Show BRIEF HISTORY OF TOOELE continued from last week from the files of tho the transcript 20 years yeam ago apostle benson lost no time in preparing to carry cany out the task assigned him by president young lie ile soon took a trip to toselo to select a site for a saw mill as 03 that was tho the most needful of the two mills propos proposed edas as the hc first one would bo be a grout groat factor in n building tho the second with mr denson cams came john wife and civo children and robert skelton mr gravett bearett and family and captain wright aright and family faintly we understand arrived in tho the valley sometime before mr benson and company came the site selected was on the twin spring creek near to where the county grist mill and tannery now stand at milton little work was done with the mill that winter but captain wright who was a mill wright by trade was given the job to put up the mill tho the first settler 3 had hauled umber timber out of 0 f both pine and settlement canyons and tills oils timber was secured by mr air benson banson to start tho the work on tho the now new mill hy by this time winter had act in n but all the settlers were now under mud roofs in log cabins five houses had bad coon been built near where alex erasers Fra sers house now stands and there was plenty of fire wood handy for tho the hauling not over a mile away in the canyon and in those days there was plenty of cedar wood in the volley valley to many years besides the five alyo houses built near settlement creek there was another log cabin up towards middle canyon this was the home of blavett and his family as mr air blavett had not cast his lot int with the more compact col colony ony but had selected his homo home near to the waters of mft middles cam am 6 AIR e un 1 A MAI bo wod aloyed als a 01 family ami y I 1 into n to a thick patch of willows about half a mile below where the other families were located tho do fira winter was a hard one for the new settlers snow fell early eaily and often one of the snow storms swept over the valley for 48 hours houri and drifted the snow as high as the tall willows that grew along the creek two feet of snow had to be shoveled out of some of tho the cabins before they could start a fire alro tho the poor cattle died and the stronger teams suffered they sought shelter from the storma atoms along the willow drifts and there they aliey were found frozen and stiff but the settlers made the best of it the most of them were even content and i happy and they met together and sang praises to god and encouraged each other with the 60 bright future before them when the spring timo time would come and the summer work would begin again |