ticks and buckskin were made to serve as clothing materials, nntil sheep became more plentiful. Anything the people had to spare was traded to the Indians for huckskin which could he used for clothing and moccasins. The people made everything they...
mons in Utah and the law-disdaining wild western inhabitants of Nevada. However, they wcre mutually dependent on each other in a very real and vital way. 'l'rading was a necessity to both. The only available market of the southern Utah settlenients...
camps was the product of many small farms and dairies combined. Few families had enough surplus to justify a trip on their own. In 1870. Iron Ciounty had 264 farms, most of them composed of less than 10 acres. Consequently, shipping to the mines...
accumulated sornc cattle of their own and no longer felt it necessary to lease these cattle, Lehi and his younger brothers leased them. They received a percentage of the cattle as p a p e n t for their work. By receiving about 215 of the calves...
where powder is used. Good progress was made and a hearty good feeling prevailed throughout the whole camp." '< In the camp consisting of ninety or more men, ahout thirty women and sixty children, moving in eighty-three or more wagons through an...
experiences almost unbelievable with snowstorms, boxed canyons, thick cedar and pine forests, and food shortage. Their experience almost made the journey of the good Chtholic Escalante, look like a picnic party." " Just before reaching the camp of...
Grandma Lunt held the lantern high over her head while Henrietta operated the gun. Henrietta fired a volley in the direction of the bear which, undoubtedly missed him, but she succeeded in frightening him away, which is all they really intended...
NOV.15, 1908. . . . L. W. Jones spoke and encouraged the saints to keep in the work of the Lord, and be faithful. Said he took great consolation in the saying, "The race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, but with them that endureth...
Lehi Jones made presidcnt of Bank of Southern Utah. Lehi, m r x her of Utah Wool Growcr's ssociation. Picture. Lchi Jones, John L. Sevy and James Smith. Lehi drives auto~nabilr.Lehi's 86th birthday. Picture, Lehi in 1940. Picture, Lclii 1)'. Jones...
felt that strongly because he showed it in his own life by helping his fellow men. Now, such a religion as I have pictured, Brother Jones felt within him. 'This religion not only recognizes the human personality as divine, hut as eternal. Not only...
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John's efficiency rating for 1943-44, signed by the Administrative Assistant to the U S . Attorney General, was marked "Excellent." His years as Assistant U.S. Attorney had given him breadth and some depth of...
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the welfare program for personal political advantage has and is crumbling the foundation of this important social legislation. Stability of the program must be attained without consideration of personal...
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administration. No one man has the capacity or the time to personally attend to all the state's business. Administrative achievement depends upon the selection of appointees of substance and worth with an honest...
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joined the church from within the ward boundaries. Special attention was given to members who had not been too involved. Supporting scouting activities, performing wedding ceremonies, encouraging...
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1959, announced that John "was appointed this week to the Sunday School General Board by General Superintendent George R. Hill." After a biographical sketch, the article continued: "Supt. Hill said Elder...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect Giving motion to the view, That plagues your inner calm With ambition bom anew. What is this thing within me That words do not make known, Yet calls the trick before the play, And I claim it as my own7 Do you...
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Modem History of the Utah Utes. In 1957, John wrote the first (and only) chapter for this book which he was unable to complete. It reads as follows:
THE SPECIAL INDIAN GRAZING UNIT
During my tenure in the United States...
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nearly two million acres were set aside by the Executive Order of January 5, 1882. The ensuing pattern of allotments of part and restoration to the "public domain" of the balance of the reservation set the...
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users found themselves in substantial accord while the Indians were more than skeptical. Counsel for the Indians voiced objections and insisted upon the institution of trespass proceeding against the non-Indians. In this...
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lands covered by the permits of two Indians, David Tabbee and Pawwinnee. A demand was made to end the "apparent moratorium on presecution of offenses against the United States where rights of the Ute Indians...