20 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, November 15,2007 Djy TTS of Springville History; QMT1 Helen Beardall A very prominent citizen citi-zen of Springville, Victor Vic-tor G. Frandsen, of whom many will remember as a school teacher and principal, prin-cipal, noted writer of poetry, a great neighbor and one who was active in civic affairs of Springville Spring-ville City, wrote often of his life activities. The story of his family moving mov-ing from Moroni, Utah, to Springville and Hobble Creek Canyon is one that needs to be shared with children today. We have it easy when it comes to moving into new homes or areas. In 1919, Frandsen's father, John, loaded two wagons--a hay wagon with three grown pigs, about sixty chickens, feed for these animals and the five horses hors-es that would be used to pull the wagons. Behind the hay wagon was the narrow-tired wagon with a wagon box, loaded on it was a bob sleigh, plows, harrows and other farm machinery. Back of this wagon was the hay rake and mowing machine-being towed. (He records that this was a long procession.) pro-cession.) A box car on the railroad rail-road in Moroni was loaded load-ed with furniture and other oth-er bits, and a cattle car was loaded with about 30 head of milch cows, calves and a riding horse and Vic's brother, Lee, road in this car. The cattle car was eventually taken on a railroad spur into Mapleton, and unloaded and Lee was to drive the cattle into Hobble Creek Canyon to the newly acquired ac-quired ranch. Father, John, noticed as he neared Mona, that the chickens were getting out of a hole in their cage, and as he was trying to catch them, a man living liv-ing nearby invited him to pull into his orchard and camp for the night, which he did. The hole was fixed and chickens rounded up. Paul, another brother, was bringing the rest of the family in their car and overtook his father near Springville and arrived at the ranch about the same time as Lee arrived driving driv-ing the livestock. When they reached the ranch, Mrs. Frandsen went into the empty house and decided de-cided that house was bedbug bed-bug infested. Only the stove was removed from the wagon and the family put up the beds and slept outside the house that night. The next morning they heated water and mixed it with kerosene to wash away all the bedbugs. By night they moved their beds into the house and had no further trouble with bedbugs. Victor recorded information infor-mation concerning the ranches and locations in Hobble Creek Canyon, and some of the inhabitants inhabit-ants as he remembered. (A great change has taken tak-en place in this area, as each traveler will note if he ventures up the canyons can-yons east of Springville now.) Some interesting notes: In 1919 when the Frandsen Frand-sen family first moved to the canyon, the Averett ranch was located at the head of Left Hand Fork. At the main forks or nearby were the ranches of Willis "Sumsion and wife, Minerv, who ran cattle at the ranch in the growing season, and left for winter as did the Dan Lewis family. Next were the Mack Dougall and John Dou-gall Dou-gall ranches. These were some of the best ranches in the canyon. Mack's ranch included Whitte-more Whitte-more canyon, from where Springville now gets parts of its culinary water. wa-ter. He always had some young fellows living and helping there in the summers. sum-mers. John Dougall had boys: Hugh, Barney and Mack, and a daughter, Josephine. Over in the lower part of the canyon leading to Bartholomew Canyon were the Barkers: John Barker and Henry Allen, ' whose wife was a Barker, Bark-er, had ranches above the Hobble Creek Main Canyon. The big house belonged to Hyrum and Minnie, along with Jes-see, Jes-see, who was a bachelor at that time. Just north of them was Erastus Clark's ranch and the Jonah Phillips Phil-lips ranches. The Clark ranch included in-cluded one part owned by Henry which went into Granger Canyon. Mrs. Clark had a little buggy and a white horse in which she took eggs and cream to town and did the family fam-ily shopping. Hazel Clark was not married then and he did much of the work on the ranch. The Phillips family had Lucy, (later a school teacher in the canyon), can-yon), Hannah (who died of flu), Victor, Ralph, Lizzie, Ivan and Floyd. (We were quite close to this family in social rela tionships.) ' The writings1 of Mr. Victor Frandsen will be continued. It is so important that everyday happenings be recorded and preserved and shared. 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