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Show . i . '- -' TILE BULLETIN" Published At Commercial Printing; Co. l 2044 South ljtb East Hyland 364 WXATHFJIt FORECAST For Utah: Rain or snow tonight and Saturday; colder Saturday. PUBLISHED IJV SUGARHOUSE NON-PARTISlA- I.T LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 23. 1937 HOME EDITION Vol.5 Sugarhouse Celebrates 3 April 23, 1854 mmim Sugar House today looking- Wert on 21st South. munity within a city located in the center of - one-twelf- th The Sugar House Monument, erected 1930, in recognition of the first efforts to manufacture beet sugar in Western America. And Its Early Industrial Life The Bulletin To Honor Heard at Rotary Meet Industries' of Sugarhouse Sugarhouse History it'thrikritll hrnirrtttfktvM nMM.Htlt.. Of a group of Men" arid women, mifSt irf composed Pu.?'y wnom came trom that, sturdv ninnepr sic rk that limit ari H IS kfldttii 311 Pffl? n.thgHt M mill ik mr v.c"K kf:ar'eys ,was i"" Rroup known as the Uonner party d fame into the valley in 1846. The second., group ?i tpe. tracks. of the Dunner .party in .1847. jjrigham .fol-we- pt find .ftratu5 Smw bli.illJnfrHft Mriofi (prtake,?3 wagons and 42 Inpri anil advance",. irttd, the valley preparing the way for the main company. They entered the valley on the morning of July 21, 1817 and stopped on Kanyon Creek, probably about noon, to water the stock and rest Just at which point is not known, but we can well believe it to be about where Sugarhouse is now situated. Turning their course northwest, they settled on city creek, and industry immediately began. In the count of the long journey across the plains supplies wrt loW. Clothing wsJ wearing Out It is true that necessity la the blether of Invention, these sturdy empire builders Immediately Went to work, culivating the ground, making ready for planting. thfi S3uted around looking' for timber for buildihg purposes and 6thets for fertile, gftJuhd Id eWiblisn a house. The first wtkte men tel explore and. visit kanyon Creek at what is now Sugarhouse were W. C. A. Smoot, Samuel Turn bow Hayden Church, Benjamin Stewart am1, James Stratton. On August 10, 1847 they left the main camp of the pioneers on city creek, exploring the east side of the valley as far south as Big Cottonwood and returning the third day. One night they camped on Kanyon creek at the point where the new market corner now stands (21st South and 11th East) it was probably at this time that W. C. A. Smoot saw the possibilities on Kanyon creek as an ideal place to settle. The following year (1818) Ira Eldredge saw the opportunity of farming in Kanyon Creek and started the first farm in Sugar-hous1 was located lf mile southeast of the present site of the prison. He trade the first ditch that took water out of Kanyon creek for irrigation. The same year Charles Crismon built the first located on the site of the preshouse on Kanyon creek which ent prison farm hexc. In 1849 and 1850 Charles Kennedy, Joseph Fisher. Lorenzo D. JLn Eldredge, Norman Bliss, Albert Griffin, and ether; Ic:.tr1 near. Kanyon Creek. Building homes, cultivating the ground for planting crops, building dams and ditches for irrigation. These first settlern had their own idea of settlement and business development, but in the main, due to the hardships of crossing the plains and crickets destroying crops in 1848 brought about a brotherly love and cooperation of helping on a another that couldn't be surpassed and it was these hardships and cooperation between neighbors that was the ultimate factor in! the industrial growth of Kanyon Creek. Kanyon Creek being the largest stream near the center settlement, naturally afford opportunity for farming, having plenty of water for irrigation. It also was ideal for various industries furnished power to turn the wheels for their factor-le- i and mills built on the creek. After Kanyon Creek became settled in 1848 to 1850, Industry was established. One of the main factor I in industry is demand. In k or wagoh drawn by those days tranapo ration was by horses or oxen. By 1850 settlements wer springing up all over the territory, some of these settlers had settled in upper Kanyon Creek and over in Park Valley. Farley P. Pratt, brother to Orson Pratt, saw the need of a road through Kanyon Creek to the settlement e. 1 cne-ha- r.-a- s horse-bac- at Anniversary H 23rd, 1854, SutfarhbUSri! NUMBER 16 April 23, 1937 The Old Sugar House, 1854. Out of the first Sugar feet Factories In America, after which Sugar House was named ApM The Founding of Sugarhouse Mountain-Del- l. 1850 Parley P. Pratt built the road Creek from (Sugarhouse) to Hardy's station Kanyon leading was road known as the "Golden Pass" and The (Mountain Dell). (Founding of Sugarhouse, Continued on Page 4) In the early summer of N .: . .j : Each ' week starting, April 22nd, Recalling the early history of SuThe Bulletin will honor an industry historian garhouse, N. Q, Morgan, of the of giving its early hismembers addressed Sugarhouse, of Utah, of each conand the at club the tory growth fiGWry Sugarhouse1 In cern that industry. Thursday nddn meeting. as Sugarhouse WM The following Industries will be first named April 23, 1854, Mr. Mot honored as follows:-Th- e gan dwelt en the history of the Anniversary of Sugarhouse and erection arid jhirtthasing of machinApril 22nd Early Industrial Life ery for the firft sngaY Mill in iw The Craeery Industry April 30th derivwest, from which Sugirhou Urber, Florist May 7th Beauty, ed its name. Hardware and had Lumber, Planing Mr. Morgan stated that he Mills May 14th the only signed document dealing Suof the The Furniture with the transportation May 21st gar mill machinery, which was pur- Automobiles, Service Stations and chased in France, transported by May 28th Garages boat from