The mining camp of Frisco was located in Beaver County,Utah,some seventeen miles west of Milford and fifty miles northwest of Beaver,in the San Francisco Mining District.  This district,organized on 12 August 1871,embraced approximately seven square miles on both flanks of the San Francisco Mountains.  It became an important [...]

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The vehicle was later determined to have been stolen on September 20,1944,from John Day,Oregon,where a bank had been robbed that same day.  The Oregon plates were under the rear seat and the plates on the car had been stolen from a police car in northern Nevada.

Officers [...]

During Bart Anderson’s illness we are re-running some of his earlier columns.  We wish Bart a speedy recovery.

Jaynes L. Newman,or Roy as he was called,was born October 4,1893,in Holladay,a son of pioneer homesteaders of the area.  On a spring afternoon,April 8,1929,Roy and his brother [...]

The city of Fillmore is a favorite place to rest on the drive from St. George to Northern Utah.  Until 1851 Mormon settlement in Utah was confined mostly to the western slopes of the Wasatch Mountains.  When Utah became a territory through the Organic Act of 1850 settlement patterns began to change.  Since [...]

In the history of Southern Utah and Southern Nevada,Daniel Bonelli should be listed among the greatest men who made history in the Southlands.  Bonelli,a Swiss emigrant,had joined the Mormon Church in Europe.  He crossed the plains to Utah and suffered the trials of those early Swiss pioneers.  In Brigham Young’s [...]