R. E. Porter diary

Typed transcription by George S. Tanner, June 1, 1967, of excerpts from the diary of Rulon Ensign Porter, covering his life in and history of Saint Joseph (Joseph City), Arizona, during the years 1897 to 1935. Includes the articles of incorporation of the St. Joseph Irrigation Company, adopted in 1916.

R. E. Porter Diary Courtesy of Mr. Georges. Tanner June 1 , 1967 Western History Center University of Utah R .E .Por tor Diar z This diar y of Rulo n E. Port or oont ains near ly 300 ~go s of miso ellan eous mat eria l. Page s num bere d from 245 to 300, now boun d in ~&ft tho fron t of th, pook doal vr:i.th subj ects such as 'His tory of St. Jose ph - Jose ph City ', with sub-!).e~d in1; s such as Earl y Exp lora tion s, l,lorm on Sett leme nts on Litt le Colora do, India ns, Rout e of Mormon Imm igran ts, Sett leme nt of Alle n, Com mun istio Livi ng, Loss of i?irs t Dam, Post offi ce est~ blis hed , Imp orta tion of Mills , Shor tage ofl<' ood, Con stru ctio n of Old F'or t, Ano ther Dam lost , Aba ndon ment {?.f Ob ~d, Org aniz atio n of Rel ief Soc iety , Imm igrat ion from tho Sout h, Stat istio s of 1877 , Orga niza t ion of Stak e and W e.rds , Names g ivon cam!)s,Th e thir d dam, e. grio ultu ral mat ters , Divi sion of the Stak e, Sta tist ics, Agri cult ural Matte rs A new Dam, Eoc losia s t ica l }Aa.t t ors the Firs t Bish o t1ric , S.&Aee Sund ay Soho ol, Loca tion of Town , Chan go of Post mas ter, Irrig atio n l '.atte rs, The Sixt h Dam Expe ri..,n oes t hat try men I s soul s, Atla ntic and Pao ifio Rail road , 1882 , Gen ,ral Cond itio ns, Dl'!ms l Dams l Darns 1 1882 -188 3-18 91. Pol itic al l,'.at t ers, .M.I orga nize d, Vlard Cler k, Erec tion of a .A. Soho o l Hous e, A ri orma nent Dam Con stru cted . Hi stor ioa l Ske t ch o f the Jose ph City H:ts tori cal Sket oh of Y.L. M.I. A. with Reli ef Soo iety - with sub head ings sub- head ings Ca nal 3 uild ing hefo re Chr istia n Era.. Hist ory u nd ben<Ja log:· of tho Port er Fam ily The pers ona n diar y star ts onpa ge 49. Tht, ~te rial from _Ja. gos 245 to 265 doe. ling with tho Joso ph City settl omo nt a.nd th~ f irs t :;roe.rs look s V'1l uabl o, If not this b ook shou ld be b orrov rod but I thin k I hzl.ve this oopi ed olse who re. e.g.'l in and copi os madft. j .I - ~ p - - -- -- -- R.E .Po rte r Dia ry .R. EP ort er, Dia ry: Ye ste rda y, and a r;ood sha re of the pop Sat urd ay, Marc h 11, 189 4, our dam was fin ish ed; ula tio n of our tovrn ~n t pp to sur pri se 4;1'te111.the men. We too k a pic nic , and had a good tim e. Af ter h.9.ving Bushman had us a.11 corne acr oss ont o the ma.in dam, wh ere our din ner , Bro the r and sor e of the men spo ke we gat her ed in a bun ch abo ~,0 00 wo rth of wo rk was spe ut the lab or on the dam. They sai d tha t abo ut nt on the one dam. Then Bro the r Ric har ds off ere d the ded ica tor y pra yer , ask ing the Lor d to kee p the we ret urn ed home. On the hig if it was his wi ll. Then h par t of the dam a roo k is of wh ich s omethin1:; 11:ike the stu ck up, on one sid e fol low ing is wr itte n: St. Commenced 189 1; com ple ted Jos eph No. 8 dam. 189 4. 12- 20- 94: The aut ho riti es of the Chu rch are try ing to put a sto p to the use of tea , cof fee , tob acc o etc . They hav e sai d tha t if men in the Chu rch cou ld not kee hol din g off ice p the Word of Wisdom, the y cou ld res ign the ir po si• tio ns. - They are try ing to rai se money in thi s st ,ke to buy a fac tor y. g-i Q 3-3 -95 : On we dne sda y when the fol ks came home from con fer enc e Pa. got a 'du cki ng• in the riv er. At the Az tec Company's hea dqu art ers , a.c ros s the riv er fro m the St. gos eph sta tio n on the rai lro ad , he att em pte d to cro ss the riv er on hor seb ack . It was ver y dee p, much dee per tha n he tho ugh t, a!Xi the cur ren t was ver y str ong und ern eat h for the hor se; as so on as he the sou th ban k, the hor se tur ned ove r, tkk ing him und got a lit tle way from from the sad dle and got out er, of the hor ses way all rig ht but he became fre ed sho re - the hor se als o swa and swam bac k to m bac k and bot h got out rat her col d, but oth erw ise but lit tle wo rse off for the exp eri enc e. Th is mo rnin g inS und ay Sch den t, sai d tha t the Pre sid enc ool , Bro the r Tan ner , (Su nda y Sch ool Su per int eny of the st ,.ke des ire s all to pla ce the ir han ds o -er the ir eye s wh ile the sac ram Sun day Sch ool chi ldr en ent is bei ng adm ini ste red . or dur ing pra yer . 0 We thi nk our dam is qu ite sec ure , as it MS sto od a number of hea vy flo od s. 3-2 8-9 5: !J:l.nd is che ap aro und her e now roo.d Company is sel lin g for , thr, bes t of it bel ong ing to the rai labo ut $5. an acr e. 8-4 -95 1 The 1 ele oti on ' for the cou nty sea t of Na vaj o cou nty res ult get tin g a lar ge ma jor ity of the vo tes , making it the oou ed in Ho lbr ook nty sea t. l0- 7-9 5: vremade abo ut 100 gal lon s of mo las ses thi s yea ro The can e was fro zen qui te bad ly. 10- 10- 95: 10- 25- 95: Today ,a and sev era l oth ers fro m thi s town sta rte d to the 'Mo Dn iry ' a pla ce abo ut sev rmon ent y fiv e mil es we st of her pot ato es. Pa ex~ ect s to ~y e to get som e Pa has ret urn ed from the Da for some and v1ork for the res t of the m • • • • • • iry . He ha.d abo ut 30 bus hel s of pot ato es for us. 11- 16- 95 Las t nig ht M. .I.A . sta rte d up for the wi nte r. Reuben Par kin son , Pre s. S.U .Po rte r and J.P .Ri oha .rd s cou nse lor s, Joh n We sto ver Ta nne r As st. Seo . Sec . Thomas 7-2- 96s Our wa ter is ver y sca rce thi Our me llon s are loo kin g ver s yea r and the cro ps are dry i ng ver y fas t. y we ll 9-16 -96 : An oth er dea th has occ urr ed her e, tha t of Sis ter Il'l ary R. Fo ste r, Sun mo rni ng, Sep tem ber 13. 'Au day nt Po lly ' 1 - 9-97 s Our tea che rs, J,lar ie and Eff ie More hea d, cou ld not pi. ss o:xa.mina tio ns; and as Mr . Zuck recor ded t hs.t he had given them a 'temp orary ' certi fice.t e where he had only given then a permi t to teaoh until exam inatio n day, they could not teaoh any longe r. But the peopl e were sendi ng a petit ion a petit ion to 1'.ro B. F. Jacks on, vrho is nov, i;he judge to give them a tempo rary certi ficat e, for the rest of the term . A broth er Read or Reed, is teg,ch ing our schoo l now - he commence d last ·w ednes day , the 6th of Janua ry. 2-11- 97: This aftern oon, a little befor e 2:00 o'clo ck, Broth er Wicl iff Bushm an died. He came down with the measl es a week or so ago, and when he was gettin g bette r, he took a 'p;ack set and got very siok, which ended in his death today . He was 23 years • l dny old, his birth day being yeste rday. 7-27- 97: M.R.T ~nner and June Bushman went to Yuma in the forep art of this month, to work in the assay offic e. It is kept by June' s aunt and her husba nd. 8-30- 97: Last Frida y eveni ng, '.;he Rever end Mr . Krout z - a :Meth odist minis ter held a. meoti ng in this town. When he i;ot throu gh with his sermo n and praye rs, he showe d us sever al pictu res vri th a m'J.gio lante rn. l0-17 -97: Ray Tnnne r and June Bushm an retur ned fromA X~ somet ime ago. Yeste rday a wild horse which Ray was ridin g, fell on or laid/o n"flim ,a.nd as he had the stirru ps tied, it was some time befor e his folks could get him loose from under the horse . He was insen sible and did not know anyth ing for about three hours . This morni ng he s1dd he a-~a-P-&'4; could not remem ber anyth ing ab out the horse he was ridin g, or al;out the boys who spoke to him after he was hurt. His broth er Marion Tanne r was drag c;ed throu gh three wire fence s and cut all over the body somet ime a go; but he is gettin g along allrig ht now . He was dragg ing a pitch fork whioh st~uc h the horse some way, and ma.de him run-a way. 1Iario n was fasten ed to the horse in some way and was dragg ed by it. 2-19 irli:- 98: The troub les in Cuba. are very great • as thous ands a re dying of starv ation. The Unite d St~te s has sent war ships there - we have just heard that one of them, the Maine , has been blown up. 9-11- 98: We have a lower ditch out, whioh makes it bette r for us for wate r. 10-4- 98: The name of this place has been chang ed from St. Josep h to Josep h City. The cause being its rns.il and freig ht was somet imes sent to St. Josep h, L'Liss ouri or vice versa . (NOTE: This is not the end of this probl em) An Academy build ing is under way now, and they are expec ting to have an Academy this winte r. The te~ch ers are to be broug ht out and teach in Snow flake Distr ict Sohoo l until the Academy start s. Board in Snow flake is s<-1.id to be $4 per week . 12-7- 98: We ma.de over $200 from melon s this year. Horac e Gardn er is princ ipal of our distr ict schoo l this winte r, with H.F.Bushma n as assis tant. 4 -3-99 : We sent a bill to hlontg omery Ward and Co. of Chica go this sprin g. It conta ined about $100 - nearl y half of which was our own. 9-30-1 900: The Snow flake Stake Academy start ed this winte r, and there are five repre senta tives of St. Josep h Ward here atten ding it; viz., Thomas Tanne r, Adele Bushman, Julia Tanne r , Ethel Porte r and myse lf. We all start ed at the begin ning of schoo l exce? t Adele ~ushm an, who start ed one week late~ . M • Y siste r a.nd I left home Sa.tur day Sept •• l5th and reach ed here Sunda y morni ng in company with our fathe r . We have rente d a room of droth er A.L.R ogers , and do our ~~:~ ~ku:n d f'urnis hinL< ;, thus makin g our board bill toler ab ly light . T .w .Tann er • -3- R.E.Portd r diary I received a 2nd Grade County Teachers' Certifica te at the County examinatio n at Holbrook, held in March last. Julia Tanner, 'I!r'/ school mate, also got one and I got only of a ·Dercentag e t~'3.n mine - x k l l ~ ~ she got 85 2/10 . 84 6/10 %- % 1-28-02: Last year the crops were fairly good, but very little rain or snow has fallen this winter. Julia T•rnner, my old school m'3.te is teaching this winter at Taylor for $55 per month. Thomas To. nner was married to l¼iss Marian Miller last fall. Thomas Shelley has had a long sick spell but is around now 3-5-02: I helred Rube and Sam Rogers haul wood about a l l last week, there being ' no school as t he teachers went to the Institute at Winslow • • • • • Holister Rogers is to leave Salt Lake City April a. 1902:Prof essor Peterson ( Principal of the Acade'I!f'J who is from Lehi) went home soon after the close of school, but is expected back next winter. 6- I went to the last Teachers' Examinati on. We are now required to get Territori al certificat es, therefore have to wait for the papers to go to Phoenix. Have not heard from them yet. Sa mmy Smith and I tried for first grade, and Misses Constance Decker, Amy ¾ncock, Nellie and Margaret Smith, Julia Tanner, Amanda Rogers and J',u ggie Hiller tried for second grade certifica tes. We now have our crops in. Water is not so sea.roe as it has been in years f8. st. last year's wheat is as yet unthreshed . I • 10-29-02: Since I last wrote in this book, . there has been much sickness, especia.lley in Snmvflako . It seems to be a very serious affair - several haue died in Snowfle.ke , and one here. Brother Locey Rogers has lost two little girls with it · they were Leone and Desdemona (Dessie, as we always called her). Smith D. Rogers also lost two, the little boy Kimball; and a very little girl, I think her name was Mary. James Pierce has lost one or two children also; and Joseph W. Smith and Wesley Jones, Sr. have also lost one each. Tho death that occ ,, rred here was that of Horace 1'·mner, son o f ~ Stapley and Henry N. Ta nner. He was at school Friday, and worked all day Saturday. Sunday he seemed to be ailing somevrhat, but nothing serious was a , prehended before the time of' his death which took place Tuesday evening, October 28th. It vias probably a case of membranous croup and diphtheria . combined. Horace was about nine or ten \ years of age. r The St-1ke \ caclemy started ~bout the first of September this year in Snowflake and ccntinued a l:i out a month, but is now postponed indefinite ly be ::a.use of this sickness. Thos e who went fror~his town came home - some of them, particularly the Bu nsen's have been sick, but not seriously . School started here on tho 20th inst. with M.R.Tanne r a.nu myself as the teachers . ~oth de~artmen ts of the school were stopped this morning for fear of th ~s sickness spreading . Horace Tanner was one of my pupils, and was a very bright and intelli sont little boy. Tay - the other teacher and an older brother of Hor9.c e - has gone for his father, who is on a trip to i~eams I Canyon. Our M.I.A. has be gun this season, organized rahher Sept. 21, 1902withM .R. T Janner as president, R.E.Porto r first oounselor , John Westover sec ond counselor , on the date eisse s. Dushma,n, secretary . W~ were all set ape.rt to our offices · g ven a.h ove. -4- R.E.Po rter diary 11-6-0 2,Sino e I last wrote in this book, we have been mving a rather hard time of it tit our place. Diphth eria ms ta.ken one member of our family , Myron; and anothe r, Liona, is afflic ted with it, but does not seem to have it in so vir ulent a. form as d id the little boy. Severa l of us have sore throat s, more or le ss, but more like common sore throat than like diphth eria.. Tho little boy who died seemed to have this diseas e in as bad form as possible. He was sick but a little over f'o1,~r days. Wedne sday, Octobe r 29th, school was closed for f ea r the diseas e would spread . On the evenin g of the same day, Myron showed his firs t signs 01' sickne ss, saying his throat was sore. On giving it attent ion, it was seen that tho 'white stuff' was alread y gather ing; and it contin ued to gather so rapidl y that in a very short time his breath ing became diffic ult. As we were unable to remove the obstru ctions , his throat also being badly swolle n, this breath ing became more am.cl more diffic ult until about 5s00 o'oloo k in the mornin g of the 3rd of Novemb er (Monda y), he passed away, litera lly smothe red to death. For the la.st day and night ho could not lie down and breath e more than a pa.rt of the time; but had to sit up, being helµ by some other member of the family much of the t imo. His brea. thing w~.s so d iffio ult, for two or three nights th~t ho could not sleep; and before his death, he was so nearly 'tired out' that in s pite of the terrib le effort it was for him to breath e, hevoul d draw a long breath , and then s leep until he had to t~ko anothe r. He was l:1 rge for his ago and very health y, having hardly boon sick in h is lifetim e; and this appare ntly vras all that enable d him to stand the terrib le strain as long as he did. 1-iyron was horn on the 13th day of May., 1896, rmking him 6 years, 5 months and 21 days old. 11-7-0 2: I1!a.ny of the family have boon a.iling for some time with sore throat s, wo<:1.kness, etc. but not very seriou sly. Liona has diphth eria in its true ieP!!I ttpe, but it is r.ot ne~rly so virule nt as it was in i,:yron' s case. She has been sick about four days, and the 'white matte r', or false membra ne, seems to be ripenin g, as it gives off a. bad odor; but does not appear to have spread to the lungs, nor to the larynx . We have strong hopes for her recove ry. 11-20- 02: Grim death has again visite d our humble home; and taken from us my little sister , Liona. Since I last wrote in this t ook, she seemed to be imporv ing slmvly , but did not ha ve much appeti te. The 'wh ite 1,;a.ttor ' in her throat had almost entirel :,r disapp eared before her death. One of her ears seemed to be affeot ed anythi ng she ate hurt her throat , and if at all strong hurt her ear badly. A day ot so ago, she seemed to feel well - she had a very good look, and would pi!lay e.s if improv inr, ra , idly; and v10 -;;hough t her almost out of danger if we could got her to oat enough to r,ive her streng th. Yester day, howeve r, she took a change ; her stornao h became so affect ed that it would retain nothin g she would irruned iately vomit upon being given anythi ng to oat, and sometim es withou t being fed. This seo1'.1od to be too much for her lready very muoh weaken ed system ; and her streng th ra nidly lesson ed, until a t 12~00 midnig ht, las ni ght she heaved t~w t\vo or three timos, or tried to vomit a.s if sick at the stome.c h, and th!~ n straigh tened out and passed quietl y and peace fu lly away. At 12:10 she diedo Liona' s case was very differ ent from Myron's . His seemed to have starte d in the windpi pe, as it immedi ately ohoked him; but hers did not seem to affect her breath ing. This death with tho one preced ing it have of course cast a ~ gloom over our former ly happy horno; but I think the folks are taking it well consid e r ing the seriou sness oi' th~ situat ion. It is somewm at lonely now - this d' . Bisease is so co nga tious that oooole a.re afraid to come l'l.nd se~ us. Brothe rs ushman and Hansen wore down this - afterno on and they with father a nd Uncle Sammy took t' •e corpse to tho gr aveyar d and buried it. oth ers in the town also have this diseas e. -'re ston Bus hman 's wife had it -5- Port er Dd.ary a few dfl.ys ago, but seem s to be allri ght now. Edna Hans en has it now - she Callle down with it toda y. A numb er of the boys went to the moun tains on a hunt ing trip a. f~ days a go - we have rec ei ived word that one of them , John Lo Bushman has the diph ther ia. A few new case s h'!.ve deve loped in Snow flake . All scho ols and othe r gath erings of a publ ic natu re are susp ende d both here and in Snow flake • .As to hovr this terr ible dise ase got into our fami ly, I cann ot se.y posi tive ly. The youn g folk s who went to Snm vfhk e (som e of the Hans en's espe ohll y) had it afte r comi ng homo. The ?rim ary depa rtme nt of the dist rict scho ol was held in Brot her Hans en's old hous e, near the hous e he is now livin g in. It was prob ably ther e that Myro n GOt it, also Hora ce Tann er. Thes e tvro, both livin g out of town , seem to be the only ones who took it; ~nd they with Lmona are the only ones with whom it has so far prov ed fata l. The dise ase, howe ver, seem s to be in the atmo spher e to a gr{'la t exte nt, e.nd is lia.b le to brea k out wher e leas t expe cted . 12-1 5-02 1 A. shor t time ago Aaro n, and I went to the gris tmil l. At Snov ,flak e, only one case was to be foun d; and the peop le seem ed to thin k they were almo st done with the diph ther ia, but sinc e that time two deat hs have occu rred, so I supp ose they a re not yet over with it by a good deal - the dece ased are one of the littl e sons of '~ mo' ..,ier ce, Roy Stow e Sta.t en, and one of Je..mes Fros ts' chil dren . Anot her of the littl e Pier ce boys is sick (a brot her of the one i. hi.t died ) with the drea d dise ase. Dioh theri a has brok en out in Woo druff ther e as well as in Snow fhke o • • • ;·Jubl ic gath ering s susp ende d • No quar ante enin g has been enfo rced in this plac e, a.nd as a resu lt much unnece ssary expo sing has been done , maki ng the dise ase rema in with us a long time . Pres ton Bushm an and John West over retur ned from thei r wedd ing trips to Salt ~ke a shor t time t-.go. 6-4-0 3 i We had but five mont hs of scho ol. Afte r that terri ble sieg e of diph ther ia the scho ols re-op ened Janu ary 5, 1903 and ran cont inuo usly unti l May 8th. Ther e was one serio us case of diph ther ia afte r scho ol reop ened , that of Ruby McLaws - it affe cted her spee ch and also her eyes for a good whil e afte r sh~ EOt throu gh with the sick ness . • • • • Ther e have been at leas t two d·~at hs in l:>nowflake sinc e I last wrot e. They were in Brot her Elli s Stra tton 's fami ly. Just befo re scho ol clos ed here , the dise ase becam e so bad in Snow flake that it near ly caus ed the clos ing of the scho ols there ae;ai n. We hear d ther e were 48 deat hs in Conc ho from diph ther most ly Mexi cans• ia Ther e has been some trou ble in our 'city ' this sprin g. It was betw een Brot hers Henr y M. Tann er and John Mclaws Sr. and Jr. and was over a pfoc e of land lyin g in Brot her T~nn er's field . Brot her Mcl..aws had boug ht land of Reub en Park inson that the latte r ~d b ough t of Brot her Tann er, and as he sold part of it look ed up the deed s. He said the land the dedd calle d for was not all ther e. Fath er and Pres . Josep h H. Rich ards surv eyed it, and foun d the line s as give n j_n the deed s to enclo se some of Brot her T:\nn er's land . John W. Mcldws went and put a fenoe throu gh BBrot her Tann er I s luce rn p~ tch agai nst his prot est befo re the disp ute was sett led. tr? ther Tann er c~ll ed the Mc4w s oart ies up befo re· a J..lish oo's Cour t and had them ried . I think Brot her Tann er acte d enti rely unde r oous el · of ward and stak e '-~ thorit ies. He orod uced some good evid ence , among whic h wa.s an affid avit swor n to h Yi:e uben Park ~nso n, trat the fenc es as they were befo re, encl osed all the land e d sold to Par-k ins cn. I did not hear what the deci sion of the bisho p and his ooun selor s was; but I acte d as clerk of the oour t, ani ther efor e hear d the evid ence . I~ r---- -' - It will probabl y bo t~ken to the High Council yet. Ag;u. 20. The trouble ovi,r hn<l that has boon so long brev,ing , in onr city was apparen tly a~ttlod aatiafa otorily by tho ~rties oonoern od by the High Counoil August 14th. We were ploaeed to have it pee.cof ully adjusto d, as for eoJMtim e it has almost looked as if it might oost tho J.Iole.ws parties their fellows hip in the ohurch. Brother Alfred B. Rqndal l and Rlt Frederi ck Tanner of Tube. City have moved into our town; and Seth Tanner and Henry W. Despain , Jr. have e.ls o joined the We.rd - tho latter two fa.milie s live on tho 'Rope Ranch' between St. Joseph and Holbroo k . August 20: house. The rains are very bad on the bricks now being made for the new school &opt. 13, 1903sCr ops are looking well. Our cane and part of our corn is now ready to cut. The mellon market is very badly 'floode d', and we have e. g;ro ?-t many on hand - have hauled off four loads, but have not gotten the faY for the last one. The M.I.A. of this ward was reorgan ized August 30, the causo of' this action is that R:iy Tanner, the former freside nt of that organiz ation, is going to Taylor to tee.ch school this winter. At the teacher s oxa.ipina tion (June) I suooeed ed in obtainh 1g a First Grade Territorial 'l'eachor s Certifi cate, Miss Julia Tanner and I have the school here this wintor - myse' lf as ;,rincip ia:l. Cot. 17, 1903: Our distr!ho t school began here le.st Monday , October 12, with myself as teacher of the higher departm ent and I.!iss Julia 'l'anner of the lower. In both departm ents , we had an enrollm ent of about 28, which increas ed a little d uring the week and will likely increas e more next week as the fall work is hardly dono yet. The melon market becaIM badly flooded this year - sold only about $160 worth. It was the intentio n to start the religio n class la.st week, but Miss Tanner and I were not prepare d to begin wfuth the lessons , and therefo re put it off until next week. There are a number of cases of diphthe ria in the country ; but it is hoped that it 0 an be kept in check. The terribl e experie nce the people of the country had with this dreaded last winter has learned them to be more careful ; and the officer s e.re viligan t and strict in trying to c hook it and to stump it out. There is e. case of sore throat in tovrn , St. Joseph in the family of Frederi ck Tanner - whether or not it is diphthe ria is not definit ely known, but it is being careful ly guarded . ~-2 6-041 The Distric t School closed March 4, 1904. It was kept up but five months, out was not interru pted by sicknes s. The new school house now has nearly e.11 the roof on it but is not finishe d in side. Fa The ne,11 reservo it near 'Plas ter Paris Point' is pro r;rossin g nicely . Vfe i the:, Aaron and myself - took 12 acres of water- ri cht at $20 per share and now ha~e it all paid for but about $50 . We have put up 24 rods of grade, ranging from aidittl e loss than six feet in height to nearly seven feet. The d~m is to be 8 feet w1 on top and widens 3 feet (l½ feet on each side) for oach foot in depth. In '\cos it is over ei ght feet high. So far no grade less then five feet high has 9e¢n let ou~. The price allowed for grade between five and six feet in height is fo tp~r cubic yard - the price is raised or lowere~ one cent 9er cu. yd for ea.Oh 0 increas e or decreas e in hei ght of the grade. Most of ours has boen 10.