Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
The Brown and BLue All honor, flag of Murdock! We loved your colors true, When yet our school was but a child -- The B.B.B.Y.U. We loved to see your waving, On every Festal day, And shouted loud your praises As you floated grand and gay! ...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Soon after our return in the Sophomore year, we elected Heber Edwards president of the class. In our encounters with the infant 18's, we put a damper on their efforts by again winning the basketball championship and a pennant. Then, too, we made...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Class History of the 18's. On September 21, 1914, a husky bunch of nearly ninety, possessing much of the greeness of our April meadows, but full of ambition and determination, trooped up the broad steps of Murdock and formed the foundations of the...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Our Music Department. Among the important work done during the year 1916-17 will long be remembered the Music Department, under the able direction of Professor Gerrit de Jong, Jr. He successfully imparted some of his enthusiasm to the student of...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
The Ag. Club. In the fall of nineteen hundred and twelve, a new organization came into existence within the realms of "Old Murdock." That organization was none other than the Murdock Academy Aggie Club. It was presently to take its place as one...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
The Greatest Clearing Sale MILFORD HAS EVER KNOWN We are offering our entire line of U.S. Army and Commercial goods at ridiculously low prices. We were the first to bring prices down in Milford and we still lead in cutting and slashing prices....
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
City Market DEAN BROS., Proprietors Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats Groceries Fruits and Vegetables Beaver Equitable Co-op Dealers in GENERAL MERCHANDISE BEAVER, UTAH WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR OVER 40 YEARS AND STILL...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
History of the Class of "23": The class of "23" started high school with their ideals "to excell." When the time came to choose their banner, there was nothing that fit every individual as "excellorst of 23," and if you will believe me, everyone...
MINERAL RESOURCES
The early discovery of precious and valuable mineral and the development of the prospects, placed the count; as one of the most important mining centers of the west It has been said that the whole county was a vast laboratory,...
surveyor, and his assistants, each block having four lots 12 by 12 rods. Parties selecting lots applied to the Probate Court of Beaver County, which, considered their rightful claims and awarded to the owner the lot and block he was entitled to,,...
George P. Low, grandson of James Low; Minerva Nowers, wife of John Nowers, son of Wilson G. Nowers; John Smith, grandson of John X. Smith; Grant Smith, a grandson of John X. Smith; George A. Parkinson, son of Thomas Parkinson. A few of the 10 acre...
The first man to catch up with me was George Tracy, an old soldier of the Southern Army of the Rebellion. Next came William Allred, a noted Indian fighter. We were by now about 200 yards from the house. Tracy rode to the back door and called to the...
strand twine about the size of a mason's chalk line. (The McGuay lasso rope, somewhat popular in the 90's, was made of oose.) The little spinning machine was very simple, being made of two sticks. The handle was about five eighths of an inch in...
A. J. Wilson, J. Harris, C. Willden, Joseph Armstrong, D. D. Reese, J. Tattersall, H. Tattersall, Thomas Richards, D. C. Adams, W. Holgate and W. Hall.
The Adamsville townsite was surveyed in 1867, and named Adamsville after its founder, David...
the farm land for a reservoir site. Many families sold out and moved away to other counties. Adamsville lost many of its citizens. Since then its population has scattered far and wide. The school was closed and the students were transported by...
travelers and freighters. It's beginning was somewhat different from the forts that have been mentioned before and was built for the protection of settlers that were to build communities.
It was built of black volcanic rock laid in lime mortar, 100...
it was located some 500 feet east and 300 feet north of the southeast corner of the present structure, on the south bank of Cove Fort. At that time a cottonwood tree still marked the site and yet exists; together with stubs of cedar posts which...
Boyter, John Merchant, Charles Merchant, Orrin Puffer, Ephriam O. Puffer, Hannah Gale, Henry C. Gale, Lafayette Shepherd were also among the early settlers.
Charles Merchant (1842-1904) and John Merchant (1850-1927) came from Australia with their...
July 4th, 1900, by a party consisting of Orrin Puffer, William A. Twitchell, James Valentine, and William Man-hard. There still are deer, a few mountain lions, coyotes and bob cats. Fox are very scarce. Beaver, having been imported and protected,...
David Levi did a good business on the west side of the range, having a good spring of water, a big herd of cattle and many fine horses. Later, Mr. Levi sold his ranch to "Big" John Murdock and Philo Farnsworth and came back to Beaver and bought...