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years before and was located in the Knell Bldg. Many of the same people were involved in both the bank and the hlercantile. The bank needed a new building, so they built across the street on the corner, 75 north main, and occupied the southeast corner of the building, and the Mercantile Store used the remainder of the space. Uriah Jones, Lehi's brother, was made overall supervisor of the Cedar Mercantile and Livestock 60. Harry Lunt managed the store and young Kumen was secretary of the company, as well as manager of the sheep. The Mercantile Store sold anything and everything. They handled McConnick hlachinery, hay, grain, groceries, dry goods, etc.' I n approximately 1912 \Villiam R. Palmer took Kumen's place as secretary of the Company. 4 letterhead from an inventory taken near that time read as follows: CEDAR MERCANTILE & LIVE S T O C K CO., Hardware, Farm Inlplements, Dry Goods, Groceries.. . . . U. T. Jones, President; Wtn. R. Palmer, Sec'y-Treas; H. H . Lunt, Manager; Directors - Uriah T. Jones, Henry W. Lunt, Lehi W. Jones, Herbert W. Webster. John :I. Adams, Wm. R . Palmer. Kot long after that Lehi was made president as some of the original stock certificates were signed by Lehi W. Jones, President. Lehi was the largest individual share holder in the company with a total of over 18,000 shares which was approximately 2170 of the company. T h e purchase price of each share was $1.00 and Lehi bought his holdings during the period from 1908 to 1914.' ;Is time went on, the hlercantile Store extended a great deal of credit and, eventually, much of the profit from the sheepherd was being used to pay off the debts of the store. : I t one time, they were forced to sell 6,000 head of their youncj ewes to cover the indehtedness. Lehi hl.remembers this taking place at 8-hlile Springs west of Cedar City. The buyer, a Frenchman, took his pick of the herd hy standing at the chute gate and simply cutting out all the sheep he wanted. After these sheep had been sold, all that was left in the Mercantile Herd were the old ewes and Inrnh~. I n 1912, there was very little feed in the Cedar City area so two of the mmpany herds were sent to Gunlock where there was better feed. In I)ecember, when it came time to put the hucks in with the herd. Kunlcn x n t I.ehi M. and Rass on the day before Christmas to Iron Spl-iqs to start the hucks toward Gunlock. They were supposed to camp at Antelope Springs the first night, but it was so bitter cold, they kept going until they reached an old post corral helonging to Frank Knell on his place north of New Castle. They fed the horses some hay and heddcd down in the mow. In the night they became so cold that they got up and put the harnesses, and anything else they could find, on top of them to hold the Idanket~ down around them and help keep then1 warm. T h e next niorn184

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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
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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

Title	Page 184
Description	years before and was located in the Knell Bldg. Many of the same people were involved in both the bank and the hlercantile. The bank needed a new building, so they built across the street on the corner, 75 north main, and occupied the southeast corner of the building, and the Mercantile Store used the remainder of the space. Uriah Jones, Lehi's brother, was made overall supervisor of the Cedar Mercantile and Livestock 60. Harry Lunt managed the store and young Kumen was secretary of the company, as well as manager of the sheep. The Mercantile Store sold anything and everything. They handled McConnick hlachinery, hay, grain, groceries, dry goods, etc.' I n approximately 1912 \Villiam R. Palmer took Kumen's place as secretary of the Company. 4 letterhead from an inventory taken near that time read as follows: CEDAR MERCANTILE & LIVE S T O C K CO., Hardware, Farm Inlplements, Dry Goods, Groceries..... U. T. Jones, President; Wtn. R. Palmer, Sec'y-Treas; H. H. Lunt, Manager; Directors - Uriah T. Jones, Henry W. Lunt, Lehi W. Jones, Herbert W. Webster. John :I. Adams, Wm. R. Palmer. Kot long after that Lehi was made president as some of the original stock certificates were signed by Lehi W. Jones, President. Lehi was the largest individual share holder in the company with a total of over 18,000 shares which was approximately 2170 of the company. T h e purchase price of each share was $1.00 and Lehi bought his holdings during the period from 1908 to 1914.' ;Is time went on, the hlercantile Store extended a great deal of credit and, eventually, much of the profit from the sheepherd was being used to pay off the debts of the store. : I t one time, they were forced to sell 6,000 head of their youncj ewes to cover the indehtedness. Lehi hl.remembers this taking place at 8-hlile Springs west of Cedar City. The buyer, a Frenchman, took his pick of the herd hy standing at the chute gate and simply cutting out all the sheep he wanted. After these sheep had been sold, all that was left in the Mercantile Herd were the old ewes and Inrnh~. I n 1912, there was very little feed in the Cedar City area so two of the mmpany herds were sent to Gunlock where there was better feed. In I)ecember, when it came time to put the hucks in with the herd. Kunlcn x n t I.ehi M. and Rass on the day before Christmas to Iron Spl-iqs to start the hucks toward Gunlock. They were supposed to camp at Antelope Springs the first night, but it was so bitter cold, they kept going until they reached an old post corral helonging to Frank Knell on his place north of New Castle. They fed the horses some hay and heddcd down in the mow. In the night they became so cold that they got up and put the harnesses, and anything else they could find, on top of them to hold the Idanket~ down around them and help keep then1 warm. T h e next niorn184
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1260.pdf

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