Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Ferron; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Ferron; Company 959; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen joined the CCCs when he was 18 years old and was assigned to Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron. They worked for the Forest Service on Ferron Mountain and in Ferron Canyon. Young men who joined the CCCs were given a roof over their...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; USGS; CCC
Pantry shelves filled with food was an unusual sight during the Depression. In cities all across America people stood in bread lines hoping to get a bite to eat. In Emery County people raised their own beef and produce and fared better than those...
Excerpts from Cedar City Council Minute Book.. .1900-1904 Dec. 29, 1 9 0 0 . . .Mayor Heyborne stated that the main object of this meeting is to hear the opinion of the Council in regard to hiring extra help to guard the places now under quarantine...
May 6 , 1 9 0 1 . . .Committee on Public Grounds recommended that we lease the City Park to Joseph Stevenson, if he will keep the fences in good repair and water the t r e e s . Granted. Petition of Hyrum Dutton protesting against the City using...
reservoir had sunk so that water could not be same, and strongly recommended a thorough consideration of the difficulty now confronting and urged that a thorough and permanent job be reservoir.
held in the and careful the Council, made on...
dirt . . . which every man is said to eat in his lifetime. It filled our eyes too, and our ears, and our nostrils. It was in the food; it sprinkled the pancakes; it was in the syrup that we poured over them. Half suffocated were we by it, during...
CHAPTER 1 1
IRON MISSION 1851
T
ne lvmrmon settlers were a peculiarly close-hit, harrnonious
group, working cooperatively together. In order to make for " efficiency, each one was expected to do, voluntady and with untpestioning obedience, the...
for a state road from Peteetneet to Iron Springs, one for an exploration to find a new route from Tooele County to this place via Sevier Lake, and one for a railroad from the Great Salt Lake City to Iron spring^.^ To avoid the wind which blew out...
evening and found in his gizzard some tivo dollars worth of gold dust. It has produced no small excitement in town. February 25: I examined the gold taken out of Pugmire's rooster and believe it to be brass. I placed my magnet in it and it took it...
George A. Smith--delegate to Territorial Council, and Elisha H. Groves--Representative to the Legislature. The City Council met and passed an ordinance for the prevention of fires within the Fort. A company of settlers met to make arrangements to...
In humility before God, together with the rest of my fellow pioneers, I dedicate the ground just surveyed, the surrounding land, the minerals, the water, the timber and grass to the service of God in the manufacture of iron, machinery etc., that...
We feel to urge upon all who desire to build up Zioq and have capital in their hands, to appropriate a portion to strengthen the operations of the Iron Company. There is ample room for profitable investment of capital. Iron can be made in Utah, for...
Hopkins were chosen and ordained. Counselors to President Haight in the Stake were Jonathan Pugmire and John Higbee. President Young made the following remarks at this conference, which were written in the Cedar Records: The spirit of the people is...
which were organized on the ship. There were 539 Scandinavian Saints out of a total of 575 passengers on board. Henry was often invited to eat with Captain Decan in his cabin. The voyage from London to Philadelphia was made in five weeks. They...
and boasted of what great things they would do. Henry wrote, "They will find their boasting is in vain long before they get there." Brigham Young sent several brethren fiom Salt Lake with thirtynine yoke of oxen to help the emigration company, and...
Heaton and Bill were in Pearson on foot, so they walked the eight miles to Colonia Juarez. Edward had previously been down in Mexico for a few days and caught one of their mules with some other horses n and put them i a pasture there. The...
sickness and also of your son, Lehi. We hope by this time that you are well and that he is better and that peace and plenty prevail with you in the midst of all your calamities of which you have had a good portion. r But, we would say to continue...
the sand was blowing like sleet against the house and much of it was coming in under the door. In fact, hefore they left it was necessary to shovel the sand away from the door to make a pathway out. Lehi later, recalling this event, said that he...