The Founding of the "A"
l1T WAS on the twenty-second of October that we built the "A" on the mountain side. \;Ve built I that letter as an expression, to all who behold it, of the loyalty and high esteem we have for our
school. It is a monument...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Sophomores -- 19's. During the first month of the school year (1916-17) the Sophomores organized themselves as the Second Year Class of the Murdock Academy. Grant Smith was elected President, Nettie Messenger, Vice President, and Golda Baldwin,...
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...
On the corner'where Dr. Busch's office is, was a large storage cellar which belonged to A. G. Campbell. Behind the cellar, where the McCulley house stands, was a saloon, and a blacksmith shop. Earlier, Mat Cullen had a store on the corner. Angus...
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...
from crowding too much upon the timbers. The present expense of mining is low. We have as the cost of taking out 90 tons daily Labor …24144.00 Timbering 90 tons @ 82c per ton 73.80 Superintendence 6.00 Supplies and incidental expenses ...
BEAVER CARBONATE MINE Located 1 3/4 miles northwest of Frisco. Elevation 6,750 feet. Property consists of a group of 11 claims and fractions. The principal developments have been in the Carbonate and Rattler claims. Discovered in 1878. Sold in...
Copper Gulch, including the New Years, Belmont and Purity claims, adjoining the Cactus. CHARCOAL BURNING Thirty-six beehive charcoal kilns supplied the furnaces of the San Francisco District with fuel. They were in eight groups, under separate...
Yankee Meadows Reservoir (Iron County, Utah); Camp sites, facilities, etc.--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Picture taken across Yankee Meadows Reservoir showing the recreational possibilities of the area. Surface of the water was frozen solid at the time the picture was taken.
Water-storage--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Red Creek (Garfield County, Utah)
Circular water trough tarred and placed partially beneath soil surface to make water available to calves. Set permanently with cedar posts and pine poles. Water permanently plumbed into trough with galvanized pipe and fittings.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc.
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 26: Surface Plant A. E. C. unit 5 showing hoist house, air compressor, head frame, ore stockpile.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Uranium; Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc.
Consolidated Uranium Mines, Inc. Pictoral Report to Shareholders on Temple Mountain Mining Operations. Emery County, Utah -- January 15, 1953. Page 29: Underground A.E.C. No. 2 A working unit ore face where men are standing and slusher bucket...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; MK Tunnels; Cold War; Morrison Knudsen
In 1948 the Federal Government sent some military officials to the San Rafael Swell to build a series of tunnels over a 300 acre area. Morrison Knudsen Corporation (MK) won the construction contract to blast the tunnels in the solid rock. It was a...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasay Family; Cliff Dweller
A slide presentation was put together by Emery County on the Swasey History on the San Rafael Swell. This is Slide #17, Cliff Dweller or Joe's Office. "Home away from home" was a large alcove where logs were laid to create a flat surface for a...
MATTHEW CARRUTHERS Presiding Elder 1852 Matthew C a r r u t h e r s was born J a n u a r y 15, 1811, in Scotland. He married Isabella McDonald in 1841. After his arrival in Cedar City late in 1851, t h e position of presiding Elder was assigned to...
Mayor and Council. To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Cedar City, Utah. ...Whereas, at a meeting of the Board of Health of Cedar City, Utah held at the residence of D r . George W . Middleton, it was moved by the Health Officer of Cedar...
be instructed to inforce curfew law a t once. It was moved unanimously that the Marshal notify the President and Secretary of the Cedar City Light and Power Co. that their franchise is now null and void and that the ComDanv must, at once....
CEDAR CITY MAIN STREET 1952 Looking North from Center and Main "New Lights, New Water Mains, and New Surface." The first paving of Main Street took place in 1925. Feb 1 9 . 1925.. (City Minutes) Estimated cost of paving Main- Street to - .. -. .ho...
Aug. 7, 1980 ... Council authorized the Mayor to sign the agreement with the County for landfill services. (Landfill to be located at Iron Springs in the old mined-out Smith Pit. 1 Councilwoman S t a r r made the motion to amend the ordinance on...
chronicler put i t , "the fact that the present site was not the proper one on which to permanently locate the iron works." A s if to reassure himself that even this cloud had a silver lining, he noted that "the freshet also brought down from the...