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...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Photos of Lohree Nowers, Graduate '17, Member Amusement Committee '17. "Gentle in manner, firm in reality." ; David Stevens, Graduate '17, Basketball Sub. '16. "Virtue is like a rich stone -- bestplain set." ; Maude Horton, Graduate '17. "With...
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...
MINERAL RESOURCES
The early discovery of precious and valuable mineral and the development of the prospects, placed the count; as one of the most important mining centers of the west It has been said that the whole county was a vast laboratory,...
feature. Toasts and sentiments were given and responded to and each part on the program was followed by a salute
of the cannon.
Then came the picnic time and the games, races and dances and general good time by all celebrants.
LEST WE FORGET THE...
A. J. Wilson, J. Harris, C. Willden, Joseph Armstrong, D. D. Reese, J. Tattersall, H. Tattersall, Thomas Richards, D. C. Adams, W. Holgate and W. Hall.
The Adamsville townsite was surveyed in 1867, and named Adamsville after its founder, David...
This additional spread of water over greater acreage caused more bottom land to sub-irrigate and added much to our rich meadow acreage. And, in turn, most of the water springs up in our lower fields and communities and is reclaimed through natural...
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...
Atkin, Howard; Bohn, Ray G.; Atkin, James Albert; *Bohn, Warren Hutchings; Atkin,Joe W.; Bolton, Arthur James; Atkin, John LaVar; Bowler, Clark Wilson; Baker, Gordon Reed; Boyter, Raylin; Baker, Wendell Milo; Boyter, J. Verley; Bakes,...
present highway bridge. Bullion made in the crude smelter was made into bullets, in rough molds, for the rifles of the settlers of this entire area.
The ore was soft in nature, with gold assays running as high as one-half ounce to the ton, silver...
Due to shortage of water in the early days, there was little hay raised by the Minersville settlers. To supple-ment the small supply, the ranchers, farmers and stock-men would make regular trips to the Yellow Banks, 20 miles north of Minersville,...
so light all the chickens left their roosts. This appearance lasted nearly all night. Sat., Nov. 5, 1859 Rode to Beaver. Bishop Farnsworth requested me to become one of his counselors and take charge of Minersville. I advised him to defer making...
The Harrington-Hickory, owned by the Majestic Mining Company, is on the east side of the Star range, about 5 miles from Milford. A. D. Moffett was general manager of the Majestic Mining Company for some time. BEAVER LAKE DISTRICT The Beaver Lake...
S. N. Slaughter went to Salt Lake to make his home, selling to John P. James and H. B. Sackett. After their retirement, James L. Griffiths purchased this store. After several years, this store was razed by fire.
About 1917 the Caldo mill was built...
CHAPTER TWENTY STAGE COACH AND FREIGHTING DAYS MILFORD AND THE STAGE COACH Milford was on the old stage route. The route from Salt Lake followed the Mormon Trail to Kanosh, then turned west at Kanosh and on to Antelope Springs, which in the...
from Levan, Tene Christiansen, daughter of Ras Christiansen. Mrs. James knew the family of Christiansens very well. A brother of Tene's was said to be a companion bandit of McCarty's. His bandit name was Mat Warner. McCarty, Mrs. James says, was...
extension was constructed from Juab to Frisco between that time and the summer of 1880. The railroad entered Beaver County, therefore, early in 1880. When the extension was completed, the Utah Central, Utah Southern and Utah Southern Extension...
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...