present highway bridge. Bullion made in the crude smelter was made into bullets, in rough molds, for the rifles of the settlers of this entire area.
The ore was soft in nature, with gold assays running as high as one-half ounce to the ton, silver...
Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City, Utah); Southern Utah University -- History
Old library building on Founders' Day. The following information was listed on the back of the picture, which was apparently a card sent out to advertise Founders Day. Schedule of Events: 8-10:40 Classes (Registration of visitors) 11:00 Public...
from the biographies and minutes of meetings held by the early settlers in Iron County. They proposed to furnish the copy for $200, and if the City would pay $100, the three Cedar City L.D.S. Wards would raise the balance. Matter taken under...
the same ship as Henry, was Captain of the first company. The last company left on July 4, and took until sometime in October to reach Salt Lake City. It was unwise to leave Kanesville any later because of bad weather that late in the season. There...
Siberia, thence to Alaska, and finally ended up at Fort Ross in California. When Sutter bought the fort he acquired the artillery with it. Members of the Mormon Battalion coming north after their historic march in 1846 were employed by Sutter to...
to their feet. It took all day to get most of the company across, so those who were able to ford the stream camped and waited for the rest of the group to cross the next day While yoking the cattle, the men discovered that some were missing....
for a state road from Peteetneet to Iron Springs, one for an exploration to find a new route from Tooele County to this place via Sevier Lake, and one for a railroad from the Great Salt Lake City to Iron spring^.^ To avoid the wind which blew out...
After supper, when the men gathered around the campfire, Brother Lunt exhorted the brethren to "obey counsel and suffer wrong rather than do wrong, and, for the sake of a few house logs, not to let the devil get into their midst."' Apparently, it...
general look first rate. I have a piece of barley nearly ready to harvest. The following persons are leaving this place contrary to counsel: Daniel and Alexander Ross and Evan Evans and family. There is a good spirit in our midst--no sickness, and...
not have enough horses. Brother Pugmire and Brother Bosnell refused very strongly to lend their horses to George Wood, Captain of the Minute Company. Two days later, Saturday, February 19, four of the men returned very early in the morning and...
County, and is strictly enjoined and commanded to enforce the orders. I ...It is distinctly understood that all the people shall assemble into 1 large and permanent forts and no man is at liberty to refuse to obey this order without being dealt...
God that they would have an apostle with them to help bear their burdens [referring to Franklin D. Richards, who was intending to stay in Cedar City]. When, on seeing their spirit manifested and the desire to throw all responsibility off from...
and invited a number of saints to a sumptuous supper. September 22: Brother Walker and I left Philadelphia on board a steamboat for New York. We decided to sail on the fine sailing vessel, Constitution, to Liverpool and paid our passage by...
days]. We were greeted with a hearty welcome by our many old friends. Brother James Haslam, Captain of the Brass Band, with his brethren serenaded us in the evening with music and stayed until a late hour.
Maq Ann Wdson's oldest daughter,...
snow fe11 to the depth of about two feet, but soon thawed ofF, making the soil too muddy to plough, so we improved the time in labonng on public works and repainng and cleaning out the water sects in the city and fields. This week, since the...
rooms, six on the north and six on the south side, ten of which are skteen by fourteen feet. Two are sixteen by seventeen feet, and nine feet four inches high. There is a chimney to each room three feet wide and two feet thick, which nses six feet...
men as t r e s waking,' and for even that cloudy vision he was thankful. As he said after prayers that day, 'It might be the Lord's will to grant him sight, and if so his faith should not be wanting to enable him to lay hold of the blessing. '...
A son, Richard Henry Lunt, was born to Ann Gower Lunt and Henry Lunt on Nov. 17, 1872. He died the same day. Most commu~ties a cooperative sheep and cattle herd in had which each person, and the church, turned their sheep or cattle over to the...
CHAPTER XXI
ST. GEORGE TEMPLE
1874 - 1877
eorge A. Smith, who was in St. George, Utah, wrote a letter, dated November 26, 1874, to Joseph F. Smith in Salt Lake City. He told of the trip with President Brigharn Young to St. wrge and how i