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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This is the twenty-first in a series of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The series is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. Before the machinery reach-' reach-' ed the valley John Taylor was sent to Washington to seek a refund on the $5000 tax levied by the internal revenue office, but no refund was granted. In due time the machinery was taken to Provo where they had intended erecting the factory. fac-tory. Their money had been spent and no building program was carried out in Provo. The church leaders were not content con-tent to see the machinery idle for a long season. John Taylor Tay-lor had seen the best specimens speci-mens of beet sugar at the World's Fair, and realized that the same high grade of sugar could be produced in Utah. "We have as good machinery," he once said, "as is made in the world. If you will only provide us with beets we will, make you sugar enough to preserve yourselves in." At that time many men were employed in the "public works" industries their main work shops being located on Temple Block in Salt Lake. In the autumn of 1852 some of the machinery was returned from Provo and set up in a workshop on the northeast corner of Temple Block. A short time before Christmas, Christ-mas, 1852, the new machinery machin-ery was installed in the temporary tem-porary factory on the Temple Block. Four large boilers were put up in the old blacksmith black-smith shop and everything was in readiness for a test run. A S7ecial washer had been erected where a few tons of sugar beets had been cleaned. They were then taken to the drying room to await the test. |