"Looking south and east from the pioneer cemetery about two miles southeast of Spanish Fork, Utah, are the Spanish Fork River bottoms where my great grand father and others settled in 1850. My great grand father mentioned here is John Hardison...
east part of Pine Valley west of Milford. They established a ranch on the Pine Grove water and later invested in a few cows, which increased to 2,500 head. They then sold their cattle. Later, the Pine Grove Ranch was taken over by the Ryan-Ream...
Salt Lake & San Pedro Railroad. Finally, this road was taken over by the Union Pacific. RANGE CONDITIONS IN THE EARLY DAYS During the years of the '80s and '90s the range was in excellent condition for the grazing of cattle. Few, if any, sheep were...
machinery from the end of the railroad to their distribution points. " ARVIN STODDARD HOMESTEADED TOWNSITE Arvin M. Stoddard, Milford's first settler, was one of the original pioneers, coming to Utah in 1847 with his three brothers, Sheldon,...
holes. The duration of burning is from three to seven days, and of cooling from three to six days. Charring, which includes packing of wood in the kiln and drawing the coal, is usually done by contract and costs from 2 3/4c to 3 1/2c per bushel....
upon their own claims. Hence there are a lot of rudely-worked prospects, with very little development. During that time 40 men were working and prospecting in the two districts.
A two-stack smelter was built in Shauntie in the sum-mer of 1873. The...
time while he returned to Nephi to close his affairs. He then came back to Milford and took over the active management of his store, adding a large feed lot with stables, a large barn, and camp houses. His business was supplying the freighters,...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE IRRIGATION AND WELLS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN MILFORD VALLEY THE "RISE AND FALL" OF REED In early days there were beautiful ranches along down the river in Milford Valley. There was a ranch at Yellow Bank owned by James...
land farming was, in this section where it had been tried, a failure. Most of this land later was sold for taxes and bought by sheep and cattle interests. In 1913, the Delta Land and Water Company constructed the Rocky Ford Dam, which is at the...
Old Irontown (Iron County, Utah); Erosion--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Little Pinto Canyon at Irontown ruins ten miles northwest of Page Ranch, Dixie Division, showing bad erosion. Note some grass beginning to grow in the bottoms.
Grazing--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Pinto (Washington County, Utah)
The meadows along the stream bottoms in the pinon-juniper type offer good grazing for livestock. The browse on the pinon-juniper sidehills provide excellent habitat for deer. Pinto Canyon just south of the town of Pinto, Utah.
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing
Range studies of grazing areas, Long Hollow. Range suitability - upper portion unsuitable for cattle, drainage, canyon bottoms before using steeper rougher range, lower Long Hollow.
rapidly as the season advanced. Crops came up but withered and died for lack of water. After some two and a half busy months of exploration, house huildins, etc., the time arrived for the men to return to the settlements. Some of the company had...