York Volunteer Infantry, who was killed in the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Before the summer had passed, contracts had been let to a number of men for the construction of four company barracks, a guard house, commissary, hospital and...
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...
rose and bringing prosperity and contentment to the homes.
Present homes are modernized. Electric light plumbing fixtures, and telephone service have been stalled.
PINE CREEK
In the late '60s and early '70s, George William Isaac Riddle, David Levi,...
tunes was "General Hancock's Grand March," which had been arranged by Lorenzo Schofield, one of the band members.
The instruments, with the exception of about three which were privately owned, had been bought by, public subscriptions, costing over...
building. Much of the lumber used in building up Pioche, Frisco and Newhouse was furnished by local mills, operated by local men, and delivered by team to the mines at prices ranging from $70 to $100 per thousand feet.
The only local sawmill in...
This house was made possible by assessments levied on all the families of the Beaver Stake. The greater portion was paid for in labor. The stone for the foundation was hauled with horse and ox teams from the rock quarry, six miles south of town....
The Church organizations came into being very early. Mrs. Eliza R. Snow came to Greenville as early as 1870 and organized the Primary, and made Mrs. Robert Edwards first president. The Mutual Improvement Association was organized in 1880, with Mary...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
MINERSVILLE-ITS FOUNDING AND HISTORY
Imagine, if you 'can, coming -down* the canyon and viewing this valley prior to its settlement. The river fol-lowed much the same course as it does today, with a few scattered cottonwood trees to...
The furnace of the smelter was made of stone, with a firebox beneath a cup where the lead was placed. When the lead was melted,-'a hole beneath was opened and the lead ran out into molds. This bullion was used as money, which was a curiosity in...
erroneously been called trachyte, a short distance above the level of the valley. Still farther east are extensive beds of tufa. The water in the district is very bad and scarce. Drinking water is brought on the railroad from Black Rock, from 30 to...
Ebenezer Tanner Jr. bought the place from his father, and in turn sold it to Mrs. Jessie Robinson, who continued to use it as a hotel. It was later used as an apartment house, until it was razed in 1946. Mrs. Tanner, widely known as "Ma" Tanner in...
Mr. Myers tells of one time when a heavy snow storm overtook them on their route and they stopped and dried off places with fires so they could camp for the night. There was one place on their route, he says, that was so steep that after a storm...
alone to Adamsville to settle their bills. Mr. Griffiths says that all the years they freighted, they never failed to send the man back, while the rest of the teams went on through Black Rock, Oasis, and on to York. Later, the railroad terminal...
Mrs. Johnson says they brought the grain and other things that they raised. They smoked and cured the pork they brought and the freighters would buy up butter from the different stores there and mix it altogether and print it with a round mold....
As a young man, Mr. Walter James drove a butcher wagon, delivering meat to the townspeople and to the Horn Silver and Carbonate Mines boarding houses. The two mines employed about 1,000 men. Each mine had its own smelter for refining ores....
Newhouse has gone and the wind still blows over the desert waste. Yet in the hearts of the people who once lived there a warm spot remains for the "Old Town that once was." THE STORY OF THE CAVE MINE John Bradshaw was born in England and came to...
house belonged to the Winder Brothers, Leo, Richard and Norman Winder, of Murray. The Winders ranged their sheep winter and summer at Big Springs just over the line in Nevada, 75 miles due west of Milford. They eventually got a shearing plant of...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE MERCHANDISING IN MILFORD Milford, different than most Utah communities, was not settled on an agricultural basis, but because of the geographic location it became an early trading point, serving freighters. It happened to be...
Mon. Feb. 14, 1898: Wea. warm and still some clouds floating through the sky we hauled manure across the wash on the flour corn land I caught a coon in my trap this morning at the foot log. Tuesday 15: Wea. Very warm wind from the north...
Wed. Feb. 16, 1898: Wea. Hazey dull we went and hauled rock for the butment on the upper ditch over the river at the big washout near the fields Hauled a load of clay to the garden went to mutual Thursday 17: Wea. Cloudy and looks like storm...