¢ grade. ° - . .:.: : --1 ,...... _ I'~ ,... _, I -7- R.E .Por ter ~iar y Diph ther ia has not as yet brok en out in our town ; but duri ng the pa.st win it htl.s been inW oodr uff and '.i.'ay lor, caus ter ing two or thre e dea. ths in the latt er plac e• I atte nded the Coun ty Teac hers Inst itut e at Snow flake Feb. 23 to 25th , Of the twen ty-th ree or twen ty-fo ur teac hers in the coun ty, twen ty-o ne were pre sent . Prof esso r Geor ge H. Cros by, Prin cipa l of the Snow flake Stak e A.cademy was abse nt beca use of the deat h of his brot her at kns as City , l,Hs sour i, who, we hear whil e some what dem ente d, com mitte d suic ide. He was retu rnin g home from a miss ion, I thin k, from the Sout hern Stat es, wher e it was repo rted , he w~s a zeal ous wor ker, fulf ille d a good miss ion, and was hono rabl y rele ased . 8-23 -04s Our heal th iuri ng the summ er has been good . For a day or so past some of the fam ily have been unde r the wea ther , but it seem s to he noth ing seri ous. St. Jose ph has been free from that drea ded dise ase, diph ther ia, so far ever sinc e it beca me free from it that fata l win ter two year s ago. The town s of Woo druf f and Snow flake have not fare d so wel l. It has been inW oodr uff this sunu ner. In Snow flake Vlal ter Smi th's fami ly has it or has had it and Alof lars on ha.s lost a chil d, a twin boy. Crop s are doin g i'air ly well this summ er. We succ eede d in ge ttin g our whe at in and the f irst a nd seco nd outt ir:gs of hay. H.M.T!>. nner had his whe at badl y wot a number of time s. Melo ns are just begi nnin g to ripe n we have sold none yet, alth ough we have a load or two read y to go novr . THERE Hfl.S BEEN THREE REGTJIAR PEDDLERS GOIN G FROM HERE TO WIHSLOW EVERY WEEK ( or n~ar ly so) duri ng the summ er, cons e :.·que ntly ther e has been good sale for eggs and gard en stuf f of all kind s . I thin k our melo ns are the firs t to ripe n to any exte nt here - we a.re able to give our gues ts plen ty of melo ns. 1 The Snow flake Stak e Adademy begi ns inst ruct ion on the 5th of Sept emb er this year . Ada and Aaro n will prob ably atte nd •• Jame s and Nell ie Hans en and mys elf inte nd goin g to Utah to scho ol this wint er. Aug . 7, 1914 : Fath er and the fam ily have move d from the old ranc h a mile and a half west of toon to the wes t side of the wash near the town , havi ng ther e buil t a sma ll four room bric k hous e. Aaro n seem s to be much more inte rest ed in the catt le busi ness than in farm ing; and has made some sort of deal s with Jess e S. Bushrn~n and with Henr y M. Tmnner of this tovm b:r whic h he take s ca.re of thei r herd s and by succ essf ully work ing them ~y he e.ble to pay off for them and in the cour se of time get a herd of his mm. ~·,qui te Nov~mber 29 1 1914 : For the firs t time in the hist ory of the se+. tlem ent, the exh i• bitio n traj n of the Coll e go of Agr icul ture of Ariz ona stop ped over at St. Jose ph de?o t - open from seve n a.m. to two p.m. A peti tion for it to make ,;ho th ~s ple..ce l~c" t een sent stop at i n some time befo re, when the itin erar y of t he trip for th is fall , and as it h· :1.d the requ ired numb er of sign ors at lea.s t twen ty-fi ve ~ho stop was n~de on the 19th of Nove mber this y~e.ro The obje ct of the scho ol ~n send ing out tho trai n is of cour se to prom ote the inte rest in agri cult ure and to lmp~ovo the meth ods of fam. ing and stoc k rais ing and othe r thin gs alli ed to ~gri cult ure. Asid 6 fron the exh ibits of' farm nnch iner y, fa.rm !)rod ucts , catt le and o~se s,. etc. • a. numbr:,r of l('lct ures were give n up up-to -d11 te meth ods: one on catt le an their C.' \re, on"l on mark et gard enin g, one on irrig atio n, one on savi ng feed by us: of the ~ • The I.'. tton danc e from w,.o le popu L\ ·':i ,n. both youn g and old.St. Jose ph was good - t'-pp aren tly ne?...r ly the ,-., - __ J-- _ -8- R .E.Port~r Diary ll-29-14: Moro por~nont work is being done this f4ll by tho St. Joseph Irrigation Comriany than h1s boon done any year s"ince the putting in of the dams in the Little Colorado river. Throe culverts, or conduits, h..,vo boon constructed of cement concrete to convoy the water of the Upper Ditch beneath wahhes whore tho canal has berotofore been seriously impaired by the floods during tho summer rainy sea son - one of those is situated just above Plaster Paris ?oint, another conveys the bater beneath the wash at St. Joseph, and the third is in fathdr.'s. newly purom.sed land situated about a quarter of a mile directly north of his old home~teado Those vary in isxo of course; and have taken a good deal of work. Work wa,.s begun upon them as soon as practicable after the harvesting of crops this fall ,; and at tho present time all the o oncrete li:mcx work is done, ,.lthough there is a little work yet to be done with teams making the e ntries and exits for the water, anci making levees etc. to confine the flood waters to tho places under which the culverts pass - perhaps not more than two or throe days work, however, as it is probable there will be a f ai rly good turn-out of men with their teams.. Excellent unison and interest in the work has b e en shown by the towns people, and it is through their united efforts tR,t s o much h~s been accomplished. On Saturday, November 28, 1914 tho proposition that tho St. Joseph School District be bonde d to the extent of Ten Thousand Do l~rs for the purpose of building a now sch -) ol house and furnishing it was voted ury on. Out of a tota 1 of twenty• two votes case, twenty-one word in favor of the bonding. It is intended to borrow the money at six percent i nterest to be pa.id back :i.n ten biennial instal lmonts of $1,000 each or to e;et the money by sale of the bonds which be~,r six percent interest and fall due $ 1,000 every two y ears 0 At present the St. Joseph settlers on b oth sides of tho river helong to the district, and it is estimated th'!.t the assessed valuation of pro0erty withi!: the district - including railroad oroperty will be about One Million Dollars• 4-18-151 Tho largest flood in tho Little Colorado river in the history of Joseph City ?assed here last Friday, the 16th. It was caused by the breaking of the LYin-1n reservoi~, which was situated about fifteen miles above St. Johns, and supplied tm.t se t tlement with the greater part of its irr iga·:ion water. The dam g.'l.ve way about eleven o'clock on the night of the 14th. Tho Hunt reservoir dam gave way ab out 10 the next morning, and as the flood came down it took out tho Woodruff dam at 6 a.m. Friday. At the Saint Joseph d~ms, the flood did not roach its highest until noon Friday, - it was reported to be within ten inches of' the t op of the highest part, but as far as we know at present tho main part of the dam is uninjured. The low st onework buttment over which the water poured in the 'spillway{ however was forced out, and it is estimated that it will take 1'-~'W't'l'l'l- between J500 and $1,000 orth of work to repair th~ dan11tge. The headgates at the head of -\. he ditch at tho Upper dam was also washed out, but not carried away. At the lower dam which was thought to bo unsafe little dam"- p.;e was done other han deepening the river channel at a phce which had previously been washed out. Eight lives are definitely re'J ortod lost in the Sn int Johns region. Another person or two are reported mis~ing. Property loss is estimated ~t half million. i Work is beinr, co nducted slowly on the ? erma.nent improvements in our irrigah on sy st om - a.t pres('tnt a culvert to convey the waters of the lower ditch under u:-:;h ~ust a~ovo H.M .T•, nner's p~ce is being c on structed. This culvert is on a hr w.1 }ch vnll shorten the lowor ditch so some extent. It will take about ee week,s work to got the U?pe r dam repaired. - z. 2, 1915 c M,.mie is a ~a in out nurs ing - this time for the wif'e of l''a.ri on '1',,_nner ,,rho gp ve birt h to a bab y-gi rl a. few d:i.ys a go. fov. 7. l9l5 t M.I. A. has star ted agai n - mys elf and ~rio n Te.nn er clas s lead ers • . 3, 1916 : A reor r~an izati on o t' the St. Jose ph ward tock plac e last Sund ay, Apr il 30th . At the afte rnoo n mee ting , lbl:riX lDl:ims:m:mx at whic h the even t took lace , all thre e mem bers of the Snow flake Stak e ?res iden cy vrere pres ent, Sam uel F. mith , Jame s M. r'lak e and Alof le.ra on, The reti ring bish opri c was comp osed of the ollo wing s Bish op John -'ushm..."l.n, 1st (.;ou nselo r Henr y M. Tann er, 2nd Cou nsel or John • Wes tove r. bish ou rlushm~n h,.s held this posi tion for upvr ards of tvre ntyeigh t ears ; !l.nd beca use of a ge, and the natu ral des ire for peac e and ease inci dent to lder ly xgK year s, ancl des ire to work in the temp le in Utah , hl'l h.'lS for some time esir ed to be rele ased from the bish opri c. The inco ming ' iisho pric are: John L. Wes tove r, Bish op; ouns elor ; Benj amin R. Hunt 2nd coun selo r. Howr-trd L. Ran dall , 1st It is prop osed to fini sh re:;i airin g the uppe r dam duri ng this mon th and nex t. ring the earl y spri ng we have )JUt in new conc rete he11.d gate s at the ~ X JDJl1 xglu aub c~ head of the ditc h at the dam, and have p~t ly repl aced the par·b of he dam wash ed off th e spill way - the wate r, howe ver W!!'. s too high to attem pt to ,. epai r the deep er ~rt of the chan nel, so only a 'tem::i ori,. ry' clam was buil t acro ss it, i th logs , brus h and ston e by mean s of whic h we are stil l g~tt ing !. plen tifu l supp ly of wate r o A numb er of impo rte.n t item s were acte d upon a. t a. spec ially C!.ll ed mee ting he St. Jose ph Irrig atio n Co. held Apr of il 3, 1916 . A ques tion h,.d been rais ed ela. tive to the V!!.l idity of seco ndar y w~1.ter righ ts for whic h cert ific ates of own er• hip hl,.s been issu ed by t he compt1.ny duri ng the pa.st few year s. The numb er of shar es llow ed unde r the ;, :rewi ous inco rpor atio n of' pri~ ry wate r-rig htR had not been issu ed and no inco rpor atio n h1 d b, -~n fo r seco ndar y righ ts - the stat e offi cial s rais ed the uest ion why seco ndar y wate r rj_gh ts were bein g issu ed vrh ile ;i rirna .ry righ ts stil eIM.ined un-i ssue d. In the mee ting l of the comp any, the quos -';ion of re-i ncor pora. tio11 wa.s sdiso usse d p,no and 001,, '.'l.nd it W'.'l.S deci ded ~; o re-in corp orat e for 2,00 0 shar es of rime .ry v~to r-rit :;ht :;._;1d. 1, 00 0 s h·'l. ros of the seco ndar y. Up to the pres ent only 1320 h.,.re s of the prin ary h,.ve been issu ed; a.~d auth oriz atio n was 1; iven by vote of the, eeti ng for the issu ance of the rema inde r - 680 shar es - this newl y issu ed wate r ig'blt to beco me e f fect ive as soon as p~.id for. It was stip ulat ed tha.t at leas e onehird of the ~:nnen-!; for the nl!!W vrate r righ t appl ied for r:iust be ;:>aid for in the edia .te repa iring and stra ngth enin g of the Uppe r Dam eith er in .:rork or in ca.sh . . It was deci d~d that this new wat er-r ight wou ld beco me effl: 'otiv e as soon as aid for - this I sunp ose is to rdfe ti::l ccl~ enco urag e irnrr.edi!,t e work on the dam ~~oh is. i~ need of work bein g .::iut in upon it to make it safe from hir;h floo is doc is ion was reac hed how ever , wxi: ds. with the unde rstan ding that when this 8 done , work it was to be follo wed soon by the buil ding of new rose rvoi rs, enla rgill .g he pres ent rese rvoi r, nnd by the inst a.lla tion of nump s, if dee ided :)rac ticn. or i b le, ncrea .~ i ng the wn.t er supp ly to prev ent · · the V3.lu e of the pres ent vra om dete rior atin g. ter righ t ing of the di stri ck scho ol for the ,.,in ter of 1915 -191 6 took plac e last 28th - the teac hers Frid ay lrii duri ng the i;:ast win ter have boen Will pa. • and Elle n Gree iam C. Smi th, Prin he. clos si~ v~!~. - r. OF JANUARY OF THE PRESENT YEAR, I WAS SUSTAINED AS C!LERK OF THE ST • . - -W- R ,'l,,P&t &6t di .f/ 1916 s Til e local mombors of tho Sta.to :Militia haw, boon callocl ou·t t o take part in patrol duty along the Mexican border, during tho present trouble with Mexico. Two of our boys, Arthur a nd L,roy Ta.nner went sometime ago, and a.re nO?r on rluty in the vicinity of Douglas, Arizon..'I.. The other two, Ben Hunt a.nd Hartwell Tanner h.~ve boon notified to leave for the front - wh.othor or not they left Phoenix this morning I r~vo not hoard. A number of boys have gone from Snowflake and other upper country towns. Jul 6 Repair work on the Upper Dam was· fi:aished some weeks ago; but I understand tha. t at the hst meeting of the -Irrigation Company it W!!.S decided th:, t tho main p!lrt of the d!,.m be raised to make i:b more safe from overflOl'ring high water - this work will lik--oly be dono during tho coming f!l.11 and winter. Tho new school house for whiol,. it was voted on November 28, 1914 to issue bo:ads to tAo amount of $10,000 was completed this spring - tho formal a~oeotanoe taking place May 17. It is a modern building, a~d I understand that the cost of oonstructioJt was upwards of $8,000. July 24, 1916: As is the custom, July 24tlt was celebn.ted i u St. Joseph by a forenoon enter ta inment ~nd a. dance in the evening - the morning program was ~iven under the auspices of the loca l Primary associo..tion. The afternoon was given over to sports, which was attended by a. goodly sumber of out-of-town people, inc luding PERHAPS FIFTY 'l'O SEVENTY-FIVE NAVAJO INDIA.NS. THE INDIANS TOOK AN ACTIVE PAP.T IN THE: FACES , WPESTLING • CHICKEN-PULLING, AND OTHER S 0 0RTS 01<' THE DAY, AND WERE SUCCESSFUL rn OBT,\INI:!G A lHmBER OF THE .?RIZES. It h~.d been advertised that $100 would be gi "On away i:i prizes dui,ing the dAy. 12-10-16: Most, or nearly all of the town of St. Joseph is situated o• a. sckool sootion; and up to the present date, tho people here MVO been unable to secure titles to the b .nd on which their homes a.re built. For many yea.rs, efforts have been nade in this direction; and recently a spe oia.l effort MS been nade to secure titlos through homesteading by four of the earliest settlers. Al th.ougk the town has been here ever since t i:e early eighties, those efforts na.ve bee:tt unava.iling. In September of the present year, Messrs. Moody ,.nd Moeur were sent here by the state hnd Corrnnisi:ion to learn th.e feelings of th.e settlers reh tive to the ma. tter; a:c.d t o offer to sell them the l."l.nd in accordance v1itll the 'Public IAlld Code' of Arizo:aa. The settlers, and p,. rtioularly the homesteaders were called to speou.l meetings and the conditions explained to them. The m~ttor of securing title tnroug• the homeste~.d law w.:,.s ~. lready in the Mnds of a. ?hoenix law firm, which !tad been working on it for some yel\rs without success. After due consideration of th.e matter, it W:\s decided to relinquish the homestead claims, and to purchase th.e land • .A.coordingly, :Mr. H.P .Helmbeck was sent here by tho state officials to m,Jce a. of the sec~;ion; and three appraisers - Mr. Moody, chosen by the governor; Mr. Bartley, chosen by the State Land Coimnission; and Mr. McClana.han, chosen by tlle Navajo County Boa.rd of Supervisors - were sent here to appraise the value of the real property located on the section. Mr. Helmbeok located t he plats claimed by individual - the southern h~lf of the section beinz nearly all taken up; but e northern ~11', which is located above the irrigation caWll, is still unclaimed. 6,urvey :~oh On +;he 24tlt of October, 1916, a public meetin.g was held for the purpose of ormuhtiltg a plan whereby the unclaimed northe r u h:<1.lf of this section - scnool bseotio1n 16 - might be purclli.sed as public property; the land if thus acquired, to 're sod to id" n iv idua 1 srJ!s they m.~y callfor it in the future - such sale to be ~t easollll.ble' r -, tes antt/is a matter of specula. tion. After duscussio:a., it wa.s voted to 1ryl th . t a.co .e nn.tt., r in the 1~:ads of a committee of five, whose duty it would be 0 make Special investigation of tho conditi oll and determine in their judgment the f - -11- R.E.Porier Diary st feasible way of attaining the publio ownership above referred to. The members this committee, as uM.nimously sustai•ed by the me ,.~ting, John L. Westover, Jos • • Rioh!..rds, John Bushmau, J.E.Riohards, and R.E.Porter. In order tha.t the title to the cemetery might be secured fJrom its present OWller, ellry M. Tarui.er, arrangements were ma.do at this moeting to ru,.ve the state surveyor, Mr.Helmbeok, who W!\S there present, determine the ex11.ct 1001.1. tion of the St. Josepll. emetery. This work was done during tb.e next f('!V1 dayso A meeting of the committee referred to in the above paragraph was held on the ven.ing of Janu~ry 21, 1917 at the home of Joseph H. Ric:ha.rds. It was decided that o~e r the oommittoe - I was c hosen for tl:i.e purpose - should imiru,diately nake a.pplioe.tio• or the ~~~re&& 0urchase of the unoccupied northern portion of tho section of la.nd on hioh tho town is located, for the purpose of lui.ving it brought up for s~le. This o~lioa.tion was m.~iled the following day. At the regu lar St. Josep:k ward Priesthood meeting held February 4, 1917, a. etter from the~~ State Land Commission asking that the l ease on section 16 be aid from June, 1915 to June , 1917, was re1!.d; and after a little deliberation, it as voted that the town pay this lea.se thr,ough John "ushman in whose name the le!.Se as paid prior to the year 1915. In June 1915, it appears that Mr. BushmD.n was eleased from oi1.yi ng tho le .,. se on the section, and since th :¾.t time, during the efforts o obtain possession of the land, no lease lt:1s been p~.id up to tho present time. This ease, amounting to about $82, Was oolleoted from various claimants on the section nd sent in by :Mr. BuslUTJ.!\n a few d~ys a.go. At the regular annual meeting of tke St. Joseph Irrigation Co. held la.st fall, following were chosen members of th~~ n.,a.rd of Directors for tne yea.r 1917. ohn L. Vlestover, R.C.Trlnner, James A. ansen, A.E.Buslum.n, and R.E.Porter. At a. ca.rd meeting held s 0metime l1ter, the Board of Directors was organized as followss .E.Porter President, R .c .Tr•.nner, vice-president; Je.mes A. Bans en, Soc o and John L. festover, superintendent or genen.l wa termaster 0 During the three v,e..,ks ending February 3, 1917, the higk dry pa.rt of the Upper m was r :d sed threti feet, 11.s per instructions of the comp':'.ny at a. meeting held pril 3, 1916. The urper dam is now c omp'leted a.s far as improvements deo ided upon Y the comp:'l.ny, with th;, exception of "· conorete 11.buttment at the south end of t:h.e am, and some cement, or ooncreto facing of the old stone w~ lls ~round t11.e abuttment t the north. end o.t' the high UJ: dam and it is e xpected tha.t this work will be done e.ter in the year 11..fter the w~ ,.ther becomes warm enough to permit of working with At a sc,ci~l me~ting of th~ Irrigation Co. held on the evening of Februa.ry 5tk, 1917, it was voted thl".t the Lower D3.m be rebuilt as soon as possible; and it is ntioipa.ted tl\,.t this vrork will be sufficiently done this ipring to ena.ble us to get !.tor this summer from this source. It was further voted at this meeting to raise wages pa.id by the Irrigation 1nt,any to $5.00 a day for a ma.n and team, working eight hours; and to $3.00 per ~y for a single hadd IM.n, working eight hours . Indians, Mexicans, Da gos ll.nd Negroes /n hired hy memb ers r,.re to b e r-, id a.t the ra.te of $2 .25 a. d:!.y, if' in the opinion 0 the ws.ter?n!tster they do the work of a. man • 0 .~r . /he St. Joseph Farm L"llprovement Assooie.tion .R..FilleruJJ who been sent here a short W'.\S orge.nized December 10, 1915 by time prior to tM.t date to act s.s Js.rm ~dvisor for the counties of N~va jo s.nd Aps.ohe. The officers selected wores ~seph Fi,.oer , Pres id1,nt; l\.lonzo E. ilushman, 1st vice-preiident; J~mes A. ::s.nsen, 2nd vice -president 3.nd R.E.Porter, seorob.ry and tre:,.surer. Mr. 1',a.oer n ot being settled f h."-d .... efused at act, and later A.E.Bushrna.n was designated by Mr. l."illerup, to do the ork as president. A constitution and by-laws was adopted March 2.8, 1916 but it eemed there was little interest in the association and very little was done uring the summer of 19160 on the 30th of December, 1916, Mr. Fillerup gave a lecture in St. Joseph on ivestook and emphasized the benefits of standardizating breeds. After his lecture, fficers were elected for too coming year; A.E.Bushman, ?resident, James A. Hansen ice-president• R.E .Porter Secretary-treasurer; John L • .Jushrna.n councilor and H.L. and.all alternate councilor. The forn:er councilors, elected Dec. 10, 1915 were .c .Hansen and S .M.Portero At the present time, the total membership of the association, as shown by the mes of those who have paid their annual dues is less than a dozen; and of these ive have joined during the last two or three days - a seed order for garden and ield seeds gotten off last nie~ht, drawing attention to the work of the assooiation nd its nossible benefits. This order amounted to a little over $40; and members of he association were not e~U,t b.harges anything for the work of the officers in ndling the orders, Yihile non-members were charged 10% of the amount of the order or their work. Even with thie 10% added, the cost of the seeds would appear to be than at the retail price. nut it amounted to as much or more than the annual so it brought in a few new members. For imny years, St. Joserh settlers have been trying to obtain title to the land n which their homes are located; bu"'.; have succeeded only this year. At a public uotion sale held in Holbrook April 30, 1917, most of the settlers made purchase of heir lands - there was no competitive bidding, and1 all who se property was up for ale secured it at the :npraised ?rice - about $3 an acre for the land above the anal and a l.l out ~25 an acre for the land below the irrigation system. The church pro• erty located in the town was also purchased succeffully. A few lots ina.dvertantly issed will be brought up later. Walter and Geor ge Shelley of this city were married May 2, 1917 at the Salt le.le emple - the former to hoxie Smith and the latter to ....argaret Butler of '.1.'aylor. Cooperative marketing and garden, poultry and dairy products has been inaugurated ere by the St. Joseph Farm Im,:irovement Association. Trips were ma.de with produce nder dates of June 7, 12, 16, 21, and 26, to date. Settlement has been make ~~wftwith roduoers for the first three trips - the farmers getting 77 cts on the dolla~taken n. on the market for vegetables, milk and other perishable produce, and 80 ots on hiokens and egr,s. At the present time Fred "ushman is our salesman, and he gets paid commission of 20% up to sales $30 at one time - from $30 to $40, 18%; and from $40 0 $ 50 16 %; and 10% on wholesale sales and 15% on vegetables sold at the rate of a oze~ bunches. The treasurer and inspector are myself and A.E.Bushman - as yet we have eceived no salary. (1917) hi The influenza e:1idemio which has swept ofer a great deal of t~e United States _s :'fear, has been rather severe in northern Ari,:ona., since late ::ieptember or early c~~ber, although it is apparently fairly well in 'hand nov,. (:rovember 1918) All 10 gatherings were discontinued in st. Josenh in October - the district school Osi~ October ll, and no §Lmday Services h._9.ve· been held since October 6tho There ere several score deaths inVlins lov1 and Holbrook, but so far none in St. Joseph. The dirstrict school here ooened September 17, 1923. Several high school students . . attendin re g so h ool at Holbrook, returning home evenings by auto, an::l. a few are tt d" n e;l ing the Academy in Snowflake. This will be the last year for the Academy at ow ake. It is to be closed and a seminary will take its placeo ' -13-R.E.Porter diary The storm which was in pro5ress when I wrote in this book a month a.go !)roved the st destruotiv0 in this vioinity of any for many years 0 At Holbrook, the water was he highest known there for a long time. The lower part of the town south of the ilroad was deeoly under water, and several houses near the river were washed a.way, ong them the residence of J.E.Crosby, 1h·. Manley, the Star Bakery. Only one life s lost, and tha.t quite needlessly. Jay Patteison, former County Tre a surer, underook to swim the river on a bet during the high water, and lost his life in the ttempt. The body vra.s found some days later a few miles down the rivero On the 18th of Se'.:)tember (1923), our upper day was taken out - while the south nd of the high dry mm was left, about two hundred feet of that part was taken from he north end, and over a hundred feet of t he low dam construcdled in the sr:,illway as taken. In looking over the matter a few days ago, as a member of the Boa.rd of ireotors of ·t;he Irrigation Compa ny, I noted that to replace this it will require a igh dry dam a b out two hundred feet in length, and one hundred twenty feet thick at he bottom, ten feet across at t he top, and about twenty-six feet in height, with bout one hundred ti.