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  Utah History Encyclopedia
However, by 1983 trains to Marysvale were infrequent and the Thistle landslide provided the coup de grace for the DandRGW to obtain permission to close the unprofitable line.
The Marysvale branch line of the railroad was never reopened, leaving a large area of central Utah without rail service.
To the south, the blockage of route 89 and the Marysvale line hurt coal companies, turkey and feed operations, and gypsum, cement, and clay shipments.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/t/THISTLE.html   (1342 words)

  
 Big Rock Candy Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The lake of gin is not mentioned, and the lake of whiskey becomes a lake of soda pop.
In 1929, the song lent its name to a cluster of brightly-colored hills a short distance north of Marysvale, Utah, and a spring nearby was named "Lemonade Springs".
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Resort is at the base of the hills.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain   (689 words)

  
 Uranium Mining in Utah
Vernon Pick claimed the Delta Mine northwest of Hanksville, later selling it to international financier Floyd Odlum for nine million dollars and an airplane.
Pratt Seegmiller staked the lucrative Freedom and Prospector claims near Marysvale.
Joe Cooper and Fletcher Bronson discovered uranium in their played-out Happy Jack copper mine near Monticello and netted over $25 million.
historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/utah_today/uraniummininginutah.html   (1100 words)

  
 Jackson, Wyoming
His pictures helped to persuade Congress to set aside the Yellowstone area as a National Park.
When Jackson became an official town with a post office in 1897, it was named Marysvale, for postmistress Mary White.
The name changed when the town became incorporated in 1901.
www.ultimatewyoming.com /sectionpages/sec1/Jackson/jackson.html   (879 words)

  
 Wild Horse's of Utah's Mountain Home Range
The Sulphur horses wouldn't accept them and the Pryor Mountain horses ran alone, at least for the years that the BLM could keep track of them.
Kent Gregersen, from Marysvale, Utah, first went into the Mountain Home Range in 1944, when he was fourteen years old.
Kent became a mustanger in later years and caught many horses out of the area.
www.frontiernet.net /~sulphur/Roubidoux1.html   (5699 words)

  
 Minerals. Type localities of Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cannonite shows weak to moderate bireflectant from gray to dark gray in reflected light.
Cannonite was discovered at the Tunnel Extension Mine, Ohio Mining District, Marysvale, Piute County.
Location: Freedom No. 2 Mine, Marysvale, Piute County.
www.rocks4u.com /utahminerals.htm   (8273 words)

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