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Show Price, Utah 8 18, 1972 Thursday, May YfKV N -- a; ft Y . UT- f: - During the Fourth of July celebration at Kiz In 1925 Wilda Boren (back-left- ) played the Goddess of Preston Asay was Uncle Sam. Norma Liberty and Boren and Lola Asay (in front) were Maids of Honor. VvuyV 'i4 4r py It was in 1926 when Kiz finally got it's first post office. This was the post office and store, owned by George Mead. It was also a day of transition-chang- ing from horses to automobiles. On horseback are Juanita Clegg, school teacher, and Marie Mead. Boren. Boren carried mail between Kiz and Price about "two or three times a Kiz is only a memory but it was quite a little town in East Carbon years ago. Sometimes known as Clarks Valley, the town was formed by a number of ranchers no coal mines in or near the town. arks Valley was a fertile valley extending from Sunnyside on the east to Soldier Canyon on week." The government required the mail be carried with no assistance for three months before allowing bids on the mail contract. After four months Earnest Babcock picked up the contract but soon turned the duties over to Mead, the first post master Is behind the car which was the first mail car and was owned by mail carrier Walter Roy Boren. i the west and is possibly the largest level tract of land in Carbon County. The valley was first settled by a rancher named Clark who stocked the land with horses and cattle. He put up the first stables, buildings houses, granaries and a black-smit- h shop sometime before 1898. It was in that year when the property was sold to a man named Fausett for a rumored $75,000. Fausett loved horses and l.! - Hi turned the valley into a large horse ranch until a drouth hit for several years and he abandoned the property. It was just a few years later when the buildings were rotted away and the valley returned to what it had been before man sagebrush covered fields. In June, 1906, Orson Dimick and John Higginson settled on the abandoned ranch and put the buildings back into repair. Nephi .. hr , , Perkins, Ephraim Dimick, Orsons father, and his wife, Kiziah, and others joined Dimick and Higginson. All of these families took over the land on , w'- - qT . , V " r - - -- - V V I'4-- 4 - . , . ' 4 , tf Vwf . ' v ' n. .a .. . ty. , . r $ , 1t 4 , Rodeos were staged at the drop of a hat during the heyday of Kiz. Here Melvin Norton rides a steer while George Hill looks on at the right. George C. Mead, 637-228- Norton. Margie and Floyd Thayn and a daughter, Nadine, Provo, spent leans over the gate bars of the corral and watches the fun. 0 the weekend here with Mr. and and Mrs. Joe Bunderson members of the family. Grace Davis and four of her children drove from Honeyville Thursday to attend the wedding of Judy Draper and Grant Walker and to visit with her family. They returned home held a patio party Saturday night at the Norton home. Those attending were Bruce Lee Atwood, Lisa Bradshaw, Allen Wilder, Gilbert Davis, Kurt Tatton, Karen Barker, Sherri Wilson and Carla Norton first postmaster a year after this picture was taken, Thelma Pierce Wellington is t -u Monday. i r- . Ii'tM'.J f! LJj e&b1' Hard of Hearing? Littlefield Co. Gratien Etcheborne and his son, Octave, posed with the family sheep dog around 1925, just a few years after Gratien became the first to file a land claim in Clark's Valley. Offers HEARING AID SERVI-CENTE- CHANGE 2 s HARD OF FOLKS HEAR IN YOUR USEFUL exch. PRESENT AID. IN NOISY plus 3?c FFT PLACES. 6.50 If you HEAR but don't UNDERSTAND. If you are sure that people are MUMBLING then you should be sure to check into the amazing VVV. One of our BATTERIES capp Homes A Division of Evans Products Co. wagon and taken to Price where he was treated for the gunshot wounds and ordered out of the county by the sheriff. It was in 1926 when Kiz finally got a post office. Up until that time, citizens of die Clarks Valley town were forced to go into Price or Wellington for mail service. In selecting a suitable name for the new post office and town, Mead proposed the name of Kiz in honor of the first woman in the valley, Kiziah Dimick who was always known as Aunt Kiz. The nqme was submitted and accepted and the first mail left Kiz post office on Nov. 2 of that year with George Mead as the first postmaster. It wasnt long after, that the town began to slowly decline until it can be found as it is today a Carbon County ghost Forget apartment or tract inconvenience Live where you want ... at the price you can afford the Capp Homes way Start by acting as your own contractor and save 20 . . . by doing as much up to 40 of the easy finishing as you want. Low cost purchase plans save you even morel I THE SONORA ! 