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to make a drain ditch for the increasing water as the snow melted. Father was a skillful work'er and, by the time the crowd was ready to return home, the road was in good shape with a rock filled drain and the mud almost dry. Father saw an urgent need and knew how to take care of it even though it was not his responsibility. It never seemed to bother him whether he got the credit or not. I doubt that he made any explanations why he was in dress-up clothes, with a shovel, working on the road on this special occa~ion."~ In the 1920's some of the men of Cedar City and some promoters from other places organized the Mammoth Plaster and Cement Company, and subscrihed stock for it. Dr. Macfarlane was the president of the company. Some of the committee members were LeGrand Pace, George Urie, Lehi W. Jones and Billy Poulson from SevierVallley. They signed a contract with the Blue Diamond Co. in Los Angeles to deliver a sizeable amount of gypsum before they had actually started running the plant and did not definitely know how much they could produce. After they started operating and mining, they found that it was impossible to meet the contract at the price which they had agreed to. Rube Shay, the attorney for the plater company, and Lehi took a trip to Los Angeles as emmissaries of their company to see what they could do about dissolving the contract with the least expense, aware that the Blue Diamond Co. could cause them a great deal of trouble. The two men met in the president's office with a group of men from that company. After Lehi heard what they had to say, he simply told them the truth - that they could not mine the gypsum at the price they had agreed to, and so they could not meet the terms of the contract. By heing honest and forthright about it, Lehi was able to convince the executives of the company to release them from their commitment without any obligation. Lehi felt that if he had tried to bluff his way through and demand more money, they would have had a lawsuit and would have been in a serious situation. The contract was cancelled and they closed the mill because there were no other contracts available. About this time, the depression hit and, not long after, the hank closed. Because of this, the company did not ever start the mill again. Lehi had gradually accumulated about $20,000.00 in the bank, although some of itwaq tied up in a cattle deal with his sons. Henry and Lehi M. were buying- cattle from Oriah Leigh and Kumen was buying from his uncle Uriah. When the bank closed, this money was taken, along with $4,000 belonging to George Urie, to cover the note that was due on the Mammoth Plaster and Cement Co. Lehi and George Urie received the abstract and deed to the property where the plant was located. Many Cedar people had put money into the company with the 209

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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 209
Description	to make a drain ditch for the increasing water as the snow melted. Father was a skillful work'er and, by the time the crowd was ready to return home, the road was in good shape with a rock filled drain and the mud almost dry. Father saw an urgent need and knew how to take care of it even though it was not his responsibility. It never seemed to bother him whether he got the credit or not. I doubt that he made any explanations why he was in dress-up clothes, with a shovel, working on the road on this special occa~ion."~ In the 1920's some of the men of Cedar City and some promoters from other places organized the Mammoth Plaster and Cement Company, and subscrihed stock for it. Dr. Macfarlane was the president of the company. Some of the committee members were LeGrand Pace, George Urie, Lehi W. Jones and Billy Poulson from SevierVallley. They signed a contract with the Blue Diamond Co. in Los Angeles to deliver a sizeable amount of gypsum before they had actually started running the plant and did not definitely know how much they could produce. After they started operating and mining, they found that it was impossible to meet the contract at the price which they had agreed to. Rube Shay, the attorney for the plater company, and Lehi took a trip to Los Angeles as emmissaries of their company to see what they could do about dissolving the contract with the least expense, aware that the Blue Diamond Co. could cause them a great deal of trouble. The two men met in the president's office with a group of men from that company. After Lehi heard what they had to say, he simply told them the truth - that they could not mine the gypsum at the price they had agreed to, and so they could not meet the terms of the contract. By heing honest and forthright about it, Lehi was able to convince the executives of the company to release them from their commitment without any obligation. Lehi felt that if he had tried to bluff his way through and demand more money, they would have had a lawsuit and would have been in a serious situation. The contract was cancelled and they closed the mill because there were no other contracts available. About this time, the depression hit and, not long after, the hank closed. Because of this, the company did not ever start the mill again. Lehi had gradually accumulated about $20,000.00 in the bank, although some of itwaq tied up in a cattle deal with his sons. Henry and Lehi M. were buying- cattle from Oriah Leigh and Kumen was buying from his uncle Uriah. When the bank closed, this money was taken, along with $4,000 belonging to George Urie, to cover the note that was due on the Mammoth Plaster and Cement Co. Lehi and George Urie received the abstract and deed to the property where the plant was located. Many Cedar people had put money into the company with the 209
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1285.pdf

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