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Show . " plaster mill were some of 'the industries of On July 24, 1~59, the band had led a parade the decade. from the Old Fort to the site chosen for a Spinning wheels were found in every tabernacle, on which, at the time, there was home and looms in many. A newspaper of only a bowery for meetings and the day reported the spinning and weaving celebrations. 'It was not until November 27, of 3,000 yards of cloth from seven hundred 1877~ however, that Bishop C. J. Arthur laid fleeces in Cedar City. the cornerstone on the southeast corner in Mountain dairying became the assign, appropriate ceremonies. ment of mothers and children who lived Sketches for the building were submitted summ ~rs on Cedar Mountain making butter and placed where all could see them so that and cheese while the men and older, boys the people might vote fQr their preference. remained in Cedar City to tend the farms Mayhew Dalley's sketch was accepted. and businesses. Surplus dairy products , The foundation was staked and dug to' the were freighted to mining camps and other desired depth ; and " For several seasons," towns to sell or barter. iUs recorded, " this was filled with water to , Although the iron industry remained settle the ground preparatory to laying the mostly a future promise, the Great Western foundation .. .It was the fall of 1884 when Manufacturing Company produced con- Bishop Lunt urged that the building begin siderable quantities ' of iron during the brick laying by' early spring of 1885. The eighties. Pioche, Bullionville, Silver Reef, foundation was declared solid. " and other mining towns received deliveries During January, 1884, Bengt Nelson was of tons of iron castings from Great Western. voted director of the build.ing, and the Still, the mining industry needed a railroad masons chosen to assist him were Andrew on which to ship, its ore in order to show Jensen, Joe Corlett, and William Doyer. better profits ; and that would not come in The quarrymen were Edward Parry, John the nineteenth century. first building erected on the present site 'of Cedar City in 1855. The Old Fort where the people were living was divided into ten dist.ricts and each distric;t came out to work a day in rotation . ~..(J(~: ::;~ ._:i'- ;_ . , ~ .., .. -_.. _" . -.;'":r..•1:' r? ,____ ""..._ _ _"""'~m,. ..\tuPd3 ~QI)e.22, ~. S~ Parry, George Perry, and Evan Williams, The placing of the gallery completed a George ' Ashdown was named to head the sp,acious chapel with sweeping staircases of carpenters, while James Simkin and polishe<:l wood, and the crow.ning finishing Richard Palmer took charge of the was the town clock in the steeple. biacksmith dqties. The list of men and women who worked on "Eighty-two-,thousand bricks and rock for the tabernacle looks like the Cedar , City the foundation and windowsills were or- Census, Report of ' 1880; almost everyone dered. Thomas Thorley recommended red contributed something to it. It was a work of pine timbers twenty-two feet , long by love that would stand for many years as a fourteen inche~ square for joists.. They were landmark in the town and as a place where sawed by Thomas Walker and his brothers ; one could find nourishment for the spirit. then they were hauled by Samuel T. Leigh, The decade closed with the publication of August Mackelprang, and KumeQJones late Cedar .City's first newspaper. Reinhard that Fall. " It was difficult to haul wood of Measel' had a newspaper in Beaver and such large dimensions with teams on a steep ,conceived the idea of a chain of newspapers. mountain side, but they did it. He, therfore, as editor and proprietor, The tabernacle was an imposing rock and brought out the first issue of the Iron County brick structure with a tower arid a bronze . News on Novemoer 22. 1890. Measer seems weathervane. The white keystone bore the . to have been a journalist more' in dreams inscription : " Holiness to the Lord", which than in fact however, for the infant paper expressesd' the goal of the community which soon died, as had many of his previous ·built and would use the building. A white ambitions, to be succeeded, beginning fen.ce surrounded the lo't which boasted a Friday December 8, 18~3 by the Iron County lovely green lawn and many small trees that Record, owned and edited by Will C. had been donated and planted by George Higgins. Perry in 1892. . ' Cedar Tabernacle finished before the population reached 1,000. .CedarCity Ho m e of the • ithcz: nlindeeulh Jt n llua l l5ummczr ~aSllI\ Qthe CComedy of crtrrors , MacOeth . .Measure for .Measure Revels of the ~een ll1ali llli!4Z "c- Qn th,e campus of Southern Utah State College Cedar City. Utah 84720 |
