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Show RbMOVIHG THE OLD PORCH. It Awdiens Intirestlii0 Recollections ot Early Days In U,aa. MlltllUMs OI'IOIIM II. 1Kb .llltl. Meniotltor llajs llffor tln Mient or lcligraplM and llallreali lito , Ucitrrn Vnierlca. "I worked at tutting up tlio ornlcj on thai building forty two yeirs ago," ld(ieorgeltoiiitiej,of Taylor, Horn niy .. Arraslrong Cj , as he glanced up nt the workmen eugacd In removing remov-ing lhe tioioli lu front of tlio N i u a bullilug, which irutents sjcslto a ehange I a peirnnce today, That was lu 185)," continued Mr. Homney, In response to nu Uqulry, "when I first came to Ulali. '. Is a longtlmeno, aud theru have been n good many changes bIiio then All f the wcikmen except two or three engaged on that bull ling are dead now, 1 remember I was one ot lhe icULfce-ttlioru Thu circumstance of w orklug at thu cotnlio was deeply Im-premi-1 1 n my mind by an Incident at thutlme. My fatlur was forcniju of thu carpenters, audi drcamoJ that bu fell from the sialloldlug aud was hilled. This driam Blaitlod mo bo that I shall never forget It. Of oourse my father did not meet with any aooldeul, but a little thing like that will sjms . times msku a drep lini rcajlon. "When thu I ulldlng was comploled It was occupied bj a Church store, with I,dwlu I). Wuolloy In charge. 1 uasuugaged by him to haul umt ol thu crockery for the statu acroia the plains, and got bait ot It for my pay. That la whero I got ray dishes for housekeeping when I came bile. The lurch was not (hero till stout tilu yiars liter, when! put It up, being then foreman of tho i arpentirs an the ubllo wolks. Wo loverud oertheuld stis that weru In front. 1 rom lb5l) until '02 there were n number num-ber of chuiiKieln tlio onui anta of tho building. Or oof lhestortkiirB was John Needham, who crossed tho sea from I.lveriKiol at the samo time I did, la ltUI. His name wast alulod on the stele, with others, uud may robably be seen there yet " A search behind the debris for the auggistud names Irought to view more that was reminiscent of early dasln Utan and of mtu many of wbom have sssid Into the great beyond. be-yond. Ileutnth tho wooden stets of thu porch, which have stood so many i ears' wear uud tear, was broad lllght of red ssndstoue steps which lead to the main door of the building. 1'alnted on the stone bilustrades on eaih sldo of thisu steps may now be seen tho nameit John M. Huiini ii, Tiiod. B. Wn l iams, Wi. H. Huuiiii, J NO. Nl F111IA.M, J.NU. It. HOIIIIINd. Of tbeco Ave gentlemen, three aiu dead. Mr. Neednam Is now a resldeut of Logaii, aud Mr. Homer Uvea on the HanJwIch Islands. Thu occasion of their nsinis tielug laeed lu the situation situa-tion desirlbud was their Joint uccu-paocyof uccu-paocyof the building as n It nil of general gen-eral cnoiohandltedealerB. riiej started business ou thut remises lul&51 At that time the Nivtg building held Its placu as onu of thu (artist In thu city. In views of tho town taken In 1853 It an oars, next to the Tabernacle, Taber-nacle, as tho most I romlnent, Wbeu first erected It was occupied as a store, tho first consignment of hoods that wire sold in It having been purchased by thu late l.dwutd Hunter and J.dw lu I). Woolley, ho went back to the states for that I urposu In the autumn ol lb 19. l'rovlauslo 1S52 the NhWB occupied a small lullJlug east of Its (resent quarters, but In that year It took possession pos-session of part of tha resent remises, audromalued thorofiru considerable period. It was lu 163J that tbo build-iiigwaahlcrcd, build-iiigwaahlcrcd, and thu manner of work shows tho couiaratlve valuu of labor and some classes of materials In Utah at that early lay. Thamcansof holding Iho plaster lo tha walls was attained by boring holes Into tho adobes with an augur. This wss no light task 111 a three story bulldlnr, lut nails were not to be tuought of. Ihey ha I to be haulod by ox team over n thousand milts, and enough for the urposu would have cost a smill fortune. A msu with an augur, at from I J to $1 per day,wos good deal cheartbau ual's. One of the kuiuitucn who will bore-immberud bore-immberud In thu store of Hornur, Williams, Hooier&Co.lsHamucl W, Hlchardsor this city, lleforu the firm started lu business, the portion of the building theysulsequently camo Into possession of woj onupluJ partly by thosturo which had been originally Instituted lu It, and pertly b) the post-olHw. post-olHw. This latter luilllullon lu those daya haJ u more I rclentlous ni proach In comparison with thu BurrouudlugB than It has had at uny tlmu since, for n broad lllght of neatly cut stone steps makes quite a resuntnblu u i earsneo. lleforu Mr. Williams embarked In his enterprise with the llrm named, ho was one of thu I roi rlotors of a general