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History of the B.A. C.
"GREAT thing have small beginnings." So it is written
in all the books, and so it repeats itself and is acted
out year after year in everything. The B. A. C. is
no exception.
In 1913 the Legislature of the great State of Utah...
LEO ARD BOWE
The important thing in life
is to have a great aim, and to
possess the aptitude, and perseverance
to attain it.
BETH HAMBLIN
"Age cannot wither her, 110r
custom stale
Her infinite variety."
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LORENZO GRIFFIN
"In peace, there's...
CHAPTER X
THE WALKER WAR
1853
W
hen the Mormons were colonizing the Utah Territory, they went out of their way to keep on fiiendly terms with the Indians. The Mormon people kept a fiiendly attitude towards the redmen and continued to give them...
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FIRST IRRIGATION IN BEAVER VALLEY
Early in May, 1856, the water for irrigating the Old Field and town plat was taken from the river at a dam east of where the Allred home had been built. It was then conducted in a good sized ditch to the N E...
bers of the said choir together with all those who have so ably assisted them in catering to the comforts of their aged guests, and that said Beaver Choir become a standing committee to continue in the future the good work they have begun by...
poses. After other, and more modern, facilities for school were procured, this building was rented to the Beaver Creamery, where butter and cheese were manufactured. Then, finally, it was turned over to the Beaver High School and the old historic...
therewith. This, together with the opening of the mines in the west end of the county and the location of the soldiers at the Military Post two miles east of Beaver City, with numerous saloons operating, made of it a high-powered community. EARLY...
Wilson G. Nowers, county clerk; Orson Tyler, sheriff; Lamoni L. Babitt, constable; James W. Huntsman, selectman. In the absence of Simeon F. Howd and Joel W. White, John M. Davis and Ephraim Tompkinson were duly sworn to fill the offices of...
In 1865, the Court ordered that Greenville be an Election Precinct, also to be known as School District No. 2, hereafter Beaver to be known as District No. 1, Minersville District No. 3. In 1866, an act of the Legislature of the Territory of Utah,...
and Edward Tolton, Beaver Districts 1 and 2 ; Charles Burke, Minersville, including Lincoln District ; Isaac Grundy, Star District; David Reese, Adamsville and Granite District; Robert Easton, Greenville District.
In 1876, at a special meeting of...
BEAVER CITY INCORPORATED IN 1867
An act to incorporate Beaver City in Beaver County was passed and approved by the Governor and Legisla-ture of the Territory of Utah, January 10, 1867. Also enacted that all that portion of country situated within...
Spanish-American War Veterans Indian troubles were over, and the Beaver citizens were a happy, patriotic group. Their first real call to defend their country (since the Mormon Battalion) came in 1898 in the "Spanish-American War." John Frank...
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR POLITICAL HISTORY OF MILFORD TOWN INCORPORATED IN 1903 December 1, 1903, the Board of County Commissioners of Beaver County approved a petition for the incorporation of the Town of Milford and appointed the following persons...
saving weeks in travel and the hard labor of blazing a new trail. They had in mind the moving of the people who would come after them. The route they chose was somewhat shorter than the other trail, with a better grade. Further, the greater part of...
Peace; City T r e a s u r e r ; Manager of the Cedar City Co-op for approximately 2 1 y e a r s ; President of t h e Cedar City Sheep Association; and County Superintendent of District Schools, being elected to t h a t position August 5, 1889. He...
enforced a n d t h e City Marshal be i n s t r u c t e d accordingly. Carried. On motion of Councilman Jones t h e work on City Hall be prosecuted a s soon a s possible. Carried. On motion Councilman Jones notices be posted calling for bids to...