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Parowan's a n d Cedar's electric lighting systems were established about the same time, during the years of 1910. Parowan's system is owned and controlled by the City. I t i s now on a paying basis and is probably one of the most successful municipal lighting systems found in the state. The Cedar plant, which was owned by a stock company, was t u r n e d over to the Dixie Power Company on the fifteenth of December, 1919. New Castle, situated on the Old California Emigrant Trail, was known as a ranch quite early in County history, b u t i t s p r a n g into a settlement during 1908, 1909, and 1910, and now has a population of one hundred twenty-five persons. I t s irrigation water comes partly from Pinto and partly from streams (from Pine Valley) which would otherwise drain into the Virgin River. Pump wells are used for culinary purposes. The New Castle Reclamation Company was organized in Salt Lake City in 1911 and s t a r t e d work immediately. Doctors G . W . Middleton and Samuel Allen, N . T. Porter, and J e d Ashton were among those most interested in the project. The company failed to make their reservoir successful [in Grass Valley), b u t they did secure a large t r a c t of land of which there are about two thousand acres under cultivation. (They also secured water r i g h t s . 1 The principal crop is alfalfa, and the chief product i s livestock, which is shipped from either Lund o r Modena, both of which a r e twenty-five miles distance. ( T h e railroad came to Cedar City in J u n e . 1923.) New Castle has a local telephone company which connects it with Pinto. Enterprise, and Lund. I t also has a good store and a two-room school. School was f i r s t held in a granary. b u t now there is a fine new school house. One of the things which, no doubt, will help to develop Iron County in the f u t u r e is the Cedar Breaks. The tourist gets his f i r s t glimpse of i t as he comes through the gate a t Iron Springs and t u r n s east toward Cedar. If it i s evening, the valley is flooded with a violet haze and straight ahead, a s if directly in the r a y s of a spot light, stands the r e d hill, while f a r t h e r back and towering above it is the rim of the Breaks, banded in crimson and white, majestic and aloof. The next morning he begins his journey up the Cedar Canyon to the Breaks. The road winds up through cliff and wooded hill, slopes of sandstone, and ignious formations, which represent seven geological periods laid hare b y some great earthquake of the past. When a t last the summit is reached. he finds himself on a large rolling plateau covered with majestic conifers, with now and then an open meadow filled with g r a s s and flowers. H e rides on, never suspecting what is ahead until he comes to the rim, and the Breaks yawn in awful grandeur a t his feet. The first Automobile excursion to the rim of the Cedar Breaks left Cedar City on the morning of the eighteenth of October, 1921. The p a r t y was under the direction of the
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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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