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...
fence in the center of block 29, just east of where the telephone office now stands. The bullet cut the emigrant's leather belt, yet he stopped long enough to pick up his pistol. A few minutes later, William Anderson saw Sissix elevate his gun 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...
This additional spread of water over greater acreage caused more bottom land to sub-irrigate and added much to our rich meadow acreage. And, in turn, most of the water springs up in our lower fields and communities and is reclaimed through natural...
INDUSTRIES IN PIONEER DAYS AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING
Agriculture and stock raising were the two most important industries in Beaver County in pioneer days.
The Mormon founders of Utah built their culture and institutions on an agricultural...
Wilson G. Nowers, county clerk; Orson Tyler, sheriff; Lamoni L. Babitt, constable; James W. Huntsman, selectman. In the absence of Simeon F. Howd and Joel W. White, John M. Davis and Ephraim Tompkinson were duly sworn to fill the offices of...
Salt Lake & San Pedro Railroad. Finally, this road was taken over by the Union Pacific. RANGE CONDITIONS IN THE EARLY DAYS During the years of the '80s and '90s the range was in excellent condition for the grazing of cattle. Few, if any, sheep were...
Photos of Lorin Morrison, pioneer mining man of western Beaver County; Early store in Milford. Young ladies left to right: Ella Hutchings, Mildred Schofield, Marie Hutchings; Sheep grazing in Pine Valley, western Beaver County.
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...
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...
other events have gone on to bring them again to the light of day. The sea-bed on which they died was covered by many thousands of feet of sediment and became buried in the earth. There, under great pressure and over a long period of time, the muds...
Vegetation on these arid ranges is composed chiefly of low shrubs and grasses belonging to what is known as the salt-desert shrub plant association. Most of these ranges are used by sheep and cattle during the winter when other ranges are covered...
grass. These changes came so slowly they were almost unnoticed. Even the invasion of Russian thistle and cheatgrass on large areas of winter range caused little apprehension. Range surveys in 1933-36 in Western Beaver County indicated that forage...