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Show THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955 LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL UTAH Lehi Girls Gather WalterL. Webb Writesof Early Day Events in the Sugar Industry Funds For Richard Ferrell Discharged Editor NoteWalter L. Webb Lehl octegenarian, was a prominent figure in the development of the beet sugar industry in this country. Some" of the highlights of his experiences have been recorded in his memoirs which reveal a colorful side of Lehi's early history. The second article In a series, follows: In those days we knew nothing and except man-powhorse-powand just a little about of power er er the water-pow- er the that ran machinery in the old flour mill which was torn down and replaced by the sugar factory. Also the steam power that ran the locomotives on the trains. After the factory was running it did not seem possible that the smooth-runnin- g engine was supplying the run all the machinery in to power the factory. People would stand for hours watching this engine run. It seemed impossible to get the employees to understand the danger of working with such a power. There was also the danger of the power of electricity. The sugar centrifugals, when at full speed, ran so smothly there seemed to be no danger there. Then they were unloaded by hand with a large wooden paddle. This was dangerous and great care was necessary. Talking would not convince the operators of these machines. When an operator was badly injured and died they were convinced there was danger. When a man was badly burned in the boiler room they learned the dang er of fire and steam. In the sugar warehouse all the sugar bags, both the inside cotton bag and the outside burlap, were sewed by hand with heavy sack needle. One night after all sack sewing was aone, one of the men began poking in the lamp socket with his needle after the electric bulb naa Deen removed. He wanted to find out where the light came from. The shock soon told him; then all the lights went out. The piling and stacking the bags of sugar seemed a simple and easy job but after some stacks got moving and pushed out the brick wall they decided this job was not so simple. The flat top carbonators were a big source of danger from the escaping gas making the men by sick. These were replaced tight tanks with a vent to the roof. One of the early campaigns a farmer from a distant town contracted and grew some beets which he harvested and hauled to the factory. After unloading them he waited around nearly all day. When asked what he was waiting Mr. for he said for his sugar. Cutler, the manager, had to explain to him that a sugar factory was not like the flour mill where he took his wheat and got his He told the men to give flour. him some sugar and let him go home. Every year after the factory started the Indians used to make their annual factory trip with their usual story, "Me want sugar." Manager Cutler always told the men to give them the sugar. In 1899 the American Beet Sugar Co. was planning the building of a sugar factory at Rocky Ford, Colorado. The company requested T. R. Cutler to send some men to Rocky Ford to do some pioneer work in growing sugar beets on Irrigated land. I was one of the group sent there. We arrived there early in the spring before farm work began. I met W. K. Winterhalter who was in charge of the field work. My first Job was to look over the land already contracted for beets. These contracts had been secured by men who were paid on an acreage basis. The contracts given me were for land in the Rocky Ford district. As I found the various pieces of land I found many contracts covered hillsides, swamps and river bottoms which had never been farmed. As I finished this section I went up the river to Fowler where contracts had been signed. Like the Rocky Ford district, the main field crop had been melons and I found some good acreage. However, one farmer surprised me. He had contracted a nice piece of ground which I said would raise fine sugar beets but he objected saying the land had grown melons for several years and he was sure the melons had taken all the sugar out of the land. As early as possible we got most of the ground ready for planting. The implement companies now were beet drills selling good four-rowhich the sugar company had ready and we pushed the planting as rapidly as possible. By the time this was all done we had a good acreage and most of it on good land. Soon thinning time came and then we were up against trouble. The farmers had never grown a d crop and did not like the thinning idea at all. It was impossible to get labor to do this work and it had to be done right away or no beet crop. Finally the factory manager decided to send to New Mexico and get Mexicans for this work. When the