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and other socials held at the schoolhouse, with guests from almost every other area siding town. Summertime outings to the mountains, hunting expeditions in the fall, and opportunities for children to gallop across the flats on their very own horses were pleasures that could not be easily discar.ded. 34 Homesteaders who remained adapted by moving, sometimes two or three times, until they acquired better farm land, or they became ranchers in the foothills of the Wah Wah Mountains or railroad section hands or supervisors. Arlie and Ottie Fourman first homesteaded in 1916 but moved back to California during World War I. In 1919 Arlie returned to Sahara and traded his homestead for eighty acres in the shallow-water district where farm land was better. He drilled a well before convincing his wife to return. They moved their homestead house and barn to the new place by sliding them on the snow. About this time, Sahara was renamed Zane. The Fourmans' daughter Alice said Union Pacific officials felt the name "sounded too much like the Sahara Desert. Zane was for Zane Grey."35 For thirty years, Arlie Fourman worked on the railroad and added to his farm south of the sand dunes by buying up land as neighbors moved away or in tax sales. He gave farming up about 1925 but ran cattle on his 2,888 fenced acres. His wife took Alice to Cedar City to attend high school. After Alice married, Ottie learned to endure the loneliness on the ranch as all her neighbors moved away. There were twelve residents in Zane in 1940. In 1950 the Fourmans returned to California; Zane's last residents were gone. 36
Stateline (or State Line) Stateline Canyon crosses the Utah-Nevada border and drains into the south end of Hamlin Valley in northwestern Iron County. After silver and gold were discovered in 1894, a mining district was formed. Stateline flourished for several years as a mining town, complete with stores, hotels, school, a newspaper named the Stateline Oracle, and a medical doctor. The population was 118 in 1900 and peaked about 1903 with between 200 and 300 residents. An estimated 13,000 ounces of gold and 173,000 ounces of silver were taken from these mines. 37 The single surviving issue of the Stateline Oracle dated 28 November 1903 describes a busy mining community where every trip to or from
