Emery County (Utah); Grand Canyon; Geary, Elmo; Geary, Alice Grace Wakefield; North Rim Lodge
The Geary Family's trip to the Grand Canyon in 1930. Edward George Geary, his wife Alice Grace Geary, their three children Faun, Merlin, and Elmo went on this trip and took the two grandfathers: Edward Long Geary and John Wakefield. Alice Grace...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael Swell; Geary, Elmo; Castle Valley
Window Blind Peak or (Castle) is one of the most identifiable formations in the San Rafael Swell. Elmo Geary and friends were there for Easter weekend in 1929. Spending Easter weekend on the desert as locals call it, has been a tradition for over...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael River; Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. Window Blink Peak can be seen on the far right horizon. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak; Automobiles; USGS
Drilling for oil on the San Rafael Swell began in the late 1800s. Conditions on the Swell looked promising for oil. Several rigs were set up in different areas to drill for oil This rig is located at the base of Window Blind Peak. Newspapers of the...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Mining; Oil Drilling; Window Blind Peak
Drilling for oil began in the late 1800s. This photograph shows an oil operation drilling at the bottom of the Window Blind Peak near the San Rafael River. From the geologic structure of the San Rafael Swell, experts believed they would discover...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swinging Bridge Dedication; Civilian Conservation Corps; CCC
Orlon Mortensen belonged to Company 959 which worked in Ferron Canyon and Ferron Mountain but came to the dedication of the San Rafael Bridge built over the San Rafael River by another CCC company. It was dedicated in 1937, and a huge crowd...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Civilian Conservation Corps; Company San Rafael Bridge Dedication; Swinging Bridge; CCC
In 1937 the San Rafael Swinging Bridge was opened to the public after a formal dedication. There was a huge turnout for the occassion. Cattlemen and sheepmen furnished barbecued beef and mutton. A band played and three young men from the CCC...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Geology; Windowblind; Richards, Drew
Window Blind Peak is one of the highest monoliths in the United States. It is the highest formation in the photograph. It has two unfinished arches, giving the impression of windows with blinds drawn. The Native Americans dubbed it "Blind Window"...
THE JONES - KNELL BLOCK 82 N o r t h Main ( T a k e n in 1904)
The man at the left, in the white shirt, is June Foster, a banker. The businesses housed in this building: (bottom floor) Dr. Carpenter, Dentist (sign in the window), Bank of Southern...
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Yes. But then you--now don't let u s begin again-Go on. [Resumes the l e t t e r ) "Poor M r s . Wiggins went out for a s h o r t excursion in a sailing boat--a sudden and violent...
Pugmire told Henry that he believed that Brother Bosnell was guilty of the things his daughter accused him of, and he had found evidence to prove it. They agreed to make further inquiry Jesse Lewis and Betsy Pugmire were manied by Henry Lunt on...
portrait in oil colors which he did and kindly presented it to me. It was exhibited in a picture shop window for some time and was said to be worth ten pounds. Henry was "Pastor" of the Newcastle Upon Tyne, Carlisle and Durham Conferences during...
portrait in oil colors which he did and kindly presented it to me. It was exhibited in a picture shop window for some time and was said to be worth ten pounds. Henry was "Pastor" of the Newcastle Upon Tyne, Carlisle and Durham Conferences during...
sisters who had the legal right to vote come to the polls on election day and exercise the right of female sufiage. Mary Ann Lunt, along with several other rnembers, expressed a desire to carry out the instructions they had that day received in...
scratched the bamyard faithfuily for the support of the brood. They tumed the house into an i m and, though it was but sparsely funiished, it was spotlessly clean as 1 know, for 1 sat part of the afternoon in the kitchen The wife who was busiest...
men as t r e s waking,' and for even that cloudy vision he was thankful. As he said after prayers that day, 'It might be the Lord's will to grant him sight, and if so his faith should not be wanting to enable him to lay hold of the blessing. '...
probably drove the cows aiong with them. Heaton commented that "the eight miles seerned like 800 on that old rough wagon going up that canyon." Sarah and her children were constantly on the lookout for Indians in view of what had happened to the...
Owen. Thomas, who did not get manied until 1905, became involved in working elsewhere;consequently, he could only spend a little time working on the f a m When Oscar and George got married, Thomas wrote that the responsibility fe11 on him to...
In November, 1920 Sarah went to Duncan, Arizona for Thanksgiving and to see her boys again. They had a big family reunion at Edward's home. Heaton said, "For a long time she was determined that we were al1 going to come back to Mexico." She finally...
Later Thon~as'sfather lost his eyesight. Thonias was the fifth child in a family of seven, friur sisten and two I~rothers. When Thomas was 20 years of ase, lie was conlarted hy the I..D.S. missionaries and Ileca~r~c interested in the I I o r n ~ n...