CHAPTER 19-GHOST MINING CAMPS OF BEAVER COUNTY 263 CHAPTER 20-STAGE COACH AND FREIGHTING 279 CHAPTER 21-THE RAILROAD COMES TO BEAVER COUNTY 288 CHAPTER 22-WESTERN BEAVER COUNTY AND SNAKE VALLEY 298 CHAPTER 23-MERCHANDISING IN MILFORD 311...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO WESTERN BEAVER COUNTY AND SNAKE VALLEY INDIANS AT INDIAN PEAK There was at one time a part of a tribe of Piute Indians living at Indian Peaks. Bert James says there were two hundred Indians out there, never over that, and...
Wah Wah Springs we followed the road almost due west across Pine Valley to Potsum Paw Springs, then west on the so-called "Old Bailey Wood Road," between the Indian Peak and Mt. Home Range leading into Hamblin Valley. We went to Frisco for our...
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...
and Mrs. Squires. They were married January 9, 1895, at Wah Wah. Owen Grover never owned the springs, his daughter, Mrs. Irene Green says. Mrs. Green says that her uncle, Joseph DeMeulle, owned a small place east of the main farm at Wah Wah and he...
Wed. Oct. 25, 1899: Ther. cool., Wea. cloudy. I helped Robt. Scott thrash 218 bu. of oats & 142 bu. wheat. he employed the aldridge steam thresher. Thursday 26: Ther. warmer Wea. clear. Finished R. Scott’s threshing he had Oats 218 bu. wheat 198...
Addresses.: Wm Hill, Fremont Co., Rexburg, Idaho. Daniel P. Thomas Bloomington, Idaho. John Selley 851 851 West 1st N. 153 E. 7 south Salt Lake, Utah. Cornelius Richardson perhaps moved to Snake river Ido. Plain City or Ogden Utah. Z.T....
Fri. May 1, 1903: + Wea. Thin clouds, south wind, Warm., Whirl-winds, Herded out towards the snake den. Wm L. Crawford, Clay Flat, Kane Co., Utah. 65) Saturday 2: + Ther. Warm., Wea. Clouds. Wind, Wind, Wind.... Going to Pine to water. Saw Jim...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Snakes; Swasey, Royal; Eastering
Royal Swasey is holding a large blow snake with Jess Larsen looking on. This is the family outing over Easter. Easter on the desert was such a long standing tradition it is called "Eastering."
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Snakes; Swasey, Royal; Larsen, Jess; Behling, John
This photograph was taken on an Easter outing of the Swaseys. Families and friends would get together and spend Easter weekend on the Swell. It still is a tradition today. Royal Swasey is on the left, Jess Larsen with sanke wrapped around his neck,...
Barbara S t a r r reported on the power situation. In the past, the Federation had thought, in order to make Municipal Power a viable alternative, the community must have the transmission lines as well as the distribution system and the C.P....
Bishop Boyden of the Yale Second Ward
Young. October 17th Elder Richard L. Evans spoke at sacrament meeting, and October 24th. Elder Ezra Taft Benson, former ward member and, at that time, Secretary of Agriculture in President Eisenhower's cabinet,...
Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
light red limestone which we saw for the remainder of the trip. The walls of the canyon were lower, but no less rugged than they had been previously; and our experienced eyes could now more quickly sight the tell-tale talus of an abandoned mine. We...
PAHUTE LEGENDS
William R. Palmer
1958
OH 0598
How The Eagle Became Bald-headed
It sometimes happened in the long ago that some living thing went bad and became a source of trouble to all the others. Sometimes they wrought so much sorrow and...