few blue-backed spelling books and McGuffey's Readers. Often there was only one book to a room, so it would be passed around from one pupil to another. Slates and slate pencils were scarce, notebooks and lead pencils were unknown. One woman who...
erroneously been called trachyte, a short distance above the level of the valley. Still farther east are extensive beds of tufa. The water in the district is very bad and scarce. Drinking water is brought on the railroad from Black Rock, from 30 to...
Copper Gulch, including the New Years, Belmont and Purity claims, adjoining the Cactus. CHARCOAL BURNING Thirty-six beehive charcoal kilns supplied the furnaces of the San Francisco District with fuel. They were in eight groups, under separate...
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....
Mrs. Johnson says they brought the grain and other things that they raised. They smoked and cured the pork they brought and the freighters would buy up butter from the different stores there and mix it altogether and print it with a round mold....
As a young man, Mr. Walter James drove a butcher wagon, delivering meat to the townspeople and to the Horn Silver and Carbonate Mines boarding houses. The two mines employed about 1,000 men. Each mine had its own smelter for refining ores....
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Latin 4. Six books of Vergil's Aeneid with a course of reading and lectures on mythology.
Advanced Latin courses will be given if above work has been completed.
GREEK.
MR. HUSSONG.
Greek...
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GREEK.
MR. HUSSONG.
Greek I. Thoro attention to Greek inflections, writing Greek with proper accentuation and developing a vocabulary for the Anabasis. Gleason and Atherton's first Greek Book is used. Daily...
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SPECIAL ART.
John A. Alder.
The student is given credit according to the amount of work done.
Studies are made of still life objects, and easy subjects for the students are selected. Course I consists of work in charcoal...
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LATIN.
Mr. ______________
The course offered in Latin will be the same in sequence as those at the State University.
Latin 1. All inflections of the Latin language are taught thoroughly. Sufficient prose will be read to obtain...
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taught thoroughly. Sufficient prose will be read to obtain a vocabulary adequate for reading Caesar proficiently.
Four recitations throughout the year.
Latin 2. Four books of Caesar's Gallic War, additional Latin syntax and turning...
was named "Little Muddy" from i t s muddy appearance. Eighteen miles north of this place i s Center Creek where over one-half of the Company remained, while the other half journeyed south, under the direction of Parley P. Pratt. Here it was, on a...
was hoisted on the evening of the third of July, 1852. It was also during the year of 1852 that the mining industry in Iron County began. W might mention that, e about this time, the first gold discovered in the County was found at Parowan, in the...
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...
arrived at our camp. We fired the cannon six times in welcome." President Young spent the next few days visiting the settlers and giving comforting instructions to those who wanted to go home. He and others in the party visited the gristmill and...
Myself and wife and Father and Mother Whittaker attended a supper party at Brother Chatterly's. President J. C. L. Smith came in from Parowan in the evening. Wednesday, January 12: Very sharp frost. Spent the day at the Iron Works--had 25 men at...