people of Rocky Ford heard of this there was real trouble. They threatened to ride us out of town on a rail. A mass meeting was called and after we explained the condition the crowd cooled down and agreed to let the Mexicans come in under certain regulations. To get this thinning done in time we were working from daylight till dark every day. As soon as I could get a place to live I sent to Lehi for my wife who spent the summer with me. It got warm there; some days up to 100 degrees. Continued Next Week w hand-thinne- the Interests and welfare of Lehl Cky Published by the Free Press Publishing Co., Every Thursday E. Russell Innes, Publisher OIAHSIAIEPatft Howard 770 B. Brown North Center Phone Lehi 505-- C7-- W Septic Tanks and Cesspools Cleaned " t d i ' f - jj ) i :, f ' ptr """" "' i y, j Ay- Leo Hadfield r JS1 - , 'Kelly" Wilson Born and raised in Lehi. Active in church work. Member of Seventy Quorum and presently YMMIA president in First Ward. Employed at local Brick Plant and also is a farmer. Married and father of four boys and one girl. 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Ifeu'll love our RATES Entered at the postofhee at Lehl, Jtah, as second class matter tinder the act of Congress March 3, 1879 Kitchen Cabinet Overseas Duty Lower Auto Insurance ASSOCIATION Subscription Per Year (in advance) Home After HERE ARE YOUR From Air Force Adopting a suggestion given in their favorite magazine as a good way to observe Halowe'en, four wt Lehi girls have organized a club to aid needy children overseas. With Nila Evans as chairman, the committee consists of Bonnie Ball, Diane Powell and Nadine Lyon The girls canvassed the area below Wane E. Christensen and Clark Main Street and plan to complete their calls above Main Street be- Thompson accompanied a sroup of friends to Ephraim on a sucfore Hallowe'en. cessful deer hunt. They left FriThe "treats" they have requestand returned Sunday evening. day ed have been contributions for the United Nations' International NOTICE TO CREDITORS Children's Emergency Fund. The money collected will be sent to Estate of James Brooks, deceased. Creditors will present claims headquarters in New York where with vouchers to the undersigned food articles and will be clothing Law Office purchased and shipped overseas to Administratrix at the 114 West Korea and other areas where there of Harvard R. Hinton, Main, Lehi, Utah, on or before are needy children. December 20, 1955. The girls plan to show a moving Nelda B. Carter, Administratrix. picture at the school showing just First Publication, Oct. 20. 1955. how the organization works and Last Publication Nov. 10, 1955. the results of junior club projects. Happy over the response to their NOTICE TO CREDITORS call, the girls wish to express apEstate of ALPHONZO W. DAto all who contributed preciation VIS, also known as A. W. DAVIS, and for the courtesy shown them. deceased This is the second year that the Creditors will present claims group has conducted their special vouchers to the undersigned at 810 "Hallowe'en" tour. Deseret Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, on or before the 14th day of February, A. D., 1956. Robert L. Jones Airman lc Robert L. Jones has returned from overseas duty in Japan and received his discharge from the US Air Force, this month, at San Antonio, Texas. He spent Vt years in the Air Force, with 2V2 years in Japan. He served as a radio operator and technician. His wife, the former Carol Stokes, spent 14 month? in Japan. Their little son, Darwin Lee, now 2Vt years old, was born in Japan and learned to use some Japanese words. A form r student at .thi b'jtfi school, M. Jones completed Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Wathen and th course while in the service. Ha son, Bruce, have returned to is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Jones, former Lehi residents, who Logan, after spending the week- have lived in Michigan for the past end here with the M. W. Wathen three years. His father is now family, and joining in the deer superintendent of the Franklin hunt. Boyd resumed his studies sugar factory there. The young at the USAC. couple plan to live in Lehi. The Lehl Free Press A weekly newspaper devoted to Foreign Children UUUUU,WPOTTOSS,.,SSSS.S..A GO! Its heart-lifting'sty- foretells breath- le taking action like you've never known Strato-Strea- k d highest-powere- incomparable smoothness of Hydra-Mati- V-- 8 and the Strato-Flig- ht c. A torrent of smooth, eager, split-secon- d power impatiently awaits only the nudge of your toe to blaze alive with the greatest "go" on wheels! And the security of big brakes and easy, instant handling gives the clue to the greatest safety ever built into a car. Why not make a date to send your spirits soaring? 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