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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This is the eleventh 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. The machinery to be used in the manufactuer of sugar in i Deseret was made in England by one of the foremost firms of its kind in that country the Faucett-Preston Company. As the plans matured for its purchase and transportation to America a convert named Elias Morris expressed a willingness wil-lingness to assume the responsibility respon-sibility of getting the heavy machinery to Salt Lake City. This young man was anxious to marry and take his bride with him to America. A short time before the proposed wedding wed-ding everything was in readiness readi-ness for the long voyage to America. The young couple had engaged pasage on the "Ellen Maria" with many other Mormon converts. It was also agreed that the heavy and expensive machinery would be placed on this vessel and taken to America, but the passenger list was so extensive exten-sive that there was no room for the precious machinery. The bridal excursion was interfered in-terfered with Mary Parry continuing the journey with her many friends who were on their way to America, going up to Zion by boat, while young Morris was obliged to wait until a cargo ship with sufficient space could take the machinery to America. He not only missed the boat, he missed miss-ed the wedding. After a long and lonesome delay young Morris at last set sail on another ship carrying 22 converts and the precious sugar su-gar manufacturing machinery. After a seven-week voyage the ship reached New Orleans, where John Taylor and John Vernon were awaiting their arrival. John Vernon, an expert ex-pert engineer, had come from Hull, England, to supervise the installation of the machinery. machin-ery. Another expert, Mr. Mol-lenhauer, Mol-lenhauer, had been employed to supervise the manufacture of sugar and supervise the operation op-eration of the plant. Young Morris was glad to get his "sea legs" on solid earth again, as plans were made for the tedious trail that stretched away towards the Great Salt Lake. |