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General wiu cxaruiuir~g title to pass on the sale, he found the restrict11e tion in the abstract. As soon as the descendants of Lehi heard of the discrepancy, they simply signed the property over to the college as a donation. In 1923, the railroad was built from Lund to Cedar City. In 1901, when the main railroad line had been completed, it pased through Lund which is some 30 miles northwest of Cedar City. Lehi was chairman of the committee which was appointed to acquire a right of way for this addition. They agreed on the site where the depot should be and were able to buy the property from each of the land owners involved. The depot was to be located at 200 North Main. Most of the property extending from there to Lund was donated. Construction of the railroad provided a great deal of work for the people of Cedar City. Lehi's boys were involved in working on the sub-grade with their wagons and teams. When the B.N.S. was established in 1899, it was built on a comparatively small piece of property. When Uriah Jones, Lehi's brother, was in the legislature (senator in 1919-21 ), he came to the people of Cedar City and informed them that, because of the remoteness of the B.N.S. and it's being a teacher's college, it was difficult to keep it in operation and, unless they could connect it with something else, it was going to be closed. Uriah went to work and put a hill through, changing the college from being a ward of the University of Utah to the Utah State Agricultural College, which was a land grant college. It was up to the people and community to obtain more property to go with this agricultural college. Lehi W. was put in charge of a committee to solicit donations to buy land. When they had obtained all the money they could this way, he and several others signed notes and mortgaged their homes for the remainder of the money.' In 1922, a road was completed from Cedar City to Cedar Breaks. Ferd and Henrietta were still living in Denver, Colorado and she came to Cedar City by train for the dedication. Henrietta brought Beth, who was 7 years old, and Lehi, 1 years old, with her and was met at Lund hy Ann and Will. Henrietta wrote, "I was in Cedar when the road was finished to Cedar Breah, ready for the dedication as a National hlonument. People came from all parts of the state for the occasion. There was father, mother, Ann and her three children and my two and I in Ann's car. The road was new and the extra warm day was melting hanks of snow higher up on Midway and water was running down across the road. There was a low place in the road and each car passing made a deeper and wider mud hole, until a team had to he brought up to pull the cars out. As our car was pulled through, father got out and got the shovel from the trunk and told the rest of us to drive on while he stayed

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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 208
Description	General wiu cxaruiuir~g title to pass on the sale, he found the restrict11e tion in the abstract. As soon as the descendants of Lehi heard of the discrepancy, they simply signed the property over to the college as a donation. In 1923, the railroad was built from Lund to Cedar City. In 1901, when the main railroad line had been completed, it pased through Lund which is some 30 miles northwest of Cedar City. Lehi was chairman of the committee which was appointed to acquire a right of way for this addition. They agreed on the site where the depot should be and were able to buy the property from each of the land owners involved. The depot was to be located at 200 North Main. Most of the property extending from there to Lund was donated. Construction of the railroad provided a great deal of work for the people of Cedar City. Lehi's boys were involved in working on the sub-grade with their wagons and teams. When the B.N.S. was established in 1899, it was built on a comparatively small piece of property. When Uriah Jones, Lehi's brother, was in the legislature (senator in 1919-21 ), he came to the people of Cedar City and informed them that, because of the remoteness of the B.N.S. and it's being a teacher's college, it was difficult to keep it in operation and, unless they could connect it with something else, it was going to be closed. Uriah went to work and put a hill through, changing the college from being a ward of the University of Utah to the Utah State Agricultural College, which was a land grant college. It was up to the people and community to obtain more property to go with this agricultural college. Lehi W. was put in charge of a committee to solicit donations to buy land. When they had obtained all the money they could this way, he and several others signed notes and mortgaged their homes for the remainder of the money.' In 1922, a road was completed from Cedar City to Cedar Breaks. Ferd and Henrietta were still living in Denver, Colorado and she came to Cedar City by train for the dedication. Henrietta brought Beth, who was 7 years old, and Lehi, 1 years old, with her and was met at Lund hy Ann and Will. Henrietta wrote, "I was in Cedar when the road was finished to Cedar Breah, ready for the dedication as a National hlonument. People came from all parts of the state for the occasion. There was father, mother, Ann and her three children and my two and I in Ann's car. The road was new and the extra warm day was melting hanks of snow higher up on Midway and water was running down across the road. There was a low place in the road and each car passing made a deeper and wider mud hole, until a team had to he brought up to pull the cars out. As our car was pulled through, father got out and got the shovel from the trunk and told the rest of us to drive on while he stayed 208
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1284.pdf

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