Jeddy and Heber Dean of Beaver, freighted to Frisco for many years, hauling lumber and merchandise. John Brooks was an old veteran freighter of Beaver. John W. Myers says, after relating experiences in freighting, "Those were hard times, but happy...
The last Company manager was a Mr. Evans. In 1911, the store was known as the American Trading Company and was operated by Ed Street, Steve Fotheringham and J. F. Tolton. The Utah Leasing Co. took over the mine and worked the dumps after the mine...
smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Grange, Mar; McClenahan, Owen
Mar Grange took this photograph of the old uranium ore bin high up on a rocky slope (the dark spot in the middle of the photograph.) Owen McClenahan recorded that some men came to him with a hot piece of ore, but they couldn't rememeber where they...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Ore Bin; Grange, Mar; McClenahan, Owen
Mar Grange took this photograph of the old uranium ore bin high up on a rocky slope (the dark spot in the middle of the photograph.) Owen McClenahan recorded that some men came to him with a hot piece of ore, but they couldn't remember where they...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Charley
A slide presentation was put together by Emery County on the Swasey History on the San Rafael Swell. This is Slide #6 A painting of Charley Swasey by Dudley Swasey. Quote by Isarel Bennion, "These boys were black haired, blue eyed strain of Irish;...
Aug. 2 0 . 1970.. .Mayor Whetten appointed Clarence Miller to the planning and Zoning Commission. Ray Christensen, of the F. A. A . , met with the Council to discuss more space at the Airport for F.A.A. Offices. He stated that they could use 3,000...
HISTORY OF IRON COUNTY BY William R . Palmer, 1922 It has been only seventy-one years since the settlement of Iron County (18511, and little more than eighty years since people came to Utah and to the west; yet in that time the western part of this...
the hopes of one day being reunited.' He canied a letter from her which he had read many times over. In answer to Henry's note advising her that he would be coming to visit her, Martha had written the following, dated November 30, 1 8 4 8 : ~ I...
City, so the population grew very quickly. The residents looked forward in anticipation to each new company because, not only were they glad to see relatives and friends who had followed, but they always brought mail with them from Kanesville which...
If love and reason could but guide With thee I'd brave the ocean wide, And live for thee alone. Go where you will, I'm still the same, My heart is fixed. I oft exclaim 'We may be happy yet.' And when the farewell tear is dry'd Heaven prosper thee,...
One of the letters was written to inform him that his wife, Sarah Ann, had died of consumption.' The latest Washington paper was dated April 13. Henry received a letter from Martha Bristol in England, dated February 22, 1851. She wrote: My Dearest...
my other cow, 'Snip,' took the bull." The weather was warming up and all the settlers were busy and happy in their new home. Peace and prosperity were in their midst. Henry wrote the following on Tuesday, April 6, 1852: Twenty-two years today since...
General Wells and some sixty more brethren were there from the Salt Lake Valley. O r ~ o nPratt preached, his subject principally being upon training up children in the way they should go and acting in a oneness of spirit. After the meeting I had...
October 25, Bishop Lewis came from Parowan and reported that George A. Smith arrived there from Salt Lake City on Saturday, October 21. Henry made the following entries in his journal: Tuesday, October 26: Rained heavy for several hours before...
sickness. Our little number has been increased this season by some fifteen families." Franklin Richards and Erastus Snow left for Great Salt Lake City the morning of Thursday, December 2, 1852. Lunt wrote: "They have done much good while in our...
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...
'Well, Brother Henry, go and rest yourself and get ready to go again.' Notwithstanding the bold step he had taken in repelling the United States Army fiom entering Salt Lake Valley, which was sent by James Buchanan with malicious intentions towards...
place, during which time 1 have never felt to tum back or regret the step 1 have taken. Since this Church was organizer;, relentless persecution has followed the Saints. The present 'Cullom's Biii' brings a passage of scripture forcibly to my mind...