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Thursday, January 2, 2014 • Issue # 1029
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UT Bald Eagle Deaths A Mystery To Wildlife Officials
Raising Cane in Pahreah
Leola Schoenfield Shares Memories of Life on the Pareah through Utah Oral History Project
Pahreah cemetary site highlights the beauty of the canyon and the memory of the few settlers who have lived in the region. On September 11, 2002, Leola Schoenfield was interviewed by Marsha Holland for the Utah Oral History Project. At this time Leola lived at the Kanab Skilled Nursing Center, and had just turned 90 years old. Leola’s life took her many places; from Price, Utah, where she was born, to Baker City, Oregon, to Pahreah Canyon and Cannonville, San Diego, California, the Arizona Strip, Toquerville and Kanab. During her childhood as well as in her married life with her first husband, she and her family worked in farming and ranching. In this interview she describes her early life in Pahreah and her farming and ranching experience with her first husband, Grayson Cattery. This article has been abridged and edited slightly for clarity.
KANAB - Leola Schoenfield: My name is Leola Mangum Chatterley Schoenfeld. I was born September the 1st 1912. I was born in Price, Utah, Carbon County. My parents were Marion Mangum and Edna Armintha Carlow. We were just there [in Price] for a while when I was born. We didn’t live there too long. I am the fifth child out of ten children. Marsha Holland: You lived in Pahreah until you were six and went to first grade in Cannonville? LS: We would go down there [to Pahreah] for the summer and back up there [to Cannonville] for the winter. There was Oma Mangum, my aunt, who was the only midwife, you might say. She was Uncle John’s wife that lived on the Pahreah with us. It was them and my dad and mother and my grandfather and the children of course. MH: You went down to Pahreah Town for the summer? What would you do down there? LS: I’ll tell you what we did. We just took that place and made it into a beautiful place. We had grape arbors. We had orchards. It was a beautiful place to raise anything you wanted to, but tomatoes. It was too hot down there for tomatoes. My grandfather, molasses was the main thing he made. We had acres and
acres of cane, sugar cane. We had the two boys, Dwaine and Herman, they went out and cut it down with a scythe, a sickle, sort of a round thing. They would haul it in then we would put it over a chopping block. Each one of us had a block, just a chopping block where we would chop the heads off. Then we would take and strip the cane. It was good, juicy as it could be. We would run it though a mill that squeezed the juice all out. Then he had a big vat, half as big as this room and filled it full of juice. We had a cow there. When that old cow would see any of that juice she would just stand and drink it out of the tub. MH: How was it processed? LS: We cooked it in a big vat that was there. We had a big fire under it. My grandpa cooked it all. When he got to the last batch, he said, “All right, we are going to have a batch of candy now.” He would make it into candy and we would all have a candy pull. MH: I have never heard of sugar cane being raised there. LS: Oh, it was good. That was making the molasses. It was the best molasses you could buy. MH: When you finished processing it would you sell it? LS: We took it up to Cannonville to sell it. We kept a lot of it on hand.
MH: That was what people used for sweetener for baking. LS: That was all they had. They had cans to put it in so it would be handy. We would seal it up, put a lid on it and haul it up on the wagon, because that was the only way it could go. It was thirty miles [up to Cannonville]. MH: What was your route? Up the Pahreah? LS: Yes, you went up the
canyon, up the Pahreah Creek. You couldn’t go when it was raining or you would have been in a flood. You had to go when it was clear weather. My sister and I years later, I was about fourteen or fifteen when we left there. I was about fourteen when we left there and went to California, San Diego. My dad went down to barber school. He liked barbering so he took that. MH: Now, tell me your grandpa’s name? LS: John Wesley Mangum. He was good at everything. We raised a garden. We raised chickens. We had cows. There were lots of sheep men around there with their sheep. [They were] Not too close to ours. They would come up and bring their horses, and when I got older, that was when I thought it was fun, because they use to come up bringing their horses and some cows. They would have a rodeo and bucking cows and horses. MH: Who were the other families that would spend the summers there? LS: We was the only one on Pahreah. MH: There was no one else there? It had been abandoned? LS: Yes. Carlow, mother’s brother, he lived farther up, but we would all get together at times and have a big time. We were never lonesome. That country is so pretty. I just love it. Pahreah Cont’d on page 2
OGDEN - At least a dozen bald eagles have died in the past month in Utah, and state wildlife officials don’t know the cause. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources spokesman Mark Hadley said six eagles were found sick and later died of nearly identical symptoms, and another halfdozen birds were found dead in the wild. The eagles were found in an area of northern Utah spanning several hundred square miles. There is no clear cause of death, but Hadley said that the birds are undergoing a necropsy - the equivalent of an autopsy for animals. “There’s a whole battery of tests that they run that takes a long period of time to work the birds through, to test for various things,” Hadley said. “So it’s going to be a little while before we’ll know for sure.” Testing done on three of the dead eagles showed they did not die from lead poisoning, he added, saying that
Sean D. Reyes Sworn In As New Attorney General SALT LAKE CITY -Sean D. Reyes took the Oath of Office as Utah’s Attorney General on Monday, Dec. 30 during a ceremony in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda. Governor Gary R. Herbert named Sean D. Reyes, Esq. as attorney general to replace recently resigned John Swallow. Reyes will serve as Utah’s attorney general through 2014.
Shop with a Cop LOA - The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office would like to express their appreciation to all the people in Wayne County who donated to “Shop with a Cop” this year. It was a great success. We were able to take 8 children this year. Your generosity has made a brighter Christmas for these children. Thank you. —Wayne County Sheriff’s Office
Thurs. Jan. 2 - wed. Jan. 8 THE WEEK STARTS OUT Thurs. with sun & warmth, with highs in high 40s through Friday, followed by a dive into some cold air and maybe snow on Saturday (high 35) and then slowly climbing into low 40s again during the early part of the week. Forecast for lows all week are in low to mid teens.
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“Sean is one of the most recognized lawyers in Utah and the country,” said Governor Herbert. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table that will help reestablish the public’s trust in the Attorney General’s Office.” “I have a great respect for what the office stands for and I’m deeply appreciative to the Governor for the trust that he has demonstrated in me,” said Reyes. “I hope to be able to win the trust of all the citizens of the State of Utah in restoring their confidence in this office. After 14 years with Parsons Behle & Latimer as an attorney and litigation partner, Reyes stepped away to begin a new chapter. He started Reyes Legal Management and became a partner in Accelerate Ventures, overseeing legal strategy and execution for venture funds. In 2012, he ran for attorney general against John Swallow in the Republican primary. As a litigation attorney, Reyes has litigated some of Utah’s largest and most highprofile cases. In addition, he has appellate experience in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Reyes received his Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law. —Office of Utah Governor Gary Herbert
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means the birds weren’t poisoned by eating animals that had been shot. The iconic birds live mostly on a diet of dead animals, he noted. The number of recent deaths is much greater than the small number of eagles that die from various causes each year, Hadley said. However, even knowing the cause of death may not provide answers that could be useful in preventing future deaths, he warned. “There’s all kinds of diseases out there in nature that take the lives of wildlife,” he said. “You know, a lot of those diseases, there’s not a whole lot that people can do about them. That’s just what happens out in nature.” Hadley estimated that as many as 2,000 bald eagles winter in Utah between November and March, before migrating north to mate. He said testing to determine the cause of death could take several weeks to complete. —Troy Wilde, Utah News Connection
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