"Looking south and east from the pioneer cemetery about two miles southeast of Spanish Fork, Utah, are the Spanish Fork River bottoms where my great grand father and others settled in 1850. My great grand father mentioned here is John Hardison...
Oliver and John R. Jensen felling a saw log 30-32" diameter up in the Summit Mountains early in the spring. At lower end of Maple Canyon, north east of where road comes up at Top of the Cedars.
Cedar City (Iron County, Utah)--History; Mineral industry
Photograph of a picture of the old Iron Works on the bank of Coal Creek east of Cedar City. Bottom right corner reads "In memory of my grandfather, Daved Barklay Adams. B. Scot. Painted by R.D. Adams a grandson."
Cedar City (Iron County, Utah)--Buildings; Church buildings
Mormon Tablernacle, showing baptistry at the back of the building. An old tractor with a street roller on front is in the foreground, left. The Tabernacle stood on the corner of Main and Center streets where the post office is now (1982), facing...
According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....
BEAVER COUNTY
LOCATION OF BEAVER COUNTY
Situated on the west side of the Tushar range of the Wasatch Mountains, Beaver County is rich in natural resources and its history is a monument to the courage of its founders. Fertile, cultivated fields of...
MINERAL RESOURCES
The early discovery of precious and valuable mineral and the development of the prospects, placed the count; as one of the most important mining centers of the west It has been said that the whole county was a vast laboratory,...
It was a cold and unpleasant place and had been rejected by others who had gone to more favorable locations south of here. My previous years had been associated with pioneer life in Iron County in the interest of building and Military duties. In...
FIRST COLONIZERS NAMED
The question of colonizing Beaver Valley, having met the approval of George A. Smith, the following named men were chosen, with the understanding that they would become permanent settlers: Simeon F. Howd, captain; Wilson G....
FIRST IRRIGATION IN BEAVER VALLEY
Early in May, 1856, the water for irrigating the Old Field and town plat was taken from the river at a dam east of where the Allred home had been built. It was then conducted in a good sized ditch to the N E...
surveyor, and his assistants, each block having four lots 12 by 12 rods. Parties selecting lots applied to the Probate Court of Beaver County, which, considered their rightful claims and awarded to the owner the lot and block he was entitled to,,...