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Show 1 LB PIONEERS OP sugar factory at Twelfth South and Eleventh East. The name so many given that locality for years, Sugar House, had its origin from the early attempts in beet sugar manufacture. The fact, however, remuns that the enterprise was the frst one devoted to beet sugar culture ever organized in America, snd the beet sugar machinery, brought over the ocean, up the Mississippi arid aero the plains by( a com-pany of Mormon elders, was the first ever shipped into the new TOOELE. gically describes one of Broth-e- i La Mare's great efforts : intly very little has been s a fact not generally known of the early history of tfche first oelc City. The data for experiments in beet this ef sketch of the noble the United States pioneers sr culture in o suffered all manner of w made by the Mormons in hard-p- s i was obtained chiefly from The man who took the most Francis Lougy, John Gillespie. piinent part in bringing out John G Shields and Phillip De La tbnachinery was Phillip De La are- Afc, who is still living in Tooele (X He was baptized by W, 0. BLbar in England in 1849, and njhft request of Elder John Tay-l- o who was then filling mission to icEurope, he went with him beet flnee to investigate the hav-ii- j sgar industry, Elder Taylor been especially instructed by .. Breddent Brigham Young , to Francis XL Lougy, keej on the lookout for industries a . that would be suitable for the soil of Utah. Elders Taylor and De .Santa Fe wagons, also obtaining La Mare investigated the growth a large amount of flour, and the of atigar beets, first in the village company set out again. The four of Arit, a little town in northern later proved to be filled uth and had to be France. They were so sanguine plasterof-paris- , caravan of na-that they went immediately to thrown away. a urn- England to raise the necessary chinery, now increased by set out capital from among the wealthy her of emigrant families, church members. Jno. W. Cow- from Ft Leavenworth in Jily, ard, a salt dealer, subscribed 1852. The wagons were draw by Hugh S. Gowana, of o?n, 1,000; Captain Russel, a ship from four to eight yoke Tooele Stake President.' builder, agreed to contribute and each wagon carried 5,0C1 to 9,000; Mr. Collison, then a boot 9,000 pounds of iron and i8r Tooele valley was settled in and-shodealer in Liverpool, for chinery. At the mouth of he 9 after the fall conference. Jno. & Winder Sweet Water river the first sow e City was laid out in the whom President he first learned storm was encountered; manV of 1853 and settled in 1854 was working when the cattle stampeded and jre were hostile, so a wall of Mormonism, contributed 1,000, of 1,000 lost. The food ran low, and tey wfes built around The first subscription g forced to kill some of blocks First was made by Mr. De La Mare were cattle. The company, whose South and West himself. looked dark for Allaire 000 DeSau er was giv a- - capita the name of the Deseret; but & relief party, in ehaxg of under five .wV r0I1 came out to meet tarn, . tor garden out-- Manufacturing company. Elders Josl Horne, At Ft. Bridger again assistnee The early Taylor mA De La Mare then proaide of the wall. ceeded to purchase the machinery, was received, A. O. Smoot M a pioneers found it better policy to feed the Indians than to fight them. Many of the settlers had never handled a gun, and it made it awkward for them in fighting '0t,.th the Indiana . j e there-mjtmin- t, n-w- world. A Francis X. Lougy was born in Upper Canada, June 19, 1835, and came to Tooele valley in 1$49. As a boy he was yith the Mormons in Illinois, and lied" an outdoor life. Mr. Lougy Was the ' oldest settler in Tooele, aid built a sawmill at the mouth of Settle-Th- e men canyon. Among the early settlers were Mr. Call, Mr. Wright, Mr. Holman, Horace Br&vett and two sons. John C. Shields Phillip Thomas De La Mare, Atkins, George Speirs, President Hugh S. Gowans. Tooele ifras laid out in the fall of 1853 and settled, in 1854 The Indiana were hostile and stole cattle, leaving the settlers in distress with the depredations. The Indiana in Rusl valley acquired much land, and today Epnuft of them own sections of valuable land. The valley, even in early days, was beautiful in verdure; bunch gran grew abundantly. Mr. Lougy is not a but has a comfort- wealthy able home on Main street, Tooele. d Ex-Bish- - seeing the light of day March 27, 1830. He came to Salt Lake in September, 1852, and was married there November 16 to his present wife, who preceded him to Salt Lake by one year. They were known to each other in Glasgow, Seven sons and five daughters have blessed their union; the sons are all alive today. Mr. Gillespie and his father took a contract in 1850 to build the Alton & Chicago depot at Alton, 111., and finished it in the early part of 1852. He cut stone for the Temple in Salt Lake in the spring of 1857. He was a minute man ' in the cavalry and was called to meet Johnsons army in August of that year, and fought for fonr months, coming back over the big mountain through 22 inches of snow, there being more snow in the mountains those days than now. In the fall of 1853 he served in the Walker Indian' war came to Tooele September 5, 1853, where the Utah Weber Indians were very troublesome. Mr. Gillespie has drawn pension for the last five yean for his services in the Indian wars. He helped to survey Tooele City as it is today. Among the early settlers he mentions Bishop John Rowberry, Wm. Mohan, George Bryan, and others already mentioned in this number of The Tim.ee. He was the first sheriff of Tooele county and served at various times during 16 years of his life. He never lost a man, and often had to make a jail of his own home. His son, W. R. Gillespie, succeeded his father, and was sheriff for eight; years, and is at present deputy under ' W. R. Gillespie, Deputy Sheriff. PIONEER DAY l OQRAM. 