Show IN UTAH FORTY YEARS AGO the following la Is reproduced from the Spring springville ville uth utah county independent of february 15 as a reminder to the boys of today how their fathers worked to establish homes in utah the sug gest ions of toll toil may afford food lor for thoughtful consideration on the part of you folks now a daye we believe it a good plan for us ug all to remember sometimes the manner in w which b ich the early at siti t tiers lere I 1 lived ived that we oan more fully appreciate our eur present prosperity and changed condition in a conversation with our friend thomas child the subject of early times time came up so as a natural consequence and aad we chatted away for thirty minutes our friend knows the history of those times by heart aud and his bis own awn experiences have not been always p pleasant I 1 basant and with the dangers and hardships of early years in this country there was but little romance mixed in to relieve the MODO tODY of privation and bard work in 1855 when the he territory was visited by grasshoppers and the crops croos greatly damaged and in many cases entirely destroyed it to ie not difficult to see nee that much suffering must nave bave followed this country being so far from the balance of civilization at this his time mr child lived at salt lake and tells how bow he be managed through those hard times to sustain his family belog being an englishman sad aad unused to pioneer life made it all the more mere difficult for him but this did not prevent him from launching out to co make the best of it ir his first work to utah was for a gardener in salt lake city he worked long and harus hari and each day the gar dever paid him in packages of garden seed those packages mr child would have to take after his work was done and go about town from door to door trying to sell them in this way he be procured a little bran shorts and flour and mixed them together for bread with this and a few small potatoes for tile family to subsist lupov he do left jet them and walked in midwinter mid winter from salt lake city to this place to find work his him first work in springville Spring ville oon misted elated of five day labor for which he be received fifty pounds of flour tibia this be a ent eat back to his wife and obil child dreu roo ao an m moved ved them here later on he and many others other helped to make spring baring villas ville worked on the roads road and bridges bridge and all that they received for choh pay was the pleasure they derived lo in seeing their adopted town improve and ana grow mr child in years back did a great deal daal for the public in assisting to build schoolhouses and helping on 00 various public enterprises when solomon chase remodeled and r refilled t the meetinghouse mr child collected eight hundred dollars from the tb people and paid up all dues due in eavy early years the church sent for their cou col verto verte each spring to missouri after bringing them from all parts of the earth to that place every town would burn job its portion mr chialdi conducted the business each spring which consisted of gathering irom from the people horses oxen wagons or anything that thai could be used to fit out men and ox teams to go a thousand tuo usand mlle miles it 19 was usually required 0 Spring springville ville to furnish ton ten leams leama a man to drive each team and a night guard with enough provisions anu clothing to last them down and back and mr child was appointed to set sec that it was all accomplished in proper time and if he be ever failed it la in not ou record in 1857 when the government of the united states deemed it necessary neue tu send troops to utah the people of the north and salt bait lake county were advised to leave their homes and come south mouth this migration has been called the move three hundred families were to be die distributed tri buted in Spring springville ville mr chalu was waa appointed to see that a I 1 buu bau shelter belter and a place to go he says saye not a family in springville Spring ville refused to open their doors to the thir work occupied nearly turee month but mr child rec received Ived no othi othet emolument wan than the gratitude 01 many huane hearts |