Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-05-05
STATELINE.
stateIine, Utah. May 8. 1916.

SIatelne, Utah, May 3, 1916.
Mr.. Benefits grain field looks
mighty nice and Is said to be the beat
patch of grain in the valley, although
the rest is also looking fine.
Frank Perry and Mr.. Armstrong.
who are working at the Ophir. have
moved into Mrs. Tilley's old house.
which stands near the Stateline Meat
Market.
billiard Lancaster has been out to
the oGrain ranch for several days
past. He came back Sunday.
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Neil McCloud of Deerlodge, New,
was over Monday and stayed all night.
Mr.. McCloud went up to the Ophir to
look around. He contemplates work
ing at the Ophir, and his assistance
would be greatly appreciated, for he
was one of the first men that stuch
pick into the Ophir and one of the
last men that worked there.
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During the past week Mrs. William
Perry and Mrs. William Lund came
up from Modena. Mrs. Perry came
TO bring Bud Perry up to work at the
Ophir and Mrs. Lund came along for
a pleasure trip. They stopped at the
Buell. home, and both Mrs. Lund and
Mrs. Perry were very much taken up
with Stateline, and said that they had
strong hopes of the camp coming to
the front now. The Stateline people
would like the ladies to pay them Wis
its as frequently as convenient in the
future.
During the week Mr. Vose and Mr..
Armstrong came up from Modena
with W. II. Perry's team and they
have gone to work at the Ophir. Mr..
Vose is working at the mine while Mr..
Armstrong is working at the mill in
the Rice Canyon and is stopping in
town.
Some of us Stateline people have
been hollering for the last few years
about hard times and have done con-
siderable grumbling and arguing that
a diet of sawdust with a dessert of
a beverage wasn't good for the sys-
TEN, but now as Stateline looks as if
it was going to be good again, they
feel better. II looks as If some of us
would be able to get good Square"
again.
Mr.. Bennett has just finished
hard weeks blowing for Mr.. Drake
down by the cotton-woods, and Mr..
Drake feels very well over it.
Frank Perry and Lear Armstrong
had to make hurried trip to Modena
after supplies for their bachelor quar-
tiers the other day..
Milt Hammond was here last week
looking after business matters. Mlt
stayed all night and was interested in
the way Stateline was picking up. He
went back to Eagle Valley the next
day.
Paul Kimball returned from Mode
ma during the week, bringing with
him Mr.. I. c. Clark and Mr.. Trent.
head of the Trent Engineering works.
Mr.. Clark is manager of the Federal
Mining and Milling company. Mr..
Trent, after looking things over, left
again with Paul Kimball for Modena
TUNGSTENi TUNGSTEN! TUNG-
STEM! That is what everybody a
round here is Growing about at pres.
ent, especially so of the last few
DAYS, since Mr.. Peak and Mr.. Joseph
Johnson have returned from Green's
Canyon, down in the Blue jay couu-
try, from whence they have brought
some very promising looking ore, and
which the above gentlemen claim to
be tungsten iron. They had several
varieties from heavy black iron to 3
greenish spar If the strike turns out
all right there will he considerable ex.
citement in that neck o. the woods.
The school children, headed by oui
teacher, Miss Bryant went out t.
Summer Camp gulch for a picnic. II
was the intention to hold a dance al
the camp at night, but when the time
came all the women folks were sicL
with cold, and of course the dance
proved fizzle.