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Show 3B THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, February 25, 1988 HISTORIPai FEATURE - Early Settlers Farmed, Dug Canals To Make The Desert Blossom As A Rose by LaRee Pehrson Green Sheet Staff Writer MAGNA. In the years before copper became king on the west side of the valley, settlers here made a living by selling farm produce, hauling wood from the canyons, making bricks from the dobie pits and freighting goods from one place to another. Sixth In A Series West. Thomas Skating Rink In Magna Open Through March 26 According to Janice Fisher, rink coordinator, the third and final session of ice skating lessons will conclude on March 26. Lessons are offered at 10 and 11 a.m., with all levels of skating being taught both hours. The cost of the sessions will be $15, and students may register by calling 14184 JI (Hnd Model 7543 19 I RESCREEN STORM WINDOWS ft DOORSI ACE, W( D.li.r til 2121 Guilders mar- - 3355 Wait 3500 South In Granger llncludes: W. Cut Reg. 35 tdJ yuTigbIautyTaTon j 4570 South entering street Sutherland anther) home hy nartfc FOR APPT. tf I Call 966-815- 8 Offer Ends COUPON 31281 home? Would you like CASH instead? We buy mortgages Nationwide. Highest prices paid. Call us today 278-33- son assists Brenda White in putting on her skates at the Cyprus Ice Rink during Young MenWomen Activity Night. The rink will be open during most of March. H H M 111 M II TH 4460 So. - CUT AND USE 30 Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah ZZ3 t SWEEttANDSOUR DISHES 14. SPARE RIBS 15. CHICKEN ON A STICK 16. PORK TENDERLOINS STYLE 17. CHICKEN INO SUBSTITUTIONS PLEASE Call For All Of Your Catering Needs 18. SHRIMP .00 EXTRA m 1 23. PORK 27. HAM 24. BEEF 28. PORK 25. CHICKEN 29. CHICKEN 26. SHRIMP 30. 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Adamsons pond, where many of the old timers living today were baptized, and where they skated for pleasure, became a victim of the ever encroaching sludge, and little by little all evidence of the civilization that once existed in the area were lost to the world ack (foul Bett! 7. VEGETABLE 8. PORK 9. BEEF CANTONESE 3 and a "Cut l (ring This Coupon" CHOWiMEIPTDISHE TOOLS 250-861- Rink. TT BUCK&DECKER. Cyprus Community Education at on Tuesday and Thursday evenings after 5 p.m. ' Regular times and prices are Monday through Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. Students up to age 18 can get in for $1 and adults for $1.50 per person. Families are $3 any time and skate rental is 50 cents. A special Saturday matinee is held each week from 1 to 4 p.m. for $1 per person, including LDS stake outings. The number to call or for the skating rink is call Janice Fisher, MAGNA. lessons, Skating activity night, birthday parties, pack meetings, and any other kind of social group you can think of can all be enjoyed for two more months at the Cyprus Ice Skating home. Sarah Morris Drury as well as Jane Pratt Kesler, a plural wife of Frederick Kesler, Alexander and Elizabeth McGill Adamson, and Israel Spitz all moved to Salt Lake. Osmond and Hannah Marie Davis LeCheminant, who lived next door to his mother Sarah Farr on the LeCheminant foothills northwest of Webster school, built the house that still stands between the office of Dr. C.D. Clark and the old J.C. Penney Store on 2700 South in 1905. His brother Edmund built one next door on the spot where the old Tip Top Cafe once stood the same year. The homes of Sarah Farr Lecheminant, who died in 1901, and Osmond Lecheminant were allowed to remain on the east side of the Oquirrhs. Osmonds home was used until after 1950 as one of the homes on the "Magna Row" maintained for key employees of the copper company. Sarahs was still standing in 1916, but slowly relentlessly, the expanding copper IN 1908. ..The old Magna Power House and the beginning of the tall pond. The Adamson Ranch is nestled In the grove of trees at the foot of the hill. Magna Concentrator can be seen on the hill in the background. son-in-la- NOW y . For the most part their farms were all dry farm land, but because there was veiy little rain between the first of April and the 15th of October their crops often son on Oct. 31, 1885 from failed. inflamation of the bowels To circumvent this situation He was only 19 (appendicitis). with others they joined old at the time of his death. throughout the Salt Lake Valley years As more settlers moved into the to bring water to the area to help on this side of area, employment make the "desert blossom as the rose" as Bringham Young had the valley increased, and industry followed the parade by building predicted. two salt plants including the There were five canals dug between 1880 and 1888 as the Royal Crystal and Morton Salt companies, where some of the