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Show Daytime Electric Power Service Comes To Lund "It will surely seem nice to be able to do my washing, ironing and vacuuming during the day." That is the comment of Mrs. James I. Holyoak of Lund this week following the installment of regular jxwer service to residents res-idents of Lund. Such power was not available until this past week when the So. Utah Division of the California-Pacific Utility Company constructed a li mile 7000 volt line Into Lund to initiate ini-tiate power service. As Mrs. Holyoak pointed out. electric irons, washers and vac uums were used at night when a , small generator was put into use, but the cost of ojeration of the ' generators made it impractable to ojjerate such conveniences during the day. Mrs. Oscar E. Frahske, another regular resident of Lund, commented com-mented that the feature of the new electrical service that she would enjoy most is the fact that there would be "no noise," and the fact that "we can just push a button a.nd there it is." Individual generators used by the Frahskes and the Holyoaks - ; t'..- . . 1 ;. . , ) 4 n . - . r- ". -:-' '.: . i .- ' -. .. ' . - ., . V ''mf4' 1 ..-J.;:V'f.7 - - -rll'l - . j AT GENERAL STORE. Ted Cox, commercial rmnager 101 California-Pacific Utilities, is shown here at tho Holyoak General Store in Lund with two of the permanent citizens, Mrs. Oscar Frahske on the left, and Mrs. James Holyoak at right. of course created considerable noise and starting the units was also another daily chore. No Check on Neighbors Mrs. Frahske also stated that there is a drawback. "At night I could always tell when the Holy-oaks Holy-oaks were home because I could hear their generator in operation. opera-tion. "But now, I'm not sure the noise is gone and I'll probably prob-ably worry much more about my neighbors." The feasibility of offering electrical service to Lund was brought about during the past year when the California-Pacific Co. constructed another power line adjacent to the community to supply power for the operation of the American Tel. & Tel. Co. microwave station located approximately ap-proximately seven and one-half miles to the north. Taking off from this transmission line the company was able to construct the shorter line to Lund to bring power to the community a ! commodity generally accepted as I a necessity by most citizens but never a reality for Lund over the I many years of its history, i Lund has a rather facniatmg j history, too. At one time the tail I road community was a thriving i city in the southern Utah area It boasted two hotels, a dance hall, a large freight warehou.se, a bulk oil plant and a lare lum-ber lum-ber lot in addition to the facilities facili-ties of the railroad such as round house and other maintenance and residential buildings. I A Railroad Mecca Shipments to southern Utah by rail were taken off at Lund then hauled by wagon train into Cedar Ce-dar City, St. Oeorge ami other 1 communities or the area. I Lund started to dwindle when the railroad spur was built from I that community to Cedar City 1 and it has been a rather steady ; d'vline since that time. ! Presently Mr. and Mrs. 1 !.!- oak, Mr. and Mrs. Frahske. Mr. and Mrs. Tom (Jrowler an. I Mark Coby are the only permam i.t residents. The railroad still maintains a station at Lund and still keeps several residential buildings m , order. "These buildings are periodically period-ically occupied by railroad workers," work-ers," Mrs. Holyoak indicated, "but never on a permanent basis." bas-is." Tin- Holyoaks operate a general gener-al store at Lund, the only business busi-ness other than the railroad. In iy 12 when the Holyoaks first moved to Lund it was still an active community. Mr. Holyoak Holy-oak was working with the railroad rail-road and stayed with the railroad rail-road through 1918. Opened Drug Store In 1518 the llolvoak ooened up the first drug store in Lund and later changed the business to a goner:! store as more and more of the businesses folded. In addition to operating the general store the Holyoaks serve ;i i piLsimasters and have tin- only on-ly tclc hone in the community, i Mrs Holyoak recalls that in J 1!MJ when they moved to Lund, I "the Little Led School House" ivvh.rh it uetuallv was, with the' steeple, bell and all i. had a to- I tal enrollment of It; students I from the first through eighth j grades. The school was finally , shut down in l!)r2 and students j were transported to Cedar City. The Fruhskes have a much longer association with the area. Mrs. Frahske recalls that as u young lady she was lured to the valley by her brother, Hugo Hunt, "where 1 could get rich." It seems her brother had made $300 from potatoes. Farming and livestock businesses were fourishing at the time. It was when she moved to Lund with her brother that she met her future husband, who emigrated to this country from Germany and who was in business busi-ness with her brother. From Lund they moved to Delta, Del-ta, spent some time in Frisco, I the early mining community in ! ; western I'tah, then h;u k to the1 valley where they have spent! most of their lives. The Frahskes. however, have lived in Lund only for the past five years; previously they had resided at their ranch just seven ' miles lroin the desert commun-! ity. I II'' .ory is still being made at j Lund, with the installation of j power this week and it is a history his-tory rich in the tradition of the pioneering of the western empire. |