The Girls' Dormitory
/T"^HE Dormitory started off with
a bang. We had several dis-putes
over which sheets went into
which room. We were even guilty
of yelling "Say you," at the teach-ers.
Finally we settled down for a
little while. Then, during the...
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...
made butter for many years, were Sarah Nowers, Mary Low, Mrs. W. P. Smith, Amelia Smith, Mrs. Ann Levi, Sophia Dean, and others. Mrs. William Dean churned and supplied the officers at Fort Cameron with butter while they were stationed there.
In...
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...
The machinery consisted of a fine 60-horse power engine, two horizontal boilers, a Dodge rock crusher, ten 750 pound stamps, six small wooden pans, three iron settlers, and a retort. This mill stood on the hill near the present site of the Milford...
time while he returned to Nephi to close his affairs. He then came back to Milford and took over the active management of his store, adding a large feed lot with stables, a large barn, and camp houses. His business was supplying the freighters,...
grass. These changes came so slowly they were almost unnoticed. Even the invasion of Russian thistle and cheatgrass on large areas of winter range caused little apprehension. Range surveys in 1933-36 in Western Beaver County indicated that forage...
Wed. Oct. 18, 1905: Ther. Cool., Wea. Foggy Ptly. cldy. Too wet to work in the cotton field this morning. I went out this after noon and picked fifty-five pound while Elder Allred washed our clothes cotton picking is rather a poor job for me as...
March 2 1 , 1874.. . N . W . Pryor was appointed City Marshal, John C. Duncan was appointed T r e a s u r e r , a n d George P e r r y was appointed Supervisor of S t r e e t s and Water Ditches of Cedar City. March 23, 1874 . . . An ordinance was...
Tithing Office o r school house on reasonable terms. Councilor Nielson reported purchasing 900 feet of lumber for $27 in homemade goods o r wool at 306 per pound. Sustained. The Auditor was i n s t r u c t e d to issue a warrant in favor of J e n s...
that the Council lend their aid to provide armory and drill rooms for whatever Company of Militia may be organized in our City. Tabled for present. The Marshal was instructed to take all loose animals found running a t large on the streets to the...
prove, however, that the manufacture of iron is an accomplished f a c t , and Iron County, with h e r vast coal fields and an inexhaustible amount of the best iron ore in the world, is destined in the near future to be a vast business center. I t...
Henry was able to get two pairs of boots and a few other items &omthe merchandise that Richards and Snow had brought with them for the Cedar City saints. These goods added to the comfort of the needy brethren and sisters. On Wednesday, December 1,...
it for tea and tobacco. Henry and Brother Carmthers gave him what he asked for. A few days before, John D. Lee and Charles Dalton and their wives had brought thirteen cheeses to Henry for the Iron Works. The charge was 25 cents per pound.6 As...
a large and prosperous business. When I first left B~rmingham 1850, he predicted that I would return in in rags and tatters like the prodigal son, but in this he found himselfvery much mistaken. When I entered his place of business, as soon as he...