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chronicler put i t , "the fact that the present site was not the proper one on which to permanently locate the iron works." A s if to reassure himself that even this cloud had a silver lining, he noted that "the freshet also brought down from the mountains an immense quantity of well ground material and deposited the same in various depths on the surface from 4 to 10 inches, which, when dried proved to he a very superior material for building walls and houses and was subsequently used for that purpose." Indian problems caused the Cedar City Saints now to concentrate their settlement at the new townsite, their numbers swollen by a rapid influx of immigrants which Gristmills and brought the population to 1 , 0 0 0 persons. sawmills were put into operation that year, a mercantile store opened, a large adobe meeting house dedicated, and work began to enclose with an adobe wall nine of the 1 6 city blocks, including the public square. So determined were the citizens to finish their wall a s instructed by President Young and encouraged by unfriendly Utes, that they pledged in public meeting on December 18 not "to dance o r make merry" until the wall was finished and bars and gates up. Christmas came and the Fort was still not completed. The young people concluded that a small dance would not constitute a major infraction of the community covenant. Against counsel from Bishop P . K . . Smith, they persuaded Thomas Cartwright, the town fiddler. to hold a little dance in his home. The Bishop, of course, heard the commotion, and angrily broke up the p a r t y , cutting the whole group off from the church for breaking their covenant with the Lord. Needless to s a y , the town was shortly in an uproar, and after much negotiation a general amnesty was declared under the condition that everyone work diligently to complete t h e wall by New Year's eve. Henry Lunt mentioned not a word of the fracas when he wrote to Brigham Young on December 29 that Christmas festivities were still awaiting completion of the wall. With emotions stirred by the events of the past few days, the whole town, men, women, and children, turned out to finish the task. On New Year's eve the last adobe was p u t into place, and the next morning. January 1, 1854, the townsmen witnessed the hanging of the gates amidst the most joyous New Year's celebration Cedar City had seen. Eighteen hundred fifty-four was a good year for iron, b u t a had year for crops. Moreover, recurring floods led President Young to advise abandonment of the town, o r "Old Fort" a s it was called, in favor of a location nearer the mouth of the canyon which promised to be free of floods. For some who had already built twice since arriving at Cedar, this was the last straw. The local historian wrote. "this last movement determined numbers of people to leave the settlement rather than move to the new location." So reluctant was the populace to abandon the old town and build again, that as late a s 1857 half the families still resided within the wall of
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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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