valley began to grow, including men found jobs. Jordan-Salthe Lake Canal that t The building of the resorts also to started in 1879 and they dig provided employment to the completed in 1882; the East people of this area and when Jordan; the North Jordan; and Saltair construction began in South Jordan and the Utah and 1887 Pete Reid, Hiram Therons Salt Lake Canals. Even to this was awarded the day they have primary water contract to the poles out of get rights out of Utah Lake. (back of the Canyon Maple When they turned the water to use as pilings for the smelter) into the Jordan-Sal- t Lake Canal He was assisted in his it was a small stream of water pavilion. efforts by Joe Coon and one of the that was subsequently enlarged Kesler boys. to provide 150 cubic feet per The trio spent the winter up second to the farmers on the east there cutting logs which they slid side of Salt Lake. down the canyon on the snow. The stream follows McClelland The bark was sold for fire Street and terminates at the northeast corner of the Salt Lake materials, so there was no waste. Although copper was discovered Temple Grounds. Although it is culverted today, it once was an in Bingham as early as 1850 it was 1863 before Bingham Canyon open stream that ran between the began. But it was not mining old Deseret Gym and Hotel Utah. became Before the channel was dug, until 1896, when Utah the state in 45th the that union, farmers watered out of Parleys to earnest in interest began Creek. of out metal extract the precious On the west side of the valley bowels of the earth. the farmers began digging a channel It was then that Col. Enos A. from the Jordan Narrows for their Wall began buying up area own crops, and a committee of land, and mining barons three including Hiram Theron mining looking with hungry eyes began Spencer, Bishop Gardner and at the lush green valley where the George Nebeker went to Salt Spencer Ranch was located as a Lake to see Judge Smith to get site for their byproduct of the help from the county. process, the tailings. milling They were told that they would have to pay $75 to gtefdmeone to In 1899 D.C. Jackling came to survey and run a .line for the So channel. their the mining area: the Utah Copper pooling resources the three men all Company was organized in 1903. chipped in $25 for Jesse Fox to do After that the settlers recognized that it would only be a matter of the survey. time before their whole way of life The next step was to form a would change because there was canal company that was called no use trying to battle a corporate lake Canal, and giant that would offer jobs to the Utah-Sal- t farmers all along the route dug many people. Hiram Theron and Mary the waterway. For their wages sold their ranch to Utah canal took in the shares Spencer they company because they were so Copper in 1904, and reluctantly anxious to get something that the others followed suit. The lone would benefit the whole west side hold out was Israel Spitz, who had the smallest acreage, but he of the valley. When the canal was completed was the one who bargained for in 1884 and the water turned in, and got the most money. ref. 51.98 two-stor- Point of West Mountains, the Spencer home, the Bertoch home and the Adamson home all became homes and offices for Utah Copper Company officials. However, when the homes were completed between the Magna and Arthur Mills, the houses were rented to others and eventually let become run down. The construction of the Magna Mill began in 1904, on land homesteaded by Pete Reid, and the Arthur Mill was completed in 1909 just above the Bertoch Pete and Janet Alice Spencer Reid moved to a location north of the Open Door Baptist Church with a north frontage onto 2100 South, which was then a narrow dirt trail. Brigham Barnes and Hannah Marthina Christoflerson Inkley moved to Granger in 1906 and James and Ann Cutliffe Bertochs family settled in Hunter on 3500 South, where in later years their children built their own homes between 6400 West and 5600 in 1905, where they had built themselves a house, and Hiram Theron and Mary Spencer moved to Pleasant Green the farmers all along the throughfare were so elated that Joseph Newberry Morris, a Hunter farmer who lived on the canal bank on 6400 West and 4000 South approximately jumped into the water with all his clothes on. However, when the stream reached the Pleasant Green area (Magna) it was found that the channel was two to three feet higher than it was at the head of the canal, and it had to be lowered before the farmers out here could use it. The following year was a sad one for Hiram Theron and Mary Spencer for they lost their only 1 MOO GOO CHICKEN CHAR SHU BEEF WITH BROCCOLI 6.95 6.95 6.95 COKE, DIET COKE, SPRITE DR. 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