Tues. Sept. 12, 1905: Ther. Hot., Wea. Clear, Went north to the next line then west, spent most of the day talking with Mr. S.F. Davis an infidel, staid with a young couple just east of the Hurst school house. 161) (3
Names and addresses: April 1905. 27- The four of us spent the night with a Kiowa Indian Ape-Kaume, near Meers, he treated us royally. 28- J.B. Haley Springfield Comanche Co., O.T. 29- took dinner with a young couple four mi east of Roosevelt....
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Civilian Conservation Corps; Jensen, Dermis
Dermis Jensen was a supervisor of the San Rafael Bridge Project with the CCCs Company 529. He took this photograph of a couple of young men at work. Summertime in the Swell is very hot. Young men had to wear their uniforms for activities at the...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Civilian Conservation Corps; Jensen, Dermis; CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps allowed young men between the ages of 18-22 to join. The average age nation-wide was 18.5, so they were called "The CCC Boys." These young men are working with a pneumatic drill on the San Rafael Swell. Dermis Jensen, a...
Emery County (Utah); Swasey Family; Antiques; Swasey, Royal; Milk Barn Museum
It is no secret that the Swaseys made and bottled moonshine. Here are shown a couple of capping devices when bottling. Royal Swasey began collecting old items to preserve the old ways of life. He also had a hobby of making animals and other folk...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; USGS; Surveyors ; Rock Tank
USGS photographer W. B. Emery took this photograph of two thirsty surveyors drinking from a rock tank on the San Rafael Swell. These natural depressions in the rock collect rainwater and snowmelt. Some rock tanks are quite deep and others are...
Emery County (Utah); Alger, Samuel; Cleveland (Utah)
Samuel Alger and his wife Ruth moved, as a young married couple from Huntington to the barren flats that would become Cleveland (Utah). According to the Emery County History Book, he was instrumental in getting the Cleveland Canal started by...
Smith as Captain, Henry Lunt as Clerk, Edward Dalton as Sergeant of the Guard, W. Y. Webb as Pilot, and Philip K. Smith as Chaplain. After their meeting around the campfire, they sang "Come Let Us Anew, Our Journey Pursue." The horses were allowed...
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...
my new house, and the first thing they did was to find it. They tried to scare us into giving them more stuff Anyway, we finally got rid of them and they camped that night just over the hill from us. We kept our saddle horses hid out in the...
located there and find a place to camp. We had to have every animal and whom it belonged to registered. It was a big job. 1still hadn't had a chance to go to El Paso and find out how my wife and baby were. After a couple of weeks we finaily made...
1didn't harbor such hopes. 1felt it would be a long time before unhappy Mexico would be settled back to normal. My heart was touched at the piight of those men and women who had given the best of their lives for the development of their adopted...
For many years the Jones Brothers, Lehi, Uriah T., Jed, and Kumen, worked together on many projects and business ventures and they (.ontributed a great deal to the development of C:edar City and the State of Utah. 'They were also very concerned...
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United States Attorney and the Attorney General, Homer Cummings, appointed me as Dan's assistant. Dan later asked me why I did not come back to see him between the time 1 first approached him concerning the...
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fall term before Judge Johnson, the calendar contained 55 cases heard by a jury comprised of 22 men (the law requires "a jury of not less than 16 nor more than 22 members"), with evidence being presented by...
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stated, "because we wanted to feel really good about it when we did." Both of them had been on the move. Orpha had not become attached to a particular ward in Salt Lake, and John had been spending his time...
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Iuly 4th: "We finally took off on the trip we have looked forward to for so long. Mom (Sweeten) fed us breakfast, we had our pictures taken by the loaded car, and we were away by 8 a.m. We stopped in Coalville...
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graduating from the University and Carmen was completing her junior year." All three engagements occurred during the 1963 holiday season. Christmas Eve Steve gave a diamond to Pat after dinner with the Shumways in Tremonton. John...