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be operated. He asked us to give the Church the first chance of purchase, which we agreed to do." "Suhsequently, David Bulloch had a conference with the Presidency of the Church in Salt Lake City. Brother Brigham Young Jr. was called in and he explained the situation to the authorities and recommended that they purchase, which they did on the following terms:" "The Church paying the government for the land and giving a note to Bulloch and Jones for $7500 without interest, payahle when the mine was sold or when the mine was taken over and handled by the Church. T o offset the interest item in the note, Bulloch and Jones were given the right to operate the mine for local consumption. We, Bulloch and Jones, hold a note from the Trustee in Trust signed by Lorenzo Snow." "Until last year, the royalty received from the coal mine has not paid the expenses we have heen to in building rbads and bridges, doing dead work in opening tunnels, building cabins and furnishing cars and rails. Wc think that, from now on, we will get some returns to make u p for a loss of interest on the note that we hold."'Vhe Joneses and Bullochs eventually sold their coal leases some time in the late 1920's. I n the early 1900s, Lehi and his hrothers were involved in the patenting and "proving up" on iron ore claims. Four of the major claims which they patented were called, "The Cora Lode," named after Jed's daughter, and the "Irene, Ashton, and Zelma Lodes," named after Uriah T's children. All of these claims were located in the Iron Springs mining district in Iron County ahout ten miles wrst of Cedar City. Two of these claims, the Cora and the Irene, produced ore in major quantities. Survey for the Irene Plat was made Sept. 9-12, 1902. The Cora No. 1 Lode survey was dated March 10, 1910. This claim was sold to U S . Steel in the 1900's for over $20,000.00. The Iron Lode produced some 300,000 tons of ore and the royalties from these claims were extended for many years.20 The boys recall doing asessment work on some of these claims. In the winter of about 1909, Randall Jones and Henry worked on the Cora claim while they were home during the Christmas Holidays. It was an exceptionally wet winter and the work was rather difficult. The assessment work consjsted of trenches and shafts, dug by hand, such as the following which were listed on the survey plat on the Irene Lode: A cut 4 X 4 ft. 23 ft. lonx - value $85.00, a shaft 5 X 5 ft., 5.5 ft. deep -value $40.00, a main cut 66.5 ft. long, 5 % x 6 ft. -value $450.00, etc. In 1912 the Lehi Jones family formed a corporation. The following is the agreement they made: ARTICLES O F INCORPORATION of the L. W. JONES AND SONS CO. (dated January 31, 1912) The 195

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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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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

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Description	be operated. He asked us to give the Church the first chance of purchase, which we agreed to do." "Suhsequently, David Bulloch had a conference with the Presidency of the Church in Salt Lake City. Brother Brigham Young Jr. was called in and he explained the situation to the authorities and recommended that they purchase, which they did on the following terms:" "The Church paying the government for the land and giving a note to Bulloch and Jones for $7500 without interest, payahle when the mine was sold or when the mine was taken over and handled by the Church. T o offset the interest item in the note, Bulloch and Jones were given the right to operate the mine for local consumption. We, Bulloch and Jones, hold a note from the Trustee in Trust signed by Lorenzo Snow." "Until last year, the royalty received from the coal mine has not paid the expenses we have heen to in building rbads and bridges, doing dead work in opening tunnels, building cabins and furnishing cars and rails. Wc think that, from now on, we will get some returns to make u p for a loss of interest on the note that we hold."'Vhe Joneses and Bullochs eventually sold their coal leases some time in the late 1920's. I n the early 1900s, Lehi and his hrothers were involved in the patenting and "proving up" on iron ore claims. Four of the major claims which they patented were called, "The Cora Lode" named after Jed's daughter, and the "Irene, Ashton, and Zelma Lodes" named after Uriah T's children. All of these claims were located in the Iron Springs mining district in Iron County ahout ten miles wrst of Cedar City. Two of these claims, the Cora and the Irene, produced ore in major quantities. Survey for the Irene Plat was made Sept. 9-12, 1902. The Cora No. 1 Lode survey was dated March 10, 1910. This claim was sold to U S. Steel in the 1900's for over $20,000.00. The Iron Lode produced some 300,000 tons of ore and the royalties from these claims were extended for many years.20 The boys recall doing asessment work on some of these claims. In the winter of about 1909, Randall Jones and Henry worked on the Cora claim while they were home during the Christmas Holidays. It was an exceptionally wet winter and the work was rather difficult. The assessment work consjsted of trenches and shafts, dug by hand, such as the following which were listed on the survey plat on the Irene Lode: A cut 4 X 4 ft. 23 ft. lonx - value $85.00, a shaft 5 X 5 ft., 5.5 ft. deep -value $40.00, a main cut 66.5 ft. long, 5 % x 6 ft. -value $450.00, etc. In 1912 the Lehi Jones family formed a corporation. The following is the agreement they made: ARTICLES O F INCORPORATION of the L. W. JONES AND SONS CO. (dated January 31, 1912) The 195
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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