Memoranda: Distance of Steam Boat mountain from the John Hepworth correll east of Oakcreek wash about 10,000 feet. And with a raise of 3 ¾ inches per foot would make the top of the mountain 3.125 feet above the spot that we measured from or about...
Memoranda: Provo, Utah. 4,517 feet above sea level Distance from Denver 672 miles. from S.L. City 44 “ Soldier Summit Highest Rail Road in the Wasatch Range. Elevation 7,465 feet. distance from Denver 627 miles. Mount of the Holy Cross...
Dabatiog amd Oratory
XJOT much has been done at the
college this year in debating".
Last year saw the end of a six-year
competition with Dixie College for
the possession of the bronze tablet
first offered in 1923 by Attorney
Robert L. Judd, of Salt...
CHAPTER XII
FREMONT AND THE WINTER OF 18%
ohn Charles Fremont was a man of multifaceted talent. His
J most monumental success came as an explorer in the West,
although he had been a Califomia Senator, a Civil War general, a presidential aspirant...
olonia Pacheco was one of the m o u n t a 1 1 1 w- i- u- i i i c a III IVKAILU ---named in honor of a fmous Mexican general. The settlement was established in tlle top of the Sierra Madre range, nearly seven thousand feet above sea level. It...
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CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
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September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though...
THIRTEEN BEAVER SOLDIERS GIVE LIVES
But some did not return. They were left on foreign soil where they had paid the supreme sacrifice. Their names follow
BAKES, RUSSELL V. (Air Corps)-Killed August 24, 1944, when his plane went down in the...
district there are several large ledges of pyrite and copyrite ore. Some work was done upon them, and a small amount of a very high grade silver ore was mined several years ago. The principal claims are the COMET, CACTUS and COPPER CHIEF. CACTUS...
holes. The duration of burning is from three to seven days, and of cooling from three to six days. Charring, which includes packing of wood in the kiln and drawing the coal, is usually done by contract and costs from 2 3/4c to 3 1/2c per bushel....
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...
Mrs. Sumner U. Stewart, president of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, makes presentation beneath the Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker; Old Fort, Las Vegas, Nevada
In 1894, Lehi's younger brother William, at the age of 35, was sent on a mission to Wales, leaving his wife and family in order to serve the church but was released from his mission because of ill health. O n Dec. 3rd of that year, Lehi and...
dangerous. No less dangerous was the task of removing the yokes fiom the impatient creatures and of the unloosing the chains. The romance of being out in the wilds was terribly chilled by an inclement sky. A few days of drizzling rain tried the...
Wednesday, April 6 : Myself and Ellen witnessed the laying of the comer stones of the foundation of the temple. There were more than five thousand saints present. To see the order and hear the music and see the troops of soldiers with their flags...
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exposed to over at her house and Lucy knows it. And I say there‘s many more fish in the sea.
I‘m sorry, it‘s not about the girl, it‘s about the mom. You can absolutely do that. There‘s
nothing wrong with it....
some fifty other brethren and sisters for Salt Lake Valley. There were nineteen wagons in the company, all ox teams. I had two yokes of cattle and one wagon and three passengers with their luggage and provisions. The passengers were Sister Sinclair...
the hopes of one day being reunited.' He canied a letter from her which he had read many times over. In answer to Henry's note advising her that he would be coming to visit her, Martha had written the following, dated November 30, 1 8 4 8 : ~ I...