Agriculture and Natural Resources
Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Disposition of lumber at mills in Big Cottonwood Canyon
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334705]
Identifier: MSS 1179
Scope and Contents
Handwritten lists of the amount of lumber produced at lumber mills in Big Cottonwood Canyon above Salt Lake City, Utah, and to whom it was sold. Some of the lumber was sold to Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1864
Dan Jones deed transfer
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 27
Scope and Contents
Unsigned and undated deed of transfer of property from Dan Jones to President Brigham Young as the Trustee-in-Trust of the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1850-1859
Elijah Larkin diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 175
Scope and Contents
Materials include three volumes of handwritten diaries where Larkin writes about his life in England as a policeman; his immigration to America in 1863 aboard the ship Amazon; and, the overland journey from Florence, Nebraska to Salt Lake City by ox team in the Daniel D. McArthur Company. Larkin includes a description of preparations for the trail, and wrote lengthy and detailed daily entries about the appearance and geography of the overland trail, company discipline, hunting, and births...
Dates:
1854-1867