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ing Rass took the sheep through New Castle and on toward the Holt Ranch. Lehi M. stopped at Willard's farm to get some more hay. \Vhile he was there he noted that at 9 : 00 A.M. it was 18 degress below zero. He caught up with Rass and they went on to the old Platt Ranch in Mountain Meadows and camped there for the night. They camped at Central the following night and the next day they met the herder, who was to take the bucks to the herd, above Gunlock. The town of Gunlock was celebrating the holidays by having a dance, and Lehi M. and Rass stayed there that night and joined in the festivities. The whole town turned out, even the little children. The next morning the boys started home with a bitter north wind in their faces. They should have stopped at Mountain Meadows, but they continued on until midnight until they reached the old Platt Ranch. After sleeping in the snow, they started very early the next morning and kept going until they reached home late that night. I t was New Year's Eve. They were very happy to be home. At times during this trip they felt certain they would freeze to death. Although the theory of the Mercantile and Livestock Co. was all right, it just didn't seem to work, and was a big disappointment to everyone involved. After the herd had been depleted to keep the Mercantile running, the members decided that the cooperative sheepherd was the wrong thing, but they continued to operate until 1918 when they divided i s the sheep and each member took hack h own herd. They kept nursing the Mercantile Store along hoping to keep the losr to the stockholders at a minimum. They were buying all their merchandise from ZChII in Salt Lake City and, as time went on, hecame very indebted to them. During the depression in 1929 and 1930, the Mercantile was con~pletely taken over by Z C h K S Young Lehi M.went to work for the Mercantile Store in 1914 where he worked until he went into the army in 1918. Years later he owned a store located in the same building. One of the well known, colorful personalities of the Cedar City area was a salty citizen called "Poots" (Sam) Walker who worked part time for the Mercantile. He created a nickname for practically everyone with whom he assoriated. "Poots" had worked for Lehi W. and Dave Bulloch for years and he had given each of them a nickname that remained with them for many years. According to "Poots," Dave was continually using i rawhide to repair or to make something with, and Lehi could f x most anything with a piece of haling wire. Consequently, Dave became known as "Rawhide" and Lehi as "Baling Wire," and before long the name of "Rawhide and Baling Wire" were used to identify their partnership. IJriah T. Jones was good at making sour dough graham "pones" in the 185

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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 185
Description	ing Rass took the sheep through New Castle and on toward the Holt Ranch. Lehi M. stopped at Willard's farm to get some more hay. \Vhile he was there he noted that at 9 : 00 A.M. it was 18 degress below zero. He caught up with Rass and they went on to the old Platt Ranch in Mountain Meadows and camped there for the night. They camped at Central the following night and the next day they met the herder, who was to take the bucks to the herd, above Gunlock. The town of Gunlock was celebrating the holidays by having a dance, and Lehi M. and Rass stayed there that night and joined in the festivities. The whole town turned out, even the little children. The next morning the boys started home with a bitter north wind in their faces. They should have stopped at Mountain Meadows, but they continued on until midnight until they reached the old Platt Ranch. After sleeping in the snow, they started very early the next morning and kept going until they reached home late that night. I t was New Year's Eve. They were very happy to be home. At times during this trip they felt certain they would freeze to death. Although the theory of the Mercantile and Livestock Co. was all right, it just didn't seem to work, and was a big disappointment to everyone involved. After the herd had been depleted to keep the Mercantile running, the members decided that the cooperative sheepherd was the wrong thing, but they continued to operate until 1918 when they divided i s the sheep and each member took hack h own herd. They kept nursing the Mercantile Store along hoping to keep the losr to the stockholders at a minimum. They were buying all their merchandise from ZChII in Salt Lake City and, as time went on, hecame very indebted to them. During the depression in 1929 and 1930, the Mercantile was con~pletely taken over by Z C h K S Young Lehi M.went to work for the Mercantile Store in 1914 where he worked until he went into the army in 1918. Years later he owned a store located in the same building. One of the well known, colorful personalities of the Cedar City area was a salty citizen called "Poots" (Sam) Walker who worked part time for the Mercantile. He created a nickname for practically everyone with whom he assoriated. "Poots" had worked for Lehi W. and Dave Bulloch for years and he had given each of them a nickname that remained with them for many years. According to "Poots" Dave was continually using i rawhide to repair or to make something with, and Lehi could f x most anything with a piece of haling wire. Consequently, Dave became known as "Rawhide" and Lehi as "Baling Wire" and before long the name of "Rawhide and Baling Wire" were used to identify their partnership. IJriah T. Jones was good at making sour dough graham "pones" in the 185
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1261.pdf

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