England to New Orleans and Shoe Stores It was Dry Goods, thence up the Mississippi. June 4th Dress' Shops and ox teams on brought then loaded across the plains to Sugarhouse. Ice, Ice Cream and ConfectionJune 11th eries The document Is) signed by Philip 18th and Utilities .June Appliances De La Mar. who with Ellas Morris and Stores Cas Industry .... was largely responsible for the safe Drug June 25th transportation of the machinery. Bakeries and Restaurants were .July 2nd Early pioneers to the region and Stores Jewelry Novelty W. B. Sr., Richards, mentioned and July 9th one of the oldest residents of Su Greater (74 Day the at Sugarhouse was a guest special garhouse Years) July 16th: meeting. Who Those Pioneered McHonoring Other guests included Miss Sugarhouse July 23rd Kenzie "Miss Utah," who will re and Finance the Publishing, next at month Printing present the state Co. and Government ...July 30th contest in San Francisco to elect Professional Aug. 6th "Miss Western America." Musical selections were given by Sheet Metal, Plumbing, Heating and Repairing Aug. 13th students of Westminster College. v The meeting was of vital interest Cleaning Aug. 20th to club members, many of whom Amusements Aug. 27th are decendenta of the Sugarhouse Coal Sept 3rd pioneers. We the would appreciate hearty A representative of city baseball of every merchant in Susupport ask members to the spoke league in giving us their history. ing their support for a Sugarhouse garhouse team again this year. a complete report of all com mitteea who have served during the year. Mr. Bruce E. MilUkln, principal of East High School discussed "Modern Trends of Education and its application to Irving High School stu dents." Miss Nora K. Boyle of the school faculty explained the present school curriculm and demonstrated her lecture with illustrated slides. Miss Mary Riches, another faculty the different member, explained phases of the student report cards. of Mrs. John G. Crook P.-"What A. the the gave subject, can a Parent Do To Help a Child Succeed in School?" gave Holds Irving Last Meeting of Season P.-T.- A. A. meeting The last Irving P.-of the season was held m the school auditorium, Thursday, April 15th. Mrs. A. H. Gibson, president of the association presided and conduc She gave an address of wel ted. come and expressed her sincere ap preciation for the splendid atten dance and the cooperation extended by the school faculty, members of the association and patrons of the She also school during the year. T. vice-preside- T. nt A .... , u,riin oi fivficwvc cum- the population of Utah. How Sugarhouse Cot Its Name! How Sugarhouse got its name is a story of inspired vision, In 1849 Presiheroic courage and typical frontier resourcefulness. dent Brigham Young sent John Taylor to England and France to investigate the posslbiliiee of the manufacturing of sugar from beets realizing the need of the sugar for the saints and the possibility of developing a successful industry. John Taylor contacted Philip DaLaMar in France, who had exof sugar in France and showed an Interest and willingness to Invest his money and give his knowledge to the industry. At Liverpool, England the formed the Deseret with a capital stock of 860,000. The machinery Co., Manufacturing was made in Liverpool by Faucett, Preston and Co. at a cost of 112,000. It was shipped to New Orleans on the "Rockaway," It was Loaded thence to St. Louis where it landed in April 1852. which on fifty of the heaviest wagons available required four oxen De La Mar the sugar of the Under Philip captainship per wagon. train treked across the plains under hardship and difficulties that The machinery arrived in the can't be mentioned at this time. Proving unsatisfactory spring of 1853, and waa taken to Provo. it was moved to greater Bait Lake City where it waited the construction of the sugar mill. Here is a letter dated February 7, 1855 to Franklin D. Richards It reads as follows: written by George A. Smith. The sugar factory commenced last Thursday, February 1, 1855. President Young, Kimball, and Grant with Elders George A. Smith, Carrington, and Wells visited the sugar works and saw the comIn five hours 400 bushels of beets mencement of the operation. The length were rasped so fine as to run through a fine sieve. of the building is 103, 40 feet wide, and three stories high with The machinery distwo additions for machine houses 35 by 20. not a man who as- plays the most admirable workmanship, and perience in the manufacturing ELIAS MORRIS PHILIP DE LA MARE sisted putting up the works ever saw a similar one put up before. The barrels of molasses with the beet taste extracted are rolling into the Tithing office, and being distributed among Zion's workmen. Thomas Bullock, my clerk, has been called out to gauge a little cask of molasses, and he has reported it will contain 547 K imperial gallons, which is the first fruits of the sugar factory. George A. Smith meantime Young appointed A. O. Smoot supIn the Brigham W. ervisor of building this sugar mill which was started inl853. The C. A. Smoot, his son, had charge of the carpenter work. adobes were made by a brick maker from Liverpool. They were was thelargest ever used in Utah and endured until the building of 1854 farmers Kanyon the of 1928. In the spring wrecked in The building was Creek were encouraged to raise sugar beets. be to finished fall by expected On December 11, 1854, Governor Young ia his message to the Kanyon legislative assembly of the territory of Utah said: Creek sugar works, designed for the extensive manufacturing of was necesSugar from beets, are nearly ready for operation." It the facfor while beets their to farmers waiting pit sary for the cold weather. to the due to be completed tory How Sugarhouse Got Jt'i Nome, Continued on Page 5) . |