William Jex, pioneer and patriarch . ranches of the main canyon, among them Mill Fork,where a saw mill was placed and given into his chargesome time later. The year 1867 saw the organization of the Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution, in which Mr. Jex withmany others took stock, but he was afterward compelledto sell his stock, as it took all his surplus means to carefor his growing faimh\ The Union Pacific Eailroad wasalso in course of construction at that time and Mr. Jexwas able to sell some of his corn for $ per hundredon the cob. Flour sold for $ and $ per was
William Jex, pioneer and patriarch . ranches of the main canyon, among them Mill Fork,where a saw mill was placed and given into his chargesome time later. The year 1867 saw the organization of the Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution, in which Mr. Jex withmany others took stock, but he was afterward compelledto sell his stock, as it took all his surplus means to carefor his growing faimh\ The Union Pacific Eailroad wasalso in course of construction at that time and Mr. Jexwas able to sell some of his corn for $ per hundredon the cob. Flour sold for $ and $ per was about this time, too, that the Spanish Fork EastBench was settled and Mr. Jex secured forty acres of landand worked out his water assessments by helping to con-struct the canal at the mouth of Spanish Fork land was improved by clearing off the sage brush andfencing. In the year 1873 Bishop A. K. Thurber and GeorgeW. Bean w^ere authorized to appoint a small company toexplore Kabbit Valley and visit and make treaty with 46. THE OLD HOMES AND THE DESCENDANTSPICTURE TAKEN OF AN EARLY FAMILY REUNION
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