~enty feet of spillway. As we estima.te the work, this will require bout 121 ,500 cu"!.i ic yards of earthwork, 325 cubio yards of concrete, besides consid.. ra.ble rip rapping, ~nd perhaps a concrete facing f or the entire length of tm two undred feet of dam - estimated to cost from $12,00 to *~ 15.000o We are planning on a.king up the work of reconstruction inunedia tely. At the re t,;u lar annu9.l meeting of the irrigat ion oom;Jan~,r held October 8, 1923, ollin C. TA.nner, James A. Fa nsen, John L. Westover, Jesse s. Baslumn nd myself were elected as members of the Board of Directors for the coming year, nd given instructions to nnke a thorough investigation of the matter with a view of immediate reconstruction. ifo visited the site of the dam tvlfo d~ys later, and reported t a general meeting held on the 15th. At this last meeting it was decided to build high dry dam with a long;er s pil lway than before, since rock foundation found there will oermit of this - a low dam of concrete so the water could ~our over it wll he way had befm considered, but owing to the 19.Ck of rock found~ tion for two hundred eet or more, this was considered impra.ctioal by the board int heir report, and the dea was abandoned. A cash assessment of $1 per =c share was levied immedia. tely by he new boa.rd in their first meeting, October 10th, after their election - this was intended t u furnish funds for the purchase of cement by the carload, one oar to be ordered at once and another when needed. The assessment wa s toge paid in two in• stallments, 50% October 20th and the remainder on the 20th of No•rember. Our ditches are also in very bad condition, being washed out in many places, and at pre ,: ent for lon1~ distances, especially the lower ditch. A.ssessments will run very high to replace our dam and ditches, perhaps $ 10 or more •)er share. The site of the lower dam, I understand has been rendered almost u~tena.b le by the flood washing so far westward in the land just above it - it appea rs that the river may cut across the point and leave the dam out of its cha.ih.nel. Harvesting, I think is practically completed ~ot this year. Over thirty silos have been filled in tovrn, their capacities ranging from 100 tons downward. This work vra.s done by exchanging work beti.veen e.eighbors, and by the use of two tractors and choppers. About two woe ks was used in the work, with breaks in the ·work, by the two gangs of workmen thus made necessary. I \, hink I heliied personally in the filling of about half of them. p I ~m no longer on the milk route - .A..E.Bushman is runn ing it, taking milk from th W.: ~r.,ers a nd for the herd in which he is interested - which w,1s purchased from • rr of Holbrook by himself and R.C.Ta nner. Maroh 13 1924• T d Tfa.gh dry' part • f ~h"'-Y we completed the c onorete abutment at the north end of the • 0 e up ,_)er dam - the spillway was completed and the water turned - f.:::.'l -14- R.E.Porter diary nto the ditch as far as the first waste gate on the first of March, and a day or so later into the reservoir. During the two remaining days of this week, we expect to inish the upper day for the ?resent, although it is ? robab la that a concrete abutant will later be ~ut on the south and. Ditch work hi3.s been progressing nicely, nd v~i thin the next few days it will be ready to carry the water a.s far as town. For some months, efforts have been made to organize a 'Union High School' to be formed of the :. ormon wards of this stake to take the pJace of the Stake Academy, hich is heing discontinued by the Church this year. I understand tm t the pro;::>o• sition of the Uni on Hi g;h Schools has carried in the other wards - em:cept Joseph City. last fa 11 an effort was ma.de by members of the stake board of &1:t!t educe. tion and the Academy principal t o get the trustees of t he St. Joseph district to agree to the Union High School, but since the trustees could not be gotten together on the tter, it was decided best to hol d an election. The law provides that two trustees or fifteen per cent of' the voters of the district may require the calling of n election, and while the ?e itioon was being circulated it was discovered that through a. technicality in the law, it might be possible for us to be drawn into this Union School on no more th'3..n a. 15% vote. There was much opposition to the proposed union.an U!Jroar and considerable feeling; a.roused when it was discovered that this small majority miGht draw the town in. The first petition therefore was destroyed. January 30 and 31, President S.F.Smit h, James M. Flake, H.R.Tanne r and T.C.Hoyt canvassed the town in ~rt , and on the evening of Fe'i 1st a :rrnss meeting was held t which representati ves of the S;.nta Fe railway addressed the people in a very fair e.pirit: and on the day follm"'ing ;:,eti tions were circulated bot '., for and against the proposed school, ,,,: ith a result -':ha t nearly ninety votes were cast against the school and less then tvrnnty in favor of it. By previous agre ement, the m'l.tter was to be dro'.)ped unless a r-,ajority could be gotten to vote in favor of the proposition. (At an earlier date R .E .Porter gives some reasons for the Snovrflake re ople anting to have St. Joseph in the Union High School. The b nta Fe railroad has quite a large amount of taxable property which would hel :) to pay for the school. The local people 09?0s ed the Uni on iligh School bec :,, use it was so far from home. Pupils from ~t. Joseph could go to Holbrook and return home nights. Parents felt they would rather hwe their children in the non-Mormon school a. t Holbrook and have them home at nights than in the more Mormon school in Snowflake with a seminary, , ,ut v, one for a whoibe semester at a time.) (The following article, written by R.E.Porter, appeared in the Holbrook News, Friday, December 12, 1924). Saturd,:,y, November 29th, of this year marked the completion of the Joseph City De. m" • The f'onner dam was washed away by a heavy flood in the Littla Colorado River on Se?tember 18, 1923, at the time so nruch dam3.ge was done in the southern part of Holbrook by high water. Joseph City is situated 11 miles west of Holbrook. "upper a nd :hea construction of this dam represents an expenditure of a ppro:minntely $16,000 rather remarkable 18 accomplishme nt for the little town of Joseph City, owing to the fact tho loss and reconstructi on caused so littJo loss of crops either in 1923 or 1924. Being washed away in September after the crops for the former year were practically · Imnedia ta · 'm.~ de t , ver-s; 1·i t t l e if any crop loss was sust· '.1 ined for th year 19 2 3 0 1 on th 23 ~ follmnng the harvest season, the work of reconstructi on was begun; and 'snil; ; of Hoveml-ier, the water was turned from the main channel through the larch ~aY 19 1though this sr-iillway wa.s not completed unt il the following Iihrch. On 4 , the vrater was turned into the head of the Joseph City Irrigation 1 ' can-:i. • and a few do.ya 1 t . . . theses I' a er i. n t o -'-he reservoir, which was entirely filled before 0 Aprit water scarcity which is experienced here every summe r. By the first of 8 water was • again at Joseph City, in r;ood time for the spring planting. ;a -15- R.E.Po rter diary Althou gh the dq_rn we.s not finish ed until :November last, it W':1.S put in a fairly condit ion ~n the e1rly s~ring , and then work thereo n suspen ded until after he harves t Sei:'t,.son of tho presen t yearo re Althou gh the work of b ., ilcl.ing this dam genera lly procee ded smooth ly, it ws.s not ccomp lished vri thout its anxiou s a nd danger ous momen ts. An untime ly flood at the hristma .s holida y senson made danger ous encroa chment s on the newly constr ucted arthwo rk back of the concre te ebutme nt facing tho main s;)illw ay, a nd requir ed reoubled effort s h oth night a nd clay for a. time to save the 9artly oonstr uctad dam. t one time during this flood, the wa ter rose so high as to go over the ma.in earth• ork per+. of the chm, but the overflo w· being small was promµt ly brough t under c ontrol o This dam is the 16th not counti ng the second arr or 'Lower Dam' which has been uilt in the Little Col orado river by the people of Joseph City. The town was set• led in 1876; and durinG that year and the tvrn succee ding years, irriga tion divers ion ams were constr ucted only to b e taken out in the late surn.rner or early autumn . In .1 881 he rebuil t dam ,11as a gain W?..shed avray, as was also the case avery year for nine years ollowi ng. In Eovembe r 1882, Joseph H. Riohar ds recent ly deceas ed, ma.de a publio tateme nt to the eff'ect that the villag e had up to that date expend ed over f~ 30,000 n the constr uotion of dams in the Little Colora do river, and that the settle rs were as far then as -they ever were from the solutio n of this import ant irriga tion problem , he dam being out at that tirne. In 1882 there but fourte en famili es in the settlem ent little later this number decree. sed to eleven and for severa l yea.rs the entire opulat ion of tho tovrn did not exceed one hundre d person so The dam recent ly washed ~way was, in thfil main constr ucted in 1891, a.nd was completed in 1891. :fost of the former dams had been compa rativel y crude affair s, built of brush, trees, stone and earthw ork, with the wa tar 9ou ring over them - excell ent erhaps consid erinr; the number s, the financ ial condit ions and the limite d experi ence in such matter s of the early set t lers in this region ; but unable to withst and the ea.vy freshe ts so comr:1on here at certai n season s of the year. The dam of 1891 was nh1me d with the idea of turnin g the wat(n entire ly from the inc h':l.nnel of' the river over a bed of stone; and on this stone founda tion, a low m was built of timber , stone and gravel to raise the water to the level necess ary o divert it into the irriga tion channe l - the timber s in this lovr ~~&& dam being ecurel y bolted tog@th er, 9.nd th:• vrhol@ being well pinned to the rock founda tion enoath . To accom plish tho divers ion of the river from its main channe l an earthw ork dam 294 feet lon~, 100 feet thick at th~ base and 24 feet hith, faced wnd covere d dth stone and gravel ripra::i ping was built. The expose d and, next the spillw ay whore he river was to be forced to r.;o , was built in ·the form of' 9. crib, of the larges t nd heavie st timber s availo. bJe, secure ly fastene d togeth er and the whole filled with stone, gravel and earth to give it weigh t. That this idea of theso :,t ioneer x dam builde rs was ,ro od is atteste d by the faot hat th· · .., is dam with compa rativel y slight repair s and enlarge ment withst ood the heavy ~oods of the Little Colora do for the next thirty two yea.rs, inc luding the extrem ely igh freshe ts at the time of the breaki ng of the Ly:rran reserv oir near St. Johns about ~ 8 :iddle ofApri l 1915, and undoub tedly it would have remain ed much longer but for • ]d eoay of the timber s used in its constr uction which weaken ed it so much that it ou not withsta nd the heavy flood of last Septem ber. In th8 constr uction of the oresen t dam the origin al plan which was •ne~v •e vo l ved b th 8 • Y early settle rs hare throuP.:h the Ot h long and exoens ive exoeri enoe, has een esso t · 11 he b t t n_ia Y change d. The use of °concre te instea d ·of timber and stone onsi~! ra~ er:fls forme: ly ava.ila. b l13 - has permit ted the wideni ng of the spillw ays 1 f' Y • ., us a. l lovnnf•; tho flood wa tors a much better ga tevrny and this has 6h 8 shoi·ta ned thu ·•·.~ 0 1 W: hie:h oart of the d a...i.. This dam is perhap s from four to six .. ll"'er t} tl · _ 0 4 ,_,. l.<i.n 18 fo=J· ono of 1994, andtl4 all d13.n gerol)..~•-~ expose d surfac es are ;)~ , , cc:1cre te • .J.- __5-.. -lo- R.E .Por t4r diar y Duri ng the earl y spri ng (192 5) the Mou nt!l.in Stat e '.l.'oloohone Co. cons truo ted a dern lino thro ugh our town oonn lloti ng Holb rook and Win slow , and with othe r line s. is give s us much bett er long dist e.nce serv ioe. Our loca l telep hon6 s were disonti nued last ~roa r, not givi ng se.ti sfao tion . Ther e has be1rn talk of inst allin ocal t~vn syste m, but so far it has g a not been dono . he thre e well s dril led last yaar at the Uppe r Da.m were test ed this spri ng with noou ragin g resu lts. It a?Oe ars th~t t hey wil l furn ish a good irrig atin g strea m. 9 inte nd inst9 . llin g a wate r whe el and to pump the clea r wate r duri ng tho floothus imke the muddy curr ent furn ish us ?OYier d seas ons. The wate r in the rive r is very low alre ady beca use of the dry win ter, very ittl e snow is left in the mou ntq,i ns. (Ap ril 21, 1925 ) Mrs Mary Ihns en Iars en died in Ga llup , New Mexi co Frid ay, Pari l 17, 1925 follo wg an oper atio n for a :ipen dici tis. The body vras brou ght to Jose ph City , alth ough he home of the la.rs on fami ly has been at Snow flake for soma year s, and it was nter red in the oem etery here Monda y, Apr il 20. The fune ral, held hero , was rgel y atton dod not only by loca l peop le, but also by peop le from othe r town rtio ular ly from Snow flake . s, Mrs. !ars on was thH daug hter of Jose ph C. Hans en of this plac e and his dece ased Knud san . She was born Seph mbe r 30, 1879 at tho Plea sant Vall ey Iair y outh of Flag staf f; but was rais ed a.t this plac e. She leav os a larg e fami ly ho husb and Hugh 7.s.: . Lars en surv ives her. - and ife, Anna ighw ay aoro ss new cono reto brid g~ ooen od for use Apr il 24th , 1925 . pide mic of mea sles - over lOO cas• s - no publ ic gath erin gs ohoo l clos ed Apr il 24, 1925 .All four teac hers reem ploy od an:i firt h teac her, Owen oriie r addo d. "Tho 'u ond elec tion held on the 16th of this mont h for the purp ose of etor mini ng whe ther or not to bond to rais e money with whic h to buil d more hous ing oorn to r,•rm it us t o hold thi, nint h ~cb l and tent h grad es carr ied unan imou sly ifty vote s cast , a 11 in favo r. r looa l dist rict scho ol oc>•ned here Sept 7th. last year we h,1d the 9th grad e here nd this year we are addi ng tho 10th . (192 5) We have rais od the money on a bond issu e or buil ding a now scho ol hous e so as to hand le the add ition al grad es (9th -10t h) and · lrea dy have a good doal of the mat eria ls on the grou nd • . The foun dati on is will begi n the bric kwo rk with in the in and we next weo k. •tte r oro? s than aver age this year (192 5) Fort y silo s fille d. enry W. Desp ain diod Dao. 6, . Born Sep t. 28, 1847 ui Illin ois. Wel ndia ns. Fune ral Dec. 5, 1925 . 1925 llike d by Buri al loca lly. 1926 l,ari on T9.nnor and Jose ph L.Pe ters on hf't for shor t tarm miss ions . soho ol hous e comp lo t od at cost of $6,0 00.( Doo . 1925 ) dwe lling s,A. E.Bu shim n • J .L.W 11sto ver, Ray Wilk inso n • •E.Po rter has th a ra er exte ruled acco unt of the Jub osep h City Marc h 24 1926 ilu Selo bra tion (50t h) of olbr k 11· ' 0 • Page 145 of diar y book . Also has clip 00 ping of ows as well for same even t. Give s list of the ?ion sers pres ent. arle y Rio hard s died Mi rch 14, 1926 . • Bur ial in loca l cem etery . -.. I~~- : M= ~,'J,Pel t~F 8.-i tr{ ,uneral servioes for John 3ushma.n held June 6, 1926. (extonded report /~iven with uohma.n Journal)• une 30, 19261 Bridges are out both ways from town - over Five-mile wash and also anner wash., not having been put in sinoe the floods took out the bridge v.rest of own last July. Both bridges are being repiaoed by substantial struotures. st Sunday while J. Virgil Dush.m"l.n and wife were at Snowflake attending the t~ke Union Meeting , a very tragio aooident oooured. From such infDrrration as we hive t seems that Virgie with his next younger brother Manson were trying to get away from ome at Vfinslow where the famil y novr resides without ta.king a still younger brother. With Manson driving the automobile, Virgil attempted to hold th:! sin9.ller boy baok nd then run to oa.tch the slowly moving car, afterwhioh the two older boys 9lanned 0 speed up and leave the snnller boy behind. W:a.nson, however, was watching the oys struggle rather than mindin~ mis driving and just as Virgil reached the car it truok a tree. The rebound of the oar struck Virgil as he oame rushing in and his ntestines were ru;Jtured in two places. The injured lad was taken to the hospital n G~llup the day following, where he . died early August 31. Funeral and burial were t Joseph City Sept. 1. he town is building a new house for Mrs. Clara Mosley and her family; and it is hoped hat it will be completed so she can move into it by Christmas or ea rlier. Mrs. ~osley is a oonvert from England, brought out here by her brother, Hiram Sutoliffe hen he returned from his mission a fev-r years ago. Her husband had been killed in a ine aooident; leaving her, however, with some insurance money. 1'hese funds, it ppears her brother borrowed and used in unsuooessful ·•; usiness ventures, leaving he woman almost destitute. I understand that the cost of the house will be about $658 o be pa.id by '109u lar subscription . n pagel59 he describes the question of pasteurizati on of milk and cleaning of oont'liners. Notes the P.T.A. in Vlinslcm is asking for a better souroe of olean milk. n oage 159 tells of the Joseoh Citv cash store nnnaged by A.E.Bushman changing hands and of Mr. Alton coming' in. " olean milk question again. State Publio health moves in. ooping oaugh bad in Joseph City winter 1926-27. oper Dam dedioated June 9, 1927. It was oom;:,ieted November 29, 1924. Thirty cars ook 1 7 5-200 people to the dam. Tnlk by S.M.Porter, i' rayer by J.C.H·i.nsen. Pionic 0 Page 162. ----=~...;o:::.:r:..!i".8.~,::;n~i::,::z:.::e:.::d::..:_: Today I h9.ve been 1.:u sy ma.king out certificates of memberd shlhp for peonle being transfereed to the Winslow Ward. This new war was orhanized last month, and members living in Winslow and farther west • 1 ie d with ·oreviously ident·r· the Joseph City ward, are bing transferred to ·· 11 inslowo • lave ma.de out ove r one h d d un re transfers today and yesterday this will remove many ofJ our inactiv8 · b ut vrill • ' which memJers; of course very much lower our ward membership anuary 1, 1927 was 440. (Ward orga nized some time in August 1927) .E.Porter called on short t erm mission. page 166. I>.i.irying is about our best are milking but four oows souroe of inoome. A.t the present time (October 1928) we • and a.re selling approximatel y ~80 to $90 of milk a month. ~rket ga.rdeninc: b of heavy ,.1 , • 0 can e ma.de fairly remunerative here, but it re quires a great 'deal ,orx - so much· d d nd oows and oattle h 1 1.n ee , tmt if a person has othe r nroperty such as chickens · e s very much tempted to not do it. ' -17- R.E.Po rter diary o. 12, 1928s At the electio n of office rs for the St. Joseph Irriga tion Co. some me a.go the follow ing were electe d to the Boardi Arthur 'l'e.nner , Fred Randa ll, hn L. BushrM.n, Harvey Ha nsen and R.E.Po rter. At a specia l meetin g held Dec. 5th was decide d to extend the Lower Ditch as compan y ditch to the west side of seco 1o than T. Porter : father 's h9.lf brothe r was accide ntally killed by a train yester day mornin g a.bout da y-brea k. For severa l years he has been the ma.ilrrier transp oirting the mails with a horse and light rig b etween Joseph City :>ost fioe an:l the railroa d depot. Ee is gettin g old, and co nseque ntly rather deaf; d on cold mornin gs he often 1.,undle s his head in an effort to keep warm. Eviden tally did not see the oncomi ng train, and drove onto the track on his way to the depot ith the early m'l.ils just in front of the train. His horse was killed and throvrn on ne side of the road, while his ',ody was on the other - the rig wa s comple tely wrecke do It is s~id t.h~t a train from the west, due at about the time of the accide nt s late; and that anothe r train from the east vrhich otherv dse would have switch ed Joseph City, was l¢~ going full speed wi t h the intent ion of' maklilng its way to M nila (the next statio n to the west) during the late r eriod of the eastbo und train ncle Nathan , knowin g that the train from the west was due, was perhap s lookin g in t direct ion, and becaus e of his deafne ss made worse by wrappi ng of his head to failed to learn of the ra p id a?proa. ch of the train from the opposi te His death was, undoub tedly instan eous. Al though the 'iody was not badly mangle d, number of bones were borken - a rather bad bruise on the head and face, a broken rm, and a broken leg, perhap s. (R.E.P . gives a good accoun t of Nathan 's life on page 5-75) He paid tithing on his gross instea d of his neto a.th of We.lter Turley , shot while out huntin g rabbit s with scouts is told on page a. a.th of Maud Porter is cive n on 9age 178. , ne 14 and 15, 1929 celebr ation of the comple tion of the brid;e over the Colora do~ low Lee's ferry. Page 182.o "Each ward sent out sent out invita tions to old settle rs attend a home-c oming in this st ~ke follow ing the servio es at the bridge . vember 14. 1929. The milk house for the Produc ers Assoc iation Dairy is nearly m~lete d and we are instal ling the appara tus prepar atory to beginn ing busine ss of lling dairy produc ts for oursel ves. E.Port er hs.s severa l articl es telling of the troubl e in Winslo w sellin g milk. inciple trouble was with compe tition. Price cuttin g went on until it nearly put eryone out of busine ss. There are a lot of articl es a1;out it in the diary. e A.T.$ S.R. is double trackin g from Winslo w to Joseph City thissp ring. (1930) seph City Dl.ys, articl e and poems by R•E.Po rter read by Edith Bushma n. e Joseph City Prod • • ucers Assooia tion is 1 1 r· still doing busine ss and appare ntly on a. r Y 1.rm founda tion A d • owflak . . d T • new airy starte d up this s p ring, sellin g milk e an ~ylor, howeve r cuttin g prices in an attemp t to get into thefrom marke t. r local associ ation ha 00 and $ 700 • s been inst9.l ling a new refrig erator system . Cost betwee n visite d the'Pe trified Fores t'. d Santa Fe July 24, 1910. • tre\in wreck at T:rnner Wash. Engine er and Firema n killed . Page 203 -18- R.E.Po rter diary One by one, and it ,seems .'1t rather freque nt interv als, our 'old-ti mers' e pionee rs of Joseph "ity a.re passin g a.way. The dea. th of Eliza E. Parkin son 'l'a.nner ife of Henry M. Tanner , occurr ed a.bout noon Sunday August 17, 1930. For severa l a.rs she has been suf .r'ering from rheuma tism and high blood pressu re; and most of e time for quite a. while she has be (i n confin ed toher home becaus e of her physic al nditio n and old age. Funera l servic es vrere held at the church buildi ng here wi: at 10:00 a.m. August th. Eight of her eleven childr en were presen t. The t hree absent were M.R.Ta .nner southe rn Utah; Geor~e S . Tanner who is attend ing school in Chicag o and Donne tte ller, unable to attend becaus e of illnes s - she is in southe rn Arizon a. M.Tann er and wife went to Mesa to do temple work, but becaus e of Brothe r Tanne r's or hearin g them returne do soript ion of Hope villag es pa.r,e 207. 