Cedar City (Iron County, Utah)--Buildings; History
Cedar City pioneer house, exterior of pioneer cabin. Children at right in pioneer costumes actually worn by some of the colonizers. A county Daughters of Utah Pioneers convention and tea party held in the old cabin.
Jokes
1\1r. Homer (In Physiology): If I should stand on my
head, where would the blood of my body go?
Student: To your head.
Mr. Homer: All right, but why doesn't the blood go
to my feet now?
Student: Because there is something in your feet.
Bunk:...
^Dramatics
HE Branch Agricultural College has long en-joyed
a reputation for its dramatic productions.
It is the plan that during each school year, at
least two plays will be staged. However, this
year, because of unavoidable circumstances, only...
Guard Called to Active Duty As war clouds hung over Europe, our own government deemed it advisable to call all National Guard units into active service. In March, 1941, Beaver's unit was inducted into the regular U. S. Army, and began preparations...
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...
Emery County (Utah); Huntington; Bridge; Huntington Creek; Richards, Drew
Drew and Addie Richards have this photograph of the old Huntington Bridge crossing Huntington Creek, in their photograph album. This was a steel bridge resembling the other bridges in the county over Cottonwood Creek, Huntington Creek, Muddy Creek,...
DANIEL T . LEIGH Biography 1852 - 1927 Daniel T . Leigh was born July 14, 1852, on the banks of the Platte River in Nebraska. The family came to Salt Lake City with the Dan Jones Company and were later called to lron County to work in the Iron...
of law enforcement in t h e City. The Marshal admitted t h a t he had been too lenient and promised to make an effort to c a r r y out his instructions. March 1 9 , 1931.. .Mr. Harry W . Leigh and Thomas A . Thorley met with the Council in behalf...
labors, and reverently called upon Him to bless u s in the i u t u r e and to enable u s to maintain ourselves in this desert land, also to protect u s from the wiley Indian and help u s to accomplish the mission we were sent to perform, namely,...
resources--including iron ore, coal, and millstone gnt. They found a good stand of sawlog timber only six miles away in Center Creek Canyon, and there were great quantities of aspens there and in Red Canyon. They found Summit Creek to be too rough...
think you know more than those that are placed above you which is wrong, and you must humble yourselves and be united."18 Some of the settlers were beginning to plant turnips, beets, onions, radishes, and lettuce in their gardens. Their domestic...
attended the wedding. At twenty minutes to seven we left Cedar City for Parowan in two carriages--one drawn by four horses, the other by two. As we started, a salute was fired with guns which echoed through the mountains, and the city had the...
CHAPTER X
THE WALKER WAR
1853
W
hen the Mormons were colonizing the Utah Territory, they went out of their way to keep on fiiendly terms with the Indians. The Mormon people kept a fiiendly attitude towards the redmen and continued to give them...
canyon, as he did not consider the Old Fort site safe from floods, as Coal Creek was subject to very high n water i times of flood. Since Hemy's first wife, Ellen, was not able to have children, it was sii years after Henry was manied before his...
conference. 1feel the results of it d be good. 1 hope the brethren and sisters wiii cal1 in the wanderings of their minds that they may be strengthened and refreshed in their most holy faith.' December 18, 1859--Conference. Bishop Lunt presiding....
per day. AU of the money for this machinery was raised locaily. The end product of the factory was sold through cooperative stores in southem Utah, and to Z.C.M.I. in Salt Lake City. The factory operated until 1910.6 The foliowing letter &en by...
about Sarah. He said, "You just go and te11 her to come back. We're not a-going to hurt her. She doesn't need to fear anything. There isn't a Mexican in this country who would harm your mother in any shape or form. When you get out there, you te11...
T h e work on the State House progressed so rapidly that the walls were completed by December. However, it wasn't until Dec. 1855, three years lxter, that the I~uildiug was completed, at a cost of $32,000. 'I'he p(1rtion that \vas finished was over...
"Sepc. 30. . . Tapped the furnace allout six o'dock A.M. 'l'he ~iietal run out and all gave thrce hearty cheers. When the metal was cold, on examination, was not found to be so ~ o o d might be wished and also of :I as vcry peculiar appearance....
ticks and buckskin were made to serve as clothing materials, nntil sheep became more plentiful. Anything the people had to spare was traded to the Indians for huckskin which could he used for clothing and moccasins. The people made everything they...