9 :30 a. m. Music by the band. The exercises at the meeting house, charge of J. J (liiiett, will begin at 10 a. m. 1 Music by the band. 2 Prayer. 3 Selection by choir. 4 Address by Wm. S. Marks. 5 Solo by Geo. M. Shields. 6 Duet, Evelyn and M&ble Is green. 7 Address by A. M. Nelson. 8 Solo, Leo Bird. 9 Music by Glee club. 10 Selection by choir. 11 Benediction. 12 Music by the band. Ushers : Sai Gallaher and jamin Bowen. 11:30 a. m. Hose ( and West 'Tooele. 1p.m. Children-- ' 2:30 p.m. SpoiJV Gty 3:30 p. m vs. Bingham. 4 p.m. flying machineV sion. (See small hand bills.) Grand ball in opera house in evening. M. M. Bush. Mis. Gillespie, whose portrait is printed in His number, Bert',ne 8PEC1AL SALE. J Morris Wholesale Place, 22 Eagle block, Salt Lake City, will be at Hotel Oquirrh,' Saturday morning, July 22, Mm a few days only, with Hair itches, Hand Bags and Willow Plnmes THE OLD LOG CABIN. Gowans of the L. I). S. church, and his wife, went through Tooele on November 5. 1855. on their way to Rush i ley. Caldwells hotel was j shingled and the little log c& stood about in the same place) it does now. It was owned I Ezeiahs Edwards, who had a turA ing lathe at the mouth of the canyon, and made maple chairs. The two lots consisted of 10x20 rods. President Gowans, .his wife and father wintered in Rush valley on lrexident Hugh Phillip De La Mare. Phillip De La Mare is a well preserved gentleman of 87 yean. Hp was bom on the island of Jersey, April 3, 1823, and was a blacksmith by trade. He came to Salt Lake City in 1852, and in the fall of 1853 came to Tooele, having his "hop at Stockton. Brother De La Mare made the first hay scale in ah, which was used at Camp exact oyd,-- and they were ighero. He made plows, heavy chon, etc., out of wagon tires, was an artist in his profes-H- e fTiti tue work for the company going to Pike's eak. . General Steptoe came in with an Army in 1854 on their way to Oregon and camped at Stockton. Brother De La Mare labored with them and went to California with, them to do their work, returning to Tooele in 1856, and finally gave up laboring about 1896. The following from the Deseret News the reservation, but the Indians became hostile and they were advised to move on, which they, as well aa others, did, on the 26th of March, 1856. President Gowans husband and his father made a bargain for The pioneers had no dreams of is one year older than her prut prepare it for shipment to party coming from Salt Lake v th lots and cabin, paying for them Utah. It was bought from Fauset & load of flour, which at that 'lie gold and silver, but faced all the in work, bottoming chairs with On Shields G The John & Co. in the fall of 1851. life. desert of a rushes. The cabin had a dirt roof, gold at $50 a hundred pour)n hardships old pioneers and but President Gowans had. it of the one was and January 10, .1852, EldOT.De ..La .. Zoning Bear river, the snow waa around thm faith arm of 1844,com- - Aiingled .Jhe cabin' is occppiec Mare J0 V so deep that several of the lar- fthe JI., the mMbinery followingElias tofler, hd to be left bear the burdtaJ of next month with Elders lay out the four 'blocks which it stands neat in to the were brought they accepted the privations they were surrounded Nut-talappearaLuftT Wm. L. John Nuttall, Morris, by mud walls as a historical landmark the next spring. In the latter pft knew and felt. were before them of Tooele and Jos. Nuttall in charge. of November, 1852, the party fia precaution against the attacks Mr. is John which no with destined to be the murmuring. City, of the Indians. Among the early They all met in St. Louis, where nally came to rest in Salt La, bom in Glasgow, fifth was in city Gillespie point of population in Mr. De La Mare had prepared settlers he mentions Mrs. Heron, Utahsix months having nearly in of the Scotland, days j. allace, Mrs. Sam F. Lee, and others alwagons ready to load the main traveling a distance f chinery for the great journey 1,200 miles. ready mentioned. across the plains ; from the time it The reasons why the beet aur left St. Louis until the arrival in Among others who have been industry was not successful at t'at Utah, he was in complete charge. as early pioneers were mentioned Jo His wife and three children ac- time is familiar history. Atkins and son. Eli B. means had been provided for pt-companied him; on the way the and family, the Sagers, Kelsey iutiiTonea were seized with'chol- - ting rid of the potash and he Thompson and Stewart family. alkalinities in the beets, anc ihe era, one of them dying and being Peter Gillespie, the fateTof of John methods then prevailing of un-- j on th. tamd plan.. of Gillespie; Peter Clegg, who marmad. from the ried Miss McIntyre ; Robert The fifty wagons, on which the animals were equally difficn" to grandfather of Miss Lydia machinery was loaded, proved to supply at such a remote dist jep La I)e Mare, live noble woman be useless, breaking down under from the centers of trade, who has given her lifes work to the weight of the machinery, and hundred bushels of beet stfar her father, Phillip De La Mare. In witlij-they were mostly given away to seed were brought here this brief sketch it is impossible poor families on their way to machinery, and planted. jlie to give many incidents of the The situation was des- - beets grew well, but it was fstud Utah thrilling history' of the noble pioperate, but with characteristic en- - impossible to granulate the s;igneers who helped make Tooele the The machinery jfs ergy, Mr. De La Mare determined obtained. beautiful little city of today, more to surmount the obstacles, and used for other purposes, partf beautiful than the oldest pioneers meeting Charles H. Perry, a non- - it bring kept in Provo, and oter John Gillespie. ever dreamed it would be. Mormon, he purchased forty big parts taken to the old w l, bun-spen- t Ex-Bish- to Meik-eljoh- h Tooele County Booster. S. j - a ft - so-ca- bd n, |