1k price wa.r in Winslo w . pa.go 210 E.Port er still vrard clerk, 1916. ension servic e at Joseph City p.3.ge 211 (Feb. 1931) a.ales again par;e 211 seph City Da.y, 1931 (55th annive rsary) Highli ghts, Sa.nDie go Rawson dresse d in chskliln . Poem by M.R.Ta nner , Ta. lk by James E. Shelle y. Good accoun t of the trip to izona. by J.E.Sh elley. Also list of remain i ng pionee rs. lia Tanner Fish, one of my childh ood playma tes in earlie r years in St. Joseph , ed at her home in La.kesi de A.Jril 1, of a paraly tic stroke . Her husban d had been ken to Califo rnia some time a.go for treatm ent for some troubl e died there and was ought home where he was buried March 20, 1931. I believ e the worry occasio ned by r husban d 1 s illness and the rela xa. tion after his death was perhap s the cause of r stroke . on Shelle y had narrow escape when he rode horse under telepho ne w i.re which hit under chin. pat;e 216 line of beacon lights across the countr y has been instal led and airrm. il has starte d the 20th of April. Wi nslow is one of the stops and I unders tand there is at st one plane going eaoh way daily.( 1931) ing the .,,inter Delber t Hansen has been buildi ng a new houseo garet Shelle y, Wife of mxgx James E. Shelle y died at the family home about O a.m~ :May 7, 1931. Ill for some time Page 218. Body taken to lleber for burial . d ~rticle about J~mes E. Shelle y given here. page 218 as well a s some of the n;ng ~>ionei: rs• Namely : James E. Shelle y, Henry M. Tanner , 0 SA.muel u. Porter , • r erand wife, at Mesa, John JfoLs,ws and wife, J/;ary VT • .t<icha rds, ,1m; ce cuttin g in Winslo w again: Page 224. obdr 13, 1931: B se s. Bushma n R':'8-r d f n·mrecto rs Irriga tion Co. Arthur Tanner , John L. Westov er, hur Tanner • ,~lon =• Porter , and Howard L. Randa ll. Presid ent J.L.Vfe stover and superi ntende nt• ces for milk advanc ed a bit in Winslo w , Now Qt 15/ 2 qt 28/ 3 qt. 39/ gal 50/ -19- R.E.P ortet dlary ov. 4s Monday a fterno on, Delbe rt Roge rs, eldes t son of , Holis tor Roger s and Ida T'lnne r ogers of this place wa.s accid ental ly kille d while worki ng on tho highv1ay wost of ].ags taff. It is repor ted that he and Parle ?eter sen, a broth er of Josep h L.Pet ersen r Josep h City, and a third party were cleanying cattl e guard s when a heavy grave l ruck worki ng for the s ~mo contr actor as were they, came along . Just behin d the ruck was an autom obile drive n by anoth er emplo yee of the same contr actor . They_ teppe d aside i·o allow the truck to pass. At the same time the auto attdm pted to ass the truck . The heavy cloud of dust raise d by tho truck ma.de it impo ssible for he boys to see tho car and also for tho drive r of the car to see them. Both Delbe rt nd ?a.rle v were struc k. They wero rushe d to the }1iorcy Hosp ital at Flags taff; but Delert died· a. mome nt or so after getti ng there . Parle :r had sever al ribs broke n and was ory serio usly injur ed; but at last repor ts, was gettin g on fairl y well. The other n l"ra.s not injur ed.(d ied Nov. 2, 1931) (See later entry for death of Parle y) Delbe rt wa s about twen ty-six years old and leave s a young widow and two small hildr en o The Ariso na Light and Power Co. of Winsl ow have b t~ gun work towar d putti ng a ewer line throu gh Josep h City, from Winsl ow to Holbr ook. Holes for the poles have eon dug throu gh town, the poles distr ibute d, and I under stand , some of the p~les re set up . Local men h<J.ve been doing much of hhe local work - hired by the power ompan y. Just a t prese nt howev er, the work seems to have been calle d off. I have ot heard defin itely tho reaso n, but suppo se it is becau se of b ·~d weath er. (12-1 -31) I under stnnd it is the inten tion of the pmver com»a ny to imnuf 'actur e (gene rate) he elect ricity in Hinsl ow, and then over this line to deliv er it at Josep h City nd Holbr ook . The ma.in line is being put just at the west side of my town lot along he stree t betwe en sectio ns sixte en and seven teen; turni ng easbv ard just south of my lot, and passi ng throu gh town along the first stre~ north of Main Stree t. he milk marke t remai ns a i, out the same with the excep ti on of the natur al winte r eclin e in sales . So far the Josep h City ?rodu oers Asso ciatio n ? rice of milk to roduc ers ms been but six cents per quart sinoe the raise in Octob er - for two pay ays only have we raid th'3. t; but we expec t to make it seven cents next ;:ayda y. o weeks ago today (Apri l 30th) with my siste r Ethel and her husba nd in the back f the oar, we motor ed out t.o the Old 11orm onDai ry going by way of Fla r;staf f and l.a.ke ry. The old ,:·alle y b ottom is now cover ed vri th ·w ater, a fine large phoe for boatng and other s r)orts . In the t 2.mber fnear where the early Mormons had their house s are till bA.nks of snow from a foot to a foot and a half d~epo Very little is left to show where the l.iormo ns lived there - at .-.vrmon lake n Arizo na. 'a "'arl hi · t ory - 1881 to 18830 A few , Y h is ruins of rock chimn eys and some nd ps a ?iles of woode n debri s seems to be all that is left - in vain did we look any artic le, s qch as a stove pan or the like tl-a t we could ident ify with the 'or.non sot i. lemen t there when I w:s a baby in the vroods a.roun.d I,iormon Lake. The denre ssion ao wides oroad in the natio n, has µerh{llps hit us less so far than " ons O f t .he coun try. Loca lly, while there is sorre 1.a:ernp loyrr.e nt and :id iailk h ... ' th0 busin ess of the farm goes on fairl y well. Yle are sellin g eggs . ' a ou v as usual , vn·th ,., e d 1Jrioe s it is rec;.uc true, but the price s of artic les ?Ure ha se a re :.lso d own. ' in most. other soo'·i imee a.re hard ighw'9.y 66 w' • h Havre, som; ... nic ,{asse s throu gh Josep h City, is now oil surfa ced from Flags taff to th i " 0 r:n es west of here. The road is being s t raigh en, se imnnonved tened , and widen ed and t• · ern d ' n is sununor for a dista nce of 19½ miles , exten dinu en of th~ from the ea.soil~ . rnent of this sec.._ i"ur~!3.cing at Havre m,arl y to Holbr ook. Th : cost oof the impro on - under stand is about $150, 000 -28- R.E.P orter dir~ry under stl).nd that the 'J udget f or next year calls f'or t.h l. r.: n,.,1; \..'t. ,,I! l,11 l, 1t 1, 1J,,1 , It is expec ted to tako elect ricit y from the ple.nt i.hrou gh Joaop h UH;'/ Holbr ook. Th"' power line capab le of deliv ering eithe 0 r ltlO volt or 220 volt, is lread y comp leted ; and vre hear that it will be but a few days befor e the power will e t urned on. We have had our house s wired , so we are ready for the 'juic e' as soon s it comes and the co~pa ny ,mts in our meter s. I think most of the Josep h City users re alrea dy wired or are being wired . (July 1932) depre ssion a ~a in. Farme rs not hurt like other s. Plent y to eat but not much rgest crown in Josop h City Histo ry unihes s at Stake Confe rence helpe d to celeb rate he 57th Josep h City ]Jay, i'fJ arch 24, 1933. lunon: ; the featu res was an indie. n dance . ea.th of Emma Stapl ey Ta nner, scond wife of Henry M. Tanne r of Josep h occur red the venin g of April 17, 1933 at the famil y home. It is said tmt she had just retire d or the night when her hus band calle d for assis tance from a visit or sleep ing in an adourni ng room, s aying that his wife was not feelin g well. Her death was very sudde n, erha.p s eithe r heart failu re or apopl exy - no physi cian was in atten dance , so the auee of death was not re porte d. Funer al servi ce s were held in the local churc h April 19th; and the body was nterr ed in the Jose ph City ceme tery. She is surviw ed by her husb9. nd and by three of her child ren, Cliff ord Ta nner of Josep h City, Mrs. Eve. Shell ey of Reber and Golde n • Tanne r of l{ioh field, Utah. All three of the c hildr en were at the buria l altho ugh olden did not arriv o in time for the fum,r al servi ceo Urs. Tc1. nner wa s 'J orn :rovem ber 30, 1860 at Toqu ervill e, Utah; the daugh ter of harle s Stapl ey a.nd Se. rah Parki nson. She Vfas marri ed to Henry I.I . Ta nner at St. Georg e roh 24, 1886 ;a nd c3.me with him to Josep h City the same year. She wa s the mothe r of six child ren, riK fivo 1:ooys a nd one girl. Mrs. Emrrn T , nner w,1s a very quiet and retir ing perso n, aJJno st in contr ast with he first wife, who died in 1930. In spite of this, she vr<J. S not ina.ct ive eccle siast i• ally - havin g sorve d in the Relie f Socie ty presi dency as couns elor from 1903 to 915, and A. lso havin g h een activ e in the Y.L.M. I.A.. 0 oseph Isaia h Porte r died a':. his home in Heber , Arizo na 1-iay 29, 1933. Cause of eathw as given as 'astlu r:atio hear t'. The funer al was held in the Heber churc h and ohool blil.ild ing on the aftern oon of May 30th; and the body i 11 terre d in the Heber emete ry. Uncle Joe had been sick for somet ime; and for a time previ ous4 to his eath had been under a docto rs care. He was pract ioall y uncon sci()u s, not knmv-ing em':Jers of his famil y nt the time of death , not havin g r ·~cove red from a dose of orphi ne, or other drug, given to him some hours earli er to reliev e Pain. Ethel rtle and myse lf atten ded the funer alo · • ~nfor d I·ia.riu s p ---- f . or t er :oasse d away June 14, 1933 O'l. notr O th e stom, .ch. Funer al was held June 16, at his home. Ca.use of death was at the Josep h Citv churc h. The soe,u: ers were Samue 1 F S . th J t Jose h c·t • • mi , ~mes A. Hanse n and James E. Shell ey. Buria l was P 1 Y co2et ery. (p~go 270) eath of Rov Cummins H d" d couns elor in -l;h . : e . ie of Brigh t's disea se Augu st 10, 1933 0 He was · e bisho pric. Funo ral was the day aftc~ his death . Page 271.1st This sunme r ( 19 3 ~) going on rxl iv a nd fall oilin g of Highw ay 66 from Holbr ook to 1:tavre has been to Flags ta~r. s now about finish edo So we now have an excel lent road from Holbr ook Bri ham Cit marke r, u unvei ling of " h • A guS t 2 3rd, 1924, we atten ded the cerem onies Th e.ccom aanyin g the ,. e marke r oreot d 1s marke r had been er t de a t the old Brigh am City grave yard north .of Winsl ow. ec e in memory of the pione ers of Brigh am City burie d at -21- R.E.Port er diary his nlaoe; and wa.s bu:;_lt by the Winslow ward in con."lecti on with the Utah Pioneer rail~ Associat iono The Presiden t and secretar y of tho Utah associat ion - Apostle eorge Albert Smith and John D. Giles - were present, as was also JARoi C. Snow, ho spent a year or so .:.n connecti on with Mr . McClinto ck in compilin g the book Mormon Sett lemonts of Arizona. 11 • Descende nts of Brigham City pionee rs ca.me from Chino allev, st. Johns, and elsewher e to attend the ceremon ies. Aip.ong the people present as ...,1Iarcus Peterson , one of t he original pione e: rs, now 93 years of age. Speakers or the ocoasion wero the visiting Ut~hns and several pioneers present . Items of istory and eJ9erien ces of individu als were recounte d - the dedicato ry prayer was ffered by Apostle George Albert Sr.1ith and he also conducte d the exercise so oath of :'arley P.Pot~rs ens (Se e[,,a rlier entry). Somo days ap;o, while working with .C. anner's road r;ang ~a. s t of rio lbrook, oae of our t ownsmen, .?arley Pratt Petersen as badly injured. It seems la: that he was attempti ng to move some piles - large ridge timbdrs whic~d been c~u ght. Unable to move them f rom a safe position , ho entured to ta.Jee a pJ.:,.ce mo re dangerou s. The timbers were r e leased; but one of them truok him, badly hceratin g his stomach and intestin es , and perhaps the liver. He s rushed to the Santa Fe hospital at Winslow, where he was attended by Dr. Morton. he doctor evidentl y Bad little hopes for his recovery from the beginnin g; but ecause he hung on for several days, and the bodily vital activiti es were beginnin g o function to some extent, some hope was entertain ed for his recovery . Death came uddenly on Tuesday morning, Oct ober 9, 19340 arley was born at Pinedale , January 30 , 1896. He ~rried Nell Tanner, a daughtor of ederick Tanner of Joseph City. His wife and two simll children survive him. See pages 286-287 for moreo) 1934 On Thursday , Novembe r 8th Heber Ward was organize d under the directio n of Joseph Fieldimg Smith. Previous ly it was a Joseph Cityo The bishopri c were iboma.s H. Shelley, ~arold Crandall and Porter. Organize d: otober 20, 1934, Joseph City Irrigatio n meeting eleoted as board memb~rs: Clifford anner, Jesse s. Bushm.<i.n, Rulon E. Porter, Howard L. Randall and J. Harvey itansen. he board met October 27th and. elected officers as follov1s: C!.ifford Tarmor, Pres. esse S. Busruran vice-pre sident; Rulon E. Porter Secretar y . Th~ rbreohts mq~t serious crime in the historv of Joseph City occurred day before ~st erd.<i.y (~it'ff-~!,, 1925), when Yir . Peter Harbr~ch t , Rollin T·lnner's father-in -law tempted to kill his wife by beating her with a hammer in the head and latd.r killing i!llSlef by , gett ing · · f ront of Santa Fe frain No. 9. &. in APparen tly the' attempt on Mrs . it r~echt s life was ma.de sometime during the morning hours while she was in the P7cking eggs for rrarket. Evidentl y he intended to makd the killing complete 1 c t 16 said that about half of the top of the skull was battered in. She is still 1 e anc: · l • Dro ,.a u_t hway of Winslow performe d an n her thimuoh of. thi, time i 6 re. t 1ona operatio n ing, and =l~~::i~ g, removing parts of the skull. My vdfe is assistin g with the nure-,ms to ha g ch'l.nces seem few, somo hope is enterts. ined for her recovery . She s strong. ve a st rong constitu tion, in spite of her ~ixty-tw o years, and her pulse Mr FArbrech t wa b dl . rom the body d s Y mangled - his head, arms and feet severed and scattere d he orew on thi:\ o~e f~ot was on the pilot of No. 9 when sh" reached W"i nslow. Since low, it aopears t:~nhdi ~ not know they had struck him until they arrived in Win. e .ust ~ve thrown himself in the way at close range. h's• Louisa Lies Ha b nterred in th 1 e r recht died at her home here Suptembe r 4th. The body was e ocal c~metery Setp. 6th. ~:e -13-R.E.P orter diary The storn which was in probress when I wrote in this book a month ago _:1 roved the destructive in this vicinity of any for ma ny yearso At Holbrook, the vrater was he hi ghest known there for a long time. The lo-,rnr part of the town south of the ilroad wa s dee p ly under water, and several houses near the river were washed av.ray, ong them the residence of J.E.Crosby , Mr. }'::a,nley, the Star Bakery. Only one life s lost, and that q uite needle ssly . J a y Pattenson , former Co unty Tre,,\surer, underok to swim the river on a bet d uring the hi gh wa ter, ax1d lost his life in the t em?t• The b ody vm.s found some days later a few miles do;,m the rivero On the 18th of September (1923), our upper da y was t a ken out - wh ile the south of the hi gh dry dam was left, a bout t wo h undre d feet o f t ha. t part wa s ta ken from e north end, and over a hundred feet o f t he low da m c cnstrucmed in t he s1Jillway s taken. In look ing over the ma tter a few days a go, a s a w~mber of the Board of rectors of the Irrigation Compa ny, I noted th3. t to replace this it will require a · gh dry dam a b out tvrn hundred fe et in lengt h, and one h undred tvrenty feet t h ick at e bott om, ten feet across at t he top, and a b out twent y-six feet in height, with out one hundred t\11Tenty feet of spillway. As we estimate the work, this will require out 12,500 cub ic yards of ee.r tbwork, 325 cubio yards of concrete, besides considble rip rapping , 9.nd perhaps a concrete facing f or the ent ire length o f the two ndred f~et ~f dam - estimat ed t o cost from $ 12., 00 to ~n5.000o We are planning on king up the work of reconstruc t ion immediate ly. At the re r;ula. r annua l !2te eting of t he irriga t ion com;:,any held October 8, 1923, llin c. T~nner, James A. Bans en, John L. Westover, Jesse s. Bashrmn d nyself were elected as members of the Board of Directors for the comi ng year, d given instructio ns to nnke a thorough i nvestigati on of the matter with a view of "mnediate reconstruc tion. '/Ye visited the site of the dam t wo <b.ys later, and reported t a ,'.;eneral meeting held on the 15th. At this last meeting it was decided t o build hiEh dry dam with a longer s p illway than b e fore, since rock foundation found there ill "Jermit of t h is - a low dam of c oncrete so the water could pour over it wll e vra y had been considered , but ow i ng to t he 19.ck of rock found~ tion for hro hundred et or more, this wa s considered impractic al by the board in their 1·eport, and the 69. was a bandoned. A cash asses sment of $ 1 per lmlt share ·was levied irnmedie. te ly by e new board in t heir first me et ing , Octob e r 10th, after their election - this was tended t ,J furnish funds for the purchase of cement by the carload, one oa r to be dered at once and another when needed. The asses s ment was to qe pa id in t wo ina llnents, 50% October 20th and the remainder on the 20th of Noe ember. ~r ditches are also in very bad cond i tion, being ,,;ashed out in many places, d a u ore ,: ent for long distances , especially the lower ditch. Assessmen ts will n v~ry high to replace our dam and ditches perha ps $ 10 or more oer share. e site . 0 ~" th e 1 rn~er • · .ole bv the dam, I understand h_q s b' een rendered almost untena ooe1 '."•'.J.Shing so far westward in the l a nd jus t a b ove it - it appea rs that th~ river • cut across the point and leave the d a m out of its chaihnel. Harve st ing,~ think is practic a lly completed ~ot this year. Over thirty silos ve boen filled in tovrn, their capacities ranging from 100 tons dowmvard. This rk was done by exchanging work bei:;v,een aeighb ors, and by the use of t wo tractors and o>Jpers. About two weeks was used in the wo:rk, with b reaks in the work, by the o l;'lni;s or vrorkmen thus ma.de about half of them. necessary . I i. h ink: I helpied personally in the filling - I a... r:i no longer on the mi· 1k route -A.E .'3ushman is running it, taking milk from e • or ,, ers and for th h d . . . • :a .Farr 01~ -- lb k .e er i n which he i s j_nt erested - vrhich was purchased from -·o roo by h"imse 1 f a nd R.C .T-.1.nn rr . roh 13, 1924: Tod9..y we o ·• c:r~.r oar of the completed t he c one r ~e abutment at the north end of the up ) er dam - the sp illn : vras comp leted and the wa ter turned -14- R.E.Po rter diary and a day or so to the ditch as far · as the first waste ga. te on the first of Ma rch, we expect to week, this of days ng remaini two later into the reservo ir. During the e abutconcret a that e probabl is it h althoug , inish the upper day for the present nicely, sing progres been h"-s work Ditch end. south the ent will later be put on as far as town. nd v'i thin the next few days it will be ready to carry the wa. ter School' to be For some months, efforts rove been made to organiz e a 'Union High Academy , St<1.ke the of place the take to stake ormed of the I:ormon wards of this the pro;:,othat and underst I year. this Church hich is -~•e ing discont inued by the Joseph City. earnept wards other the in carried has Schools ition of the Union High educati on and Last fall an effort was made by members of the stake board of &tt.t agree to to t distric Joseph he Academy princip al t o get the trustee s of t he f;t. r on the togethe gotten be not could s he Union High School, but since the trustee trustvro that s provide law The ion. t tter, it was decided best to hol d an elec of calling the require may t distric the of voters ees or fifteen pe r cent of the that red discove vras it ted circula being was itioon ::,e the n electio n, and while be drawn into this hrough a technic ality in the law, it might be possibl e for us to to the propose d ion opposit h nuc Union School on no more th<J..n a 15% vote• There was red that this discove was it when union.a n utJroar and conside rab le feeling aroused destroy edo was re therefo n petitio first The draw the town in. mall majorit y t T.C.Hoy and nner .R.Ta I-.1 Flake, M. ames J , ith 1.nuary 30 and 31, Preside nt S.F.Sm held was meeting rro.ss a 1st Feh of evening the on and part, anvasse d the town in in a very fair t which represe ntat ives of the S ;.nta Fe r a ilway address ed the people af~ainst the and. for both ted e.pirit: and on the day followi ng ;:,et i tions were circuh the school against cast were votes ninety propose d school, •.dth a result J.:; m t nearly to be was matter he t nt, agreeme s previou By it. of nd less then twenty in favor ition 0 propos the of favor in vote to gotten be could ority ~aj roryned unless a ke 1B ople (At an earlier date R .E .Porter gives some reasons for the Snovrfla d has railroa Fe nta Sa The School. High :,anting to have St. Joseph in the Union school. the for pay to help would which y propert le quite a large amount of taxah so far from home. The local people op_'.)osed the Union Eigh School because it was Parents felt nights. home :?upils from "t. Joseph could go to Holb rook and return k and Holbroo at school mon non-hlor they 1"ould rather h'l.ve their childre n in the a with ke Snowfla in school Mormon more ha'.'e them home at nights than in the time.) a at r semeste whoihe a ser:iinar y, ,,ut e;one for k News, Friday, (The follovri ng article , written by R.E.Po rter, appeare d in the Holbroo Decemb er 12, 1924). Joseph City Sa.tu rd gy, Novem1Jer 29th, of this year marked the comp letion of the d f Colorad o Little Da?;J.11 • mh the in Uo-:Jer flood vy hHa ormer am was washed away by a .1. e n. • n souther the in done was damage h muc so time the at hl.v:r on Septemb er 18, 1923, k. Holbroo of ar of Holbroo k by high water. Joseph City is situate d 11 miles west 11 • . .iture of a pn rom:um d tely $ 16,000 constru c t; The ·-on of th·is am represe nts an exoend . · • · and is " 1 bl e accomp lishmen t for the little tovm of Joseph City, owinr!'9.ther rema.rx:a h a" t .... 0 0 either crons of loss littJs so caused th tha ruction e loss and reconst t • v , ~ 2 3 iac 192 4 B • or in for the former year woro ,r-.cti 11 • 1 eing washed away in Septemb er after the crops for th year 1923 0 ~ined sust was loss crop d n any if little e', very I ~od,nt-e l· oaf 1Y , • 1 ha_ -'-h nPOWJ O Y -c,, • e · rvest season, the work of reconst ruction was oegun; and o tho 2 3 rd of ,, l through the 's~ill·,• ay' -althgu h e~'. th e ~,ater was turned from the main cham1e ng 1-/h roh. On followi the until ed his spillwa y was not oomnlet .arch 1 1 9., 4 th 6 . . . , d . t th e h ea.d .e vra ter -1-vras • -'-ur "' , , r i gat ion Ir City Joseph the of in o " _ ne c n."-1, a::id a fm, d. reservo ir, which w-a s entirel y filled before the :::ea.con of ,..1 +, a.ys la "~r into· the ~. . yw11 10 h · • · a,er scarcit . e::c,'.JerJ." seed here every sumner. By the r irst of is • pr:i.l, the water vras a . • r,ood time for the spring plantin g. gain at Joseph City, -v ° r: v~mb " -15- R.