water from Devil's Creek, thus making it possible to operate the year 'round. This mill was a great help to the people of the neighborhood and vicinity. People came from as far away as St. George with their grists to have them ground. This mill was...
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....
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...
alone to Adamsville to settle their bills. Mr. Griffiths says that all the years they freighted, they never failed to send the man back, while the rest of the teams went on through Black Rock, Oasis, and on to York. Later, the railroad terminal...
Jeddy and Heber Dean of Beaver, freighted to Frisco for many years, hauling lumber and merchandise. John Brooks was an old veteran freighter of Beaver. John W. Myers says, after relating experiences in freighting, "Those were hard times, but happy...
as he did, he managed to get hold of an old sawed-off shotgun. Quickly he turned the gun on the robber and ordered him to dance. The robber then danced until he could no longer dance, and the freighter took his horse, tied it to his wagon and drove...
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....
from Levan, Tene Christiansen, daughter of Ras Christiansen. Mrs. James knew the family of Christiansens very well. A brother of Tene's was said to be a companion bandit of McCarty's. His bandit name was Mat Warner. McCarty, Mrs. James says, was...
first deep well. There are now more than a dozen of these deep wells, 14 to 20 inches in diameter, tapping another strata of water at depths of from 275 to 500 feet.. Pioneers in the pumping project include C. C. Sloan, W. W. Cook, Charles Baxter,...
that his pump did not throw enough water to irrigate the land, and his crops were a failure. The well crew first was put to work sinking a five-foot cement curbing with perforations, but this was finally abandoned. A wooden frame strainer then was...
Davis, Diane McCulley, Tannis Trofeld Buckley, Irene Rainey, Ruth Zabriskie, Mrs. J. A. Perkins, Georgia Stonehocker, Iretta Albrecht, Mrs. Vernon, Norma Grimshaw, Mrs. Jack Lester, and LaDawne Muncey Frazier. MUSICAL HISTORY About 1897, T. J....
OUTSTANDING MUSICIANS OF MILFORD Elizabeth (Beth) Ferguson is not only an outstanding musician of Milford and Beaver County, but of the state as well. She spent ten years studying, singing and teaching in Europe. In Paris, she studied under one...
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games and out of door sports, but it is also taking an interest in other phases of physical education.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
The student body of the Branch Normal is self-governing. An organization known as...
Mon. Jan. 16, 1899: Ther. 11 am. 38º., Wea. some clouds hurrying east the same thing over again. Father & I began to feel a little better. Tuesday 17: Ther. 5 pm. 48º., Wea. clear. I felt enough better today that I took the shot gun and went...
Wed. May 29, 1901: + Ther. Warm., Wea. Clouds, They brought out enough sheep to finish my herd this forenoon I now have about 2,500 (2,531) in all 23 blacks and 14 bells. We moved up near the foot of the mountain I could’nt get the sheep to the...
Mon. June 10, 1901: + Ther. Cool., Wea. Cloudy Colder Wind, Snow & Rain, It snowed and rained awhile today just enough to make it quite disagreeable, but not enough to do any good. I camped over in the hallow south of the dipping correll. on...
Thurs. Feb. 26, 1903: Ther. Cold N. wind., Wea. Clouds, Noon Cold and blustery, Herded north & north-east of camp, George is out hunting the lost sheep, he failed to find it. But little thawing today. We had a little blustery weather about noon...
Mon. Mar. 16, 1903: Ther. Cool S.E. breeze., Wea. Cloudy. We turned back this afternoon and camped in the draw about one third of a mile above our camp of the 13th inst. Snow is becoming considerable of an object with us now. 40) Tuesday 17: Ther....
Sat. June 29, 1912: Ther. Hot Wea. more rains but not enough to amount to any thing. Working in the Tonigan Field planted the Sweet corn Sunday 30: Ther. Warm- Wea. Clouds- Around home