Sun. Mar. 5, 1899: Ther. 8-30 am. 36º., Wea. clear Fast Day. I attend the after noon meeting Monday 6: Ther. 8 am 43º., Wea. clear I chored around and put hay in the wagons preparetory to going to the ranch, John J. Gifford J.R. Crawford & I...
Sun. Sept. 18, 1904: Ther. Cold Wea. Ptly. cldy. Joe Farnes, Willie Langston and I went up on Point Lookout this forenoon. 50) Monday 19: Ther. Light clouds Cool Worked in the mill had some trouble with the machinery. Tuesday 20: Ther. Cool.,...
Fri. Nov. 8, 1912: Ther. Pleasant Wea. clds The roads are spongy and make it hard on teams. We got to the lower Kane Bed-Tanks. Saturday 9: Ther. Pleasant Wea. Few T. clds Drove on up to the upper tanks met John Winder then put all of our loads on...
Sun. March 29, 1908: Wind clds I attended S. School and Band practise Mon. 30: High wind clds Jim and I are Baling hay for our Land tonight Dance at Springdale Tues. 31: Wind Fixing our wagons up. Wed. April 1: Clear Windy Jim and I started for...
Tank wagons were common in Alsace-Lorraine and Germany. Liquid, caught in cisterns under the piles of stable sweepings, was pumped into the tanks and sprayed on the fields. (See "World War II as Viewed from My Foxhole" by Jasper Louis Crawford, p....
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Easter; Horse and wagons
Elmo Geary and high school friends went to the San Rafael Swell for Easter weekend in a wagon pulled by horses. Another group of teenagers went to the same area in an automobile and ran off the road and crashed. No one was hurt badly, but the event...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Eastering; Horse and Wagons; Geary, Elmo, Easter
A closeup of image0-275; Elmo Geary and his teenage friends went to the San Rafael Swell in horse drawn wagons in 1929 over Easter Weekend. This tradition of Emery County residents spending Easter on the San Rafael Swell or "Desert" as it is...
Drew Richards and friends traveling to the San Rafael Swell for Easter weekend. Although many people had cars in 1928, horses and wagons fared better in the muddy areas of the Swell. Spending Easter weekend on the Swell or the desert, as locals...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Recreation; Richards, Drew; Wakefield, Addie
Drew Richards is Eastering on the desert with friends in 1924. The tradition of going to the San Rafael Swell over Easter weekend has existed since the early 1900s, and it is still known as "Eastering on the Desert." With rough, undeveloped roads,...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Recreation; Eastering; Rochester; Schools
Everyone in the small town of Rochester--later named Moore--met at the school Easter morning instead of at church, and drove in wagons out to the San Rafael Swell where they had a church service and picnic. Eastering is what it became known as, and...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; USGS; Sandstone Buttes
USGS photographer E. R. Lloyd took this photograph in 1916 of sandstone buttes on the road between Green River (Utah) and Hanksville (Utah) with wagons and horse teams.
Emery County (Utah); Coal Mining, Huntington (Utah); Horse and Wagons
The mountains around Castle Valley -- Emery and Carbon County -- have thick coal seems in them. Coal mining has been the major industry since 1875. Early coal mining was done with horses or mules and wagons as shown in this picture.
The old Leonard threshing machine is from Adeline Wakefield's scrapbook. This threshing machine was the first in Emery County. The power to run the machine that threshed the grain was made from horses turning a big wheel. Adeline wrote:"Threshing...
Venice Burr and Dermis Jensen lived in the town of Emery, in Emery County, all of their lives. One of their relatives was moving, using a covered wagon. They camped in their wagon until they built their house. This was the most common way of...
ISAAC C . HAIGHT Biography 1813 - 1886 Isaac Chauncy Haight was born May 2 7 . 1 8 1 3 , in Windham County, New York, to Caleb and Keturah Haight. He became a teacher and taught school in the winter and farmed in the summer. Being a religious...
JOHN MOUNT HIGBEE Biography 1827 - 1904 John Mount Higbee began his life, May 6 , 1827, on a 25acre farm in Palestine, Ohio. He was baptized into t h e L.D.S. Church July 1 2 . 1835, b y Isaac Falls a t Shadcreek, Clay County, on the b a n k s of...
Nov. 7, 1903.. .From the Iron County Record: "Battle of the Ballots" The Citizen's Prohibition Party wins the fight, three to one for prohibition. Republicans nailed their colors to the A strongly mast and fought with energy of despair. contested...
knowledge a n d satisfaction t h a t we a r e doing a fine job in serving t h e citizens to the b e s t of o u r ability with one of t h e best a n d well-equipped fire fighting units in t h e State. CEDAR CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT May 1. 1941. ....