~.P orter diary Althou gh the dam was not, finish ed '.J.ntil }fovem ber last, it was put in a fairly condi tion ~n the early s2ring , anu then work thereo n suspen ded until after e harve st seB,son of tho presen t yearo ro Althou gh the work of b-..iild ing this dam gener ally procee ded smoot hly , it W':J."s not compl ished vritho ut its anxiou s and dange rous momen ts. An untim ely flood at the ristrru s holida y season made dange rous encroa chmen ts on the newly constr ucted rtlr,ro rk ha.ck of the concr ete ebutm ent facing the main s p illway , and requir ed reubled effort s hoth night and cb.y for a time to save the partly const ructed dam . one ti.Ir..e during this flood, the W:J.ter rose so high as to go over the main earth r~ 2art. of the <lam, but the overflO \v being small was pron? tly broug ht under contr o l o ~:iis d,im is the 16th not count ing the secon dary or ' Lower Dam 1 v;hich P.as been ilt in the Little Colora do river by the people of joseph City . The town was set ed in 1876; and during tr..o.t year and the two succee ding years , irri gation diver sion ns vrere const ructed only to be taken out in the late surn.rner or early autum n. In 1881 P, rebui lt d'.lm was again Wg_she d avray, as was also the case every year for nine years l101rin g. In Eovem ber 1882 , Joseph H. Richa rds recen tly deceas ed , mo.de a public ateme nt to the effec t that the villag e had up to that date expend ed over ~30~000 the const ructio n of dams in the Little Colora do rivor, and th'.lt the settle rs were .s far then as ~hey ever were from the soluti on of this impor tant irriga tion 9roble m, o dam being out at that time. In 1882 there but fourte en fariili es in the settle ment little later this numbe r decre ased to eleven and for sever al years the entire pulati on of the tmn1 did not exceed one hundre d person sc The dam recen tly washe d away was, in the !Pain const ructed in 1891 , and ,·,as comleted in 1894 . :fost of the forme r dams had been compa rative ly c rude affai rs, built f brush , trees, stone and earthw ork, with the water pourin g over them - excel lent rha:,s cons iderin r; the numbe rs, the finan cial condi tions and the lir:1ite d exper ience .:.n s-..ich J:1.atte rs of the early settle rs in this region ; but unable to ,.-dths tand the fresho ts so comno n here at certa in season s of the year . . The dam of 1891 v,as rihime d with tho idea of turnin g the v;ater e!ltir ely from the in ch-:i.nr:el of tho river over a bed of stone; and on this stone found ation, a low !:l .,..as ::iuilt of timbe r, stone and grave l to raise the water to the level neces sary divert it into the irriga tion chann el - the timbe rs in thi s l ovr e:re!t dam being curely bolted togeth er, and th;• whole being well pinned to the rock found ation neath . To accom plish th0 divers ion of the river from its main chann el an earthwo rk m 294 foot long, 100 feet thick at tho base and 24 feet high , faced ~nd c overed th ~tone and grave l riprap ping was built . The expose d end , next the spillv,e 1.y who r e 0 rive: was to be forced to go, was built in the form of' a crib, of the large st t : hoavie S timbe rs availa ble, secur ely fasten ed togeth e r and the whol e filled with .ono, grave l and earth to give it weigh t. That this idea of th · . . ;nonee rx dam build ers was ~o od is attest ed by tho fa c t with compa.r eso t · 1 1 · ht · · looc!s · "th L" · a ivo Y s_ig repair s and enlarg ement v1iths 01 to od the heavy . gh .1.res _ h e tes atittle Color9 .do for the next thirty two vears , includ ing the t' t· extrem ely . .; . he n:id:ile "A . 1 ne ime of th~ break ing of the Lynan reserv oir near St • Johns about 1915 he deca.. ~- thri._. , and una.ou btedly it would have remain ed much l onger but f or ould nof ~r.i-1-h: ";:nbo rs used in its const ructio n which u • • v s anc. the heavy flood of last Septem b er . vreake ned it so much that it In the const ruct;o f th olved by the O 1 9 prese nt n dam, the origin al plan which was e-:,r,;el-vee: ot been esson ti:~/ s~ttle rs here throu :;h the long and exp<m sive exper ience, has he best ~ter i1 ls c anged . T~o use of c oncre te instea d of timbe r and stone onside rably .._'--us 10 rrn e:ly availa ble - has pormi tted the wideni ni:r of the , "'! a 1m·,inoth spillw f1 ays . "' f course shorte ned th h" b a ... ood viater s a much bette r gatav; sy and this has ec.,_ · igher than the _part of the d a · . '.!.'his dam is perhap s from four to six :i •• ""'tr• -!-,.,. - - ) ono of 1891.' 1 1 da.n geroy <~:,;, expose d surfac es are hat .. . da 1:r..1s m 4 ° r:-=~h -16 - R.E .Po rtdr dia ry Dur ing the ear ly spr ing (192 5) the Moun tq,in Sta te Tol eoh one Coo con stru cted a dor n lino thro ugh our tow n con nec ting Hol broo k and '/TinslOl'r, and wit h oth or lin es. is ~ivo s us muc h bet ter long dist anc e ser vic e. Our loc al tele pho nes wer e dis n";i ~ue d las t :roa r, not giv ing sat isfa ctio n. The re has be e n cal torm syst em, but so far talk of ins t9. llin g a it hss not bee n don s. 9 thre e wel ls dri lled las t yaa r at the Upp er Dam wor e test ed thi s spr ing wit cou rag ing res ult s. It a;>p ears h th'"t t t h ey wil l fur nis h a g ood irri gat ing stre am. inte nd inst' .J. llin g a wat er vrho el and thu s nnk e the muddy cur ren 0 pump the cle ar wat t fur nis h us ?Ov'ror er dur ing tho floo d soa son s. Th~ wa tor in the rive r is ver ttlo sncr1r is lef t in the mo unh y low alre ady bec aus e of the dry vrin ter, ver y ins. (Ap ril 21, 192 5) .:.:rs Mary Ihn sen Lar sen dio d in G'.l. llup , Now Mexi co Frid ay, Par il 17, 192 5 foll owg an ope rati on for a:,p end icit is. The h ody vras bro ugh t to Jose ph Cit y, alth oug h e home of the 41.r son fam ily has bee n at Sno wfJ ako for som e yoa rs, and it vras tcrr 9d in the cem etnr y her e ifon day , Ap ril 20. The fun era l, hol d her 0, was isocr.@d: rbe ly atto ndc d not only by loc al peo plo , but also by peo ple from rtic ula rly from Sno wfl ako . oth er tow ns, l.:rs . Lar son was the dau ght er of Jos eph C. Han sen of this pla oa and his dec Qas ed Knu dse: i. She vras bor n Sep tem ber 30, 187 9 at th1J ?lca s9.n t Val ley Dai ry uth nf Fla gst aff ; but was rais ed at thi s pla ce. Sho loav es c hus ban d Hugh 1.'.. Lar son a larg e fam ily - and sur viv es her . fe, Anna ghw ay acr oss new con cre te brid go ooe ncd for use A.p ril 24t h, 1925 0 idem ic of mea sl~s - ove r 100 cas es - no pub lic gat hor ing s hoo l c loso d Apr il 24, 192 5.A ll fou r teac her s reem ploy ~d and fift h t'ila che r, Owen "Th e "uond ele ctio n held on th~ 16t h of this mon th for th':? pur .L.or::1in ·ng whe ther or not to bon pos e of d to rais e mon ey wit h whi ch to bui ld mor e hou sing on to ncr mit us -\: o hold the nin ft.· vot es ca.s t, 3. ll in fav or. th ?;nc"b: and ten th gra des car risd una nim ous ly riie r add-:,d . r loc al dis tric t sch ool ops nod her e Sep t 7th . Las t yea r wo h~d tho 9th "' th ~s :yea r wa are add ing grad e h¢ro tho 10t h. ( 192 5) We m ve rais ed the mon ey on a bon d issU Q r bui ldin g a now sch ool hou se so as 1 to ·r ~~tdbos y in thea goo d doa l of the °:Jrickwo:rk ~ve h~n dl~ the add itio nal gra des (9th -10 th) and mat lllri als on tho grou nd. The fou nda tion is in and we wit hin thaJ nex t w0e k. tte r oro'.}s tha n ave rag e this yea r (192 5) For ty silo s fill ed. n~• • Das n died . 6, 5. Bor n Sep t. 28, 184 7 Ill! Illi dia ns. F~nf):li •ral Dae . Doc 5 192 5 192 noi s. Wd llik od by R , • .. uri• a 1 1oca 11Y• 192 6 i.ar ion T'.ln ner and Jos eph L.P ote rsen lef t for sho rt term mis sion s. soh ool hou se como, loto d at cos t of $ 6,0 00. (De c. 192 5) dwo llin bs:A .E .Bu ski- n ""l':I., J.L .'!la stov or, Ray Wil kin son • •E.P orto r has a th osep h Citv · i.!u- c~a 2 or exto uiie d acc oun t of the Jub il e Sel abr atio n (50 th) of 4 1926 0 olbr oolc ; ' - • e 145 of dia ry boo k. Als o has ews as wel l , for samoPag ove nt. G' clip pin g of ives lis t of the pio nee rs pre son t. llich.?..rds die d lhrc h 14 I 192 6. Bur ial in loc al com ot~ ry. -16 - R.E .Po rter diar y era l serv ices for John 3ush man held June 6, 192 6. (ext ende d rep ,.__ ,.uDan Jou rna l)• ort ~ive n wit h e 30 192 6: Brid ges are out bot h way s from town - ove r Fiv e-m ile was h and also er ;.·a sh., not hav ing bee n put in sinc e the floo ds took out the brid ge wes t of rn ~a.st J uly . Both brid ges are bein g re piha ced by sub sta ntia l stru ctu res . st Sun day whi le J. Vir gil Bush m?.,n and wif e vrer e at Sno wfla ke att e ndin g the ke Unio n Weeti ng, a very trag ic acc iden t occ ured . From such infn rnn tion as we m.ve seem s tha t Vir gie wit h his nex t you nge r bro ther Manso n wer e tryi ng to get awa y from , e at 'Winsl ow whe re the fa!!l .il y novr resi des with out taki ng a sti ll y oun ger bro the r. ith r~ns on driv ing the auto mob il e , Vir g il atte mpt e d to hold the Sffi9 .ller boy bac k then run to catc h the slow ly mov ing car , afte r whi ch the two olde s:;e e d up and lea ve the Sill3 .ller r boy s p lann ed b oy beh ind. JVian son , how ever , wa s watc hin g the s · stru g gle rath e r than min din, ~ lilis driv ing and j ust a s Vir gil reac hed the car it ruck a tree . The rebo und of the car stru ck Vir gil as he cam e rush ing in and his cest ines wer e rup ture d in t wo p lace s. The inju red lad wa s take n t o the hos pita l G9. llup the day foll owi ng, whe re he died ear ly Aug ust 31. F•.m eral Jos e oh Gity Sep t. 1. and bur ial wer e e torm is bui ldin g a new hou se f or .lfrs . Cb. ra Mosle y and her fam ily; and it is hop ed t it wil l be com plet ed so she c9.n move int o it by Chr istm as or ee.r lier sley is a con vert from Eng l a nd, . Mrs. brou ght out here by her bro the r, Hira m Sut clif fe en he retu rned from his mis sion a fEf'J'r yea rs a go. Her husb and had bee n kill ed in a ne acc iden t; leav ing her , how ever , with s ome i nsu ranc e mon ey. The se fund s, it pea rs her bro ther borr owe d and used in uns ucc essf ul ··, usin ess ven ture s, leav ing e wo.r:1an alm ost des titu te. I und ers t and tha t the cos t of the hou h e paid by :;o_? ula r sub scr ipti on. se wil l be abo ut ~650 D!!.ge 159 he des crib es the ques t ion of pa s teu riza tion of mil k and clea nin g of con ine rs. ·-ote s the P.T .A. in Win slow is ask ing for a bet ter sou rce of clea n milk o ;:o.ge 159 tell s of the Jose p h City cash sto re !ll:3.n a r,ed by A.E .Bus hm~ nds and of f.~r. Alto n com ing in. n cha ngin g r;e 160 clea n nilk que stio n a gain . Sta te ?ub lic hea l th r.i.ov es in. cop ing caug h bad in Jose ph City win ter 192 6-27 . per D:tm ded icat ed June 9, 192 7. It wa s com:_:, ibete d Nov emb er 29, 175 - 2 192 4. Thi rty oars ok 162 ge . 00 peo ple to the dam . Tn l k by S.M.Po rt er, Pray er by J.C . H-,_ nsen . Picn ico nslc m war d or · d T ---__; ___;. ......;: ,;;..:P :a~ , :.:n:,::i~z:.::0:.:;__:_: oday I h~ve bee n '...usy mak ing out cer tifi cat es of mem berVt •a,.d .. . shfup for pe ople b eing tra nsfe reed to the Win slow· rfa rd. Thi s e io~s l::o. ~d ort~ ~ze d ~ st mon th, and memb ers livi ng in Wins lov, and f a rthe r wes t, .. F! ""'d ·· J.ten 1 h •- ··~ e ou ove r ied the Jose ph City wa rd, are b ing tran sfer on wit h d d red to 1;ins low o ru• 0 cu,. ; t. e _u n re vran sfer s toda y and yes terd ay, . ~nae ive mem J ers . this b wil l remo ve · 11 f hich Janu 1 19 · ' Uc vr 1 o cou rse verv muc h . 27 was 440 ary , . (Ward or 6a nize d s. ome' time inlovr nr our war d mem ber ship Au gus t 192 7) on sho rt term miss ion . Pag e 166 . J abo: .t our bes t b Uv four cows sou d rce of inco me. At the pre se nt time (Oc tobe r 192 8) we • an are sel ling app r oxilll'l. tely t ao to $ 90 of mil k a mon th. rke t Garder.in<" can b . hea · iork _ ; 0 muc hei: de fai rly :emu nera tive her e, but it re q uire s a gre ~t dea l d cow s and ce.t tle he i deed , th '.J. t if a pers on h--'.J. s othe r prop erty s very muc h t empt ed to n ot do such a s chic ken s it. - - 1 -17- R.E .Porter diary • 12, 1928: A.t the electio n of officer s for the St. Joseph Irrigat ion Co. some a"'O the f ollowing wer e elected to the Boa rd-: Arthur 'l'e.nne r, ]!'red Randal l, L~ Bushman , Harvey Hansen and R .E.Port ero At a special r~ceting held Dec. 5th decided to extend the Lawer Ditch as company ditch t o the west side of seco 7o T. Porter: father' s h.3..lf brother was acciden tally killed by a train yesterd ay morning about day-bre ak. For several years he has been the ~ai lrier transpor rbing the mails with a horse and light rig between Joseph City :}Ost ice an:l the railroa d depot. He is getting old, and consequ ently rather deaf; . on cold morning s he often 1.mndles his head in an effort to keeµ warm. Eviden tally did not see the oncomin g train, and drove onto the track on his way to the depot it' , the early m.1.i ls just in front of the train . His horse wa s killed and thravm on e side of the road, while his iody was on the other - the rig wa s comple tely wrecked o It is S'.'.id +.h .1t a train from the west , due at a b out the time of the accide nt h te; and that another train from the east which othervri se v,ould have switche d Jose-oh Ci tv, was F:l]bim; going full speed with the intenti on of' makeng its way to x nila. (the ;ext stati on to the west) during the late period of the eastbou nd train ole Ha.than, knO\'ring that the train from the west was due , was perha::, s looking in t directi on, and because of his deafnes s made worse by wrappin g of his head to p ,·ra.rm, failed to learn of the ra ~Jid a9proac h of the t r a in from the opposit e rection . 1 His death wn.s, undoubt edly instane ous. Althoug h the 'J ody was not badly mangled , number of bones were borken - a rather bad bruise on the head and face, a broken m, and a broken le g , perha ps o (R .E.P. gives a go od account of Nathan' s life on page He paid t ithing on his gross instead of h is neto of W<J.lter Turley, shot ·while out hunti~g r abb its with scouts is told on page of l','.a.ud ?orter is given on page 178 • . 15, 1929 celebra tion of the comple tion of the bridre ov er the Colorad o, ferry. Page 182.o 11 Each wa rd sent out sent out invitat ions to old settler s home-co ming in this sts ke followi ng the service s at the bridge o er.iber 14, 1929. The milk house for the Produce rs Associa tion Dairy is nearly •'>~ete~ ~nd we are install ing the apparat us prepara -: ory to beginni ng busines s of lling u.airy product s for ourselves . · .• ?~rter lb.s several article s telling of the trouble in Winslow selling milk. incinle trouble was vrith c omp-e t·t· . · , · i ion. Price · it · near 1y put cutting went on until ryone ou- of busines s. There are a lot of article s a·bout it in the diary. e A.T •. S.R. is double trackin g from Winslow to Joseph City this5?r ing. (1930) s~~: City ihys, article and poems by R•E.Po rter rea d by Edith Bushman . ·ose-oh • • -:.rl·· .;rr:iCi-':;y ~reduce rs Associat. ion is still doing busines s and apparen tly on a <mfbk - '-• .1.oun a1;ion. A nevr dairy started up this s p ring, selling ;r.ilk from .. ., .e and ?aylor, however c utt ing prices in an attempt to get into the marketo local associa tion ha 0 and t 7oo. · s been inst3.ll ing a new r efrige rator system. Cost between &' • d .. visited the 'Petrif i d -~ e roreS t 1 • J uly 24, 1950. ta Fe tr'lin wreck at T'3.nner lfJ h -as • Engi ce r and Fireman killed. Pa ge 203 -18 - R.E .Po rter dia ry One by one , and it,s eew $ ~t rath er freq uen t inte rva ls, our 'old -tim ers ' pio nee rs of Jose ph "ity are pas sing awa y. The dea th of Eli za E. Par kin son Tan ner f~ of Hen ry :M. Tan ner, occ urre d abo ut noo n Sun day Aug ust 17, 193 0. For sev era l rs she has bee n suf f erin g from rheu mat ism and hig h blo od pre ssu re; and mos t of time for qui te a whi le she has lrn" n con fine d toh er home bec diti on and old age • aus e of her phy sica l Fun eral sor vic es vrer e held at the chu rch bui ldin g here wi: at 10:0 0 a.m . Aug ust h. EiP- ht of her elev en chi ldre n we re pr ~se nt. The :;hr ee abs ent wer e M.R .Ta. nner sou the ;n Uta h; Geo rge S . Tan ner who is atte ndi ng sch ool in Chi cag o and Don nett e ler , una ble to atte nd bec aus e of illn ess - she is in sou the rn Ari zon ao .1 . Tn.n ner and wif e wen t to Hes a to do te mpl e wor k, but bec r hea ring them retu rne do aus e of Bro ther Tan ner 's orip tion of Hope vill age s pa.r, e 207 . wa r in Win slow . pag e 210 sti ll vrar d cle rk, 191 6. ons ion serv ice at Jose ph Cit y rag e 211 (Fe b. 193 1) sles aga in D9.t:;e 211 e_ph Cit y Day , 193 1 (55 th ann ive rsar y) Hig hlig hts: San Die go Ra~r1son dre ssed in hsk:bn . ?oem by M.R .Tan ner , Ta izon ~ by J.E .Sh elle y. Als o lis lk: by Jam es E. She lley . Good acc oun t of the trip to t of rem a.in :ng pio nee rs • • ia ~~n ner Fis h, one of rnv chil dho od play IDa tes in ear lier yea rs in St. Jos eph , d a-;; her home in lc.k esid ~ Aor il 1, of a par aly tic stro ke • .i:-.fer hus ban d had bee n :en to Cal ifor nia som e tim e ago for trea tme nt for som e trou ble ur,h t l~or:'e v.•here he was bur ied died the re and wa s Mar ch 2.0, 193 1. I bel iev e the wor ry occ asio ned by h·is ban d 's illn ess and the rola xa tion aft er his dea th was perh aps the cau se of .. on She lley had narr ow esca pe whe n he rod e hor se und er tele und er ohi n. :pae;e 216 pho ne w i re whi ch hit bea con lish ts acr oss the cou ntry has bee n ins tall ed and 20th of Ap airm ail has sta rted ril. Win slow is one of the stop s and I und erst and the re is plan e goin g eac h wa.? dai ly. at (193 1) ing the V'in ter Del ber t Han sen has bee n bui ldin g 9. new hou seo rga ret She lley , \"lif e of ~ @ i i Jam es E . She lley died at the fam ily home abo ut OO a.m . l,ay 7 , 193 1. Ill for od art io le abo ut J ne E s· som e tim e Pag e 218 . Bod y tak 11 en to ileb er for bur ial. . ?n<linin 5 . • ne ey g1 von he re. pa g e 218 " ·,io nee rs ' ·Nam ely. as J E Sh 11 • ort era nd. .,,.i fe• '.,.. T we 11 as som e of the · a;11es _ • e _ne nry 1,l. ann ~r , S9.m uel U. • at J.es a, Jon n k c~w s and~y, Por ter, wif e, 1£a. ry VT • .!i'.1chards , ioe cutt ine; in Win slov r ao""ain.• p age 22 4 . tobd r 13, 193 1• ~oa rd o D· sse s . B~s h':la n. P.·i ~f mre ctor s Irr iga tion Co. Art hur Tan ner, Joh n L. We stov ,Ur Tan ner su~ e; 1.ntc n er , Por • · 1 en""d•ent . ter, and Hc·" rd L. Ran dall . Pre side nt J.L. 'ITo stov er and io s for mil k adv:.,,nced a bit in Win s leaw Qt 15/ 2 qt 28/ 3 qt. 39/ gal 50/ -19- R.E.Porter diary Nov. 4: ?.Ionday afternoon, Delbert Rogers, eldest son of Holistor Rogers and Ida Tanner Rogers of this place was accidentally killed while working on the higm·1ay west of Flagstaff. It is reported that he and Parley ?eter sen, a brother of Joseph L.Petersen of Joseph City, and a third party were cleaning cattle guards when a heavy gr'.l.vel truck working for the s ::,me contractor as were they, came along. Just behind the truck was an automobile driven by another employee of the s a me contractor. They. stepped aside to a llo'IT the truck to pass. At the s a me time the auto attempted to pass t ho truck. The heavy cloud of dust raisod by the truck made it impossible for the bo;ys to see tho car and also for the driver of the car to see them. Both Delbert and Parley were struck. Thciy were rushed to the L:ercy Hosp ital at Flagstaff; but Dellie rt died a r::oment or so after getting there. ?a rle y had several ribs broken and was very seriously injured; but at last reports, was getting on fairly well. The other manwo.s n ot injurod.(died Nov. 2, 193 1) (Se e later entry for death of Parley) Delbert was about twenty-six years old anci leaves a young widovr and two small c:l~"' d.r en o The Arizona Light and Power Co. of Winslow hs.ve b egun work toward putting a pov,e r l ine through Joseph City, from "iVins low to Eo l b rook. Holes for the poles h:1ve been dug through tov,n, the poles distributed, and I understand, some of the p ililes are set up. Local men h0.ve been doing much of hhe local work - hired by the ;_) Ower company . Just at present hO'l'rever, the work seems to have been called off. I have not heard definitely the reason, but suppose it is because of b a d weather.(12-1-31) I understo.nd it is the intent ion of the pov,er com,iany to manufacture (generate) the electricity in WinslO','l, v.nd then over this line to deliver it at Joseph City and Holbro ok . The main line is being put just at the west side of my town lot along the street botween sections sixte en and seventeen; turning ea stward just south of my lot, and passing through town along the first street north of hia in Street. The milk market remains a h out the same with the exception of the natural winter dec line in s ales . So far the Joseph City ? roducers Association price of milk to ry roducers hrAs been but six cents per qua rt since the ~aise in October - for two pay <lays only have we raid th3. t; but we expect to make it seven cents next ;Jayday. ~o weeks ago today (April 30th) with my sister Ethel and her husband in the back ?.~ the car, vre motored out to the Old 11ormonDairy going by way of Flagstaff and Lake ~ry. The ol d valley bottom is now covered with water , a fine l a rge pla ce for boating o.nd other soorts. In the t:'..mbe1t1ea r where the e':l.rly il'lo rmons had their h ouses are "" 1 ~1 bRnks of snow from a foot to a foot and a half deepo -.a.., . . Very little is left to show whe re the :.:Iormons lived there - at i...vrmon lake ~~-Arizona I s ear l y history - 1881 to 1883 0 A few rui ns of rock chimneys and some f-,los and ?iles of wooden debris seems to be a ll that is left - in vain did v;e look _or any article, such as a si;ove, pan or t},..e like tr.at we could identify with the ·· !°~Ol". set,. lement there when I was a baby in the woods a rou..."l.d liio rmon Lakeo 'n Tho depression ao widespread in the mtion, has µerhi_llp s hit us less so far than -';;,.., t:o st other sections of the country. Loc a lly, while there is sorr.e t:.r.emplcyri.ent and ---~s ha r d , th e business of the farm goes on fairly v:ell. Y[e are selling eggs '.!d .. . are 1,,_ '\';ft ~-u. ·- a b out as usual, vrith red.uced TJrioos H is true, but the •orices of articles • • •Jct.SO are also down . -- . ... p-'~•~CI ·-;~;/ 66 , which 7asses through Joseph City, is novr oil surfaced from Flagstaff to oth.ei:-/ so~o ten mile s west of here• The road is being s t raightened, and widened and ~ern lse impnovod this summor for a distance of 19½ miles, extending from the eas. I!!en~n~f' 0 £h~he oil-surfacing at Hav re nearly to .Holbrook. Th·..: cost of the im?rols section I understand is about $150 ,000 1\1 - -20- R.~.::? ort~r diary I u!!dor stand that the budge t for next year calls for this sectio n to be oiled . It is ex)::)Ccted to take elec tricit y from tlw plB.nt inWi nslow throug h Joseph City .._ Holbro ok. Th" porre r line capab le of delive ring either :no vo lt or 220 volt , is ." ~ eadv compl eted; and vre hoar that it will be but a few days before the pov,e r will \ ,r ;1ed on. '\"Te have had our houses wired , so we are ready for the 'j ui ce I as soon it c omes and the coµpa ny_ ~uts_ in our meter s. I th ink most of the Jose ph City users aro alread y wired or are being 1NJ.red . (July 193 2) a; ~entio ns depre ssion a ~a in. Farme rs not hurt like othe rs. Plenty to eat but not much noney . rr:est crown in Josoph City Histo ry unmes s at Stake Confe rence helped to celeb rate the "'s7th Joseph City De.y, .1fa rch 24, 1933 . Amon'.~ the featur es vras an indian dance 0 D ath of Emma Sta:1l ey Tanne r, scond wife of Henry ~~ . Tanne r of Joseph occur red the ~~er.in g of April 17, 1933 at the fami ly home. : t i s sa id tlnt sh~ had just r et ired for the night when her husban d c a lled for assist ance from a visito r sleepii: :ng in an adjourni ng room, s aying that his wife wa s not feelin g we ll. Her death was very s udd~n, orh::i.os either heart failur e or apop loxy - no physic ian wa s in attend ance, so the ca use ' of death ..