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idea of makin: some gain on their investment, and they wanted to get their stock hack. Lehi and George Urie offered them the stock, if they were willing to take over some of the indebtedness. Eventually, when no one agreed to help on the note, Lehi and George ended up owning the company." Because of the large number of sheep in Cedar City and the surrounding area, spring was an extremely busy time of the year - shearing the sheepherds and taking care of the wool. Prior to the early 1920's, each sheep was clipped by hand with "blades." With the advent of the it electric-powered shearing macl~ine, was necessary to build large shearing rorrals wherc the machinery could be installed and the sheepherds could he handled and separated. With the motor-driven clippen, the no work could he preformed in one-third of the time, altl~ough less skill was requirrd of the operator. Erastris "Rass" Jones initiated a building and rorrals on his property four miles west of Cedar City for this purpose in 1924. 'The machinery was installed with nine drops, thus making it possible for nine men to be shearing at the pame time. Each man could shear approximately 150 sheep in an eight hour period, making a total of nearly 1400 sheep in a good shift. At first they operated a swing shift, as well as a day shift, in order to accomodate all the herds. In 1925 they wrre charging 15 cents a head to shear the sheep and sometimes it took four or five days to shew some of thc larger herds. Shearing took place during April, May and June. The first shearins operation of this tvpe in this vicinity was huilt in 1'1 14 nrar Hurricane, Utah, and was referred to as Gould's Shearing C:orral. It was run 10 hours each day at a cost of six cents per head, try hand at first, and later by power. T h e Jones shearing rorrnl was operated for ?O years and took rare of thousands of sheep in the :wen. Rass was extremely Inn) each spring seeing that everything was nperatcd rorrcrtly, scheduling herds, outguessing the weather, hiringshearem, and keeping supplirs and equipment in order. Eventually, it I~ecarne more convenient to use portalrle equipment, so the shearing corral was ;111andoned;however, thc Jonesrs rontinued to shear their sheep thrre for man!. years. T h e Jones family used to have many horses that were caught on the desert. One of these, called "Peggy," produced many finr horses with the appearance of good breeding. vrry good dispositions and h a v i n ~ Rass told of roundin- up mustanjis for the rodeos and riding for several d a y chasing horses until they became too tired to run, and then finally Iircnking the mustang- In lead. This took place in the 1920's. Rass was an acromplished hnrseman, doing trick ridin? and often riding "ROnian" style in the loral rodeos. O n one occasion, Governor Henry Blood was in the stands and on another, President Heher J. Grant. Usually,

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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
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Description	idea of makin: some gain on their investment, and they wanted to get their stock hack. Lehi and George Urie offered them the stock, if they were willing to take over some of the indebtedness. Eventually, when no one agreed to help on the note, Lehi and George ended up owning the company." Because of the large number of sheep in Cedar City and the surrounding area, spring was an extremely busy time of the year - shearing the sheepherds and taking care of the wool. Prior to the early 1920's, each sheep was clipped by hand with "blades." With the advent of the it electric-powered shearing macl~ine, was necessary to build large shearing rorrals wherc the machinery could be installed and the sheepherds could he handled and separated. With the motor-driven clippen, the no work could he preformed in one-third of the time, altl~ough less skill was requirrd of the operator. Erastris "Rass" Jones initiated a building and rorrals on his property four miles west of Cedar City for this purpose in 1924. 'The machinery was installed with nine drops, thus making it possible for nine men to be shearing at the pame time. Each man could shear approximately 150 sheep in an eight hour period, making a total of nearly 1400 sheep in a good shift. At first they operated a swing shift, as well as a day shift, in order to accomodate all the herds. In 1925 they wrre charging 15 cents a head to shear the sheep and sometimes it took four or five days to shew some of thc larger herds. Shearing took place during April, May and June. The first shearins operation of this tvpe in this vicinity was huilt in 1'1 14 nrar Hurricane, Utah, and was referred to as Gould's Shearing C:orral. It was run 10 hours each day at a cost of six cents per head, try hand at first, and later by power. T h e Jones shearing rorrnl was operated for ?O years and took rare of thousands of sheep in the :wen. Rass was extremely Inn) each spring seeing that everything was nperatcd rorrcrtly, scheduling herds, outguessing the weather, hiringshearem, and keeping supplirs and equipment in order. Eventually, it I~ecarne more convenient to use portalrle equipment, so the shearing corral was ;111andoned;however, thc Jonesrs rontinued to shear their sheep thrre for man !. years. T h e Jones family used to have many horses that were caught on the desert. One of these, called "Peggy" produced many finr horses with the appearance of good breeding. vrry good dispositions and h a v i n ~ Rass told of roundin- up mustanjis for the rodeos and riding for several d a y chasing horses until they became too tired to run, and then finally Iircnking the mustang- In lead. This took place in the 1920's. Rass was an acromplished hnrseman, doing trick ridin? and often riding "ROnian" style in the loral rodeos. O n one occasion, Governor Henry Blood was in the stands and on another, President Heher J. Grant. Usually, 210
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