| Show OTHER VETERAN MILL BUILDERS the brief record in the news with regard to mill building as represented by bishop F kesler of the sixteenth ward this city reminds the reader of that equally famous mill builder bishop archibald gardner who tor for many years presided over the west jordan ward in this salt lake stake of zion bishop gardner was one of the pioneers of 1847 he was born bom in kil sythe Stirling shire scotland sept 2 1814 with his brother robert and the of both they came westward from the province of ontario upper canada arriving in now utah october lot with the general emigration of forty seven under the captaincy ot of the late president john taylor bishop hunters hundred horn homes es efty aty and in A gardners gardeners Gard ners ten nineteen names appear in the list of that year most of whom were or no now are doubtless of that family ten received badges as evidence that they were pioneers if some three of four became afterwards gardners gardeners Gard ners by marriage bishop gardner prior to the crusade was known as a man of large family and as such became amenable to the law but he found it convenient to locate in star valley wyoming where he lived for many years building mills there as he had done in utah since the days of the th e pioneers Pion eera the writer met him on the he streets in this city over a vear ago the brave hard working patriotic and untiring man had concluded that he would vacate star concluded valley III ey and return to end his days wi his former I 1 loves oves and kindred souls with whom he labored for so many years after his arrival aged though he was he saw a mill site and though he might easily have found an excuse as his friends did for him upon that site his imagination saw a mill which his energy speedily traps transformed formed from a creature odthe of the brain to an active reality this he declared to the writer was the thir ty fourth mul he had built in utah under circumstances which no common man ever cowd could have surmounted the first mill of his in our memory was probably that on the jordan river but the most prominent one of the early fifties was the famed gardners gardeners Gard ners mill on the state road six miles south of t this city curiously enough all these mills passed one by one out of the builders build ets hands no matter whether they were for grist or lumber the same fatality seemed to befall each one it was something too to build a mill in those early days at least for the first mill irons made cost brother gardner on dollar per pound and the stones or of burrs home made as they were in the main were almost a luxury because of the cost this was of course before imported french burrs superseded the rough crude home product and gave the people finer flour in the sixties bishop gardner to th the e surprise of president young ordered from a commission merchant here an 7 unusual lly fine bolting silk for those times the same agent was buying bolt that very season for th the e president and incidentally mentioned the prior fact when the former order was promptly countermanded and the same it not a higher grade was substituted for the long famous city creek creak MM after disposing of the last mill built by iro bro gardner in this section the ex bishop found inanition with ids his temperament if it was not latif his tife aud he returned again to star sear aloey wyoming the latest lucico of avis tvis man d ai was in the news a while ago stating that he was then quite dangerous sick late inquiry from one of ast faithful family in the west jordan waid vaid gave the gratifying news of his partial recovery and expected return to this section of the country time would fall tp tell of the mighty worthies of those days such as the late father crismon who is said to have built the first mill in these valleys then father chase who ran the picturesque mill now partly remaining in liberty park still further east on canyon creek stood the neff mill for years a household word btag straggling in that neighborhood the other day the nether millstone of that primitive era was noticed by the wayside half im bedded in the debris of the sea son this is a homemade home made one also from the west mountains if memory serves neither it nor its partner the upper millstone were ever iron banded as a consequence the latter by centrifugal force flew in all directions luckily no one was at the time in close proximity or fatal results might have ensued the nether or remaining stone should be garnered by the latent historical society if it should ever get beyond the embryo condition last but not least president youn young 9 himself was an indefatigable er and owner he also encouraged and aided others in every direction as settlements tle ments were formed and extended from cache valley to the rio bio virgen the impress of his hand and enterprise gradually created lumber mills carding and wooden mills and all forms of con tributary machinery which the circum in these contentious times these times when self inflated demagogues would rule our state and ignore the workers who laid the foundation thereof and began to build we ask ou ourselves rs elves the question what Is or has been the the comparative value of these two classes to this locality and to the world at large surely we their associates and successors ought to know the dif ference between the giants of those days and the pig mires of these though the latter may despise and ignore the toll toil and sacrifice of the former seeking in fact to turn their posterity from a reverential estimate of the fathers to their sickly imitators who claims homage while they bind heavy burtrens bur and gre ivous to be borne laying them on mens sho ulers while they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers N |