-1as n ot re p orted . · l<'t·::oml servic es wore held in the local churc h April 19th; and the o ody was in"';orr -,d in the Jose ph City c emete ry. She is surviw ed by her husban d and by three of her childr en, Cliffo rd T3.ru1er of Joseph City, l'.Irs. Eva Shelle y of Heber and Golde n J. Tanne r of .t{ioh field, Utah. All throe of the childr Golden did not arrive in time for the funer al servic en were at the buria l althou gh e0 :'.rs. Tanne r was born ?;ovembe r 30, 1860 at Toque rville , Utah; the daugh ter of Cbirle s Staple y e.nd Sa rah Parkin son. She v,as marrie d to Henry E . Ta nner at St. George ::i.rch 24, 1886;<:1.nd came with him t o Jose ph City the s ame year. She v,::i.s the mothe r of six childr en, xn five fuoys and one i rl • 6 . !rs. Zmrrn Tanne r 1N11 s a very quiet and retiri ng pe rson, almos t in contr ast vrith the first wifo, who diod in 1930. In spite of this, she vr3.s n ot inacti ve eccle siasti ca_ly - having served in the Relie f Socie ty presid 1915, and ,lso having b een active in th!! Y.L.M .I.P ency as couns elor from 1903 to ... 0 os,oh Isahh Porte r died at his home in Heber , Arizon a May 29, 1933. Cause of death ,•;as given as 'asthn utic heart '. The funer al vra s held in the Hober church and schoo l buildi ng on the aftern oon of 1.Iay 30th; and the body iliterr ed in the iieber 0 me~e-··. Uncle Joe had been sick for s omet ime; and for a time previo usi·c to his do 1 :n ··-ci beo::1 under a docto rs care. He was oracti oally uncons cir)Us , not knowin g n,m ers of his family at the time of death , ;ot having r ~cove red from a dose of ~orpii n~, or ot her drug, given to him some hours earlie r to reliev e ~a in. Ethel , 0 a.nrl nyse lf attend ed the funera 1., · '!.nford ,~riu p +. 00 .,. ""='"th s or,er passed away June 14, 1933 at h is home. Cause of death W:lS 0 st 6 1 • 01 • om3.ch. held June 16, at the Joseph City churc h. The '!. ::ors were Samue 1 F Funer S . ti al was J . t Jos . .._ • mi -1 , a.me s A. Hansen and James E. Shelle y. Dur oh C1.,y ccr.et ery. ial vras (p~ge 270) on D th of Rov Cumm· H co nsolor i~ the i~s: 0 died of Brigh t's diseas e Augus t 10, 19330 He vras 1st bisho pric• Funer al was the day afte:11! his death . Page 271. ~his SUJ:tner (lg 7 - ) nd fall oiling of Highw go· g on ay 66 from Holbro ok to Havre has been ' arid is.:iv novra "bou.._ "'o t l agsta ff. .,. " finish ed., So wo novr have an excel lent road from Holbro ok righai:n "i,. • v "Y w~rko r: Augus t 23 d ~ r r , 1924 , we attond od the c~rem onios aocom ~a~yin g "'his ling r of '' 10 marke the - - ker had been ere~tre edcted at the old Brigha m City gravey ard north of Winslo w. in memor y of the pione ers of Brigha m City buried at - -1 r -21- R.E.Porter diary this place; and was built by the Viinslow ward in con.'1ection with the Utah Pioneer Trails Associa~iono The President and secretary of t he Uts.h association - Apostle George Albor-b Smith and John D. Giles - were present, as was also IeRoi C. Snov1, who s ? ent a. year or so i n oonnection with l.lr. McClintock in compiling the book "t:ormon Settlements of Arizona". Descendents of Brigham City pione e rs came from Chino Valley, st. Johns, and elsewhere to attend the ceremonies. A)Jlong the peoplo present vras ,.,i,ls_rcus Peterson, one of tho original pione ~rs, nov, 93 years of age. Speakers for the occasion wen, the visiting Ut ::t hns ano. several pioneers present. Items of history a nd experiences of individuals were recounted - the dedicatory prayer was offered by Apostle George Albert Sn ith and he a lso conducted the exerciseso Death of :.Jarlev ?.Petersen: (Seee_arlier entry). Sorr,e days ago, whilo working with ;-:.C. Tanner's road cang ea.st of nolbrook, oae of our tovmsmen, Parley Pratt Pet-,rsen was b a dly injured. It seems kk tha. t he was e. ttcmpting to move some piles - large bridge timbers whichjhad been caught. Unable to move th,;im from a safe position, he venturod to take a place more dangerous. The timbers were released; but one of them struck him, badly 19.cerating his stornac,h and intestines, 9.nd perhaps the livero He was rushed to the Santa Fe hos p ital at 11inslow, where he was attended by Dr. j1forton. The doctor evidently &.d little hopes for his recovory from the beginr"ing; but 1.Jocause he hune; on for several days, and the bodily vital activities were boginn. ing to function to sone extent, some hope was entertained for his recovery. Death camo suddenly on Tuesday morning, October 9, 19340 :?arley was born at Pinedale, January 30, 1896. He marrir;; d lfoll Tanner, a daughter of :'rederick Tanner of Joseph Ci-l;y. His wife and two small children surviwe him. (See pages 286-287 for moreo) 1934 On Th ursday, Ifovember 8th }ieber Ward was organized under the direction of Joseph Fieldimg Smith. Previo usly it was a branch of Joseph Cityo The bishopric were mhoma.s H. Shelley, .uarold Crandall and --~ihnor H. Porter. :01:Jer Ward Organized: October 20, 1934, Joseph City Irrigation rr~eting elected as board memb~rs; Clifford Tanner, Jes so S. Bushman, Rulon E. Porter, Howard L. R..<tnda 11 and J. Harvey fhnsen. ?he board mot October 27th and el e cted officers as follovrs C!.ifford Tann~r, Pres. Jesse S. Bushms.n vice-preside nt; Rulon E. Porter Secretary. F-'.1rbrooht: *tli.m9;t serious crime in the history of Joseph City occurred day before \~liord:i.y ('Jt1~y-ia:S, 1925), when Mr. Poter liarbrocht, Rollin T·inner's father-in-law ~; enpted to kill his wife by beating; her with a hammer in the head, and ktdr killing ~"JS~of by getting in front of Santa Fe frain No. 9. Apparently the a tternpt on r.lrs. k~~\~ocht 1 s. lifo was made sometime during tho morning hours whil~ she was in the s; 0 ""1: p~cklng eggs for rm.rket. Evidently ho intended to makd the killing complete .r..ce .1 t _., ls s a id -i.hat :ilivv • a b ou t ha.lr of the top of the skull was battered in. She is still on h;/~h_much 0 : the timo is rational. Dro Hathway o-f Yf i nslow performed an operation sin.,. d ls morning, removing parts of the skull. Jviy wifo is ass is ting with the nur~n ~l th ough ch~nces seom few, some hope is entertained for her recovery. She st ' 0 ve a. strong constitu t ion, in spite of her tixty-two years, and her oulsc rong . · !r P.arb h.,_ • ron the 1 droc u wa s bactly mangled - his heia.d, arms and feet severed and scattered th- ere 00 Y, a nd one foot was on the nilot of No. 9 when she reached Winslow. Since v w on th· · • lo-;.-, it is train did not knmv they had struck him until they arrived in '/linappoars that he ;-r,ust ~ .ve t h rovm himself in the way at close range. nt r~~ds • . 10....uisa Liese Harbrecht died at her home hore September 4th. Tho body was , in h l . u e ocal cemetery Sotp. 6th 0 From R.E.Porter, :.'.iscellaneous writings 1 Settlers of Joseph City were descendents of rugged 1?ionee rs and homebuilders. Settlers were ri.dvis"ld a.p;ainst seeking for precious metals , and were advised to I!lake horr:es and live close to agriculture. ?resent d9.y Joseph City residents are working for wages, tending service stations and motels. Elevation of Joseph City is approximatAly 5,000 feet. There are wet years and dry yea.rs. Rainfall varies ,7 '.: atly from area to area . The ' ·ndian country' is lucky to ht ve from 3 to 10 inches o In s or.JS of the .mountain areas it may be as much as 2·0 inches. The river als o varies in its run-off. In 1934 the run-off vra.s given e.s 71,000 acre feet; in 1941 it was given as 586,000 acre feet. Range for ca.tile vrill vary with the amou.tJ.t of r ainfall o Erosion is very bad. Badlands plentiful. Host silt carried into the Little Colorado from the north side is harE1ful to farms. Not so much erosion from the south side., Estimation of silt ce.rried away in the river is 27,500 acre feet. R.E.Porter gives accounts of exi:ilorat:.cn of the area before the ;•,:ormons came., Iie states that these settlements are the first Mormon settlements in Arizona. The Edward F. Ben. le journey has especial interest. "Earlier than this trip they had been tested in Texas - vdth tvro wagons vrar;ons , each loaded with 3,000 Ls, and drawn by six mules. The same weight was put aback six camels. The mules made the 60 mile journey in fonr days; the camels in two and a half days. It is evident that Bea le may have had something wo do with the evolution of i:;he c amel idea. In his saddle-hads, hP- carried a copy of 1 Traveling in China and Tartary' e.nd r;,<1,y have be9n evolving the 'Lightning Dromedary Express I in his rn'fn mind since about 1851. 1,ajor Henry C, Wayne was oi:dered to wake the journey to Italy, where he would find Lieutenant David D. ?orter, with his ship, the 'S upply ' and h:m the two were to :;,roceed to Tunisia with Porter's vessel. After learning something about canelology in 'the hard way' with some amusing experiences, they procured 34 u.sable animals v. hich were loaded aboard ship. Four of these died on the ocean voyage, but six calves were born on the Vlay. Two camel-drivers were also brought from Tunisia. rr The use of camels oy this group is of little sone value for its uniqueness. It seems the going used to and their feet vrere not 'tough ' enough to [ravel. The sorefooted cam.els became ur.ma.nagea.1le others who wanted them. R.E.Porte!' says some were a nd :•;ew ~foxic o. He ·:woz-,ders why they d id not shoe historical significance but ms was tougher than cars.els were withstand th1 coarse sand nnd and they vrere sold to zoos and simply turned loose in Atizona them. R .E .Porter has an article on the Indians - · n o pis, Navajo s etc • ?"rt Defiance occupied 1849; Fort Ord (.Apache) about 1870 and Ft. Wingate • .,,. were a number of ·ur1su"._-ces sful co 1 oniz · i:1g · -r ore t'ne a tt em;_) t s b y the mormons b e ._ 1876. (1) Ilor'·o .-. n D• .tL. a.ight , 1873 with 100 men "Jlus ( 106 r.1e.n 6 vromen, l child ) Instruc~ion s given · by Pres. Young 1hrch 8, •1373. "They cross e d -:r_e Colors.do by i.ay 1 :; ' l 873 and on the 22nd of th.9.t month ca:re to the Little Colorado, perhaus not iar f . rec.,; d rom a ~)Oint opp osite to the site of the present Cameron. AlreadJr t!wy had v-Ve expe . · S f .; 0 lor d rience with sand and sandstorms, and v,ater shortage. outh o the . . iles a1 o 1cro ssing t h ey had found no green f;rc<.ss . As they esti.rnated, about 24 sand cw the Bhck F9. lls of the Little Colorado they found the road ":J locked by ::ad to ;~ts~ V[ater coulu be found in the river only in pools; and in places they c.lse 0 11 " g: in the dry sands of the bed of the stream to obtain water fit for hurnan • n.o~e "'ne i_r. tl;:.,... f . -. I R.E.Porter hliscelo -211 Here the com:_:)a.ny encamped, Haight with a few mou.11ted men, proceeried up the rive'!!, as they say, sor:-.e 136 r,1iles. (Pioneer oiles c.re rather i:ndefinittte, and sometimes long - they r.ny have riden upstream as far as Woodruff or even Hu.nt. 7hey found no green r;rass on the ranges, little water for irrigation, :r.uch a L1<:ali ne soil anc1. little that could be used for agriculture. There also seemed to be <lunger from the Apache Indians.) 11 The company decided to return to Utah_; and suggest atla.ndonment of the settler.'.ent project o Their re port was sent by messenger to Brigrn.m Young; and that dignitary sent word back cou.11selling them ,Go remain in Arizona; but when the messenger met them they were already beyond Lee 1 s Ferry; and many of the group rray ha.ve felt that they were nearly home, at any rate they did not turn back to Arizonao 11 1873 may ha.ve been a bad year for this are9., but one wonders vrhether it vras ver;y}mch differend; from 1876. R .E .Porter has his avm explanation of why this pio::ieerine; group turned back and the later one in 1876 sto.yed ono 11A number of Indian missionaries, including John L. i"-l lythe, ·were left at 1Ioan Coppy by ·!;he returning r1'--aight party in 1873. These, bes ides missionary work, planted crops, trees, v ines at that place and at Loa.bi, some seven Ltiles to the v,est.The church had by no means given up the idea of permanent colonization of the Little Color1do Y t lley. A small expedition was sent from Salt lake City October 30, 1875 to !118.ke farther exploration.n Jrtrnes S. Brown was in charge of this expedition. He arrived in Salt Lake City January H, 1876 to im.ke his re port only to find that President Young had already ' c·i.lled' 2J O missionaries to rr.ake settlement. Since his report was favorable it only confirmed Srigham that the colonizi ng scheme was feasible. He s::1id there was plenty of gocx:l farming land, sufficient .,.,ater, and ab undant tin!ber. (This sounds a little over optimistic to me and I wonder if Brovm wasn't telling Brigham wmt he vranted to hear. G.S.T.) "About the middle of January Church Lealli:ers called some 200 young men, most of them unmarried, tomake their ho:r.es in the new c ountryo General instructions were e:iven them January 29, 1876 at Salt Lake CHy. Or ~an ization vras made into four ::on:~anies of about 50 men each. George Lake was a 7~ ointed captain of those chosen from Cache', Hox Elder and Weber Counties; Lot Smith from the c aunties of D8.vis, ~'.organ, Summit and Wasatch, the northern pa.rt of Salt lake County and from ecclesiastical Wards of Salt le.ke City numbered 12 and above. Vlilliam c. Allen vras choson captain for those of the ren'.B.ining Salt Lake i'Fards, the southern po1·tion of le.ke County and from Uta_h Cou...11-l-;y. Jesse O. Ballinger was to be ca ptain of v~e folks from s~n Pete and Vuab Counties. ~;lt . "Emigration was to "tiegin at once so that crops could be r q ised this se.me yearo . -any left by February 3rd 0 Joh.~ Bushr!"an left Lehi February 9th . He reached the '~rese · J n1; oseph City L!arch 24th. John i-.lcLaws left Tooele February 8th. He reached ~,ase?h City Ar.>ril 13th. D. n . HcAllister left Salt LaJr..e February 1 and rer:1.Ched Allen ...ucn 29th. ('l'hese three men leftdiaries) I~'IGA'!'ION C011PA~JY HATTERS: In the line of impro vemen ts, the Joseph City Irri~ tion C~impany has accom plishe d more during the past winte rand spring the.n for many a year; and of course with dorre s~oudi ng expen se. A well 403 feet in dopth has been drille d just belov, the upper dive~sion dam; the four projec ted 11 settli ng tank&J , are being compl eted; and to accom modate ~he much large r flow of myddy water from the upper dam to them the ditch has been enlarg ed consi derab ly. Well Drilli ng: Becau se it has so little 1 fall 1 , the 'Lowe r Ditch ' has alway s given us consi derable troub le in the matte r of maint enanc e, costin g us perhap s $600 or more per year. The water supply for this canal nearly all comes fro~ spring s balow the upper dam, and it has been thoug ht possib le that we could pump this spring water into the upper ditch a'rom a well, or well, more cheap ly than we cou)d maint ain the lower dam and ditcho On contr act, Mr. Fred H. Bently - a well drille r of Holbro ok - has engage d to drill to a depth of 400 feet, furnis hing the neces sary casing and also furnis hing and instal ling a pump and an elect ric motor at unders tand is ten-in ch, t!llnd the motor 25 h.p. a flat price of $5,00 0. The pump, I Drilli ng vrns &"J!Ull&:A.&&e compl eted Febru ary 23 of this year. Motor and pump have not yet been put in place , but the Arizon a Power Co. assure s us throug h their repres entati ve Mr. Veaze y, that they will have power availa ble iH the well by the middle of May, s.nd it seems proba ble that M:r. '~·entle y will make instal l.a ions accor dinglyo Accor ding to the log of the drille r, there was but 7 feet of soil above stone . At this depth a h out a foot of overly ing Kiabab sandst one W'a.S encou ntered , !!fl. and below this to the entire depth of 403 feet was Coco!" lino sandst one - . descri bed as 'ha~d 'at a de oth of 80 feet- and 'very hard' near the bottom of the well. Water , the static level of v1hich is w~s at g, 9 11 belo;. .,- the earth 's surfac e, was found at a. depth of 11 feet, and filled the crasks in a somew hat shatte red forma tion to a depth of 80 feet. Firthe r dovm than this, water strata . were found at the follow in~ deoth s: 93-96 feet, 147-15 3 feet, 161-16 8 feet, 231-23 4 feet, 252-26 6 feet, and 342 -378 feet. 'l'he lowes t vdlin:;; the drille r info m..s us vras by far the the well. best supply in Only 7½ feet of ca.sing was used - this was 14" a..."ld extend ed from the surfac e to the stone. A 12" hole was drille d to a depth of 172 feet, and then a l~- to the 205 foot level, and below this depth an 8¼" hole to the bottom of the well. 10, ~n a prelim inary test, the outpu t was 675 gallon s peimin ute with a pulldo wn of al 9 or to a depth of 19 1 6 11 from the surfac e. At this short test, the s prings i::g the river did not cease to flow. Of course the test will be much more c omp lete d er. Repre sentat ives of the U.S.G eologi cal Survey w&P& have asked me to give them a~dv~nc inform at i on of the be ~inn ing of pumpi ng, since they wish to lll'lke observ ations the O e~sure ments and to note the effec t on well and spring s near and distan t . In case le U!nped water proves to be lar ge ly from the deeper s t rata and does r.ot too much re~~n ~he flow of the spring s supply ing our 'lowe r ditch ' system , we may wish to n i,he lower dan and ca nal. oas~e lati ve to the fir..an cial side of the ma.tte r, Und er date of J anua ry 14, 1948, st0c1c assess me nt of $3.3 5 per SMre was assess ed on our 1509 sh'l.re s of capit~ l outst<:1.nding and asses sable . $4 ,200 was put in escrow in the bank short ly . I -2- R.E .Por ter Book 2 afte rwar d, or gefo re the dril ling bega n. $2,5 00 of this escr ow sum was p:[ia id Mr. was paid Mr. Ben tley on c , m:il dtio n of dril ling , an:l. anot her equa l amou nt is due him when insta l:b. tion of pump and moto r are com plete d and the syste m put into use. Asid e from the con trac t pric e of $5,0 00, the dril ler has rece ived $56 for extr a work - this maki ng it apne ar that the tota 1 cost of the wel l syst em, inst alle d and read y for use, will be $5,0 56. plus perh aps a litt le inci den tal expe nse oart . on our own Actu al pum ping on this well be gan June 28, 1:48 p.m. Besi des a numb er of Jose ph City and the wel l-dr ille r and an elec tric ian from Holb rook , a repr esen us from of the U.S. Geo logi cal Surv ey from tativ e Phoe nix was pres ent. Esti mate s of the amou nt of flov; were from 1,00 0 to 1,10 0 g·1 .llon s per min ute. The imm edia te wate r leve l 'pul ldown ' was betw een 12 and 13 feet , rre.k ing the pump ing 'lif e' stil l a litt le less than 25 feet . Tem pera ture of the wate r was 61 degr ees. The colo r of the w1,1.ter was at firs t a deep blue -gre en, then copp er or red; but soon it took on the char acte risti cx whit e of Coco nino sand ston e whic h clea red us slow ly as the loos e s~nd remo ved. The moto r inst: i. lled is 25 hors epow er, and the pump 10 11 cent rifu galo To the Pric e of $5,0 56 give n abov e, is to be adde d t so to be p id theA Power Co. and 0130 to the How ell Elec rizo! !la, tric Co. of Holb rook . Allo wing a litt le for loca l inci den tal espe nses , the cost of dril ling and inst alla tion is appr $5,3 00. oxim ately It is evid ent thnt spri nts and well s near by are fed larg ely fed from surfa ce flov1 as is the well and that the same the uppe r Coco nino form ation is very poru s. Yfith in abou t five minu tes of the begi nnin g of pum..oing, the well a shor t dist ance eastw ard wher e we wep e-~~ ~j,:,t g pump ed year s ago with a turb ine, had lowe red some two feet , and in a fevr minu tes the spri ng at t he nort h of the rive r bod imm edia tely below the pump ed wel l had decr ease d a::,p roxim ately half in its flow . !_he "Set tling Tank s" Ever y 'Old Tim er' at Jose ph City is ;,erie nced with the mudd y rive r flow and the mud from his boyh ood days on. 'llated by the f~ct that the w"',t er from ''I.rd has been incr easi ngly stor ed and a very larg e prop ortio n of' our summ er and l.aRouz wash es, a 11 of whic h drai n Ariz ona. fam iliar with the diff icul ties here exthe writ er well reme mber s the crac ked land Of late year s the cond ition has been aggr athe mou ntain s to the sout hwa rd and east 9ut to use fart her up-s tream , and at pres ent flov{ ofte n come s from the Zun i, l.i ilky , ?uer co some of the wor st coun try in this pa~t of Some loca l expe rime ntin g, on a.co mpa rativ ely sma ll scal e hOYr ever, h~d been carri ed on in the mat ter of desi ltin g this mudd y wate r, and in 1942 ~375 was \ id for land on whic h to loca to the pres ent com para tive ly larg e tank s. Cost ; the fenc ing amou nted &~e~ ~~ea to appr oxim ately $ 128. ad in 1943 our rd book s ~~o "l.th th·~30··6.36 labo r' expe nse on the tank s. Effo rts ·were made to work in c onju ncti onx i,. t. e 0 .s.S oil Con serv ation , but expe nses 6 were show n to be too high for us, , ' Year we set to work and in earn est 'on our own hoo k'. $4 ,215 .60 was i;aid the Rich ey 0 / ~ st ruct ion Co. of St. John s for work , and $ 337 .50 to the J .A. Con stru ctio n Co. ~"'.o 01broo k for vrork with with heav y bull -doz er. The time book of loca l labo r ~~ted to $1,4 38.5 2 and for pipe and othe r mat eria ls we paid a bill a.mo untin g to ~:~n 1 •~: - $70 of' whic h how ever , was paid lay indv idua ls orde ring a litt le rna teri al the;/ ':-l,h us. The deb it side of the ledg er acco unt toda y show s $ 9,34 2.90 , and sinc e the c ls stil l some work to be done befo re tha tank s can be used , I am estim a.ti:: ig in Olnp leted job ex_'.)~nse will be clos e to $10, 000. We did get assi stan ce, how ever , the amou nt of ~4,1 58.6 5 from the A.A .A. gove rmne nt sorv iceo t,l - -I I -3- R.E.Porter Book 2 This spring, for the purpose of cleaning and enlare;ing the Upper Ditch occationed lar gely by the fact that a l~rger canal is needed to carry the muddy v:ater from the dam to the settling tanks - a large 'bulldozer tractor was engaged and a 'grader-blade" belonging to t he highway department of 'L he state was procured for use with it. This heavy machinery - the 12 foot blade ad the caterpillar tractor af)parently did an excellent job, quickly. The exµense of this woDk was $581.25 for the tractor with its operate~ and aside fr~~ this, our time-books show man and team labor amounting to $533.76, making the total expense of cleaning and enlarging the canal for its entire length both above and below the settling t :1 nlcs $1, 115.0l. To cover this the "'"'ca rd of Directors of the Joseph City Irrigation Com9any levied a n assessment of $1.15 per share on the outstanding 1509 shares of assessible c~pital stock - thus ;1roviding a ba lance that r:ay be used as needed in other work during the seas on. The water, turned out of the canal about the 1st ofAp,ril, was again in the ditch about the 20th of the same month, and was pila.ced on turns lilay 1, 1948. 