east part of Pine Valley west of Milford. They established a ranch on the Pine Grove water and later invested in a few cows, which increased to 2,500 head. They then sold their cattle. Later, the Pine Grove Ranch was taken over by the Ryan-Ream...
Salt Lake & San Pedro Railroad. Finally, this road was taken over by the Union Pacific. RANGE CONDITIONS IN THE EARLY DAYS During the years of the '80s and '90s the range was in excellent condition for the grazing of cattle. Few, if any, sheep were...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN MILFORD ITS EARLY HISTORY Springing from a few shacks built as a matter of con-venience by ore haulers and stockmen, the little city of Milford has struggled to a position of prominence in Beaver County. Today, with a population...
this position he was in direct charge of everything. All business transactions were under his signature. In 1943 the Metal Producers Company, of Los Angeles, Calif., took over the mine, operating under lease a syndicate of three men, as follows:...
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...
alone to Adamsville to settle their bills. Mr. Griffiths says that all the years they freighted, they never failed to send the man back, while the rest of the teams went on through Black Rock, Oasis, and on to York. Later, the railroad terminal...
CHAPTER NINETEEN GHOST MINING CAMPS OF BEAVER COUNTY FRISCO AND THE HORN SILVER MINE The town of Frisco, built near the mine, was known as the wildest camp in Utah. At one time it boasted a population of 6,000, made up of many different...
As a young man, Mr. Walter James drove a butcher wagon, delivering meat to the townspeople and to the Horn Silver and Carbonate Mines boarding houses. The two mines employed about 1,000 men. Each mine had its own smelter for refining ores....
the trip from Milford to Frisco in 35 minutes, in 1916, surprisingly quick time with the first automobiles. Dr. Hunter and Dr. Burton of Milford made many trips to Frisco, Dr. Burton making the trips in a buggy to attend patients. Thomas James...
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...
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...
Photos of William D. Williams, Margaret Eldridge Williams, children John Mitchell, Eva Williams Evans, and Norval (desceased); Walter James, colorful Black Rock settler; Black Rock wooden water tank; Remains of lava rock houses located on the Black...
Another squaw who was real old, named Elizabeth, washed for Mrs. Bradfield for years. She had a papoose named Lone. One old Indian had white spots on him. He often said, "Me Mormon, some day me be as white as you." Mrs. Alice Cottrell had an old...
In the late 90's they used to place from 6,000 to 10,000 wethers in one herd and trail them from Oregon, through Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska, during spring and summer months, and mostly fatten them on the way to market. In the spring of 1905, N....
fit for habitation." The desert he traversed was named after him, Escalante." Another wise man said, "The old desert takes its toll of everything you get out of it." But another man, whose life was more closely linked with the desert, said, "I...
his anxiety to get on, "I hope to God they are." Horses often died after such trips. Material supplied by Mrs. Bernita Burke of Black Rock, Mr. Shumaker of Garrison and Mrs. Flora Cuddy of Milford. A NOTED AREA AND JOHN J. WATSON On the old...
other events have gone on to bring them again to the light of day. The sea-bed on which they died was covered by many thousands of feet of sediment and became buried in the earth. There, under great pressure and over a long period of time, the muds...
Crews of men were sent to Beaver to work on the job and were kept there until the task was completed. The Relief Society enlisted their members and they, too, were sent over and kept on the job until it was done. They set up a kitchen and dining...
the ward and the good townspeople which was equal, in its way, to Utah's earliest pioneer building efforts. For a long time the ward had realized a need for a larger building. Rudolph Nielsen says that the movement for the new church building...