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Chief. During the early days of the settlement of the country, when there were many more Indians than white men. a great chief named Kanarra reigned supreme over his tribe. He was very unfriendly toward the white people who were coming into the country to take up the land and kill the game which the Indians for generations had regarded as their own. The Indians did not kill any of the settlers, but they lost no opportunity to harrass them by running away with their stock and by driving off their horses. In order to protect themselves from this hostile tribe, the people built a fort on what is now the public square. Because this fort was built a s a protection aaainst Kanarra and his t r i b e , the town was called - ~ a n a r r a . Another aroblem which the settlers had to solve was that of destroying -the grasshoppers, myriads of which threatened the crops during the early sixties. In order to fight these, two methods were employed. In one method, they dug a narrow ditch around the field and filled it with water. They then waded through the field, driving the hoppers toward the ditches, where they were flooded away from the grain fields onto the meadow below. In the second method, they hauled straw and placed i t in windrows around their small wheat fields, and when evening came they drove the hoppers into the straw to bed. After night had fallen, they burned the straw and killed many of the insects. Their next serious agricultural problem was that of eliminating the jack rabbits. They came to all the settlements about the same time. To keep these pests out of the fields, the settlers went all around the fence filling the openings with sage b r u s h . Those old rip-gut or stake and rider fences are fast being replaced by rabbit tight wire, but many of them can still be seen in the older portions of the fields throughout Southern Utah. Hamilton's Fort, a little village just southwest of Cedar, was first called Shirts Creek because a man by the name of Peter Shirts was the first settler. It was first established as an outpost against the Indians. In 1870, John Hamilton Sr. came before the class of the School of the Prophets of Cedar City and asked that settlers go down, take up the land, and build a town. Soon after this, we find the town that is called Hamilton's fort. Quichapah Lake, which lies out in the valley west of Hamilton's Fort, was named by the Indians. The name in their language means "bad water." Summit got its name because of i t s location on top of a ridge. It was settled about the same time as Parowan and Cedar were settled. 1856. The people have always engaged in farming and stock raising. Joseph B. Dalley was the first child born there. Enoch, situated in the valley southwest of Summit, was first called Johnson's Springs because Joel Johnson, father of the great pioneer. Sixtis Johnson, first took it up a s a ranch. Later, John P. Jones and Sons bought it and further
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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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