Fri. Oct. 16, 1903: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clear. Will not go down Mineral on account of the poison, but will go over into the Muddy. 68) 11 Saturday 17: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clear, I herded part of the sheep along the creek this forenoon while the others...
Sun. Feb. 18, 1912: Ther. Warm. Wea. Windy. Clds. Attended S.S. and meetings today our quarterly missionaries. Ira H. Bradshaw and John Judd were there. Monday 19: Ther. Cold and windy Wea. Clouds going South. Watering lucern with the Pine Creek...
Thurs. Sept. 14, 1905: Ther. Hot., pleasant., Wea. clouds We asked a lady for a melon this fore noon she sent us into the patch said they were feeding them to their hogs- there was the most large melons I ever have seen, and the largest ones I ever...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Rod
Rod Swasey was next to the oldest brother in a group who became known as the Swasey Boys.The Swasey brothers went to the San Rafael Swell with the family's herds of cattle and horses in the 1870s. Liking the Swell so much, they basically made it...
The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking the wild ones and selling them. The tradition continued into the next generation. The Swaseys were not the only ones to...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swasey, Joe; Swasey, Mary Etta McDonald
Joe Swasey was the youngest brother of the Swasey boys. He married Mary Etta McDonald in 1887. The Swasey Brothers on the San Rafael Swell made their living wrangling the wild horses along with their own, then breaking the wild ones and selling...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Sid's Leap
Probably the most famous stories regarding the Swaseys and their horses was a time when Charlie wagered a herd of cattle with his brother Sid, that Sid's horse "Socks" could not jump a deep, narrow gorge called the Black Box. The walls of rock are...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Wild Horses; Swasey, Joe; Swasey, Royal
Joe Swasey's son Royal took this photograph on the San Rafael Swell of one of the last wild horse roundups that Joe Swasey participated in. It was in the 1950s. The Division of Grazing felt like the horses were using too much of the grazing land,...
HENRY LEIGH Biography 1843, - 1920 Henry Leigh was horn December 31, 1843, in Llanelly, South Wales, the son of Samuel and Ann Davis Leigh. He emigrated to America with his family, February 1849, on the ship Buna Vista, with 250 saints on board,...
instructed to hire two men and a team to assist the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph in trimming and removing trees along Main Street for the line to be placed 1 8 feet from the property lines. Oct. 1 . 1 9 1 4 ... Librarian's salary was...
driving, minors driving autos, e t c . , and give some publicity in the newspaper. This was after a petition was read from Junior High School students. April 4 , 1918.. .The matter of arranging with the Pool Hall proprietors to close up during the...
Jan. 21. 1954.. .Mayor Anderson recommended the following people for appointed offices: Ellen A . Simkins--City Recorder, Patrick Fenton--City Attorney, F. E . McNutt--City Manager, Dr. L. V. Broadbent--City Physician. Ray Melling-Fire Chief, Ralph...
1. Should the El Escalante Hotel be used by the City to house and display the G . R. Parry Collection a s a Museum? 2 . Should it be sold outright? Captain Lundberg, from the Air Force Special Weapons Center in New Mexico, requested permission to...
1 Installation of a storm sever on Main Street and entendrng it to . Altmira Avenue an 75 East Street. 2 Extensive Cat work was done in Coal Creek to widen and straighten the . channel. 3 The banks of Coal Creek were raised and reinforced with the...
developed and built it up. When a post office was established some years later, the name was changed from Johnson's Springs to Enoch. Johnson's Springs was settled about 1852 or 1853. At an early period, many industries were started . throughout...
tickets cost $3.00 and could be paid in produce. W have e been unable to unearth documentation of activities of the Dramatic Association beyond 1880, but it is safe to say that a community tradition had been set which no doubt led to support and...
and fieedom and our peace, and he fastened it upon the end of a pole, and he called it the title of liberty." The settlers now turned their attention to procuring logs for the meeting house. John D. Lee wrote: Monday morning, January 27, 1851: The...
assumes the appearance of an old settled country. Then, when I passed through, there were only four houses at Payson and but an old shabby fort at Provo. [The 'Word of Wisdom,' as Joseph Smith had announced it, had not been a biding commandment in...
sex of the telegrapher at the place we had left in the morning, when Mrs. Lunt remarked to her sister-wife that 'Parowan has been c d e d by St. George three times without answering. She will go to meeting!' Mr. Lunt did what he could to help, poor...