him to turn his outfit around and hitch on. They commanded him just as if they were his bosses and, being only 17 years old, he did what they told him to do. Jet and Bessie, a l best, didn't make a very good team and, when they started to pull, they really balked and see-sawed back and forth nearly breaking the neck yoke and the double trees. In time, however, they got the wagon moving -but very slowly, as it took two days to get to Cedar City. Neil Bladen cussed the horses all the way. When they reached Cedar City, the dynamo stood on the wagon in front of the old Co-op Store for over a week. Someone told the owner of the wagon that it didn't do a wagon much good to set with that much weight on it for so long, so they hauled the dynamo up the canyon and unloaded it onto the base which had been made for it, even though things weren't quite ready. They found that the wagon had a cracked "hind" axle and never could be repaired.' During the building of the power plant, Lehi W. fell on a beam while working on it and hroke several ribs. Dr. Robinson sent young Henrietta to the drugstore for brandy to help revive him after they brought him home.' The equipment in the power plant consisted of 250 K.V.A. A.C. Generator (dynamo) with a 110 volt d.c. exciter and impulse water tur165

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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 165
Description	Bids were let out for the construction of these tunnels which were to be six feet in diameter and four feet high. Men who worked on the canal received a wage of $2.00 per day and they were paid $1.50 per day for a team of horses. Another bid was let out for the delivery of Quaking Aspen, Spruce and Red Pine poles for the transmission line. The poles were to be cut and delivered to Cedar City for the price of $1.50 per pole. The power house was erected at the point of the Red hill, and was built out of rock. The rock was quarried hy Frank Adams." -4 dynamo was ordered for the power plant. It arrived by train at Lund, during the summer of 1907. Evan Williams and Neil Bladen took a "Shutler" size 3%" wagon and four horses to Lund to haul the dynamo. In attempting to load it, they "monkeyed" around for quite some time thinking that it was nailed down to the bottom of the car. Finally when they found out that the dynamo weighed 10,000 pounds they devised a method by which it could be moved and managed to get it loaded on to the wagon. Young Lehi M. happened to be headed out on the desert with the team, "Jet and Bessie", between Tucker's Point and Dick's Reservoir, when he met the two men coming back to Cedar with the dynamo. They were stopping about every 300 yards to rest their horses. Because of the tremendous weight, the hones had to get right down and dig whenever they started out, just like it was a "dead outfit." As Lehi approached them they told him to turn his outfit around and hitch on. They commanded him just as if they were his bosses and, being only 17 years old, he did what they told him to do. Jet and Bessie, a l best, didn't make a very good team and, when they started to pull, they really balked and see-sawed back and forth nearly breaking the neck yoke and the double trees. In time, however, they got the wagon moving -but very slowly, as it took two days to get to Cedar City. Neil Bladen cussed the horses all the way. When they reached Cedar City, the dynamo stood on the wagon in front of the old Co-op Store for over a week. Someone told the owner of the wagon that it didn't do a wagon much good to set with that much weight on it for so long, so they hauled the dynamo up the canyon and unloaded it onto the base which had been made for it, even though things weren't quite ready. They found that the wagon had a cracked "hind" axle and never could be repaired.' During the building of the power plant, Lehi W. fell on a beam while working on it and hroke several ribs. Dr. Robinson sent young Henrietta to the drugstore for brandy to help revive him after they brought him home.' The equipment in the power plant consisted of 250 K.V.A. A.C. Generator (dynamo) with a 110 volt d.c. exciter and impulse water tur165
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1243.pdf

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