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Show Midvale, Utah, Friday, Augu. t 28, 1936 THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE T\YO SANDY CHOSEN . " SITE FOR EARLY R. It. :TA-l • (Continued from page 1.) 1·- --------------....,I part:e.s. A t!.'ain c rew would come out froni. Salt Lake City and bring MADE "PAJAMA FLAG" a c1ovr of dancer s. At midnight a supper would usua11y b e serve d .. _,_,.-at the Decker house and the dance '· would resume until an early hour. Bullock Billy Allstead and Joe fw:·nished the music for many of the dance-. Utah Central Railroad a smelter (the Saturn) was built a short distance south of the station and commenced operations; the Flagstaff was built soon after. It was Precinct HistOQ" Given built on an elevated site directly Of the Sandy precinct the Hiseast of the town. Afterwards the Mountain Chief, (later known as torical Record, publlshed in 1887, Mingo) wos built n~a~· the site of give the following account: The Sandy precinct is bOunded the saturn, the latter having preon the north by West Jordan a~d viously closed down. Teaming to and from the mines I Union precincts, east by Gramte and the opening of these smelters precinct, south by Draperville prebrought in a large numoer of cinct and west it is separated from "roughs" from various parts of the South Jordan and West Jordan the country, and in consequence precincts by the River Jordan. It miles of thereof Sandy was made the scene contains nine square of several unpleasant affairs, in farming land. The population in which a number of men lost their 1880 was 488. About two-thirds of the entire population are "Mar. lives. One of these affairs took place mons" and fully one half of Scanin June, when the news of the dinavian descent, mostly Swedish. Near the center of the precinct passage of the Poland bill by the U. s. Congress reached Sandy. is located the village of Sandy The non-Mormon element seem- which is also a station on the ingly grew excited and having or- Utah Central Railway and Alta ganized for the purpose, they branch of the D. & R. G. Railway, marched throug town visiting most 12 miles south of Salt Lake City, of the "Mormon" families and the county seat. IndustrieJS Listed gave, at each place where they It contains two steam sampling called, three cheers for Robert N. Baskin (The "Ring" candidate for works, two smelters, seven stores, delegate to Congress) and the Po- ! five saloons, one brewery, two land Bill, an.d three Bronx cheers boarding houses and a number of for George Q. Cannon, the "Peo- shops. Ore and general farm pro·ncipal shipments. th d t t 1 a e. P ie's" c an d"d uc s are . e pn The town site covers 160 acres of Voters Beaten At the following election the land. Although a small town, it "roughs" picked a quarrel with is one of considerable importance. the "Mormons" who went to vote, A large portion of the ores from during which John W. Sharp was the Cottonwoods and Bingham severely beaten and would perhaps Canyon are shipped there for After being tested, have been killed had it not been sampling. for the timely aid of Conductor much of the ore remains in Sandy William Hiskey, who came in with until sold, and the business of the north-bound train in the ev- handling, transferring and shipping ores is the principal entererring. He armed himself with two six· prises of the inhabitants. Considerable tame hay and grain shooters and scattered the mobhers in an directions. For several are raised within the limits of the days afterwards a number of arm· precinct, notwithstanding the light ed men watched the train for the character of the soil. (Credit for much of this is due purpose of killing the conductor, but they never enjoyed that pleas- the Sandy chapter, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers; The Historical ure. A short time later the business Record, published by Andrew Jenat Sandy became stagnant, apd 1sen; Arthur Hughes, and others., most of those who participated in the riot left for Montana. After a few years nearly all the transient characters had moved out of the town and only the farming population remained. Frame Houses Built Most of the early building in Sandy were lumber structures. One of them, a small lumber structure below Hall's was one of the first houses built in the town. Archie Stuart, prominent Sandy resident, says of it: "The man who built it was a big Irishman. That house had wainscoating-the only one that was lined. When he had finished building it he found that It costs so little to talk be had too much so he pu,t it on the north side to keep the cold it over. wind out." Another one of the oldest frame houses is the Newell homestead It was built by Thomas Batt, who Bargain rates o Long Di$sold it to Peter Johnson. Mr. tance calls effective all day Johnson in turn sold it to William Sunday and e11ery eve'Newel. Among the oldest adobe. ning a f er 7 p. ,.,.. . houses still standing is one across the street from the Leonard Ohlson home, and the old Gaelte house owned by Arthur Horne. The social life of the community consisted principally in dancing I T~l~ h Caught in the midst of Spain's civil war while vacationing in the sunny peninsula, this young lady era ved the protection of "Old Glory." No banner being at hand, she and her two chums built themselves an American flag from red and white and blue pajamas, and proudly bearing it aloft, proceeded through the war-torn streets to the American consulate for refuge. Hec name is Ele~nor O'Kane, and she comes from Philadelphia. 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