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Show By Anne Wilson Tribune Staff Writer is Sugar not only a beverage and a luxury, but it is in its nature and substance one of the component parts of our animal structure, and free use thereof is calculated to promote health, and could the Saints have a more abundant supply, they would need less meat. That statement was issued by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints in 1850, and contains in substance the reason the church established a sugar mill in the area now known as Sugar House. The sugar mill failed to produce sugar and was only the first of a series of commercial enterprises begun in the area. From the days when Sugar House, or Kanyon Creek as it was known then, was a small settlement of Mormon pioneers, it has grown to become a major commercial and residential suburb of Salt Lake City. The story of the sugar mill venture provides a fascinating account of determination and y endurance. The equipment was ordered from an English firm at a cost of $12,500. It then had to be shipped by sea to Fort Leavenworth, Texas, and transported by oxen to Salt Lake City. The fact that the cargo arrived intact is a wonder, considering the sheer physical obstacles. column 3 See Page S-l- l, r I The Salt Lake Scenes from early Sugar House, clockwise, John Youngs railroad, general store, one f first lumber companies, and the old state prison. 30, 1978 I |
