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SOUTI-IERN U'fAl-I'S BIG STATE SCHOOL Cedar (~ity, Utah
Stands for the Dignity of Intelligent Labor. Affords Education that is Practical as well as Cultural.
Encourages and train? young n1en and women to become...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Farmers & Stock Growers Mercantile Company DEALERS IN General Merchandise Everything in GROCERIES DRY GOODS CLOTHING HARDWARE NOTIONS DEERING MOVING MACHINES DeLAVAL SEPARATORS HAMILTON BROWN SHOES BUTTERICK PATTERNS SALT¡AY RAINŸLOUR
frost about October 5th. The Milford Valley is colder in the north portion but varies but little from the dates as to frost at Minersville.
The climate or weather conditions in the county are temperate, not being subject to either extreme heat or...
Adamsville boasted a store owned and operated by John F. Jones. It was fairly well stocked. He accepted butter and eggs in trade for merchandise. Since Adamsville was close to Beaver, many families made weekly trips to the stores there for a more...
ground to procure a livelihood. Aside from this, the flow of the creek, after the spring fresher of highwater, soon dried up and the low lands in the first section alone pro-vided crops.
In the course of time, school section 16 came into market and...
est and now the Fishlake National Forest. Most of the west slope of the Tushar Range is in Beaver County.
William Hurst Sr. was the first forest supervisor of the Fillmore National Forest, and the headquarters was in Beaver, but due to...
David Miller, July 26, 1880-1886. William Edwards, June 23, 1886-1887. Post office discontinued. Re-established April 24, 1888, with William Edwards again acting. Jess Barton, October 19, 1920. Following Mr. Barton were: Mrs. Hazle Barton,...
January 5, 1908, Mary J. Blackner was chosen president, with Mary E. Morris and Winnifred Miller as counselors; Julia Griffith, secretary; Mary A. Reese, treasurer. Caring for the sick and needy, the gathering and storing of wheat, went steadily...
Due to shortage of water in the early days, there was little hay raised by the Minersville settlers. To supple-ment the small supply, the ranchers, farmers and stock-men would make regular trips to the Yellow Banks, 20 miles north of Minersville,...
"GRANDPA'S DIARY" (Note: The Author of This Diary Is Unknown) Sun., March 13, 1859 Went to lower Beaver Valley in company with Isaac Grundy, Tarlton Lewis, William Barton and John Blackburn, our object being to find a location for a settlement near...
the Beaver river to reach the mill. One ford was at Horseshoe Bend, two miles south of town near the present Bill Baker ranch, and the other was east of Yellow Banks, about two miles north of town. Freighters, traveling laboriously with their heavy...
time while he returned to Nephi to close his affairs. He then came back to Milford and took over the active management of his store, adding a large feed lot with stables, a large barn, and camp houses. His business was supplying the freighters,...
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...
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...
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Student of the Univ. of Calif. 1904; Student of the Los Angeles Business College, 1907-'08; National Diploma in Pen Work, Los Angeles Business College, 1907; Student of Henager's Business College, Salt Lake City, 1909; Teacher in the Branch...
Sun. June 25, 1905: Ther. Warm Pleasant. Wea. Clouds. Staid and rested my feet today at Mr. Harden’s. wrote several letters. Recd. a letter from Jake yesterday, he is at Soda Springs, Idaho herding sheep for B.F. Saunders. Mr. Harden killed a...