WOMEN WHO HAVE PLAYED IMPORTANT PARTS AS DOCTORS IN MINERSVILLE Mary Blackburn was the first white woman to come to Minersville. She delivered the first white child, a girl, Rosena Roberts Rollins, to Mrs. George Roberts. She also delivered...
from crowding too much upon the timbers. The present expense of mining is low. We have as the cost of taking out 90 tons daily Labor …24144.00 Timbering 90 tons @ 82c per ton 73.80 Superintendence 6.00 Supplies and incidental expenses ...
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...
upon their own claims. Hence there are a lot of rudely-worked prospects, with very little development. During that time 40 men were working and prospecting in the two districts.
A two-stack smelter was built in Shauntie in the sum-mer of 1873. The...
Ebenezer Tanner Jr. bought the place from his father, and in turn sold it to Mrs. Jessie Robinson, who continued to use it as a hotel. It was later used as an apartment house, until it was razed in 1946. Mrs. Tanner, widely known as "Ma" Tanner in...
WAH WAH SPRINGS Wah Wah Springs was settled in July, 1870, by Edwin S. Squires and Lydia Abbott Squires. They were on their way to California to locate. They had a herd of cattle and when they got to Nevada they were asked to pay a tax on the...
time while he returned to Nephi to close his affairs. He then came back to Milford and took over the active management of his store, adding a large feed lot with stables, a large barn, and camp houses. His business was supplying the freighters,...
irrigated. The first families cut the wild hay that grew there and used it for their stock. Later they raised their own hay, and lucerne seed came to be the largest paying crop raised there. So profitable it proved that by 1920, individuals...
grass. These changes came so slowly they were almost unnoticed. Even the invasion of Russian thistle and cheatgrass on large areas of winter range caused little apprehension. Range surveys in 1933-36 in Western Beaver County indicated that forage...
11 years. He is a frequent visitor and speaker at the little church Rev. Mork conducted revivals here, sometimes two weeks at a time, in the earlier years of the Milford church. The Rev. Mr. Mork had his headquarters at Mt. Pleasant and at that...
About 1912 the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge sold the building to the Masonic Lodge. Dances continued to be held on the first floor until the Arion Hall was built. EARLY CARS IN MILFORD The first car that was ever in Milford was called a Smith. The owner of...
The third car in Milford was a Stanley Steamer roadster, painted white. It, too, was used on the mail route and was bought by Bill Martin.
One time when Bill Richards was driving this car on the trip, loaded with mail and passengers, it caught fire...
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Third Year. First half. Second half.
1. American History and Civics…… 3 3
2. Bookkeeping b ………...3 3
3. English c………………………….4 4
4. German 2 4 4
5. Latin...
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Fourth Year. First half. Second half.
English d 4 4
American History and Civics 4 4
Physics 4 4
Mechanical Drawing and Shop (four periods)2 2
Analytical...
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Second Year. First half. Second half.
English b 4 4
Plane Geometry 3 3
Chemistry 4 4
Ancient History, 1912-13 4 4
Mediaeval and Modern History, (1913-14).....4 4
German or French (4...
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For any of the above that have been past off in examination, the following may be taken : Chemistry for a four hours subject, Domestic Science 1 or Manual Training for a two hour subject, appropriate for a substitute.
Second...
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Students; Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--College graduates; Booth, Mattie; Perry, Susannah
The graduating class of 1903. There are three young men, eight young women and possibly the male professor. First row far right is Mattie Booth, second row far righ is Susannah Perry. Written on the picture is "1884-Susannah Perry (sister of...
Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City, Utah); Southern Utah University -- History
Agricultural building from 1957-1967, later became the Counseling Center. During the housing crunch at BAC after World War II the Agricultural building housed eight men who lived out of footlockers and cooked on hot plates.