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Mesia went back to Salt Lake in the fall and continued teaching school at the B.Y.U. during the winter of 191 1 and 1912. Henry came up to see her just once that winter. She was living with an aunt and an uncle, and Henry said there were so many people aronnd that he and hicsia couldn't even find a place to sit and talk, so he only stayed for an hour or so. They were married the next fall on Oct. 12, 1912 in the St. George Temple. They settled in Cedar City where Henry was appointed City Attorney by Mayor John S. Woodhury with a salary of $16.50 a month. That fint winter Henry took a contract to furnish coal ro thc B.N.S. and to anyone else who was interested. Frank Adams, Jewel Rnsenl~erg,Dan Perkins and Tom Perkins did the mining and Henry went cvcry day and hauled the coal to town. In 1914, hlayor Dan Urie appointed Henry City Attorney again and in 1915 he was elerted to the same office but longed for the out-of-doon so nluch that after two or three yean he resigned. He and Mesia took a homestead near New Castle, adjoining that of Pres. David 0. McKay, I ~ u later turned it in for stock in the New Castle Reclamation Co. They t eventnally lost every thing when the company went broke. Henry had developed a farm in Cedar Valley, west of town adjacent to his brother Kumen's farm, and proceeded to huild it u p to a sizeable livestock operation. He said, "The livestock husiness was fruitful and rewardins for my services."" The Joncses, Lehi and all the boys, made a profitable business of hauling coal. They furnished most of the coal for the schools and delivered it around town to the residents. Each of the boys took his turn at coal hauling. Rass and Will told of hauling coal every Saturday when they were in High School. They left at 4:30 in the morning and were required to moss thc creek six times before reaching the mine. This was a real prol)lcrn in the winter when the ice was frozen on both sides as the wagons had to go through fast in order to keep from getting stuck in the middle. When they reached the mine, the coal was sent down a chute into the wagon. The Jones family kept eight hones for this purpose and for farming and ranching. The hones were kept in a huge barn which had eight stalls down each side." Coal was first mined i n the Cedar City area in 1852 from the opening near what was known as the Leyson Mine in Right Hand Canyon located in Sec. 33 T36S RlOW. The fint coke ovens in the region. which yielded the low-grade coke used in some of the early attempts to producc Pig Iron from the iron deposits at Iron Springs, were located near this mine. These activities constituted the first recorded use of any of Utah's large and varied mineral resources.'' 192

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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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Title	Page 192
Description	Mesia went back to Salt Lake in the fall and continued teaching school at the B.Y.U. during the winter of 191 1 and 1912. Henry came up to see her just once that winter. She was living with an aunt and an uncle, and Henry said there were so many people aronnd that he and hicsia couldn't even find a place to sit and talk, so he only stayed for an hour or so. They were married the next fall on Oct. 12, 1912 in the St. George Temple. They settled in Cedar City where Henry was appointed City Attorney by Mayor John S. Woodhury with a salary of $16.50 a month. That fint winter Henry took a contract to furnish coal ro thc B.N.S. and to anyone else who was interested. Frank Adams, Jewel Rnsenl~erg,Dan Perkins and Tom Perkins did the mining and Henry went cvcry day and hauled the coal to town. In 1914, hlayor Dan Urie appointed Henry City Attorney again and in 1915 he was elerted to the same office but longed for the out-of-doon so nluch that after two or three yean he resigned. He and Mesia took a homestead near New Castle, adjoining that of Pres. David 0. McKay, I ~ u later turned it in for stock in the New Castle Reclamation Co. They t eventnally lost every thing when the company went broke. Henry had developed a farm in Cedar Valley, west of town adjacent to his brother Kumen's farm, and proceeded to huild it u p to a sizeable livestock operation. He said, "The livestock husiness was fruitful and rewardins for my services." The Joncses, Lehi and all the boys, made a profitable business of hauling coal. They furnished most of the coal for the schools and delivered it around town to the residents. Each of the boys took his turn at coal hauling. Rass and Will told of hauling coal every Saturday when they were in High School. They left at 4:30 in the morning and were required to moss thc creek six times before reaching the mine. This was a real prol)lcrn in the winter when the ice was frozen on both sides as the wagons had to go through fast in order to keep from getting stuck in the middle. When they reached the mine, the coal was sent down a chute into the wagon. The Jones family kept eight hones for this purpose and for farming and ranching. The hones were kept in a huge barn which had eight stalls down each side." Coal was first mined i n the Cedar City area in 1852 from the opening near what was known as the Leyson Mine in Right Hand Canyon located in Sec. 33 T36S RlOW. The fint coke ovens in the region. which yielded the low-grade coke used in some of the early attempts to producc Pig Iron from the iron deposits at Iron Springs, were located near this mine. These activities constituted the first recorded use of any of Utah's large and varied mineral resources.' 192
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1268.pdf

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