1948: The settlement of St. Joseph, which occurred March 24, 1876, vm.s ce le bra ted asusua l this year. Because of' school, business, etc., the celebration. was held on s~turday, },19.rch 27, instead of the exact anniversary. During the many y :; a.rs that this annual festival has been observed locally, the program has assumed a somewhat set pattern. As usU!Sl, the the~trical part of the observance took place on the precedinr; Friday evening - oonsisting of a play, "Rosewood Pia.no" somewhat reminiscent the Idormon exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois. in 1846, by ibocal talent, under the dire ction of t he local M.I.A. and this was followed by ~- piq:;eant, "The I.a.manites" depicting Book od Mormon history, rendered by the 1ia .r.a. of the Flagstaff ward. ;r Saturday morning came the parade, followed by the regular program meeting held this year in the local community hall gymnasium building. Luncheon was served to !!.ll attending at no on, and this was f'ollov,ed by the afternoon sports. The dances in the ev ening were both tho oldtime and modern, as usual, these being preceded by the reminiscent progre,,m of the early eveningo In one respeot a sort of, precedent w:-i s established at this year's celebration a: our tovm's birth. The a.ffairiis, of course, Mormon in its nature and meaning., since it Colil!llemorates t he Mormon settlement of the tovm and of the Little Colorado Va lley. In the past the 'oration' given in the forenoon meeting - whishis, or should be such a.s to let the uminitiated ·)erson. in attendence know 'what it is all about' h."l.d alvrays bea n rendered by some member of the L.D.S. church. '.l.'his time, this talk was given as prepared by Mr. Columbus Giragi, and wa s read by his brother Mr. Louis G~ragi. These men are both Catholics and I noticed that during the praye rs or w~t tll?;ht be called Mormon worship, Mr. Giragi sat impassively, as if taking no part therein. The talk was good from an ethical st~ndpoint, and did not exoress ideas to_which a member of the l"1ormon church could take exception , bit it se~med to me ~.:nled to carry the 's ., iritual I meaning to us that vre might expect from a. good •0 rmon speaker. Victor E. Westover Affair: I have purposely ahiled to mention this rra tter in my ings. Since the State Hoard of Pardons and Paroles took e,ction in the matter, reQ reasing him from his term of imprmsonment as of llay 8, 1948, I would consider the h• tte sr as t erminated at the present time, and will here give a little review and ome of the salient features. of it. Writ• Victor E. Westover is a son of John L. Westover, who for so many years faithfully 8 er'Ted. th e St .Joseph-Joseph City ward as its bishop. I ~ss have been somev1hat closely i h0 ~ 1 1.1.ted with the father, since during the e ,;tire 24 years of his service as bishop of~/ t~e 0 osition of ward clerk, rand have also been associated with him on Doards Irri ec~ion, the local School Boo.rd of Trustees, the Board of Directors of the local of hfat:-on Co., etc., My ex1?erience with the f at her has boon such a.s to convince me 6 integrity and wh~t might be cal l e d a b solute honesty. ~ 'j , I -4- R.E. Porte r Book 2 Somo years ago ' ic ';or succe eded in being illec ted to the posi tion of Trea surer of Nava jo Coun ty. Afte r the expi ratio n of his term of offic e, the succe eding treas urer found a nu.rnbor of short ages in his finan cial acco unts. It is said that at first in a few smal l discr ep:,,, ncies , Victo r made the amou nts good , but la.tor e.s more 3.lld more perha ps in large r amou nts were disco vered , this repla .ceme nts of funds was not kept up. Tho Trea s~rer , of cour se, repo rted the IJUl.tter and Victo r was brou ght to trial . Three effo rts to conv ict fi~~ ended eithe r in 'tied ' jurie s or in failu re of actio n. On tho fourt h actio n, hovro vor, conv ictio n was obtai ned on nine coun ts and the jude;e sente nced him to 18 mont hs impri sonm ent on eaxh coun t - the terms to run conc urren tly, hovre ver. It is my u derst andi ng, altho ugh I am not defin itely sure of the m,. tter, trAt Vict or's relat ives - his fahhe r and broth ers - repla ced the miss ing fund s. There was cons idera ble local 'feel ing' occas ioned by the :matt er. I ts.ke it th:i.t memb ers of the fosto ver fami ly wishe d to keep the matt er hushe d up, repla ce the missi ng fund s, and allov r it to pass at that. '.l'he treas urer , Josep h L. Peter son did not do that, howe ver - perso nally I hard ly unde rstan d hCJ11r he could have acced ded to their wishe s, witho ut J angs r of being suspe cted of impl icati on in the affa ir, or of li~vin g 'e;ott en some thing out of it' for ha ,·ing thus assis ted in 'cove ri ng up' the crim inal aspec t of the case . 0 The case is of cour se very regr ettab le. Tho young man, raise d in a good fa..'!li ly, shoul d have knav,n bette r, and have been in char acter above such acts . As I see it he has neve r admi tted guil t, nor has he lJl.."..de any poin t (.• d deni als. If not guilt y of ~ctua l thef t, one wond ers why he did not admi thavi ng ~Ade error s in book keepi ng, but· denie d havin g wilf ully taken the mone y. It reall y r;uilt y as found by the cour t, one wond ers if it wou ld not have been much ees-:i,el" bette r for him and the fami ly had he confe ssed his guil t and soue; ht the lenie ncy of the cour t. In eithe r case , I belie ve it woul d have been much easie r for mo to syr:i. pathiz e with him. As the matt er appea rs to me now, I wond er if he has actu ally repen ted. (Rep enten ce is a proce ss that is a chang e in char acter , and since it migbr t to baken th'3.t he has hard ly 'brou ght forth fruit meet for reµ,n tance ' one migh t wond er just what his prese nt attit ude townrd such crim inal cond uct migh t be.) At any r ,:te I unde rstan d that he has been grant ed the pardo n on cons idera biex less time than the 18 mont hs fo conc urren t impr isonm ent. It is to be hoped that he has le,,rn ed his lesso n, hear tily, and since rely inten ds to do bette r in the futur e. !!:,e Weat her: For some time the weat her has been hot and dry, with littl e evide nce of the open ing of the summer thund ersro tm se11s on whic h in some years begin s a week o:btro earli er than the prese nt date .(Jul y 4, 1948) Sephs rrs of va.rin g inten sity a 0 hara cteri stic of this almo st treel ess hii;h land coun try-- - are echmxi. alwa ys, a~d these of t:ours e do much to allev iate the depre ssive effe ct of the heat . A.not her mitig ating facto r of the dese rt clin: nte, very notca ble at pres ent, is the lmq tive h:.uni dity of the atmo spher e. Altho ugh in the after noon and even ing, the of ~o 100 degre es lll'.ln teMp eratu re may be some what dis~ iritin g, by morn ing the absen ce . she sun's has a.llov red the accum ulate d heat of the day to escap e throu gh the dry of this mile -high plate au to such an exten t that one m:i.y sleep comf or table -Ilea, th a light blank et or quil t• ;;a b:r b ~ r s Asso ciati on Busin ess for 19480 I have finis hed and maile d incom e tax rero rts t1 for the Produ cers Asso ciati on, the Irrig a.re on Company and myse lf. Tho Prod ucers asso ciati on is tax-e xemp t but the annu al e,f~ort is requ ired. 'l'he Josep h City Irrig ation Co. is not exem pt. and for a. time the war paid corp orati on taxe s, but for n such in comp ariso n with recei pts that no the past tv,o year s, our expen ses have tax was due. be/r -5- R.E. Port er Book 2 The Jose ph City Prod ucer s asso ciati on bala nce shee t for the ~st year shmvs $31, 121. 47 roce ipts and expe nditu res amou nting to ;,,31, 348 .72. A year a.go, the cash bala nce on hand was $ 1,11 5.50 and the pres ent corre spon denc e is $888 .25. Of the ·disb ursem ents t21 , 747 was p,. id to orod ucer s for milk prod ucts , i4, 760 as saL~ ries, $2,4 66.0 6 for oper ating expe nses , inclu ding repa irs and very littl e equi pmen t, and the balan ce for taxe s , licen se, insu ranc e and calen dars and car licen se and taxe s. Wea ther, Irrig atio n Matt ers etc. late in Janu e.ry of this year tho vrect end of the Uppe r Feb . 9 1 1949 Kxm ditc h culv ert unde r the 1•~nn or &sh , near the sett ling tank s, was brok en off. App aren tly fros t or othe r crac k had allow ed wate r to get unde r and unde rmin e this end so it was brok on by its own weig ht a shor t dista nce abov e the olbov r in the orig inal conc rete stru ctur e ltt the botto m of the wash . Wo have just orde red meta l pipe for re-c onst ruct ion and mend ing. Will use some six feet of 35 11 squa re pipe to fit into tho end of the 3 foot squa re conc rete culver"t , and then with tran sitio n join t a.nd coup ling conn ed:t this with roun d 42 pipe 11 Th~ce join ts of this roun d pipe will be used , appr oxim ately 60 foot , so as to give a much thiok orba nk than befo re betw een the wate r in the cana l and the wash . r,!em orial Day: Jose ph City is cele brat ing m~m oria.l day by clea ning up tho loca l ceme tery, with a publ ic lunc h at no ·:n and a. danc e in the even ing. Josep h City has but thre o sold iers kille din the war, all in World War II. Rem, .ins of Arli n Port or and Vrinc o Smit h both kille d in conba. 1,irp lane fligh ts inEu rope are buri ed horo . The othe r Ambr ose Hunt died of dise ase in tho far-a way Paci fic Thea tre and I thin k was neve r disin terit" ed for retu rn home as were the bodi es of tho two Eur opea n fich ters - poss ibly Ambr ose was buri ed at SM.• Irrig ation : So far this sea.s on, a much h.rg er strea m of good irrig atio n wate r h'.:'. s been avai lable than. is usua l. 1'he 'Set tling Tank s I have vmrk ed fairl y well , altho ugh beca use of the brea k in the leve e of the third t1.nk we h,. ve been using but two of tho batt ery of four . So far, the pump near the uppe r dam ms not offic i~.lly been put into use, but it appe ars that some indi vidu al or indiv idua ls have taken the libe rty to pull the swit ch a time or two 0erha ps thus prov iding more E;ood wate r for some stoc khol der - but just who it is we are not sure - be m~y find it nece ssary to prov ide and use a lock for the elec tri~ swit ch . £.~0 • 17, 1949 : Irrig atio n, i' orna lly, irrig atio n here does not requ ire that the w:i..ter be ~ut on 'turn s' unti l abou t May 1st, and we rare ly find it nece to cont inue thes e wate r turn s late r than ~eotembor 30th . This year with both ssary pump at the well near the u~:>per dam and the settl ing t ~nJcs ' we have h..'\d a much bett er sup·:> ly of wa tor than usua l - tho tank s enab ling us to take the mudrdy wate r from the rive r and afte r pass ing it throu gh the ~~si lting basi ns h')_ve f idrly clea r w1te r for irrig atio n use. This year the rive r flow '"- 8 been bett er th·i.n usua l , so th.~t it was not noce ssary to use the pwllp as r-.ay be requ ired in drie r year s o much as Our cont ract with the Nort hern A.riz ona Ligh t and Powe r Co., calls for the use l'I. conn ected load of 25 hors e powe r for a six mont h irrig .,,tio n ?e~son - the 25 horse powe r equa ls a?pr oxim a.tel y 18.6 5 kilov 1atts conn ected load . !'~os:nt price s are for each mont h are 2¼,i perKW H for the firs t 180 hrs. and lJZ' per KVlH f~ "he exce ss of this time . Acco rding to the figu res of' the powe r comp any, tho cost 1aJures $ 18 p~r kilo watt for the six mont ~s rr.ini~um usa~ e~ This fir,~ res for the Bi.Jc (1 8 . 65) kilow atts c onne cted load requ ired O ~18 a I:11111.mum of ~3;;6 .60 for the t1..•1usr.-,onth d. We il'.l.ve paid·, $283 . 72 for elec trici le oorio . ty used in the mont hly p!lym ents a ,1nr; us a bahn oe of ~p52.88 to pay unde r our cont ract for unsu ed pmve r. ; f th~ "'qu i~le nt of 0 aw/u r ditch clea ning has been take care of this fall . A ijr. Rial Freem an of hollr. ike, furn ishin g and oper ating a nbuld ozer for the work at a cost of ~10 per or,c Ur Paym ent to him amou nts to 1: ' $ 970. Ther e was also consi del"! l.ble Mnd !l.nd team -<t time book s hav- - uot boon pass e d i s0 the a moUJ:J+ of this cann ot be .t - - I f,i ,en 1! - ' ' . -6- R.E.Por ter Book 2 Electric ity bccamo availabl e for powerand lighting at Joseph City during the summer of 1932 - vdth either the llO or the 220 volt local currant . During the past year, 1949, a plan for distribu ting tho expense among the of d. installe lighting street ind ' resident s and b usiness olacos vra.s worked out, junction its at one street' 'our on are 20 or more such li ghts in tho ta,rn, three hir;hw~y ::/r1B6, one om;os ito our place nnd the third at the junction of this wi tho street with the hne and hi ghway running; e~st and west, just north of us, along; 17. and 16 center line of Seotion Elect ric Lighting , g January 7 Producer s Associat ion: Gross receipts of this company for t he year beginnin 796.50 0, ~3 ments disburse the and 6 32,124.5 $ 1949 and endin f!; Jmnuary 6, 1950 totaled . l,328.08 * of hand on receipts the of balance thus shm•fing an undistri buted cash milk, of quarts 195,569 for 40 ~21,946. id pa were s producer Of the disburse ments, ti.me processe d in our ovrn p lant and sold on the Winslovr ma rket. Although for a compe.ny the 1915, in ion after its inceptio n as the St. Joseph Improvem ent Associat dairy handled mostly garden vegetabl es, poultry pro~ucts and a limited amount of little very with present, at products dairy only products , a s a company it handles else sold on the market . A loc~l poultry organiza tion may be d oing more business than tho milk producorganers associat ion, I do not know· - I have been secretar y of the latt!}r farmers and on producti the with do to nothing ization since its inceptio n in 1915, but have local e extensiv somewhat that for figures sales of the 'chicken farms, I have no vocation o Aside from its a rp lication to livestoc k, local -agricul ture is of com,sara tively in the little importa nce. Feed for the flocks in almost exclusiv ely imported , and herds. the to relative true largely also matter of concentr ated foodstuf fs, this is 1 Tho r !l.ising of cattle for beef, which for the most part are exported for finishe.l in~', is als~/imp ortant local industry and would probably outlaat the other vocation or impair to occur anything should on producti pou:ttry of pursuits , especial ly th.~t destroy transpor tation faciliti es. One of the present members of the local public school faculty is employed on the old 'life' certifictl :lie, issued by tho State of Arizona in the of Norman 1 early 20 s. Requirem ents for ob ta ining this, I understa nd , were two years relative ion stipulat no vrith ce, experien teaching years five School study ant: some ei thor to high-sch ool backgrou nd or later attendan ce at suniner schools or other work ion. to improve or ko ep up to date the Norman School instruct Educatio n: Cnmparod with such credenti als, the present st.~ndard co.lls for gradUati on from gn.nting an accredit ed four-yea r high school, followed by four years of colle go work at one teacher the of ce attendan casional mustb8c this after and a Bachelor 's degree, for gstaff, sta.te 1 s summer courses of instruct ion, now given at Tucson, Tompe and Fla teachthe in ents the purpose of brushing up and keeping; abrest of any new developm ing professi on . The State of Arizona. rather promptly acknowle dged its error in making cortithe ficates for life by ceas ing to issue the~ - none have been granted since about or cancel could es procedur facto' post 1 'ex only course of but s middlo of the 1920 issued. already Chango conditio ns expresse d or implied in the compara tively f(1'vv up their A number of teachers rocoivinG these certific ates went back to school and built d persiste h:i.s or instruct local the credenti als to later standard s, but I am informed k school local the why nd understa to t difficul in doinr; nothing in this w"-Y• ¢It is exist.) o t n conditio allovrs the above-st 3.ted - :::-, -7- R.E.Porter Book 2 Death of "Grandma liic1e,wa 11 • Sophia De Ia ]I/are 11ckws , widov, of John McLe.ws and with him a member of the original Wm.c. Allen c om:::,any to settle Joseph City in llil76, died here e.t the family homo about 28, 1948. Because of her age and onfeobled condition November evening, 10;30 Sunday death was not unexpected, nor untimely. She has been confined for the most of the time at her home for sometime, and ciif course as would be expectod, although she w~s still able to recall much of the past history of the town, was to somo extent in her "dotar;o". I underst,i.nd that she was 91 years of age at her last birthday, August 20th of this year, thus plttcing her b irth August 20, 1857. Vlith hen husband she arrived at the local place April 13, 1876 and has !11.'.l.do her hozno here since. Her husband died here 1Iarch 7, 1935. A very wellattendod funeral service was he ld at the. local ch.ll.pel on the afternoon of December 30th and following this the b ody was interred in the local cemetery. Sunday, May 28, 1950 we a'ttended the stake conference at Snowflake. Apostle Foseph F. Smith and Elder Bruce 1foConkie were the visitors from headquarters. Tho Snowflake ?residency was reorgo.nized at this conference. David A. Smith and. his 2nd counselor Marshall Flake wore r ele:~.sod, tho erstwhilo 1st co unse lor Jesse 1.: . Smith was made ?resident. And for his counselors Hyrum A. Hendrickson and Roy i'a lmer. Nevr St~ke Presidency: Death of Mrs. Sena P. Hansen: Mrs. J ~mes A. Hansen, a long time resident of Joseph City , died in a Wins low Hospital, November 27, 1954. She w~s born December 29, 1882 at Founfa.inGreen, Utah and he:r girlhood home wa.s perhaps Mt. Ple a s e,nt. I believe she met James A. nansen at Provo at school. She re.is ed a family of four all of whom are married. Tho fu..'1eral services were held here this afternoon, and the body interred in the loc a l c emete ry. Her children are scattere d over the United States, but al l ca.mo for the funeral of their mother. ( November 29, 1954) Mormon missi onary work among the Indians of the Little Colorado v~--_ lley began in 1858. E'o'.. rly the. t yee.r a party under Jacob Hamblin had b een dovm the Colorado river on the Nevada side as far as Black Canyon, probably sent under instructions of Brigham Younr; and tho church l eade rs tolook for promising places for settlement, since shortly thereafter, coloni~s wore planted a little higher up the river. At Black Canyon as already role. ted in connect ion with the account of Lieutenant Joseph c. Ives exploration of the river, he espied th~ little steamer the 'Explorer' a.rd perhi~ps because o f the invasi on of Uta.h by the U.S .Army detachment under General Albert Sidney Johnston, which was then causing n uch excitement among the saints, h i s suspicions wore aroused, and after some investigation ho rep orted the matte r, with the suggestion that colonization phns in the country be postponed since the Explorer might be see king a route up the river for the purpose of invad ing Ut~.h from the South. The Momon Missionary Period: In accord~nce with the story i n the Doo1c of 1lormon, tho Latter-d.ay Saints believed tho I nd ians b elonged to the House of Israel, and wdre ever on the alert for any dependable information relative to their orig in. By this time an old Welsh le gend ·was brought to the attention of th~ church l eader s by the re port that a.rnong the Hopis or Arizona , there miGht be people of Welsh ancestry. It w3.s stated tin. t wa.ny ·we lsh Words vrero to be found in the Indian dialect. Ac-::ordingi~ to t h is legend a company had s::.iled from Vfa. les and discov ered or c ame to another country. The ship h."l.d returned to the homeh.nd, and there had r ecruited a la.rge company for coloniza t ion, and had departed for the new country, but were never ae;ain heard from·. Could tho naturally ?oaceab le and compa ratively well civilized Hopis of the Little ~olorado country be doscendonts of these lost Vfo ls hmen. -8- R.E.Porte r Book 2 For the purpose of making an invostiga tion, a p,.rty wr,s placed undor the loalli.ership of Jacob Hamblin, and in this party was Daiia.s D-a vis, a native of v;u les, and A.'11..r.lon H. Tenny, who could speak 8:)ar.ish and severa 1 Indian di.a. lects. Other members of this investigat ion party were William and Frederick llamblin, 'Ihurras ,.:ri.ci Dudloy Leavitt, Andr~w S. Gibbons, Ira .%.tch and Benjamin Y..nell and a ?iuto Indian guide Hara guts. This group of e:i.ght men besides the Indb.n guide, left H._.._mblins home at S1 nta. Clara just be lov, St. George, Uhh in the fall of 1858. They went to the Paria ri vor ford, so much used later by the i1e ormnns, but did not cross there. Their crossing of the Colorado w::;.s :,.t -+che old Ute crossing, or the Crossing of tho Fathers used by Escalante in 1776. On the way a.cross the desert country of northern Ari zona to tho villae;es, they lost their pack mules with supplies, but these were roe overod later after their arriva l at the 'Cities of Tus ayan 1 • Careful o:,c,1minai:ion of the Hope dialect vm.s m"do, but Davis could not detect a word agreeing; with.his native tongue. Knell, uibbons, Thomas Leavitt, and i"illb. m Hamb lin were left at tho villages as r~iss ionaries. The others of the p:1rty returned to Utah and a little la tor the samo wintor the missionar ies also returned. The Indians they had found rather unreceptiv e to the principles they an effort to t ea.ch them, al thour.;h not hostile, as they h'.d boen to the Frmciscia.n Father Garces in 1776. A legend among them we.s to the effect that three 'prophots' had told them to remain atop their rocks until they received further instructio ns from them. !.·:iormons might compare this with the treatment tho Hppis e;a ve the Franc isc:.i.n Fr-i. the rs during the nearly tvro centuries of their efforts to convert thom. Is it probable ,, tha t this 1-, gend, although not mentioned by tho Franc is can roo ords as fa r as I know had anything to do with the determined and even bloody efforts of the Indin.ns to s·t:,,. mp all vesti i;:;a es of Catholicis m from among them.? In the autumn of 1860, Hamblin led another group of missionc'\r ies to Arizona, but api::>arentl y failed to reach i; hc, Hppi vill'.l..ges. After an unsuccess ful atten2t to cross tho Colorado Rivor~t the mouth of the Pa.ria , he a.gain used the Crossing of the Fa the rs. For t-wo days after li,aving the river, no water was found, eJ'.ld vrorso still for them the Navajoes ap~ea.red unfriendly . At one stooping phco where the missionar ies woro mingling with the red.men, an I ndian casually requested tho privilege of examining a gun earried by George A. Smith Jr. son of the Mormon Apostle. Unsuspect ing Smith handed him the gun, and was almost ins ,:antly shot by the aborigine . lfov-1 the missionar ies learned the cause of the apparent unfriendli ness of the Mtives, since lea vine; the Colorado. Three Indaisn had been killed ~-- few days oarlier by white men, not r,lormons, and ncrw the livc,s of tvrn moro of tho missionar ies were demanded. This dema.nd, was of c ourso refu~hd and the Mormons me.do a hasty retre~t, with the wounded Smith supported on a horse by another of the missionar ies. Despite tm entreaties of tho badly injured man no stop could be made . At sunset he died and the body ,;rrapped in a blanket was quickly deposited in a small gul ly by the side of tho trail. About a week later, Hamblins home on the Sa nta Clara w~.,_ s reached. During the winter , Iiamblin with others procured as much of thr body as possible and tho roroains were buried in Salt Lako City. A number of ti.mes tho writer h..~s seen a stone marker erected many years later to the memory <:f t his younr~ man - it 1113,,y be found a. short dis i:;a, nco to the west of theTuba-K ayenta roe.d, ~n tho hillside across the valley to the northwc~d of the present Tenales in the l,a vaj o Roserva. t ion. Hamblin m'l.do another trip to tho Hopi Vilh.ges in 1862. He had been instructed to cross the Colore;.do south of St. George - perhaps l'l.n offort on the Pl- rt of Church authoritie s t.o locate a better crossin~ o f that treachous stream than-they had found at either the mouth of the .t'aria or at the oibd Spanish F'.tther 1 s crossing father U!J the river. Wo "Jfl.ay presume that the crossing was made at the mouth of the Grand Wash. (This is where my folks crossed in 1877 with .tlushmans etc.) G.S .T. The ville.gos were r ~aohed about the time of tho snak~ a...~nces, the Indaans annual appeal to the Great Spirit for much needed rain for their crops. The return trip to Utah was v i a tho Ute Ford, thus completing the first trip of the 1lormons entirely around the Grand Ca nyon. Three Indians , not withouJ~ some protest, were taken with the missionaries to Salt Lake City, but three of their own number wi,re loft to labor among the :k.monites and of course to serve as hos·ta:7;es. In March 1863 Hamblin and six companions, with tho three indians, left St. George fathe land of the Hopis, crossing ·\;he Colorado at Pea.roes Forry below the Grand Canyon, On this journey they visited the Have.supais in Cataract Canyon, and probab ly skirted Grand C,_nyon. After but tvro d~ys at tho Villages, with thoir three com(la.nions left on the former visit, they returned home over the westward route, arriving; at St. G~orge lhy 13, 1863 - e..pl'.