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Show 20 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, October 4, 2007 Si inigvi jpitts of S astray Helen Beardall The years 1851-1852 saw much expansion in the new town of Spring-ville. Spring-ville. There was an awful lot of hustle and bustle about, as settlers moved out of the fort area to farm and to acquire land for their personal needs and to set up businesses. Edward O. Haymond was the first blacksmith in Springville and he kept his anvil ringing for a long period of time, but he also did the first gardening in the way of cultivating fruits and berries. ber-ries. Edward Hall and family also came into town. He being a very industrious gentleman helped James Potter and Jacob Houtz in building the first flouring mill in Springville. When the wheel and flume were ready for the water to turn the grinding equipment, equip-ment, nearly all the men and boys in town turned out with wagons, picks and shovels and built the dam and the race through which the water from Hobble Creek or springs would flow. This mill served the community for many years and provided a good grade of flour. Schooling was another area that was important to the new town. Miles Ingalls and Phoebe Miller " taught school during the autumn and winter in the fort school house. Reading Read-ing materials in the fort were in short supply and the few books available were read and re-read. Mail was received from the East but twice a year and was eagerly looked for because often an occasional oc-casional letter and a few newspapers brought news from the childhood homes of our Springville pioneers. Early in the winter of 1851-1852 some surveying had been done and the selection se-lection of a central location loca-tion for the city public square (which stands to this day) and the central school were established before the casing of lots were made to select lots of land, which would be 12 12 rods square with no more than 20 acres that each could claim for irrigation. The first wells were dug in the spring of 1852, one of which William Miller dug and was in use for many years to come. The spring of 1852 saw the completion of a saw mill in the mouth of Hobble Creek Canyon by H.H. Kearns and H.H. Cole. The new settlers were now able to procure plenty of lumber from cedar, fir and pine logs hauled from the forks and a building boom struck the town in earnest. ear-nest. Previously, many loads of logs were hauled to Provo for the sawing process. An adobe yard was laid off in the eastern part of Bishop Johnson's field, near which flowed from beneath the bluff, the clear cool "adobe yard spring" where the labor er sat at noontide in the shade to eat his bread, which often had no other dressing than a dip in the sparkling water. Lath for the homes were made by cutting strips from 34 inch cottonwood boards. The shingles were shaved with a draw knife; many of the floors were pegged down because be-cause of the scarcity of nails and their high price. The nails were made by the village blacksmith and cost about a cent each for eight penny nail or horse shoe nails. Every family needed a home and the lush fields of grasses soon gave way to the establishment of homes. Ditches needed to be dug and there was no difficulty to get 20 men with plows and oxen to turn out and make a canal through the hard, baked soil. Ten oxen were attached to the largest plow in town, one fitted on purpose pur-pose at "Pap" Haymond's forge. The most stalwart men were selected to hold the plow, one to wield the lash and steer the animals, ani-mals, while the remainder remain-der followed up and with spade and shovel cleared away the loose earth. The town of Springville was well on its way to becoming a great established estab-lished community with the number of homes and need for fuel growing daily. In the winter, the great Utah Lake froze over by December, and with bob sleds hastily constructed, a party of 10 or 15 teams headed by Bishop Aaron Johnson went over the lake to the west side and procured loads of dry cedar wood, each wagon carrying two cords. These trips were continued con-tinued all through the winter. This wood not only provided heat for the new homes, but lighted the dwellings in those early days. Candles were very scarce and a very common light consisted con-sisted of grease placed in a saucer into which a wick made of twisted . cotton cloth was laid. As the wick burned it was clipped off with snuffers until all was consumed. This community can proudly sing praises, as we learn and read of the trials and accomplishments accomplish-ments of the pioneer heritage we have been blessed with. (These notes were taken tak-en from the D.C. 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