Show F FIRST BREWEr AND SALOON t 1 and I Editor lrl unoIn your questions nnsxvora + column of lust Sundays issue P W II If ilcslror to know me name first brew or tho parson who started the t cry in the city tni l if he was Mormon orG or-G tll and also when t whisky I waa irst soW and who started the first saloon in I I tho city and If I Mormon or Gentile would fully 1 I 1 To answer these questions I require more space than you can allow l I for such purpose The first brewery to f he started In the city was in lx > Z by Frank Pullon known to oldtlmera tS Blue Clay Pillion Ho it war when with for wasting bremlstufC I expostulated in making beer > who repliocl that he did not make boor lie made vinegar and 1C 1 pcopln would drink it before it became I sour he could not help It Pullons brew 1 south acrosa the the corner I cy was on from the Metropolitan corner II street John Eddlrss brewery was comparatively I compara-tively a late affair as the following per I t all In suns with their locntlons were mill111i1 1 ho I buMncss preceding him John Mellon Mel-lon south across the street from present Peart Oregon Short Line depot Jacob arcflcnt Metropolitan corner Mr ramson afterward lurnoil Into n uistillery First I West hotwcon North Temple and lirst North John l Dla7zartl southeast corner VcJt Temple and Fifth Soulh Joseph occupied by 1tl1l1 c Harrows site now I works William Parker bottling c i Sons the east Cullen hotel lot on et I joining Vest between Third Mr Baldwin second It and Fourth North James Gamble Hooper I t With the exception of Gamble I bench hut not C all Professed Mormons mc they were t t orthodox All the same iffi ercd runaldered l beer with the elm I 17 I nude good English or malt hops and nor tc I mile Ingredients < cBSfriffid balk 1 i 11 hum No oak chips cascarilla c itnd f Iuocosa In lhcl I I n I As to the liquor and saloon questions It I 1 liquors were sold here from the Brett set there was of the town when I I tlemcnl sell Livingston Klnkc t Co the t riy lo brought a first here first merchants tc come I the considerable quantity of liquor to I r catty In 1E19 The ordinances did not per I tint them to sell to be drunk on the with rr premises but If one wore acquainted have could O the proprietors or clerks he Of course 10 business in the warcroom hero the merchants that came i nearly all m The sold on the quiet tittenvanl liquor t assumed to have the ezr oltv I however > olusivo sale and control of it for many t 1 years In 1S52 the city in tho enforcement 101lC opened an agency on > ment oi this policy Ie tho lot now occupied by the Keeley cure the f Institute under the dlrettton of C I I I tInes where if one mil the price no f rould get from halt n Bill to a barrel a nit not to be drunk on time promises The F Itv continued to sell Mruor for many lpl 1 and finally I oars under various agents tn Wound It up under Mr Morton Th flrst saloon so called to open In the city was Sn 1F33 by f C Little at J 1 I iho old city bathhouse It did not pay C and was soon closed up There wore noM no-M I I furtlwr ventures In the saloon business i Jntll the fall of 1C53 when John Wallace J I opcnoii n liquor Saloon and gambling hall I C ot about where Wells Fargo r Cos bank I row stands ThC city has at times pro f riWod tho sale of llcfiiorii except through 11 its agcncv and In ISfiT Charlca Trow bridge l l tc beat this prohibition started a J dub upFialrs In the old John Kerr bull bul-l 5ip on Main street with liquors cigars I sued billiard tables galore All ono had til to do to become a member was to sign t the club roll l The city not to bo out it I < tone byiilt l out Bill Murlin n liquor It and bllHard saloon refuted It and started IOmiiPtllion bu noon found out that Its I j I i not every one that can run a tavern I Ir Sine the settlement of the damages In I ii he Kmjlcbrecit cnso the oily has only I II Insisted on time control of the business IL and tho City Fathers eocm to haio 1 S adopted a portion oC tlc Monroe doctrine rl and s < 5k to avoid any entangling Interference I F Inter-ference with the liquor tnui + ti I December 5 1003 OLD TIMER i I I Ii |