24' 46 with 4' x 24 "L" and 4' x 22 porch 100's of other plans, or use your own, or the t of bo SEND FOR FREE IDEA BOOK OF HOMES 44 pages, full of new building plans and ideas Gantact tom' Cap man S S TO: 8925 Sepulveda CAPP-HOME- TED MEINERT P. O. Box 8022 Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 Phone (801) 363-476- 9 2 x 13 Please send me details on Ctpp.Homes. Name Address Town or RFO State County. I own s let $0095 pair only Installed on Any Carl Dinosaur TIRE Service THE LIFtSAVtH RADIAL TIRE PEOPLE 200 E. Main 637-248- 0 Price Z!CTrCT.aBi'iiiwg!imB KViK V M?.r -. li No-th- A my box-to- p offer file -- the recipe book are in the bottom drawer. at'u -- 1$ I don't ewe a lot but could lot ono. More Than me- - Invesi m Zip . Phone. town. "if y Dept. Sepulveda, California 91343 and the community a year later when the new teacher, Mrs. Elsie Huntsman, was drowned when the car In which she was riding enrouteto Price overturned In a nearby wash. This was the year the first building was constructed for a school-hous- e. BE JOCKS FREE SERVICE and ADJUSTMENT OF YOUR PRESENT AID. If unable to get in just call and we will be happy to come to you. to 7.00 Heavy-Dut- Same Day Service by Appointment! AT LOW PRICES 637-153- bullet which shattered the drunks arm and entered his side. He was loaded onto a Hiway Tread staff of trained consultants (we have over 75 years accumulated experience in the hearing aid field) will be in Price at CREST MOTEL, 601 East Main St., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday May 22nd. FRESHEST several hours before Mrs. Norton persuaded him to go home for supper. When he left, they sent for help in case he should return. Jake and Lew Workman came to relieve Norton in guarding the home. While Norton was in the house, Jake sighted the drunk creeping along the ground toward them with a gun in his hand. Jake pulled his gun and fired a Tragedy struck the small BETTER. REQUIRES NO ESPECIALLY years afterwards. Pioneer life in Kiz was not dull. Once a drunk held the entire Norton family prisoners at gunpoint in their own home for teacher was now being paid by the transportation allowance of each of the children. THAN HEARING Etcheborne had constructed the building during the summer and school was held there for many and resigned. an eighth grade children enrolled COST HELPS MANY youngsters near the car, Clifford L. Boren who now lives in Wellington. (All pictures are from the Mrs. Walter Boren collection.) This is the home, yard and car owned by Gratien Etcheborne, pioneer of Kiz in Clark's Valley. The picture, taken in 1925, also shows one of the early school student, took over the teaching duties for the remainder of the school term. School was then moved into a log house owned by Lew Workman. By the time school was out for the summer, there were 17 R LESS Father Time is the Enemy of good Hearing Aids and good hearing. . . Better have both check- - lands for their flocks. Sheepman Gratien Etcheborne was the first on record to move in as a sheep rancher and the first to file a land claim in 1916. Etcheborne was in love with the claim and thought highly of the future possibilities. A little work was done on the present reservoir in 1910, but did not begin In earnest until George Mead came in July of 1914. In 1916, Francis Dimick came to the valley to homestead, and several years later Lafe M. Norton and his family came to make their home. The Workman, Babcock and Asay families also moved to Kiz, reported an early history, A Brief History of Carbon County. In 1924, school was finally established through the efforts of Norton and Etcheborne and was situated in an old log granary with a dirt roof owned by Etcheborne. Mrs. Mary Tidwell, Wellington, was brought out to the valley as the first teacher and was paid $40 a month cash and provided with room and board for her and her husband. The school district would only pay $25 of the salary so Norton and Etcheborne made up the difference out of their pockets. Because of moving around to various granaries due to leaking roofs, Mrs. Tidwell became Vivian Norton, mi NCW Sheepmen then began moving discouraged HEiiillii ed squatters rights. into the valley to enlarge grazing -- Leslie town Carbon's ranching Kiz |