CHAPTER EIGHT
PIONEER MEDICINE
HERBS USED IN EARLY-DAY TREATMENTS
In Beaver's dramatic history, like other early towns, there were no more heroic figures than our pioneer doctors, midwives and nurses. Hundreds of miles from professional aid, they...
devoted their lives to this profession. Necessarily, those women were patient, kind, tender and skilled to be able to answer the many calls and to have endeared themselves in the hearts of the pioneer women. Every hamlet had these "mother"...
BEAVER OPERA HOUSE
During the early part of the century, the need for a building suitable for large congregations was felt. By 1906, citizens started building the Beaver Opera House. Much of the labor was taken out in stock and donation, together...
therewith. This, together with the opening of the mines in the west end of the county and the location of the soldiers at the Military Post two miles east of Beaver City, with numerous saloons operating, made of it a high-powered community. EARLY...
approached the mayor and asked, "Do you wish to have Powers arrested? The mayor replied, "There is no other thing, just now, we desire so much." "Give me the authority," said the stranger, "and I will make the arrest." Due authority having been...
floors. The furniture consisted of rock or adobe fire-places, roughly constructed tables and benches. Bed-steads were considered luxuries and were home-made. The door and window casings were chopped from cottonwood which grew along the creek....
The first molasses mill was built in the street west of the school house, and was operated by Albert L. Stod-dard. Molasses took the place of sugar in those days.
FIRST SCHOOL
The first school was held in "Grandma Corbridge's" house, located where...
of Cedar City. His route was through Minersville Can-yon. He left Milford at 9 a. m., arriving at Johnson's Fork at 5 p.m. He was employed by Gilmore & Salisbury, mail contractors for the western part of Beaver County. Later Mr. Root moved to...
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,...
On the corner'where Dr. Busch's office is, was a large storage cellar which belonged to A. G. Campbell. Behind the cellar, where the McCulley house stands, was a saloon, and a blacksmith shop. Earlier, Mat Cullen had a store on the corner. Angus...
Kennedy and Mr. Clinger were in charge of that work, and sublet contracts to individuals for different stage routes. Mr. Hollis worked in five different blacksmith shops in Milford. He took over the one which stood on the drug store corner, when...
A PART OF EARLY-DAY MILFORD In the early days, J. D. McAuley owned the whole block from the large house on the corner, which was his home, down to and including the Flatiron Building. Before Mr. McCauley built his home there, the corner was...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN MILFORD ITS EARLY HISTORY Springing from a few shacks built as a matter of con-venience by ore haulers and stockmen, the little city of Milford has struggled to a position of prominence in Beaver County. Today, with a population...
the Beaver river to reach the mill. One ford was at Horseshoe Bend, two miles south of town near the present Bill Baker ranch, and the other was east of Yellow Banks, about two miles north of town. Freighters, traveling laboriously with their heavy...
BINGHAM ran the rooming house later operated by Mrs. Hardy. FORGIE Jimmy, a rancher and cattleman, and Johnny, who built the Forgie apartment house. BRADFIELD Thomas, roundhouse foreman. GUILES Peter, ran a livery stable and feed yard on the...
Photo of Milford's earliest bands, posed in front of the old Smithson Hotel, now the Shay Zabriskie apartment house and recreation parlor. Left ot right: Charles Adams, Robert Carr, Joseph Bigler, John Wright, George Robinson, D. A. Tanner,...
Photos of ribbons worn by S. N. Slaughter as delegate to early-day conventions and rallies. The Irrigation Congress included representatives from the entire West.
The large dining room of the Williams Hotel was often the scene of merry dancing parties. The Smithson Hotel on Main Street (now the Peterson house), was at one time the largest hotel in the business district, and eventually had a greater business...
After a little while McKeon and the girls appeared. They asked Mr. Smithson if he had had any passengers that night. He replied, "Yes, two young women and the squirmiest baby I ever carried." Thereupon they began to chuckle, and when Mr. Smithson...