WE have appreciated and enjoyed a liberal amou,nt
of the students' p1atronage in the past and we
hope and in fact believe -tHe will be favored by a
similar or even better business in the future.
The reasons for this are:
ALEX G. MATHESON
Watchmaker...
The passengers all piled into the open rig and hadn't traveled very far until they found they were stuck again in another drift of snow. Mrs. Bradfield says she can see "Bally" Sackett now as he looked that day. So bald he was, he seemed rightly...
first deep well. There are now more than a dozen of these deep wells, 14 to 20 inches in diameter, tapping another strata of water at depths of from 275 to 500 feet.. Pioneers in the pumping project include C. C. Sloan, W. W. Cook, Charles Baxter,...
Sun. July 2, 1905: Ther. Warm., Wea. Ptly. Cloudy. South wind, Staid at the house and done our writing today, Elder Jack took Bro. Edwards rig and took our letters to the Post Office this evening. 108) (2
Sat. July 15, 1905: Ther. Warm., Wea. Thin clds. (I wonder where I will be and what I will be doing on this day? Written Oct. 30th 1904. W.L.C.) Here I am in Comanche Co., O.T. With Elder A.W. Jack. We took Mr. Shorts’ rig and visited the...
Wed. Nov. 29, 1905: Ther. Cold northen, Wea. cloud streaks. We walked about nine miles north facing the cold wind. got to Brother Reed’s a little after noon. Elder Bahr and I went to Temple with Brother Reed’s rig this after noon, visited Johny...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak; Automobiles; USGS
Drilling for oil on the San Rafael Swell began in the late 1800s. Conditions on the Swell looked promising for oil. Several rigs were set up in different areas to drill for oil This rig is located at the base of Window Blind Peak. Newspapers of the...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; USGS; Lupton, C.T.
In 1912 a USGS photographer, C.T. Lupton, took this photo of one of the flattops and a drilling rig on the San Rafael Swell. Oil Drilling began on the San Rafael Swell in the late 1800s. Geological conditions on the Swell looked promising for oil,...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Temple Mountain; Consolidated Uranium Mines; Uranium
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 1: A.E. C. unit 1 showing cable to rig drilling air holes resulting in 3 ft. diameter cores. Shaft...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak
Drilling for oil began in the late 1800s. This photograph shows an oil operation drilling at the bottom of the Window Blind Peak near the San Rafael River. From the geologic structure of the San Rafael Swell, experts believed they would discover...
organization for Iron County. Our f i r e m s must be kept ready and in order, and it's necessary that we appoint captains to form companies and report to the head of the military or of the State. We do not want a mean man to settle in Iron County....
Everyone in the Jones family worked hard because it was a necessity. Henrietta was no exception, she could drive four horses as good as any man. When the family moved to town from 3-Creeks in the fall of 1904, school had started. Will was the only...
tion at hand, they turned their efforts to the possibility of underground water. In 1915 the! hired a professio~mlwell driller from California by the name of Hal-ry Paine. He sct up a big steam rig and dug an 800 foot hole near the hotel location,...
hine and a penstock. The generator was driven hy a flat belt and pulleys from the turbine." While in the process of getting thc power plant ready for operation, a dam was put in the creek several miles up the canyon for the purpose of diverting...