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was hoisted on the evening of the third of July, 1852. It was also during the year of 1852 that the mining industry in Iron County began. W might mention that, e about this time, the first gold discovered in the County was found at Parowan, in the craw of a chicken. The Deseret Iron Company, which had been organized in England, erected a blast furnace and began the manufacture of Iron from the ore in the nearby mountains. Their plan was to send the 'pig iron' to Salt Lake where it could be manufactured into all sorts of articles for the Californian and South American trades. This plant, located on the bank of Coal Creek at a point just east of what i s now the tourist campground, was one of first iron foundries west of the Mississippi. Charcoal was used as fuel. The men in charge were nearly all men who had worked in iron foundries of the old world. Ore was free and plentiful and the work commenced with vigor. The company was chartered by the Territorial 1853, and was Legislature January the seventeenth. incorporated for twenty thousand dollars. The Territorial Assembly made two appropriations amounting to seven thousand dollars, and the Mormon Church spent about six hundred thousand dollars in trying to develop the project; because of some mismanagement and because of the terrific cost of shipping the pig iron to Salt Lake and of shipping the manufactured articles to the coast by' team the project failed. and they were forced to close out the plant in 1859. An interesting story is told of the days when the Iron Foundry was still in operation. In the fall of 1857, when Johnson's Army was advancing on Salt Lake and the whole Territory was preparing for the worst, the people of Iron County decided to have bullets made a t the Iron Works. Accordingly, sixteen teams, four from each of the four larger settlements, were sent to the mines in southeast Nevada for lead ore. The journey was made in safety and the mines located, hut there were no miners found there. As the men had expected to find miners there, they took no picks o r shovels with which to dig the ore. They had no inclination, however, to return home empty handed after making so long and so tedious a journey, so it was decided that they would t r y to locate some float ore with which to load their wagons. At last they succeeded in locating a slide of rock which looked like the ore at the mine. This deposit was far up on the sidehill. No way could be found to c a r r y it down. They overcame this difficulty by fastening up the tops of their buckskin trousers and filling them with ore. Then, they put one leg over each shoulder and carried i t down the hill quite easily. When the men reached home, the lead was made into bullets to be held in readiness for the invading army. This story serves to illustrate the indomitable spirit of the pioneers. After the people had lived in the Old Fort for a while,
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| 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 | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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