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Show TOE BULLETIN" Published At WEATHER FORECAST Commercial Printing Co. 2044 South 11th East For Salt Lake and Vicinity; Fair tonight and Saturday. Hyland 364 PUBLISHED IN SUGARHOUSE Vol.5 NON-PARTISIA- N Nl'MBEK SALT LAKE CITY, lTTAIl. FRIDAY. MAY 14. 1937 HOME EDITION 19 McIntyre Interests BUILDING INDUSTRY Purchase Roadway SHOWS GREAT PROGRESS To relieve cocjested traffic to and from the market on the Southeast South and corner of Twenty-firestthe Drive, McIntyre Highland ate, owners of the corner have pur chased a fifteen .foot strip of land on the east side of the buildings that will run Bouth several hundred feet. The property purchased for the driveway was bought from the Sugar House Lumber Interests and necessitated' the removal of the building formerly occupied by the Han stn Auto Shop, which has moved one door cost. st In the early day on Kanyon Creek tbe Lumber, Hardware, Paint, Tlan-in- g mills, cabinet and carpenter shops played an important part in its development. At first men, with the help of a kindly neighbor, built their own home with materials such as adobe and lumber they made and cut themselves from logs they hauled from nearby canyons. In 1888, Joseph E. Jensen, Hyrum Jensen, W. L. Hansen, and N. J. Hansen bought the ground where tho Southeast Furniture Co. now stands and built a mill to manufacThis was ture and finish lumber. n Co. Lum called the Jcnsen-IIanse- ber was brought in from Pleasant Valley just as it was cut. In 1890, these men increased the business materially they incorporated the Pacific Lumber Co. and bought the property from 21st So. to and Including where the Southeast Furniture Co. is standing. David Ecclus and George E. Romney bought the business of the Pacific Lumber Co. and in 1901 the Granite Lumber Co. was formed by N. J. Hansen, Ed Laird and Joseph E. Jensen. In 1908 they started the Hardware Department and added the name. The company was known as tho Granite Lumber and Hard- - The Granite Lumber Company Yard where the Southeast Furniture Company now stands, taken in 1908. The large frame building was then the Granite Planing Mill which F. R. Sandberg and A. C. Jensen operated. Its the home of the first n Planing Mill in Sugarhouse in 1889, known as the Company. . ' Jensen-Hanse- Hyland Lumber & Hardware Company THE FOUNDING OF SUGARHOUSE AND IT'S EARLY INDUSTRIAL LIFE The second largest lumber company in Sugarhouse la the Hyland Lumber and Hardware Co. which ' is located at 2180 Highland Drive. The company was organized in the company were George A. Dixon as spring of 1926. The Personnel of the president and general manager, Thos. M. Wheeler, and Alma J. Strong as secretary-treasure- r. At the passing of Mr. E. Strong succeedClinton Strong, ed his brother as secretary and treasurer. In the spring of 1903 Mr. Dixon started with the Granite Lumber and Hardware Co,, as there secretary and treasurer and continued until the fall of 1925. ( Today Mr. Dixon is president and general manager of the Hyland Lumber Co., Sugarhouse Investment Co., Hyland Security Co. and a director of the Mutual Equity Co. and Granite' Investment Co., and secretary and treasurer of the Utah . Candy' Co. The Hyland Lui&ber and Hardware Co. is a beautiful log building lf 35x60, . They cover one and acres of ground, and employ EARLY EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL LIFE ON KANYON CREEK By H. C. Young was in the first little old school house where some of the It children of the early pioneers of Kanyon Creek received their eduSome of them, however, received their learning from their cation. mothers who taught them the fundamentals. ; One of these was The Smiths owned WidowSmlth's Son, the late Joseph F. Smith. the little farm where the tHyrum Jensen home now stands. Joseph One year he and his worked hard to help support his mother. little sister found time to attend the school which was in about Who the man teacher was at that time, has not been 1850. However, one day Joseph's little sister had done some minor offense, such as whispering. The teacher took his switch and proceeded to give her a sound thrashing, which was the custom in his little sister whipped, those days. - Joseph couldn't stand so he interfered. Before the rumpus was over Joseph had thrashed the teacher for striking his sister and was on his way home. He never went to school afte that. In his diary he writes My principal occupation from 1848 to 1854 was that of a herd-boand at although I made a hand always in the harvest-fiel- d wood. and in the andn Though canyons cutting hauling thrashings, from I had the principal care of the family stock, as a herd-bo- y 1846 to 1854, I cannot recall the loss of a singlehoof" by death, straying away or otherwise, from neglect or carelessness on my part during that period. Wolves