Show Packer Continued from page 48 The camp was made in a circle that war called a corral A well was dug in the center of the circle a splendid supply of good water was obtained from this welL After we moved into the fbtt many of the people settled on the east side of the fort got their water from this welL During the summer all the cooking was done on campfires and the people lived in their wagon boxes until the homes were built Franklin was surveyed into blocks each Mock divided into 8 lots and the surrounding land lots was surveyed into the lots in Franklin and die lota were drawn for by numbers Man number one got first choice of location of his lot and later they drew for the city lots in the same manner The man who did this survey was Mr — m 10-ac- re 10-ac- re 10-ac- re m m farms were not fenced At a time agreed on the fields would be opened for die cattle for grazing In the early spring the meetings were held around a campfire and in the summer a bowery was built It snowed as late as May ' 12 by the first of June the men had their land ready and planted into oats barley and wheat Gardens were (darned later Men got logs from the canyon for corrals and their homes The first houses were made of round logs with dirt roof and dirt floor During the winter they depended on dm glow from the fireplace or tallow candles for lights The first 48 bushels of wheat was tramped out on Aug 2nd and taken to Farmington by William Woodward and James Sanders Flour was brought bade and divided among die people In the spring of 1866 the pioneers moved into their city lots Each man had a sugar cane lot east of town on whkhhe raised sugar cane Thomas Lowe Sc had a sorghum mill out on the river out by James Howarth's placed Later broom com was also grown and this was made into Photo eourtosy of USU 8pocM OaSMdona FrankMn Butts in 1 B77 Sdentiets with the US Geological and Geographic Survey sat up camp near brooms The young men and young married men were responsible for the guarding of settlers and their property These men were called minute men Everet Ym Arden was first captain of the minute men After staying about three months he left and James Packer St took his place Joseph pokins my wife’s father was also a minute man The minute men kept a pile of sagebrush on toped the little mountain and when Indians approached the minute man that was on guard set the sagebrush afire In an earlier time matches were very scarce and cost from 23 cents to 45 cents a box At night people would take a chunk of green maple about 6 or 8 inches long and cover it with hot coals and ashes In this way they could keep a fire However this would sometimes fail so in the morning a member of die family would be sent out to the nearest neighbor having smoke and borrow a shovel of live coals The first irrigation ditch was brought from Maple Creek into Spring Creek and then into Franklin William Packer and James Packer Sr surveyed this ditch The (filch was surveyed by use of a square and plum bobi They next worked on a ditch from High Creek down to the South Held After this many more ditches were made Hannah Cornish was the first schoolteacher and she taught in her home for about three months She had about 20 children Later in die fen of 1860 fogs were cut and hauled from Deep Greek Canyon under the direction of Bishop Preston Thomas for the purpose of buikUng a school-houB was emeted in early spring 1861 The building had a dirt roof and floor: Benches were made of slabs with the flat side up Preston Thomas was appointed Bishop of Franklin in I860 and remained so until 1863 Lorenzo H Hatch took his place The first sawmill was built in 1861 and tan by Joshua Nesservy In 1863 Samuel R Parkinson and Thomas Smart built a mote modem mill which was run by water power In early days all the blankets stockings and clothing were made by die women in their homes by using hand cards rolls were made that spun in a spinning wheel Yarn was made and woven into cloth oo hand looms Flax was grown for linen Martha Vhle Mbs Kingsford and Betsy Packer owned looms and helped supply doth and carpets for the public People made their own brttter and cheese until 1898 and die Oneida Mercantile Union organized the Union Creamery” se Page 49 |