use and for irrigation. Jan. 17. 1854.. .An Ordinance to preserve the purity of the water and define what shall be a nuisance, e t c . : Sec. l . . . B e it ordained by the City Council of Cedar City that any person o r persons who shall foul o r...
HISTORY OF CEDAR CITY BY John Urie, 1880 Cedar City i s a beautiful little village situated on the r i m of the Great American Basin and is 5,615 feet above the level of the sea. With i t s 740 inhabitants (Census of 18801, i t s 135 houses, i t s...
On July 23rd, a contingent of the militia, sent fYom Manti on a scouting expedition, had a "brush" with a band of warriors at Pleasant Creek killing six or seven Indians.'' There were several other skirmishes during the summer. Captain Gunnison,...
interest in occupying the new Town Plot. Later in the season a large influx of immigrants from thenorth came in. We were now nearly 1,000 strong--men, women, and children3'*" There were only twelve white casualties of the Walker War. None of these...
consequent decrease of the population of Cedar. Two full battalions were there formerly, now there are only about seventy men. Henry Lunt is acting as Major over these and the few men at Hamiltons and Kanarra, and has decidedly more men than arms....