| Show 01UR VERN N Mill BUD To the IMIlor The brief record In the News with rcsqrd to mlllbulldlns nl 1 represented by nichop r Kcslir of the Sixteenth ward this city reminds tho under of that equally famous mlllbulldcr lllsh op Archibald Gardner Mho for many learn piesldcd over the West Jordan wOld In this Halt Lake Stake of Zion Dlshol Gardner wa one ot Iho 110 neera of IS 17 He was burn In Nit sythe Stirlingshire Scotland Sept I 1SU with his brother Hubert and the wives of boththey came westward from the province of Ontario Upper Canada arriving In now Utah October 1st with the general emigration of fortyBcvcn under the captaincy ot the late Ir sldent John Taylor Hlshop Hunters hundred Joseph Homes fifty rind In A Gardners ten Nineteen parapet appear In the list ot that Yenr most of whom were or now ore doubt less of that family Ton rc calved badges ni evidence that they were rionocru If some three of four Inme nllerwals Ourdns hy mar Itage Jllahop Gardner prior to tho anti polygamy crusade was Itnown as a man of large family and aa such belt came amenable to Ihe law hut 1w found lt convenient to locate In Star t Valley Wyoming while he lived for many years building mills there tin he had done In Utnh Place the days of the Pioneers The writer met him on tho streets In this city over u year ago The hI ave hard working Iutrlulle nnd untiring limit had eonclnd1 that he would vacate Star t Valley And return to end his days vvlth h3 former loves And kindred rauli ulth whom ha had labored for PO many yearn After his urilvnl aged though he was ho saw n mill site and thojigh he might easily have found an excuse as his friends did for him upon that site his Imagl nation now a mill which his energy speedily transformed from a mature of the bruin to an active reality This lie dellncd 10 the writer mas Ihe thlr tYlourth mill ho had built In Utah under un-der clnll1llIlte hlch no common mill ever could late surmounted 7 lie first mill ot his In our memory rlvvp was piobRbly I that on the Jordan river but lie most prominent one of the early lift lea wn the famed Gardners mill on the Male t road six miles south of this city Curiously enough all these milt Parsed ono by one nut 01 tile bulldets hands no mailer whothu they were for glint or lumberthe name fatality seemed to befall each I one It max something too to build n I mill In those ely days ot least fort the ff rat mill Irons made for-t Brother Gardner on dollar pr pound and the stories or burrs hume made as they were In the main were almost n luxury because 01 tile cost This was el course before Imported French harem l oupucded the rough crude home product and gave the people IInr flour In the sixties nlshop Onrdnr to the surprise 01 President Young ordered from a commllon merchant here nn unuunllty I1ne LOllln silk for those 11111 I The am agent was buying lion hoilihot very enon for the President and lite llelltlllly mentlulled the prior fact hn the former order wu I countermanded And the sam Promptly I higher I grnfl w tell tor I he Ions famous City etc k mill After disposing 01 the lat mill i built liy lien Gardner In thin sellln tin exlllihon foutl Inanition liic npatl No with his temperament If It wa not will himijre PlI 1 I relorn1 ieain In Star 1 I ne Wyoming Tho latest rctllaffi t tv retrLikablem3n J Pit Itr wa In the Nema a ivhlo 1 pgo stating that he was then quite lanr oiiflj pick Late Inquiry fron one of h1 l faithful family In the West Jltrlnn vail gave the Brntlfylnjr nws of hli partial lecnvery an1 expected return to this section of the country Time would fall to tell of the mighty worthies of those days such ni the late father Crlsmon who Is I said to have built the first mill In these valley val-ley then Father Chase who ran the III t turesque mill now partly remaining In IlbertvparU I Still t further cast on Canyon Creek stood the Neff Mill for Yearn a household word Btrag ailing In tint neighborhood the other day the nether millstone of that primitive prim-itive era was noticed by the wayside halt Imbedded the debris of the Pea son Tit ls to I a homemade ono also from the west mountains If memory serves Neither It nor Its partner the upper nlllstone were ever Iron banded nn 11 consequence i tho litter by cartel i fugal force Hew In nil directions luckIly luck-Ily noope was at the time Inclose proximity prox-imity or fatal results might have ensued en-sued The nether or remaining stone should be garnered by the latent Ills toilnl society If It should ever get beyond the embryo condition Atst but not least Pie ldent Young himself wu I1n Indefatlglble mlllbuld er and owner lie also encouraged And aided others In oveiy direction as set tIments were flamed anJ extended train Cache Valley 10 the 1110 Virgen Thelmloaxonflits hnnd and enterprise gradually created lumber mlllR eardlng and wooden nllls and all forms or con IrlbuIIll machinery which tho cllcnm I stances lpmanded or required III theme contEntlous times these lime when PelfInflated demagogues would HIP our State and Ignore the workeiv itho laid the foundation thereof there-of And bgall 10 build we ask ourh tho question what Is I or has been tile the coralm Alive value of these two clanrcm 10 this locality and to the world at lag Surely we their nooelate and ureesol ought to know the dif fortoCil heln the giants of those day Ana the plgmlres of these though the latter may draplso and Ignore the toll And sacrifice of tho former seekIng seek-Ing In Inot I to turn their pustellty from it reOrnual I estimate of the fathers to their sickly Imitators who claims J homage N0110 they hind heavy hurtben anti Ifehous to Ile borne lajing them on men 8 holliers whll a I 2T Uy themi A hs II nol moe thom with one of their fingers N |
