Kimberly Ghost Town and Cedar City Fam. (Mike)

The other day, I took a young guy from Nebraska on a fort tour. He had been in California and was returning home toward evening. He liked the tour and the history, and gave me a white card so he could receive a Book of Mormon and a video of the restoration to learn more . He said he had been passing by for years, and today the thought he would stop and check it out.


All the missionaries were invited to Frank Thomas’ house in Holden for a Dutch oven dinner. He has a real nice place, and we had an enjoyable evening with great food. For our P day, we traveled to Cedar City, and last night we went to Rusty’s Restaurant up Cedar Canyon for dinner. We were joined by Lynda’s brothers and sister for a birthday dinner for Sharon and anniversary dinner for Karl and Sue.

At our family reunion in Kanosh, I was talking to my cousin Frank Paxton, and he told me about a book called “Ghosts of Gold Mountain” which gave the history of Kimberly, an old gold mining town, which operated in the late 1800’s. I went on line and found that I could get a copy at the country store in Joseph. A couple of days ago we went to Joseph and I was able to get a copy. As I have been reading it, I found out quite a bit about Great Grandpa Cummings. After the Gold Mountain mining district was formed, William Cummings was the first to file a claim, along with his three partners. The name of the mine was the Snow Girl. It also mentions that he established three more mines called the Cummings group. He sold the Snow Girl to the Kimberly mining company, and the Cummings Group to the Anny Laurie mining Company. He also had a slaughter house located below Kimberly at Cress Creek and provided all of the meat for the town of Kimberly. He also partnered with a Mr. Watcott, and opened the butcher shop on Main Street of Lower Kimberly. I’m still reading, but it seems that grandpa was quite a business man. Now that I have this Info, I’ll have to get with Ross and his Jeep and look for these sites and take some pictures.

This morning I took my ten mile bike ride and about froze my fingers even with gloves on. Fall is definitely in the air. I'll have to bundle up a little better on these cool mornings.