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Henry Lunt, who was one of the men in the group that settled in Cedar City, wrote the following in his diary about getting coal from Cedar Canyon in 1852: "Monday Sept. 20, 1852 went up the canyon to work a road u p the mountain to sleigh the coal down. The miners went also to dig coal. Wed. Sept 22, 1852 laboured for some three hours on working the road up the mountain, then packed five bags of coal down the rnountain and drove a load to the Iron Works. Felt very much tired and fatigued in the evening." In the 1860's Thomas Taylor and George Wood Sr. owned some of the choicest coal lands in the arca. These men began the work of grading for a rail-bed that would reach the Wood and Taylor hIine in the Right Hand Canyon. The old Irontown was to receive this coal for processing into coke, which would be hauled west to the mining properties of Nevada, as well as being used at Irontown. George Q. Cannon was sent from Salt Lake City to survey and acquire a right-of-way for a railroad to the coal deposits acquired by the L.D.S. Church. Thomas Taylor bought a narrow-gauge railroad and an engine from a companv in Pioche, Nevada. I t was hauled to Cedar City by Mr. Gilbert, with four-horse teams and wagons provided by George Wood. Wooden ties of Pinon Pine were cut from the area near Irontown and Page's Ranch, hut were never used. This venture met with financial failure primarily because of the declining demand for coke. In 1890, the Jones and Bulloch Coal Mine was opened by Heber Jensen and Frank B. Adams. It was located in the main canyon east of Cedar City in what is referred to as the "Gulch." (T36S RIOW, S 5 Sec. 36) T h e property is now owned by Zion Security Corporation. I n the early 1900's this mine supplied ahout ninety per cent of the coal used in the Cedar City area. During this time regular haulers could he seen and heard leaving town during the early hours of the morning -the jingle of harnesses, screech of iron tires on frozen ground, and men whistling or singing as they passed the grist-mill on the south side of the canyon." Lehi wrote a letter to the Presiding Bishop's Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 13, 1924, explaining the history of the Bulloch and Jones s Coal hline. The letter is a follows: "Bulloch and Jones filed on 320 acres of coal land joining on the north of the coal land known as the Jensen property which the Church had purchased from those parties some few years before. During the time that Brigharn Young Jr. was at Cedar City, two or three years later, he was interested in iron and coal and he inspected our coal property. H e could see that by the physical situation of the same, it was important that the Church own our property so that the property it had purchased from the Jensen's interests could 194

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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
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 194
Description	Henry Lunt, who was one of the men in the group that settled in Cedar City, wrote the following in his diary about getting coal from Cedar Canyon in 1852: "Monday Sept. 20, 1852 went up the canyon to work a road u p the mountain to sleigh the coal down. The miners went also to dig coal. Wed. Sept 22, 1852 laboured for some three hours on working the road up the mountain, then packed five bags of coal down the rnountain and drove a load to the Iron Works. Felt very much tired and fatigued in the evening." In the 1860's Thomas Taylor and George Wood Sr. owned some of the choicest coal lands in the arca. These men began the work of grading for a rail-bed that would reach the Wood and Taylor hIine in the Right Hand Canyon. The old Irontown was to receive this coal for processing into coke, which would be hauled west to the mining properties of Nevada, as well as being used at Irontown. George Q. Cannon was sent from Salt Lake City to survey and acquire a right-of-way for a railroad to the coal deposits acquired by the L.D.S. Church. Thomas Taylor bought a narrow-gauge railroad and an engine from a companv in Pioche, Nevada. I t was hauled to Cedar City by Mr. Gilbert, with four-horse teams and wagons provided by George Wood. Wooden ties of Pinon Pine were cut from the area near Irontown and Page's Ranch, hut were never used. This venture met with financial failure primarily because of the declining demand for coke. In 1890, the Jones and Bulloch Coal Mine was opened by Heber Jensen and Frank B. Adams. It was located in the main canyon east of Cedar City in what is referred to as the "Gulch." (T36S RIOW, S 5 Sec. 36) T h e property is now owned by Zion Security Corporation. I n the early 1900's this mine supplied ahout ninety per cent of the coal used in the Cedar City area. During this time regular haulers could he seen and heard leaving town during the early hours of the morning -the jingle of harnesses, screech of iron tires on frozen ground, and men whistling or singing as they passed the grist-mill on the south side of the canyon." Lehi wrote a letter to the Presiding Bishop's Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 13, 1924, explaining the history of the Bulloch and Jones s Coal hline. The letter is a follows: "Bulloch and Jones filed on 320 acres of coal land joining on the north of the coal land known as the Jensen property which the Church had purchased from those parties some few years before. During the time that Brigharn Young Jr. was at Cedar City, two or three years later, he was interested in iron and coal and he inspected our coal property. H e could see that by the physical situation of the same, it was important that the Church own our property so that the property it had purchased from the Jensen's interests could 194
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1270.pdf

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