merchandise store loratod where thu Deseiel I unk building now stands, aud whom the storu backyard took In the wlioluofu oily lot "ire lolling twenty rods east from the corner nnd ten rods tu thu north lhe udverllsoniint,of Williams A. lllalr, at that place, appears ap-pears lu the early luues of tnu Hpeaklng of Mr. Wllllsms, an old resident of this city said todayi "I remember hlra quite well, and bow hi got broke aud alter. wurds liiuJo n raleu and started In Willi Mr. Hooper and otlurs In the Nkhd corner. Hack lu '51 and '52 be did a good buslnus. At that time thero was ii heavy Hale east In the pelts or wolves anJ other wild animals, aud Ihcsu were I leulllul here. Ihoy weru hauled to tha frontier by teams, and uhliped from there to New York, Mr. Williams I aid for them out oflni slon, and of mtirso took Inn big lot. Hu snipped a laigu conslgnruent east, ninl aiiileli attcl gulling n goo I price. Hut when the pells got tin ru they weio down In tbo msrket He could not realize anything Irnm them, so ho left llieui on Iho commission niont's hands. That broke up Wllllamt' justness at tho bank corner, "Ho then went to California to make a ralie. With Win. H. UoJ u- ho en-gaged en-gaged In haullugsuiilles lo the mines In the (lolieii Btatp. Ab.ut llireu years after Wllliaiut' failure, ho got word tint tho 1 articular varieties ot ells that hu had lu wfisl had been eoii'UcroJ n valueless alook had goue up In the market, nnd thu furs wiro all the ragi. Ills commlston agent sold them for n big irlci, and informed Wllllitni that bit bad some thousands of dollars to bla credit at tho bank. "Williams did no mora In California than to get ready uud sail for Nuw York. Down tow aril the I minus, tlio vessel on whlib bo emiiatkid was wrecked. He was Instruiusulal lu saving tho llvis of n numlier of lis. sengirr, nnl whunhugotto New oik and thu ileus was published, bo was tho Hun of thu hour. Huhal money aud fame. It was not long before he was lu lhe 1 arluershlp referred to " Mr. 11 oper, one of Iho llrm with Mr. Williams, afterwards I cranio Utah's delegutu In Congtess and Is still well known In tint ounectlou, as well as with the flrui of Hooper A. I.llrejge and luauy of Utah's leading lluanulal Institution.. Mr. Ilobbius died imny years ago. Hmio of his deccndauUi live In Cache Valley. Mr. Humor Is now a wealthy plantation planta-tion owner on thu Hawaiian I. lands, and reelJes at Honolulu, He Is one ot tbo subscribers to the Nl wo. Joseph Dull, Ben , of Dili clly, who had an extensive acquaintance with men on the I'aclflcCiiustlnearl) uays, salt today of Mr. Horueu "1 know him well He was n partner with Horner, Williams ,k iloo, ir, In 1S5), though he n ver ws la Utih. He ha 1 a beautiful homestead In California, Califor-nia, midway along thu coast between Ban Joau nuj the bay of Han 1'raucbco, "Mr. Iluruer went to Hsu I ranclsoo from Nuw turk, lu IS "I, lu the ship lltooVjn, and soon luadi agood atari. At onu lime be was tr wealthiest man oil the coast. H'ot un old Bpanlsh grants aud onuei all along the toast Irom Han Jo to thu bay uf ban Frauolaco, ubout flftr miles. In those times lu California John M. Itnrtiftr'a finmn wnalM-llMrlltaiin t.nnlr Men would red r depositing money with him to i uttlug II In n bank. His signature was good for any amount he chose to draw, "Hut hu was too accsmniodatlng for his own eiood. When thu Ilnauelnl puulo ot lb5J camu on the coast, he endorsed en-dorsed paper for others, believing that tbey would lull through. Hut they did not, and lie lost his property. He struggled on. und wss uoulldeut that he would redeu u all, but ho did not. riiesu endorsements, with his own speculations, were too much for him. When ruomas H Williams started In business hire, Mr Horner luvisted some money lu the etjru as a sort of nest-egg, but ha afterwards aold out. He always used to be saying that bu was coming to Utah, bat bu never got here, "Mr. Horner was an Inventor, too, Hu Invented one of the best washing tiiBculuis I evir saw, I have bad onu at my bouie for 25 years " Many other momorlessre called forth by reference to those days and times, when It took more months to cross from "tbo frontier," or where Omahu now Is, than It does das at present, lhe tclsgraL.li, railway and numberless other features, theu unknown In thu Itocky Mountains, are now lu such common com-mon use that we could not well gut aloiigwlthouttlum. With the Inlluxuf foiuJBtlon has oouiu tho transformation transforma-tion of this once desert plaoo lutu h fruitful garden, nnd a, new generation has ei rung up, to whom the tolls and hardships of the floater settlers aru but un echo of the past. Yet, 'tis music's sound tolhe broad an Jsymia-Ihetlo Jsymia-Ihetlo hearts that beat within thu bissms of Utah's sous und daughters. |
