BEAVER COUNTY
LOCATION OF BEAVER COUNTY
Situated on the west side of the Tushar range of the Wasatch Mountains, Beaver County is rich in natural resources and its history is a monument to the courage of its founders. Fertile, cultivated fields of...
frost about October 5th. The Milford Valley is colder in the north portion but varies but little from the dates as to frost at Minersville.
The climate or weather conditions in the county are temperate, not being subject to either extreme heat or...
Then the floor was cleared for a step dance and a stump speech. Once in a while a waltz was indulged in to the melodies of Ileena Lanna, My Irish Rose, or Home Sweet Home. However the round dance was generally discouraged by Church...
THE SCHOOLS OF BEAVER
SCHOOL HOUSE BUILT FIRST YEAR
In writing this history of the early schools of Beaver, we have interviewed the few remaining pupils of those days; have had access to a few old letters and diaries, and some short articles...
Woolsey, in August, 1945. His counselors are (July, 1947) Gilbert Gale and Chase H. Murdock.
HISTORY OF EAST WARD RELIEF SOCIETY
Today the Relief Societies are reaping rich harvest from the efforts of the past. From heights of success we look back...
June 6th, 1876, Ruth Tyler went in as president of the society, with Eliza Hawkins and Ann Levi as counselors; Mary E. Shepherd Ashworth, secretary and treasurer. Donations, from three pounds of flour, one-half dozen eggs, to $20 in cash, were...
lished a missionary fund and gathered grain for time of need. Board released in 1913.
Frances L. Jones, president ; Mary Farnsworth and Susan J. Murdock, counselors ; Jennie Tanner, secretary ; Jean Hales, treasurer. This board completed the...
David Miller, July 26, 1880-1886. William Edwards, June 23, 1886-1887. Post office discontinued. Re-established April 24, 1888, with William Edwards again acting. Jess Barton, October 19, 1920. Following Mr. Barton were: Mrs. Hazle Barton,...
on the east bank of Dry Creek. Other members to head this Society were: second president, Mary Davis; third president, Margaret Adams. In 1893, Jane Barton was made president, with Mary Morris, and Mary A. Miller as counselors. This groupp served...
January 5, 1908, Mary J. Blackner was chosen president, with Mary E. Morris and Winnifred Miller as counselors; Julia Griffith, secretary; Mary A. Reese, treasurer. Caring for the sick and needy, the gathering and storing of wheat, went steadily...
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....
HISTORY OF MINERSVILLE RELIEF SOCIETY
The Relief Society of the Minersville Ward was organized April 15, 1869, with Malinda Lewis as president and Harriet Bradshaw as secretary. The society was
called Female Relief Society of Minersville.
Tarlton...
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...
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...
Mr. Myers tells of one time when a heavy snow storm overtook them on their route and they stopped and dried off places with fires so they could camp for the night. There was one place on their route, he says, that was so steep that after a storm...
Mrs. Johnson says they brought the grain and other things that they raised. They smoked and cured the pork they brought and the freighters would buy up butter from the different stores there and mix it altogether and print it with a round mold....
music, so far away, gradually became louder until they reached the landing. Some of these men would get on at the 1,000 foot level and stop at each stope until all the men were on the cage. One wouldn't think that such beautiful music could come...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO WESTERN BEAVER COUNTY AND SNAKE VALLEY INDIANS AT INDIAN PEAK There was at one time a part of a tribe of Piute Indians living at Indian Peaks. Bert James says there were two hundred Indians out there, never over that, and...
Wah Wah Springs we followed the road almost due west across Pine Valley to Potsum Paw Springs, then west on the so-called "Old Bailey Wood Road," between the Indian Peak and Mt. Home Range leading into Hamblin Valley. We went to Frisco for our...
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE MERCHANDISING IN MILFORD Milford, different than most Utah communities, was not settled on an agricultural basis, but because of the geographic location it became an early trading point, serving freighters. It happened to be...