>arontly they considered this route feasible as an approach to the Little Colorado Vt1 lleyand the Indian Country. Hamblin had hter exoerienoeis with tho Indians of Arizona before the be g inn ing of the Mormon sottlement period, but for the most part there were with the Navaj oe s. As wo have seen, these were nomadic nativos and ri.ad been th<, traditior~l enemies of the Hoquios (Or Hopis) for more th3.n tvrn centuries, and it v:as their depredations on the Mormons of southern Utah and Northern Ar izona that caused some bloodshed, ar.d gavo Jacob J:hroblin somo of his r.iost difficult work as Peacemaker to tho Lamanites. (For furthor information on this subject see Zealtts ofZion by Hoffman Birney 4,5, 6, a nd 9) In C~pter 9, River of Fhx he givos the story of the settlement of northern Arizona. It is a popuh.r account and not to exact. G.S.T. -W-.tIEN THE r.\ORMONS CAME: At the time of tho advent of tho :Mormon missionaries and the first sottlers, there wore very few people in tho valley other than the aborigines • .lt St. Johns wero the Barth brothers and a few Moxicans tho Earths perhaps coming hero as early as 1864, and one of them had boon engo.gcd in carrying mail over thc:1 mount~ins to Prescott. Springerfille had bc,on founded by a Tennossec,an, Wm. H. :Milligan; and hero also were a number of Mexicans. ilamos Coltor fa 'v hor of a later prominent politician, Frod Colt@r, had settlod Nutrioco in 1875. Thero may have boen a few Me xicans at Concho - the writer romornb<:rs an old church there, which h0 thought may ha vo been a Franoisoe.n miss ion in earli0r years. James Stinson ~d s ott lod in tho Snowflake valley, and was operating a cattle rancy vTith some fa.rnnng when tho Mormons cei.mo . At ~howlow, was Jame s Clark and lir. Cooley, but tha h. ttor had won the interosts of Clark in a r.;amo of cards; end now was the, soh ov-rnar. At Holbrook, or nearby, a Senor B$rado had a ca.m:iing place and eatinghouso, at the 11 :aorsehoad Cross ing11 of tho Little Colora.do; and also n earby had boen a t111mp~raty su~ply dope~, set up by,_Kit Carson for uso in connsction with tho Military ~pora~ ions a.gi\.inst t~e ~roublesomo Ha.v.1 jos. There was probably a l,,r. Yfoolf, near the Junction of Ca nyon D:i.ablo and tha1 Little Colorado. All togoth~r, th@ inhabitants, othor than the Indians were insufficiont in numbi:,r to constitut.a more, than a 11 Villago11. -10 - R.E .Por tor Book 2 Jose ph City Irri gati on C:;m pany Bylaws : As far as wo have any reco rd, the firs t byhvrs of the St. Jose ph Irri gati on Company were · ado 2ted Dece mbe r 30, 1886 , app aren tly con sist ing of seve n 'Sec tion s'. Thos e wore revi sed and aga in adop ted und er Mte 1895 , when sect ions I, II, III, IV, of Apr il 6., VI, and VII were adop ted as they orig read . Sec tion V. was ame nded to road inal ly "A. gene re..l stoc kho lder s moo ting sh.!i.1 1 be held ann uall y on the seco nd Monday in 11iarc h for the purp ose of i,lec ting Dir ecto rs, 2/3 of the stoc k mus t be roor eson ted. 11 At this t i,.no ther sect ion, VII I, was adde d whi ch road : "No stoc k slu,_ ll be disp osed of to any pers on outs ide of the com pany exce pt by a. 3/4 11'.a jorit y vote of tho stoc kho lder s• 11 The by-l aws as ado pted A!Jr il 6, 1895 were los t; and in 1914 , new ones were draf ted. The se wer e subm itted to Cou nty Atto rney Jess e E. Cros by for revi sion to n~ke sure they wer e in acco rdan ce with law; and were unan imo usly adop ted at the regu lar annu al mee ting of it;he com pany held Octo ber 11, 1915 . Thes e by-l aws foll ow: (lf sect ions , as reco rded in the min utes of the mee ting of Octo ber 11, 191 5.) 1. Name: The Titl e of this corp orat ion is the St. Jose ph Irri gati on Com pany . 2. Off ice: The prin cipa l offi ce of this corp orat ion sha ll be in St. Jose ph., Ariz ona. . 3. Stoc kho lder s Mee ting s: (a)T he annu al mee ting of the stoc kho lder s sha ll be held in St. Jose ph, Ariz ona on the seco nd Tues d~y of Octo ber of each yea r, vrhen they sha ll by plu rali ty vote elec t a boar d of dire ctor s for the com ing yea r.* A maj orit y in the am~ unt of stoc k issu ed and outs tand ing sha ll con stit ute a quor um for an elec tion or ~he tran sact ion of othe r bus ines s. (b) Each stoc kho lder sha ll be ent itle d to one vote , eith er in 9ers on or by prox y, for each shar e of stoc k regi ster ed in his name on the book s of the corp orat ion for twen ty days prec edin g the mee ting . (c) Not ice of the mee ting s and the cond uct of same sha ll be pres crib ed by the Bao rd of Dir ecto rs. (d)S pec ial mee ting s of the stoc kho lder s sha ll be call ed by the Sec reta ry on the wri tten requ est of two D i r e c t o r s , ~ or on the wri tten requ est of the own ers of a. nn.j orit y of the stoc k, by noti ce give n to each stoc kho lder at lea.s t five days prio r to the mee ting . Such noti ce sha ll brie fly stat e the obje cts of such mee ting , and no othe r bus ines s sha ll be tran sact ed at such mee ting . 4. Dir ecto rs: (a) The prop erty and busi ness of this corp orat ion sha ll be !!1.3.na.ged by a. boar d of five dire ctor s, who mus t be stoc kho lder s in the corp orati on; and they sha ll hold offi ce for one yea r, and unt il the ir succ esso rs are elec ted and qual j_fie d. (b) If the offi ce of any Dire ctor or othe r offi cer beco mes vaca nt beca use of deat h resi gna tion or othe rwis e, the rem aini ng Dire ctor s may elec t a succ esso r or succ esso rs who sha ll hold offi ce for the unex pire d term . (c) Mee ting s of the Boa. rd of Dire ctor s may be call ed by the Pres iden t on his own mot ion on one day 's noti ce to each Dire ctor , and in like man ner by the Pre siden t on the wri tten Reti &e requ est of tv:o Dir ecto rs. (d) At any mee ting of the Doa rd of Dir ecto rs, thre e mem bers sha ll con stitu te a Quorum for the tran sact ion of bus ines s, but a less num ber may adjo urn. -11 - R. E.P ort er Bo ok 2 (e) The Bo ard of Di rec tor s sh all hav e p ovrer and cor mn to ele ct or a,o poi nt al itte es, to em plo y a gen ts l ne ces sar y off ice rs and wo rkm en, to rev (Ui re any of bon d for the fai thf ul the m to giv e suc h per for ma nce of the ir du tie s as may be dee me d wi the ir compe nsa tio n, to se, to fix pre scr ibe t he ir du tie s, to dis mi ss an y app oil "te and em plo yee , and ge ne d of fic er ral ly to co ntr ol al l aff air s of the &&.!R ,~ a-R y co rpo rat ion . (f) The Ho ard ofD ire cto rs, in ad dit ion to the pow ers a nd au tho rit y co by the se by -Ja ws , ~y nfe rre d upo n the m ex erc ise al l s uch pow ers and do al l suc h thi ex erc ise d& ~ or don e by ng s a s ma y be the co rpo rat ion , bu t su vis ion s of the law , the Ar tic les of I nco rpo rat bje ct, ne ve rth ele ss, to the pro ion , and the se by -la ws . (g) The o~ der of bu sin ess at the mee tin gs sh all be as fol low s: 1. a Quorum bei ng pre sen t, the Pre sid en t sh all c a ll the me eti ng to ord 2. The mi nut es of the er. las t me eti ng sh all be is no a men dm ent off ere rea d; and co nsi de red app d. rov ed if the re 3. Re po rts of off ice rs 4. Un. fis hed bu sin ess . and com mi tte es. 5. J,fis cel lan eo us b usi ne ss 6. New bu sin ess . 5. Of fio ers i (a) The off ice rs of the co rpo rat ion sh all be a Pr esi de nt, a Vi cePr esiden t, a.no. Se cre ".;ar y and Tr eas ure r, and. suc h oth er off ice rs as fro m tim e to tim e be con sid ere d ne ces sar y. The Se cre tar y and Tr eas ure r may be t he s ame pe rso n; and a.11 the se off ice rs mu st be me mb ers of the Bo ard of Di rec tor s. The Bo ard of Di rec tor s mu st me et wi thi n ten day s of the for ego ing of fic ers the ir ele cti on , and or gan ize . by ele cti ng (b) Tho Bo ard of Di rec tor s sh all sel ec t a.nd a ppo int a. Su pe rin ten de Wate rm a.s ter , v1ho may or nt ar way no t be a membe r of the Boa rd. It sh all be on the Co mp a.n J's dam s,the du ty of the afo res aid Su pe rin ten de nt to ca na ls, or res erv oir s, sup a nd t o kee p a co rre ct erv ise al l lab or wi t h the da te, and of acc ou nt t he reo f al l Ill' .l.t eria ls use d, and to giv e the same to tho e nd of eac h qu art er; to Se cre tar y at tho div ide the wa ter in acc ord anc e wi th the ins tru Bos. rq, a nd t o pre ve nt cti on s of t he al l un nec ess ary wa ste the r eo the " ompany •s res er. oir or res erv oir s; to loo k ai' f, t o see to the pro per fil lin g of ter the com pah y's pa stu re a.o cou nt of th .~ sto ck the and kee p rei n, anc co lle ct for the ing ,tor sam e, and to rriake s. pro and do rec suc h teii el" ot he r thi ng s. per acc o un ts as im y p rop erl y l, e req uir ed by the Bo ard of Di 6. Pr esi de nt: The Pre sid en t sh all mv e suc h -, avre rs e.nd per for f. oar d of Di rec tor s sh m suc h du tie s as the all y; res cri be . 7. Vi ce- Pre sid en t: In the abs enc e of the ?re sid en t, the Vi ce- pre sid en t sh all be lir ve ste d Yvi t h al l his pov rer s and TJ erf orm al l his du tie s. 8. Se cre tar y-T re~ sur er: The sec ret ary -tr ea su rer sh all h1v e suc h pov1ers and pe rfo ~~ suc h du tie s as the Boa rd of Di roc tor s sh all pre scr ibe . 9. Of fic er Pro tem : In the abs enc e of a ny off ice r, the Bo ard of Bi rec tor s way de legat e his pow ers te und dut ies to any oth er of fic Di rec tor , for the tim e er, or to any be i ng . lo. Sto ck : (a) The sto ck of the com;ia.ny sh all b e tra ns fer red on ly by con sen t ~j or ity of the sto ck ho of the lde rs, an d no one can bec om e a membdr of the co rpo rat ion bu t by the con se nt of a nn jo rit y (b) One sha re of sto ck sh of the sto ck ho lde rs• ** all be - ~ I and con st itu te a wa ter rig ht for one acr e of lan d•* ** - -12 - R.B .Po rte r Bo ok 2. 11 . As ses sm ent s: (a) The Bo ard of Di rec tor s sh all lev y a qu art erl y ass ess me nt for the ma int ena nce of the dam s, can als , and res erv oir s of the com pan y, and for suc h imp rov em ent s as may be ess 9,r y nd pro pe r. co nsi de red ne c(b) Th8 ass ess me nt so le vie d by the Bo ard ofD ire cto rs sm .11 be due and wh en the sto ck ho lde r is pay abl e de lin qu en t a i; the ex pir no tif ied of the lev y and the am oun t the reo ati on of the wu art er for f and bec om es wh ich it is lev ied . (c) At the ex pir ati on of fif tee n day s aft er an ass ess me nt has be, com sai d sto ck ho lde r bei ng e de lin qu en t, no tif ied the reo f, the am oun t of the del inq uen be ar int ere st at the rat cy sh all e of ten pe rce nt (10 ) %pe r annum fro m da te of que ncy , and the wa ter rig ht tm t is de lin qu en de lin t sh all be wi thh eld fro Whe n the a mo un t of del m us e. inq uen cy and int ere sam e sh all be can cel led sh all equ al one sha re and rev ert to the st of sto ck , the com pan y.* ** * (a) 12 . De ser t La nd: Al l ,va ter ap pli ed to lan d for the pur pos e of ob tai nin g tit le un der the De ser t 41.nd Ao t sr..a .11 be dee me d to be pa rt and pa rce l the reo f, and ap nu rte na nt the ret o; and can be dis ?os ed of' on ly vri th the lan d wh ich tao wa ter has bec to om e app urt en~ nt a;nd to wh ich it ha.s bee n ap pli ed . (b) The ce rti fic ate of sto ck iss ue d by the Se cre ta ry for t.h.e afo res sh all hav e end ors ed the aid de ser t lan ds reo n the am oun t of sai d sm res of sto ck and tio n of the lnn d t r wh a de scr ipsig ned by the Se cre tar ich the y are a ppu rte no .nt , v1h ich y of t he co rpo rat ion . sh all be du ly sea led and 13. He adg ate s: Ind ivi du als mv ing hea dg ate s in the com_:ian y's can als wi ll be he ld res po nsi ble for al l los Two Do lla rs for ea ch loss of wa ter , an d wi ll be fin ed the sum of s of wa ter the rea t•* ** ** 14 . Uo tio e: Wh ene ver , und er t he pro vis ion s of the se by -la ws , no tic e bo be giv en to any of fic is req uir ed er dir ec tor or sto ck ho lde r, it sh all &e no t be co nst rue d to be lim ite d to per son al no tic e, bu t suc h no tic e may giv en in wr iti ng by de be po sit ing im in the po sto ffi ce or let ter -bo x in a po stp aid sea led wr app er add res sed to suc h off ice r, dir ec tor or sto ck ho lde r at his or her add res s as the S[lJTle app ear s on the boo ks 6f tho co rpo rat ion , and the tim to be the tim e of r;iv ing e wh en the sam e sh all be ma ile d sh all be dee me d suo h no tic eo 15 . Al ter ati on and Am end me nt: Th ese by -la ws may be alt ere d or am end ed at the reg ular ann ual mo oti ng of tho sto ck ho lde rs, or at any sp ec ial me eti ng ca lle d the ref or, by a ma jor ity of the sto ck the re pre vo te sen t. 11 Th ese by -la ws ado pte d to tak e the pla ce of the fil es of the co rpo rat ion by -hw s los t fro m the ." boo ks a nd *A nnu al :Mee tin g, Time of Ho ldi ng Se dti on (a) of Ar tic le 3, by una nim ann ualer.me eti ng hol d Oc tob Oc tob ous vo te of tle er 14, 194 0 wa s am end ed to rea d, "th e sec on d Mon day in ** Ca pit al Sto ck : Se cti on (a) Ar tic le 10 : De spi te the fac t tha t thi s mu st rav e bee n pas sed by the Co unt y At tor ne ~, it app ear s tha has bee n tha t ca pit al t the sto ck is the pri va te pro era l op ini on pe rty of the sto ck hogen be dis po sed of by him lde r, and can wi tho ut th~ c ons ent of oth er sto ck ho lde rs. An ho lde r mi ght s aut om ati c all y bec om e y new sto ck app ear s to be thu a 11momber of' th:J co rpo ob sol ete in pra cti ce 0 ra tio n 11 • Th e sec tio n -13 - R.E .Po rte r Boo k 2 *** Sec tio n (b) Ar tic le 10: Thi s sec tio n als o a ppe ars to be imp rac tica l. The "sh are " me rely cal ls for its pro por tio n of the ava sup p ly, and gen era lly spe ila ble wat er ak ing is ins uff ici ent for an acr e of lan d. Pri or to 190 0, it app ear s tha t cap ital l sto ck is ref err ed to as 11 sh1 '.res " an:l. bet we e n tm t dat e and aho ut 191 0, it is ge ner all y r e f e rre d to as "ac res ", how eve r the bas bee n c,-o nsid ered the equ acr e ivn .len t of t wo sha res of sto ck. It is not cle ar how thi s pro vis ion c a me to be pla ced in the by- hw s of 191 5 ass ess me nts tha t yea r wer e on the b a sis of the sha re. Per hap s thi s Sec tio n wa cop ied from ear lie r by- law s s, and the wor d "sh are s" use d in the common ly acc e pte mc,a nin g of "acr oM - the lat d ter term , howeve r, alt hou gh mor e nea rly cor rec t, is like wis e ind efi nit e, rel ati ve to a mou nt of wa ter . *** *As ses s me nts : Onl y twi ce in the his t ory ol' the Company do we fin d ins tan enf orc em ent of thi s pro vis ce of ion of era r gin g int ere st to del inq uen and in b oth of the se, the ts• occ asi on wa s the rais ing ; of monoy -wi th wh ich to mee T)ay rne nt o f' not es on wh ich t it is pro bab le mon ey wou ld h~vo to b e b orro wed on int ere st sho uld sto c kho ldo rda llm v ass ess me nts to bec om del i nqu ent . Rat e of i nte res t has bee n fle xib le. ' No pro vis ion s or pre ced ent s are to be fou nd in the :ma tter of pay ing int ere st on s t ock hol der s cre dit acc oun ts. *** **Head gat es: Tho $ 2 fin e for lea ding hea d ga tes wa s pro ba bly a. pro vis ion of los t by- law s - wo fin d it the ~ss ed upo n as far bac k as 189 9. In 193 4, fin e of $ 2 .50 was imp ose d for thi s off ens e, and in 192 9 we fin d fin es of $ 10 enf orc ed for wa ter los s thr oug h ope n hea d gat es. At a spe cia l me etin g of the Compa ny hel d Ap ril 25, 193 "ru les H.nd rog u]a tio ns" wer 0, tho fol low ing e una nim ous ly p,. sso d, cop i,:,s of wh ich wer e ma iled to all sto c k hol der s of the com?an y, b e coming eff oct ivo 1. Gat es in the upp er dit Jun e 15 of tha t y ear . ch mu st be fiv e fe e t wid e, and bot tom of suc h gat es mus t be not les s tha n thr ee inc hes bel ov, bot ·r. om of the dit ch 2. Gat os in lovr er dit ch mu st be fou r fe e t wid e, a nd the bot tom o f suc h gat -, s mus t be not les s tha n thr ee inc hes bel ow the b otto m 3. La ter al hoa d gat ~s in mai of the dit ch. n dit ch ban ks mu st be no t les s th!li.n six fee t lon g at hi gh wa ter lev el - suf fic ien tly lon g to allo vr for e. goo d ditc r~a nk. , and top of suc h gat e mu st be at l e ast a foo t abo ve hig h wa ter war k. 4. No cut s in dit ch ban k are all owe d. Hea d t½a.t es mus t be ins tal led v,h ere eve r wa ter is tak en from mai n dit che s. Fai lur e or ref usa l on the IJ]. rt of a n y ind ivi dua l is pun ish ab le by a fin e of n ot les s tra n $ 5 nor mor e tha n $ 25 at the d isc rec tio n of tho Boa rd of .L) irec tors . lat era ls and Wast e Dit ch~ s: Marc h 14, 193 2, the fol low ing "re sol uti on" was pas the Uoa rd of Dir ect ors , sed by cop ies wer e ma iled to all sto c kho lde rs of the Compan On ly mai n dit che s are com y. pan y dit che s. Lat era ls car ryi ng wa ter from mai n can to farm s or ga rde ns or one als of the sto ckh old ers mu st bo mad e, kep t up and car ed for by the ind ivi dua ls usi ng the s~~ e. An~ damage pla ced aga ins t the compa ny bec aus e of wa ter tak en thr oug h suc h dit che s wi ll be cha rge d t o tho acc oun ts of the res pon sib le sto ckh old ers , and un til pai d by the m, wi ll be con sid ere d as a gai nst the ir wa ter ~~h t a lie n ri ght . Tho comoan y doe s not ass um e res p on sib ilit y for wa ste -di tch es and wa ste wa tor , and any dam age adj ud ged a e;ai nst it 1:i oca use of suc h wi ll be han dle d as e.bo vo sta ted rel ati ve to d.ama gc,s from wa ter in l a ter al sup ply dit che s. Fe nce s: Fro m minu tes of Boa rd of Dir ect ors mol 'ltin g Marc h 31, 193 5: "Re lavi 1ve to ma tto r of bui ldi ng fen ces tho a lon g can a ls thr ou gh pri vat nec ess ary to p rov ide ;)as tur e pro per ty, whe re ~ge of dit c he s, on mo tion dul y maae seo ond ed and car it was dec i d e d tha t the pol rie d, icy of tho compan y be as fol low s: Suc h fen ces a.re ~ui lt at the e x pen se of the to be Com pan y, bu t the i ndi ls bu ilt is t o att e nd to oar e, upk ee p, a nd r epa vid ual on who se pro per ty suc h f e nce ir of s a id fen ce at his ov,n e xpe ~nd whe re dit ch is sti ll ns e, ins ide tho e ncl osu re• sa id own er of pro per ty is to s lt tha t dit ch i s nroporl~_r na stu ee t o red ." C -,) -14- R.E. Port or Book 2 JOSE?H CITY IR.."UGATION COH?ANY ART IC LES OF INCO!r-'ORA.TION: Roco rd of earl ier inco rpor ation of the "St. Jose ph Irrig atio n Co." datin g back Ma rch 9, 1893 , will be foun d on page to 227, Volume V. of my diar y. The pros ent Arti clos of' tnco rpor ation , whic h follo w, wero allow c,d by the Ariz ona Corp orat ion Com missi on unde r date of Apri l 24, 1916 , and exten ded from JiJay 1, 1916 to Apri l 30, 1941 , with renev ,ral pr ivile ge. Cert ifica te of Rene wal was gran ted 1hy 2., 1941 , the exte nsio n boin g "for a perio d of twen ty-fi ve year s from tho 30th day of Apri l, A,.D. 1941 . 11 Amen dmen ts of these Arti cles of Inco rpor ation wore filod in 1931 , Copi os of thes e amen dmen ts will bo inse rted in the text below . Objo ctive s vrere : - to chan ge name 11 st. Josep h" to of our b usin ess more clea rly so a.s to Jose ph City ; and ·l;o stato non- prof it natu re avoi d ques tion of taxa tion . ARTICLES OF I NCORPORATION OF THE ST. JOSEPH LRRIGATION C01IPANY We, the unde rsign ed, in orde r to form a corp orati on for tho purp ose here inafte r state d unde r and purs uant to tho prov ision s of tho Act of the Legi slatu re of the Stat e of Ariz ona, enti tlod : 11 Titl e rx:. Corp orati ons (Cod e of 1913 ) 11 and acts mmo ndato ry ther eof and sup? lome ntary ther eof, do here by cert ify as follo ws, Arti cle I The corp ora.t ors of this corp orat ion are: R.C. Tann er, J.L.We stov er, A.E. Bush nian, S.M .Por ter, and Jas. A. Hans en all of St. Jose ph post offic e, Hava j Coun ty, Ariz ona. o Artili !:lo II 'l'he name of this corp orat ion shal l bo 11 st. Jose ph Irrig atio n Comp any"; and its princ ipa. 1 p]a co of busi noss shal l be in St. Jose ph, Nava jo Coun ty, Ariz ona.. (Amondod in 1931 to read "Jos e?h City " chan ge in tho name of the town made in inste ad of St. Jose ph, to conf orm to the Dece ml,er , 1923 0) Arti e lo IIIo Tho gona ral natu re of the busi ness prpp osed to be tran saot ed by this corp oratio n is the buil ding of darns , rese rvoi rs, can.a .ls and ditc hos, lator a.ls and flum os for tho stor ing, dive rting and dist ribu ting of irrig a~io n, dom estic and stoc k wato r to custo mers for rent or sale , and espe ciall y for tho deliv erin g of natu ral and store d wate r to its stoc khol ders ;the disc ovdr y and brin ging to the surfa ce for irri gatio n, dome stic and stoc k uso of unde rgrou nd wate rs for its stoc: Chol dors or its custo mers , and to do such otho r and furth er acts as aro gene ra lly requ ired and necessa ry to bo done by a !!.lt"ett~3:± m,.lt ual-r ights comp any inte reste d in cons ervin g and distr ibut ing wate r for use in any arid agri cult ural sect ion. (Amended in 1931 to road :) Tho geno ral natu re of the busi ness p ropo sed to bo tran sact ed by this corp oratio n is tho buil ding of dams , rese rvoi rs, cana ls and ditch es for the stor ing dive rting , dist ribu ting and deliv erin g of both natu ral and store d wate r to its stoc khol ders for irrig atio n, dome stic stoc k usos ; the disco very and brin ging to the surfa ce of unde rgrou nd via tors for the same uses ; and to do such othe r and furth er acts as aro g<me ra lly roqu irod and nece ssary to be done by a mutu al-ri ghts comp any i ntor esto d in c onse rvin g and dist ribu ting vrato r for the uso 0 1' its memb ers in any a.rid · a 6 ricu ltur~ l sect ion. The busi ness is to be non- prof it, its expe nses bein g met by asse ssin g each member of the Jose ph City num.ber of sh.~r es of ca pita l stoc k ho hold Irrig atio n Comp any in p ro port ion to tho s in said com,. iany. 11 11 I < t -15- R.E.Portor Book 2 Capital Article IV. The total authorized/stock of tho corporation is Twenty-five Thousand Dollars (~~ 25,000.00) divided into 2,000 shares of Primary stock at p,.r value of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per share; and 11 000 shares of Secondary stock of par value of Five Do l lars ($ 5.00) per sharo. The holder of ? ri.JM.ry stock shall be ontitled to share in all wator derived from the natural flow of tho stream a nd flood and surplus vrater, as woll as storod wa tor. Tho holder of Secondary stock shall be entitled to share on1y in the flood or sur~lus water of tho str eamo Tho cn.pital stock shall b(ll pa id in at such times ~d such terms a s the Board of Directors of this corporation may prescribeo Article V. This corporation shall begin its existence on tho 1st day of May, 1916 and shall end its oxistonco on tho 30th day ofApril, 1941, but the ri Eht is he reby reserved to nenev, its existence for a period of another twenty-five years after its oxistonce torminatos • Article VI. The affairs of this cor:,oration shall bo conducted by a Board of Five Directors; and.R .c .Tann«>r, J .1.vrestover, A .E .Bushman, S .M.Porter and Jas. A. P'O. nsen shall constitute tho first Boo.rd of Directors, and they shall serve until thoir successors are elected and. qualified. The first annual election of a Boa. rd of Directors shall be held on the t enth day of October, 1916; and a Bmrd of Directors shall bo olected annually thorea.ftor on th0 said second Tuesday in October. Three Directors shall form a quorum for the transac t ion of busin6SSo Article VII. The highest amount of indebtedness to vrhich this corporation shall&~ at any time subject itself sh~ll b~ Ten Thousand Dollars (t lO,OOO. OO) by the action of tho Board alone, or Fifteen Thousa nd Dollars ($15,000.00) by tho ac t ion of tho J oe.rd of Directors concurre d in by a majority of the ca pital stock, votang a a properly called meeting for tmt purpose. 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