Show EChOeS from the dUSt of Tridell y VI I I 11 Tridell belongs to the Whiterocks precinct and was established about Tridell Ward was organized in the year 1916 under the name of Liberty Ward with C. B. bishop and Horace Morrill and John Merkley Harmond ward J tik Ward coated of dells or draws West and Center and a section of country to the situated upon Whiterocks ben- The first public building was a schoolhouse In center draw built by citizens The building was of logs and was long used as a community center to which the settlers gathered for theatricals and This old community home was torn down only two years and though the people were glad to replace it with buildings more pretentious and yet in some cases tears of tender memories were shed at the sight of the demolishment of the old A goodly number of boys and girls who were pupils there are now numbered among the useful citizens of the State of Sixteen high school school teachers of Utah have enlisted from most of whom now teaching in various parts of the The Church of the ward has sent out to the Northwestern states two mis- to the central states and one r to the southern states and Within the boundaries bj Tridell voting precinct are over acres of arable alfalfa vegetables and fruit thrive Because of our sunny exposure corn shipped from Tridell annually to parts of the basin Our close proximity to the forest reserve and cattle ranges had led to the development of small herds of beef cat- tie in the community and also herds of sheep and many excellent dairy The earliest settlers of Tridell were from and brought stands of bees Vernal of their early experiences would make interesting history with veins of both humor and For one lady relates that at one time about the year 1910 or while she was living in a tent a terrible the type of which the settlers called broke the sending the people to seek safety upon or higher ground than that upon which ey were were c As as the e st the good woman hasten- l rescue the belongings of a a fellow who with her family was on a trip to When the brave Samaritan returned to her own tent to her dismay she found that her own entire store of household goods was several feet under water Water was running out of her flour box and sewing machine Another for these were of the truest hitched up her husband's team while he was gone to earn some clothes for the ly and harrowed and planted twenty acres of land which pro- a fine crop of food supplies for the ensuing The sPirit of the settlers in this part of the like that of the settlers in most other has been expressed in verses were written by a local writer and read at the first meeting of the in the year 1923 s Eastern Empire At the foot of the Old Sparkling with lakes and Lies Utah's Eastern Empire Girt round with purple hills Broad reach of vale and bench-lands Best virgin the While thru their lowland basins The winding rivers d e brooding over spirit of the home rises from the And it lives for those who And breathes for those who Arto raught Utah's eastern |