OBJECTIVES OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE
HENRY OBERHANSLEY
Director
A SCHOOL is a place in which
we can get experiences and in-terpretations
faster and more ac-curately
than we can outside school.
Our school life today furnishes op-portunities
rich in...
CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
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September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though...
the surrounding towns in attendance. There was usually a speaker from the B. Y. U. or one of the Church authorities present. The afternoon was spent in athletic contests between classes, then the day's festivities ended with a dance in the evening....
the level and the thermometer stood at 32 degrees below zero for six weeks, day and night. Cattle sought protection among the pines and cedars, but they froze to death standing on their feet. Some of the smaller cattle owners were put out of...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN MINING IN WESTERN BEAVER COUNTY THE STORY OF THE HORN SILVER MINE Two prospectors, Samuel Hawkes and James Ryan, had been operating the Grampian Mine, from which they had been getting a galena type of ore. Every day, on their...
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...
district there are several large ledges of pyrite and copyrite ore. Some work was done upon them, and a small amount of a very high grade silver ore was mined several years ago. The principal claims are the COMET, CACTUS and COPPER CHIEF. CACTUS...
BEAVER CARBONATE MINE Located 1 3/4 miles northwest of Frisco. Elevation 6,750 feet. Property consists of a group of 11 claims and fractions. The principal developments have been in the Carbonate and Rattler claims. Discovered in 1878. Sold in...
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...
holes. The duration of burning is from three to seven days, and of cooling from three to six days. Charring, which includes packing of wood in the kiln and drawing the coal, is usually done by contract and costs from 2 3/4c to 3 1/2c per bushel....
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...
ing, perhaps, the water level dropped and alfalfa seed could not be grown. The farmers then, of necessity, began farming on a more practical scale. There were crops of all kinds of grain, corn, alfalfa and potatoes. These are the principal crops at...
Memoranda: Distance of Steam Boat mountain from the John Hepworth correll east of Oakcreek wash about 10,000 feet. And with a raise of 3 ¾ inches per foot would make the top of the mountain 3.125 feet above the spot that we measured from or about...
Memoranda: Provo, Utah. 4,517 feet above sea level Distance from Denver 672 miles. from S.L. City 44 “ Soldier Summit Highest Rail Road in the Wasatch Range. Elevation 7,465 feet. distance from Denver 627 miles. Mount of the Holy Cross...
Much material had to be taken to the tunnel site and the camp before the road was built from the bottom of the canyon. Therefore a cable was stretched across the canyon and a vertical cable to lift a backet, or platform, from the area of the two...
Yankee Meadows Reservoir (Iron County, Utah); Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Upper side of Yankee Meadows Reservoir showing the water level and the narrow earth dike placed on the dam by Reservoir company officials. The dike had been rip-rapped with rocks on the water side.