were very numerous, and of the large kind, during much of this time, and occasionally they would attack our sheep in the coral at night; more than once they cap- tured one or two; a fine colt was killed by them one night almost ' within a stone's throw from our home near Kanyon Creek (the old Sugar House Ward the home now stands in the rear of Hyrum Jensen's home on 27th South and Highland Drive preserved by him) and another, the same night, severely bitten and wounded. These (Continued on Page 8) . , , vice-preside- - ' Edgehill Ward Wins . Highland Stake Softball Title y, . until 1928 when Mariner Eccles and Bob Anderson of Lagan took over the stock and gavs them It $10,000 cash ' for the business. was known then as the Granite Hardware Co. until sold to Z. C. M. L on January 1, 1933 at which time tbe name was changed to the Granite Mart, handling dry goods and appliances in connection with the hardware. Today the Granite Mart's Hardware Department, under the managership of Jim Roberts is one of Sugarhouse' s leading hardware stores and has enjoyed a very substantial Increase in business every year since ware ' to-.ee- one-ha- six. The Hyland Lumber Co. today is aiding the construction of over 50 homes in the Southeast this year and are doing a splendid business. The building is now The Granite Lumber and Hardware Company in 1925. Street. occupied by the Granite Mart, 1088 East 21st South . of the championship Members club are WmSe "Tuckett, captain, Lon Limb, Clyde Hardy, Cal Taylor, Nick Morgon, Joe Cook, Blanchard, Doug Hardy, Abe Cannon, Jack Eddie Ralph Goddard, Bingham, ReginEmerson and Hardy. Kilgore, ald Done is the manager of the EdgehiU Ward champions of Highland Stake Softball for 1936 retained the title for 1937 by turning Edgehill team. Highland Park 2 in a fast game Highland Park and Wasatch Tie played last Thursday at the Garfield School. Both teams had lost two games and were fighting for the Instrumental in both teams title. were the pitchings of Joe Cook of Edgehill and BudMcKean of Highland Park. EdgehiU will play in the Salt Lake Interstake games which begin May 21st. . 4-- ; . . Co. 1933. The building is doing industry in Sugar-hous- e a $1,000,000 business annually j! Local Attorney Opens Law Office in S. H. Mr. A C. Melville, local attorney ' Is opening a. law office In connection with the new real estate office of N. J. Hansen at 1094 East 21st South. Mr. Melville has been In active practice for six years, with offices in the First National Bank Bldg. He Is a resident of East Mill Creek, land a member of the Board of Directors of the East Mill Creek Water Co., and East Mill Creek Better- ment League. NEW CLASSES AT FREE ADULT NIGHT FCIICO'. A new class, "Personality Building to Win and Hold Friends, Mates or Jobs" Is to be given at the Lincoln High at 7 p. m. by Miss Christensen and at the Irving at 8 p. m. by Mrs. Sterling, began Monday, May; 10th and will continue through the month. Both the lecture and the discussion method will be used and new Ideas will be welcomed. The First Home of the Sugar House Lumber and Hardware $2.95 Csr. Sugar House Lumber & Hardware Company WILL PAINT VOI R CAB WITH NU-ENAM- EL Sold Exclusively By $ APEX ELECTRIC COMPANY 1079 East 21st South In Sugarhouse - Hy. 1738 On Juno 14, 1914, Ed Laird, E. J Ashton and M. O. Ashton, seeing the possibility of wonderful growth in tbe Southeast, organized the Sugar House Lumber and Hardware Mr. Laird was president, E. Co. Co! at 1059-6- 8 East 21st South where they started with one horse, one team, a motorcycle and six employees. At that time they had one single and J. A. and W. B. Richards di- horse, one team and a motorcycle The first and employed six men. rectors. did a gross business of year they Under the guiding hand of M. O. $50,000. Ashton, its general faanager and With a rapid Increasing business secretary, the company opened its place of business in the building and having no trackage for shipjust west of tbe present bank where ping lumber to their own yeard tbe the Sugar House Bakery and Pro- company was forced to seek for better facilities. In 1919 they bought gress Shoe CO Is now located. J. Ashton Rockwood, vice-preside- the property from Laura Larson Ice Cream Shop to the Peerless Laundry, a piece of ground covering nearly 2 acres, giving them 400 foot frontage on 21st South and access to trackage from the D. & R- G. W. They built large lumber sheds and brick office with a 30 foot front. whole 400 foot with front on 21st South a modem brick building. In- cluding the largest Hardware store In Sugarhouse. In the 21 years they have served In this district the Sugar House Lumber and Hardware Co. has touched at least 20,000 homes and have added materially In the develand tbe Today the Sugar House Lumber opment of Sugarhouse and Ilarware Co. has built up tbe Southeast. - |