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Show 1899 Iron County Record' Added To Historical Files at CSU Library An "Iron County Record" dated Saturday, February 11, 1899, was given to the College of Southern Utah library a few days ago by Mrs. Martt'lla Slack. This is a valuable acquisition as no known collection of 'Records" in the state goes back that fur. The Library Li-brary has one or two others of that vintage donated some time ago by Fae Decker Dix. Among the interesting things reported in the old newspaper was the petition to the State Legislature asking for an appropriation appro-priation to construct a wagon road between Cedar City and Long Valley. The petition had been sent to the "Record" by a prominent cU:zen of Kane County askins that it be circulated. TJif column from the Branch i; i.- al reported cold weather: of the green things of the .ormal Miss Spencer's plant was frozen during the cold snap," and, " Last Monday morning the breezes blew very keen, on the Normal hill. Some of the students wished for a warmer climate." On the serious side, the students stu-dents listened to a lecture on "Music" by Miss (Annie) Spencer and to one on '"the Quanternary Period" by Mr. (George VV.) Decker. A Lover of Drama sent a column long letter of commendatory commenda-tory remarks as he reviewed the current Opera House presentation of "Kathleen Mavoureen" with O. P. Fretwell as stage manager of the company which included many still-prominent Cedar City names. The purchase ol the Onir gold properties at Stateline by Bernard Ber-nard Sprenger for about $75,000 was another intersting item. Another old "Record" (Fri., Jan. 14. 1910) which was also In the collection of historically important im-portant pamphlets and newspapers newspa-pers presented by Mrs. Slack tells of the death of the much loved :hoir leader, Josept Coslett who' had served in that capacity for J forty years. Also published was an account of the investigation of John Parry ! into the possibility of establish-! establish-! ing a sage brush industry in Ce-idar Ce-idar City. That, according to the article, wasn't as "far out" as it sounds. It seems the Chemical Products Co. of Chicago had discovered dis-covered sage brush to be valuable val-uable for "the making of liquids, chemicals and gases" and was ' estimated by no less person than Dr. James E. Talmage to be "worth $35 for every 4000 lbs. of brush." And two other well known Utah men, Heber J. Grant and Dr. John A. Widstoe, were interested in the enterprise. Mr. Parry was told that it would be "necessary to organize a company with a capitalization capitaliza-tion of $200,000" and that should the Chemical Co. not be able to conclude a deal that it was work-' work-' ing on to include "all western territory", it would be "glad to consider the installation of a plant in your locality." Does anybody know why the plant wasn't built here? It would make an interesting commen-make commen-make an interesting commentary commen-tary on pioneer Industries of Utah. "Normal Notes" tell of a heavy winter with some students having hav-ing a difficult time getting back owing to the almost impassable conditions of the roads. "A number num-ber of the Dixie students," the report re-port stated, "were held up at Bel-vue Bel-vue for several days, and were I finally compelled to return to I get other means of conveyance." At the same time: "Miss Nae-gle" Nae-gle" (now Mrs. Parley Ualley), "has shown herself to be a professional pro-fessional horse-back rider, having hav-ing returned on her favorite pony po-ny from a holiday vacation over roads that were considered impassable." im-passable." The BNS Litsic organization heard a paper on "Psycho-physical Parallelism" by Mr. Barton, and the former art room had been turned into a reception room and was "being furnished elegantly by the school and the alumni association," to be "used exclusively by the faculty, alumni alum-ni and visitors." Chapel, comparable to CSU's assembly, featured Miss Powell of the domestic science department depart-ment lecturing on the slum conditions con-ditions of New York City. Also included in the gift from Mrs. Slack were: A "Parowan Times of 1955, the front page of the "Salt Lake Tribune" of Aug. I 15, 1945, with headlines pro-1 claiming the end of World War II, and about half a dozen brochures bro-chures and programs of historical histori-cal significance. The CSU Library Is making southern Utah history its special- ty and is attempting to build as! , complete a file as possible of the "Iron County Record." Anyone having old copies of the paper in! his possesion or anyone who has 1 other items of historical interest in his attic or basement is invited invit-ed to make the college library his depository. Much of historical value has been lost to Iron County Coun-ty already through a negligent attitude on the part of younger generations The libiary is attempting at-tempting to save what remains and solicits the aid of all citizens citi-zens in tlu project. |