As Bert walked back down town, he and Ann Jones, who was on her way home from school where she taught, passed each other. Both turned back at the same time to look, each interested in this new penon. Bert lived with the Joneses for the rest of the...
At this time the railroad was under construction. Victor and Selma Johnson made a trip to Salt Lake City and on their return trip they rode the first train into New-house. Selma says the railroad platform was not completed and it was quite a step...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Spike Camp, Ferron (Utah); CCC
Company 959 had a base camp in Mt. Pleasant (Utah) with a Spike Camp at Gooseberry Creek and then transfered to a base camp at Ferron (Utah) with a Spike Camp on Ferron Mountain. Tents are lined up for the CCC boys to sleep in rather than in...
Ena continues her detailed account of the family leaving Mexico: It was very hot crossing the desert and, as water ran short, there was a great deal of suffering. After many hours, the train finally crawled into Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town just...
Family Man
-hated to interrupt Carmen's 100 percent - but we had such heavy traffic that it turned out best we didn't. John Jr. drove all the way he was anxious to get to Chicago. When we came to Evanston and Northwestern University, he was...
filled it with grain that summer. That wa5 the only time they ever planted anything. there. They fenced everything in to protect the crops from the animals. The garden produced very well. Henry didn't get hack until after school had let out late in...
LEE IN EL PASO
1912 1914
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ccording to Thomas, within a week aRer the Lunt family arrived in El Paso, they were quartered in canvas tents. This .. . - "tent city" was under military regulations. The first few nights they stayed in a temporary...
located there and find a place to camp. We had to have every animal and whom it belonged to registered. It was a big job. 1still hadn't had a chance to go to El Paso and find out how my wife and baby were. After a couple of weeks we finaily made...
many others. A log school and church house were quickly erected. A ditch fiom Water Canyon was to be dug so we could plant orchards and gardens and have water for cuiinary purposes. I the meantirne, al1 of our water was n c h e d or hauled in...
Stevens sent a Mexican in the mountains with some burrows after vegetables, and the rebels caught him and pretty nearly beat him to death, so you can see how conditions are in the mountains. September 29: 1 have just retumed from the stockyards....
Bryce Canyon National Park (Garfield County, Utah); Cliffs--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Formations (Geology)--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Tents erected at the base of the cliffs in Bryce Canyon. Early photograph is from the military expedition to set forest boundaries. Plane table survey equipment was used.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; USGS; Survey Camp; Wild Horse Canyon
This photograph is a companion to the previous photograph, 347a, making a panorama. The tents are on a higher area with the horses and vehicles down below the cliff.
Thomas Jones worked with the Deseret Iron Company through this time and lost about all of his wages through the failure of the undertaking." At the industry's peak, the population of Cedar City grew to 928 inhabitants and with its abandonment, the...
th~s volunteer school was superseded by regularly scheduled classes." Smith wrote: "March 19, 1851: The wind blew very hard from the south leaving no tents standing in camp. March 20: Went with Frost and Bringhurst to visit the coal vein [Cedar...
trying to become acquainted with the Indian character and language and to establish schools for that purpose. Brother Snow felt that the settlers should help the Indian children learn the English language, teach them to work, and show them the...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; USGS; Survey Camp; Buckskin Spring
USGS photographer C.B. Hunt took this photograph at dawn in Buckskin Spring on the San Rafael Swell in 1935, notice cars and trucks parked near the tents and horses. The San Rafael Swell was the last area of the United States to be surveyed because...