Show I In nth the e Beg Beginning j n n j n g By j. j Cecil o A Alter ler Schools and Stores The City of the Great Salt Lake put on metropolitan airs rapidly in 1850 1849 and the letters journals jour journals jour jour- journals nals and minutes of the public meetings of the people began to report many enterprises that were vere new in Zion In the fall faU of 1848 October 11 BrIgham ham Young had written to Ezra T. T Benson The people are all wanting you OU to send on the printing presses type t paper paper paper pa pa- per ink and so forth that they may begin to receive rece knowledge once more through the medium of oC the time press and as you will see the people arc are beginning to be scattered into different cities and towns in the aIle valley and that is the most convenient method of communicating it to them The printing press came along in due time but in the meanwhile there came the corner grocery and the common schools which everybody attended and which served cr very well for gathering and disseminating gossip a adjusting adjust adjust- just just- ing the gold standard and educating edu edu- eating cating entertaining and directing the people generally The record states incidentally that Brigham H H. Youn Young was busy at the printing printing print print- ing office unpacking and sorting type September 14 11 1819 1849 but the newspaper was deferred nine months from Crom that time Study TahItian As early as December 10 1818 18 Elder Eider John L. L Smith wrote of ora ofa a school school- I 1 am attending Tahitian school three evenings in a n week Elder Addison Pratt recently re returned re- re turned from the Society islands mission is teacher and amid we can alrea already read translate and spell some words and sentences About 20 persons attend the school There were other schools also as mentioned in iii the news notes 0 of the day January 14 ii 1849 President dent Brigham Youn Young attended the funeral Cunera services service for or the wife of oC Willard Snow held in Phelps' Phelps j schoolhouse Two Sundays later January 21 President Young at attended attended at- at tended a meeting in Phelps' Phelps schoolroom The rho following win wIn- ter we find that the high council met in Heber C Kimball's Kimballs schoolroom school school- schoolroom room November No 24 1819 The general cne al assembly of the state of oC Deseret passed an ordinance ordinance nance nanco for the tho establishment of oC the University of or o on 01 jJ February Feb F- j 23 28 18 1850 0 And on March 13 1850 the record states ta es that the recently elected chancellor and regents of the University of Deseret Des- Des erot eret called a committee to select selecta I a suitable location for the proposed pro proposed proposed pro pro- posed university building and also for buildings for primary primar schools Old and amid Young Young- in Schools Howard Stansbury sojourning in the city that winter sInter states that liberal appropriations of land and money have been made for forthe forthe forthe the establishment of a n university the grounds for Cor which are arc laid out and being situated on one of the tho terraces of the tho mountain overlooking the city A normal school designed for the education of those who desire to become teachers Is already in successful successful suc sue operation Schoolhouses have been built bum in most of the districts districts districts dis dis- both In the city and country country country coun coun- try which are attended by old as aswell aswell well as young and every effort is made to advance the mental improvement im mi- provement of the tile people Elder Orson Spencer chancellor chancel chancel- lor br of the University of Deseret issued an appeal to patrons of learning throughout the world April 17 1850 to contribute towards the establishment of the institution of learning It was mentioned that the stud study of oC foreign foreign for for- eign languages angua es would be stressed and that in Great Salt Lake City boarding facilities could be furnished furnished furnished fur fur- to students in private fam fani- families families where more than 20 Jivin living langua languages es of oC Europe India and the islan islands s of oC the Paci Pacific lc and of ot western America were verc spoken Money Jonc Lack No o Bar BarIt BarIt BarIt It was also announced that graduates of oC colleges es and students students students stu stu- dents of or law Jaw medicine and theology theology the the- might have the privilege of attending weekly lectures gratis No person would be denied the benefits of the university for want of or financial means Donations would be received by Orson Pratt in Iii Liverpool England John Taylor Tay Tay- lor br 01 Paris France Lorenzo Snow in Ita Italy Erastus Snow in Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen Copen Copen- hagen Denmark and Orson Hyde in the United States The funds j sO o obtained would be used to qualify qualify iCy teachers for common schools and academics academies and and for procuring such books book apparatus and so forth as should be necessary A record states that William Villiam ClayLon Clayton Clayton Clay Clay- ton Lon opened up a b bo boo o shop ml and library In lh the CO house on June 21 18 1850 1830 0 must have I been a great jO joy to Ute the people Stores were about as difficult to start as schools The authorities authorities authorities ties suggested April 5 1850 that thata a general storehouse be erected in which to store provisions for forthe forthe forthe the poor and on April 12 an epistle epistle epis epis- tle tie of the first presidency indicated indicated indi indi- the foundation had been laid On April 23 1850 President Young wrote rotc We Ve arc are putting up a large storehouse on the southeast corner of the council house lot that was the Deseret News corner for a temporary accommodation for Livingston Co which was probably the storehouse intended for the poor but temporarily given to the new storekeepers July 31 1850 George A. A Smith says Thomas Williams h ha erected a large store two stories high 70 feet long and 25 feet wide He expects to fill fiJI it with goods goodsIn In a few days Reese have also erected a large storehouse storehouse storehouse store store- house and another has been erected for Kinkade Kinkade Livingston Other goods arc are arriving Andon And Andon Andon on September 29 1850 Smith stores writes again Several fine have been erected here this summer summer summer sum sum- mer and are filled with the choicest choicest choicest est productions of the best eastern eastern east east- the doleful howl em ern markets and of the desert wo wolf has hils given way to the hum of business and the sound of merry voices Crime Wa Wave Vae Here are arc some sonic of those sounds translated into news neW's shop was broken Into and robbed of five watches and the till of oC Williams Blairs Blair's store was isas robbed of some sonic silver siler October 28 s 1850 II Four days later it was lear learned ed that Captain Geor George e D. D Grant had apprehended five of the tile thieves who were on their way way to the gold od mines and that he was in pursuit of the others During the month of October 1850 Williams Blair Livingston Livingsto Kinkade John and Enoch Reese and Holladay Warner Varner had opened general dry goods hardware and other stocks of goods g for sale sac It was announced these merchants were doing a afine afine afine fine business with th the public though Elders and anti and had brought h in a train of goods for the church and Elder EIder Elder El El- der Wilford Woodruff rufi returning from a mission brought ht In 10 io wagon loads lands of oC goods for his law brother Ilus lIus F F. F Carter |