Page 501 |
Save page Remove page | Previous | 498 of 534 | Next |
|
small (250x250 max)
medium (500x500 max)
large ( > 500x500)
Full Resolution
|
This page
All
Subset |
century is often not realized. Late in 1868 a cooperative mercantile institution was established which had grown by the t u r n of the century to include a gristmill, a sawmill, and a t a n n e r y , all community-owned, and doing a business of $50,000 annually, for the time a considerable sum. Cooperative livestock raising was initiated early in the history of Cedar City, and b y the t u r n of the century the town had built up a community owned herd of nearly 11,000 head of sheep. I have already explained the community involvement in the initiating of S . U . S. C. The building of the Escalante Hotel and the bringing of the railroad s p u r from Lund to Cedar City in 1923 were also in large measure the consequences of group endeavor, the townspeople raising $100,000 to purchase the right-of-way and offer it to Union Pacific as an inducement to build the line. Needless to say. that event marked the real opening of the tourist canyonlands i n d u s t r y for which Cedar City has served a s b a s e , and also for the rebirth of iron as a major economic asset to the town. T h u s , Cedar City has come full circle, with the dream and promise of those who "failed" in the 1850s being realized 1 0 0 years later exactly as they predicted it would-at a time when "the magic touch of money, railroads, and business tact" were brought together and applied to the extraction of iron from the local ores. The perceptive remarks of the President of the Union Pacific Railroad Company a r e as t r u e of Cedar City today as they were of Cedar City in 1923. The resources of this people, he said. "reflect a stable community, b u t more important than these. I find a people who are conquerors of their environment: a people who have risen above failure to success, who have learned to work together, and who have dreamed a dream a n d labored to see i t s fulfillment through their children." By meeting together on occasions like this we add to the prospect t h a t such laudable judgments will be t r u e of f u t u r e a s well as of past and present citizens of Cedar City; we affirm that a sense of community, more important to the apostles who visited here 1 2 4 years ago than the successful smelting of i r o n , will remain Cedar City's most treasured asset. Permission for publication from: A . Thomas Challis, President Iron County Chapter of the Utah State Historical Society and S . U . S. C . Historian and serials Librarian ( r e f e r to original manuscript for documentation)
Object Description
| Rating | |
| 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 |
Description
Tags
Comments
Post a Comment for Page 501
