Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Castle Valley; San Rafael River, Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl turned upside down. Over time it has been carved into...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael River; Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. Window Blink Peak can be seen on the far right horizon. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Joe's Office; USGS
The United States Geographical Survery photographer took this photograph in 1911. Joe Swasey is standing in front of the cave they called "Cliff Dweller." It is about six to eight feet deep and twelve feet wide. The Swaseys built a log floor which...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Devil's Canyon; Slot Canyons
Look closely to see the crack in the landscape that continues to the top of the photograph. Slot canyons such as this are examples of erosion's power to cut deep pathways far below once solid surfaces. Devil's Canyon is seen here running left and...
Excerpts from Cedar City Council Minutes Jan. 3, 1916.. .Present: Mayor Leigh, Councilmen--Higbee, Lunt, Williams, Pace, and Mayor-Elect T . J . Jones. Claims and reports were presented a s follows:
S . J . Foster, bond of E. H . Macfarlane 576.00...
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FORT LOUISA - 1851
(Parowan) inally, thirty-eight days afier the first wagon left the Salt Lake Basin, the pioneers in the Iron County Mission reached their destination, Center Creek (Parowan), January 13, 185l.' Being in the rniddle...
creeks out of the canyons, widens to encompass an area of good farmland, then tapers off and disappears in the desert gorges and mesas that stretch westward. With the advent of spring, the snow banks melt and disappear, and the mountainsides become...