Scofield Town Petitioners

Petition:

We, your petitioners, residents and taxpayers of Scofield Precinct, would respectfully represent to your Honorable Body: That the following tract of land, being a part of the Precinct of Scofield, contains more than three hundred inhabitants, and we, your petitioners, hereby pray that the said described land may by your Honorable Body be declared a Body Corporate and politic under the name and style of the Town of Scofield.

That said Town may be granted all the rights and privileges of Towns incorporated under Chapter XII. Vol. 1, Compiled Laws of Utah.

That said Town may include the following lands: The SE ¼ Section 32. Township 12, South of Range 7 East, and Lots 1, 3 and 4 of Section 5, Township 13, South of Range 7 East, known as the "Wye."' Also S. ½ of NW ¼ Section 5, Township 12. South of Range 7 East, being lands belonging to S. J. Harkness; and we, your petitioners, as in duty bound will ever pray.

Source: History of the Scofield Mine Disaster, by J. W. Dilley, The Skelton Pub. Co., Provo, Utah, 1900.

Editors Note: The I.. O. O. F. were very active in raising money for the benefit of the widows and children along with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This information is included for historical value, it does not mean the people of this project support these institutions.