Coming back to the Branch Normal School after a great summer in Chicago. From left: Samuel Leigh (driver of the stage), Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bennion, Ann E. Spencer.
Mountain Meadow (Washington County, Utah); Monuments; Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857
First monument at Mountain Meadow, Kumen Jones in picture. Taken by Howard R. Driggs on the first proselyting trip taken from the BNS in the year 1898. Kumen Jones was the driver of the carriage. They spent a month travelling over Southern Utah...
Hubor's water wheel. Taken by Howard R. Driggs on first proselyting trip taken from BNS, in the year 1898. Kumen Jones was the driver of the carriage. They spent a month travelling over Southern Utah speaking to the people about the school.
Mines and mineral resources; Silver Reef (Washington County, Utah)
Silver Reef Mine, taken by Howard R. Driggs on the first proselyting trip taken from the BNS. Kumen Jones was the driver of the carriage. They spent a month travelling over Southern Utah speaking to people about the school.
Jones, Kumen; Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--History; Southern Utah University--History
Carriage and horses with Kumen Jones as driver at Ash Creek, Black Ridge. Taken by Howard R. Driggs on the first proselyting trip taken for the Branch Normal School in 1898. Mr. Jones drove for Mr. Driggs on a month-long tour of Southern Utah.
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Faculty; Driggs, Howard R. (Howard Roscoe), 1873-1963; Porter, N. T.; Lewis, Howard Claude
Five men eating on the ground. A carriage is in the background . There are plates, cups, a pan and a barrel in the picture. Written below the photo: "Identification: (from memory) Man in the striped shirt, N. T. Porter, clockwise from him: Mr....
Wed. Aug. 31, 1904: Ther. Pleasant., Wea. Clouds We cut out 2561 feet of lumber to-day. 50) Thursday, Sept. 1: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clear Few clouds. Made another run today Friday 2: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clouds pm Chopped timber this fore noon. Worked...
Tues. Sept. 6, 1904: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clear, No cattle came in to water last night. We sawed 3,200 feet today. Had some bother with the carriage, the stringers are badly decayed. 50) Wednesday 7: Ther. Warm., Wea. Few Clouds, Marion and Joe went...
Nov. 11, 1875 . . . R . R. Birkbeck and C. J . Arthur each donated land, 20 rods long a n d 2 rods wide, for s t r e e t s for the consideration of 20 rods of good pole fence for West Street. The Council paid Joseph H . Smith $30 per a c r e for...
HISTORY OF CEDAR CITY BY John Urie, 1880 Cedar City i s a beautiful little village situated on the r i m of the Great American Basin and is 5,615 feet above the level of the sea. With i t s 740 inhabitants (Census of 18801, i t s 135 houses, i t s...
camped with some scattered wagons. No fuel, little food, and a long distance to fetch water as we camped one mile south of the creek. Friday, December 13: Started this morning about 9 a m . Doubled teams to ascend the Utah mountain which was very...
creeks out of the canyons, widens to encompass an area of good farmland, then tapers off and disappears in the desert gorges and mesas that stretch westward. With the advent of spring, the snow banks melt and disappear, and the mountainsides become...
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...