C. J. Arthur, wife Ann Elizabeth Arthur (right, "Auntie Arthur"), Ruth Nelson (Anderson?), with the doll, Carolyn Nelson (left), Blind Mary. The Nelsons are daughters of Aubert Sarah Nelson.
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Beaver tribe. Some of the tribe were in good standing with Beaver Adz and his father who had some influence. (Adz means bow and arrow.)
Beaver Adz was a good-looking Indian, when young, and often worked for the "Whites," before he was injured at...
Photos of George Williams, Pine Creek settler, Dinah Frances Williams, Isaac Riddle, Pine Creek pioneer, Mary Jone Walters, blind knitter of Adamsville, David C. Adams, early Adamsville settler, Eleanor Armstrong Adams
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael Swell; Geary, Elmo; Castle Valley
Window Blind Peak or (Castle) is one of the most identifiable formations in the San Rafael Swell. Elmo Geary and friends were there for Easter weekend in 1929. Spending Easter weekend on the desert as locals call it, has been a tradition for over...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael River; Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. Window Blink Peak can be seen on the far right horizon. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak; Automobiles; USGS
Drilling for oil on the San Rafael Swell began in the late 1800s. Conditions on the Swell looked promising for oil. Several rigs were set up in different areas to drill for oil This rig is located at the base of Window Blind Peak. Newspapers of the...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak
Drilling for oil began in the late 1800s. This photograph shows an oil operation drilling at the bottom of the Window Blind Peak near the San Rafael River. From the geologic structure of the San Rafael Swell, experts believed they would discover...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swinging Bridge Dedication; Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
Orlon Mortensen belonged to Company 959 which worked in Ferron Canyon and Ferron Mountain but came to the dedication of the San Rafael Bridge built over the San Rafael River by another CCC company. It was dedicated in 1937, and a huge crowd...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Civilian Conservation Corps; Company San Rafael Bridge Dedication; Swinging Bridge; CCC
In 1937 the San Rafael Swinging Bridge was opened to the public after a formal dedication. There was a huge turnout for the occassion. Cattlemen and sheepmen furnished barbecued beef and mutton. A band played and three young men from the CCC...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Geology; Windowblind; Richards, Drew
Window Blind Peak is one of the highest monoliths in the United States. It is the highest formation in the photograph. It has two unfinished arches, giving the impression of windows with blinds drawn. The Native Americans dubbed it "Blind Window"...
rooms, six on the north and six on the south side, ten of which are skteen by fourteen feet. Two are sixteen by seventeen feet, and nine feet four inches high. There is a chimney to each room three feet wide and two feet thick, which nses six feet...
sisters who had the legal right to vote come to the polls on election day and exercise the right of female sufiage. Mary Ann Lunt, along with several other rnembers, expressed a desire to carry out the instructions they had that day received in...
sex of the telegrapher at the place we had left in the morning, when Mrs. Lunt remarked to her sister-wife that 'Parowan has been c d e d by St. George three times without answering. She will go to meeting!' Mr. Lunt did what he could to help, poor...
CHAPTER XXT
THE WANMG YEA
1895 1901
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n 1895 a man by the name of Williams offered to rent a small farm to the Lunts. Sarah convinced Henry to let her proceed with the negotiations because they neededI additional ways to make money and...
The steam tractor was usea m ranning ana sawmiii w m . uunng me summer 01 1898 Henry Lunt traveled fiom Mexico to Cedar City and was invited to be the only speaker at the Cedar City Ward Sacrament Meeting which was held in the Tabernacle. His...
After returning home, Lehi again took over the Pony Express. The mail route was an extremely difficult job in many ways; however, as long as Lehi, and later, Kumen, were carrying the mail, things ran smoothly and the mail always got through....
caught and arrested the man. Later, when his trial was to be held in Beaver, Mr. Phillips sent for Lehi to be a witness. Here he met the famous cattle rustler, Jim hlarshall, who had helonged to the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil War and was the...