The Wells Fargo Express established an office in Beaver about 1877 or 1878. Charles Woodhouse was manager.
James Low, a native of Scotland and a convert to the Mormon Church, was one of Beaver's original pio-neers. He took an active part in the...
was named first watermaster, in 1906. The first sewer system was installed in 1914. The following have served as presidents of the Milford Town Board: William Armstrong, Ed Bardsley, William Armstrong (second term), Chesley Barton, Mr. Mish, Angus...
Photos of Jonathan Crosbey, Pioneer Building, and wife, Caroline Barnes Crosbey; Jane Gillies, First Primary Ass'n President; Betsy Smith Goodwin, First President, West Ward Relief Society; George Munford, Patriarch, and wife, Harriet Paice Munford
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE IRRIGATION AND WELLS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN MILFORD VALLEY THE "RISE AND FALL" OF REED In early days there were beautiful ranches along down the river in Milford Valley. There was a ranch at Yellow Bank owned by James...
Photos of Josiah Rogerson, Beaver's First Telegrapher, and wife, Ann Wignall Rogerson; Sidney Tanner; Thomas H. Cartwright, First Blacksmith; William R. Hurst and wife, Martha N. Miller Hurst
irrigated. The first families cut the wild hay that grew there and used it for their stock. Later they raised their own hay, and lucerne seed came to be the largest paying crop raised there. So profitable it proved that by 1920, individuals...
Early Relief Society Group -- Front row (left to right): Fanny Harris, Orissa Robinson, __ Lang, Betsy Briggs, Sarah M. Dell, Cedaressa C. Shepherd, Mary A.White, Harriet E. Fotheringham, Frances L. Jones, Jane Bickley, Mary A. Tolton (child),...
Photos of Jane Bickley, First President, East Ward Relief Society; Albert Goodwin, Pioneer Builder, and wife; William Moyes and wife, Mary Eastcott Moyes; Philo T. Farnsworth, First Bishop of Beaver
Company took over the water from Minersville, where Reed people got their water, and transferred that water to the "flats" south of Milford. The land at Reed became so dry that crops failed and the people had the leave their lands and homes and...
Photos of John Swindlehurst; Charles D. White, Second President Beaver Stake, and wife, Mary A. White; Matilda Swindlehurst; Samuel Dennis White and wife, Mary Burton White
fit for habitation." The desert he traversed was named after him, Escalante." Another wise man said, "The old desert takes its toll of everything you get out of it." But another man, whose life was more closely linked with the desert, said, "I...
land farming was, in this section where it had been tried, a failure. Most of this land later was sold for taxes and bought by sheep and cattle interests. In 1913, the Delta Land and Water Company constructed the Rocky Ford Dam, which is at the...
Photos of Robert Gillies, Pioneer Carpenter; Thomas Gunn and wife, Ann Houghten Gunn; Charles C. Woodhouse and wife, Sophia Kershaw Woodhouse; Julia Murdock Farnsworth
ing, perhaps, the water level dropped and alfalfa seed could not be grown. The farmers then, of necessity, began farming on a more practical scale. There were crops of all kinds of grain, corn, alfalfa and potatoes. These are the principal crops at...
Photos of William W. Hutcings, Pioneer Sawmill Man, and wife, Matilda Wiseman Hutchings; Juliette Allred Low; Edwin Swindlehurst, Pioneer Lumberman; WIlliam Burt, Pioneer Builder; John Woodhouse, Drama Club Chairman