Memoranda: March 9, 1903. Myron Holgate found a round hole that appears to be an ancient mine. We cleaned it out to the depth of about four feet, then it began to widen out, we didn’t have time to dig any longer. The hole at the top was about...
Fri. May 10, 1912: Ther. Warm Wea. Ptly cldy Finished the levee and hauled three loads of manure to the field. Saturday 11: Ther. Warm. Wea. Ptly. Cldy. Sprinkle about noon I cleaned a little of the Oakcreek ditch and dug up some peach stumps for...
Thurs. June 4, 1914: Ther. Pleasant Wea. Ptly Cldy. Working on the Pine Creek ditch all day. We got the water in tonight Friday 5: Ther. Cool Wea. Windy Cldy Raked and piled hay. Hauled one load. Replanted a piece of corn that the squirrels dug...
31 Days October 23 Clear I went up on the mountain to help dig potatoes and Lloyd came home. 24 Clouds. We dug 105 sacks of potatoes today 25 Rained most all day. Filled 43 sacks this A.M. came home afternoon. 26 Clouds going East at a rapid...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Wheeler, Marion
Marion Wheeler mined at Temple Mountain in 1955. He is standing at the Calex Hole, which is the shaft drilled vertically to allow the air movement into the mine as well as to take miners into and out of the mine. He wrote, "The shaft went down 80...
Venice Jensen's grandfather Rasmus Johnson helped build the Emery Canal from the Muddy Creek. When the settlers along the Muddy Creek decided to build a town of Emery, they began to build a canal diverting the water from the Muddy Creek to the...
Emery County (Uath); Emery (Utah); Jensen, Venice; Johnson, Rasmus; Muddy Creek; Emery Canal; Building Canals
Venice Jensen's grandfather Rasmus Johnson helped build the Emery Canal from the Muddy Creek. When the settlers along the Muddy Creek decided to build the town of Emery, they began to build a canal diverting the water from the Muddy Creek to the...
Oct. 1 4 . 1878.. .[written r e p o r t ) To the Honorable Mayor a n d members of the City Council. Your committee to whom was referred the examination of the slaughterhouse, wishes to report a s follows: 1 s t . . .we recommend t h a t the...
June 5 , 1 building roc for the Cerr per lb. Mar. 3. 1; 887.. .Bid of Nelson, Cosslett, building the Cemetery Wall for $5 a rod. and Parry for
E195.. Feb. 18, 1 - .Sexton. T....B. . Wright, requested a lock for .. -. the Cemeter y a s parties,...
land outside the City, but the Council felt that the County should look into the purchase. May 19, 1955... Wallace Osborne and Lavell Chamberlain will have charge of the Swimming Pool for the summer, and Cleo Petty will be in charge of Recreation....
Chief. During the early days of the settlement of the country, when there were many more Indians than white men. a great chief named Kanarra reigned supreme over his tribe. He was very unfriendly toward the white people who were coming into the...
found such a concentration of steamboats. They stretched for four or five miles, curving with the river itse& sometimes two and three deep. By night, the procession of boats on the lower river was one of magical splendor. Hundreds of lights glanced...
would attempt to pass, and could not even go for our cattle without being in danger of having our back stuck full of arrows. To settle at that point is not good policy at present Still, within a few years, that country will no doubt be settled and...
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...
It was the most awhl scene I ever witnessed and certainly will never be forgotten. Attended meeting in the evening and found that Brother Cook's boy was knocked down about 100 yards from my house. Brother Smith and Brother Carruthers came to my...
thousand head, which had just crossed the South Fork of the Platte, and he came on a lope going west after the herd and, but for me firing a shot from my revolver at him in the head which turned him close by the hind end of the wagon, he would have...
atmosphere of fear in which reason was the first casualty. Pratt represented the best of the intellectual tradition of the temtory, and the account of his death was not forgotten in the excitement of the impending federal invasion. He was among the...
many others. A log school and church house were quickly erected. A ditch fiom Water Canyon was to be dug so we could plant orchards and gardens and have water for cuiinary purposes. I the meantirne, al1 of our water was n c h e d or hauled in...
When Martineau returned to Pacheco a month later, the town was a shocking sight. Large pieces of beef and pork lay rotting in the houses and yards and the homes were in a temble condition. There were books, many choice ones, scattered around--many...
had to be cleared of sagebl-ush and greasewood. Heavy d r a p were made of tree trunks and poles, and the t~rushwas hurned. T h e plows were made of mountain mahogany and the shares of iron. Often, the land was hard and dry, and water for the...