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Show i w DAILY HERALD T Sunday, August 24, 2008 stories about local material submit or for Make this by email, weekly page. history suggestions to Executive Editor Randy Wright, rwright9heraldextra.com. Or mail to the Bat 717, Prow, UT 846030717. No phone calls please. Daily Herald. GOT HISTORY? The Daily Herald Is looking for Interesting P-- " D, Robert Carter " ' ' ..1 "any Utah CounJL ty pioneers believed in the old adage, "It is ' jT IM an ill wind that :f r:vs good to no one. In the early 1860s, this Jbf. v proverb certainly proved true in Springville. The extremely heavy snowfall of the winter v caused the waters of : of 1861-6Lake to and tributaries its Utah A rise, and large amounts of crop land and pasture were dam-- ' aged severely. But these same high waters also made it possible for Springville to host its most t r; T notable fish fry. . '.it ' V When the heavy snowdrifts that piled up in the Wasatch and Uinta mountains that winter of began tomett, ris--: ing water spelled destruction to almost every bridge that spanned any major stream in Salt Lake and Utah Counties. In Salt Lake County, the surging waters of the Jordan River carried off or made im- - Mountain trout were caught In the Provo River for a feast with Brigham Young In 1863 in Prow: passible five of its six bridges. Only the bridge over the Jar- ' town to the other. ;. dan near the mouth of Little ties in Provo, estimated that Creative thinking Implementation of Spring-- . This overabundance of Cottonwood Creek remained .. Utah Lake was more than 7. villes plans for both a tempo-- : water was indeed considered feet higher than normal, and Aaron Johnson, Spring-ville-s ral and a spiritual feast began , open to traffic. he said the Jordan Rivermea-sure- d to be an "ill wind," but it also ,. bishop, devised a plan J at 5 a.m. April 21. Bishop Brigham Youngs history states that great quantities of one mile wide where it managed to blow some good whereby the flat land dwellers Johnson and his boys left their to the people of Springville. could harvest their share of warm beds and prepared to farming land on both sides of flowed out of Utah Lake. :. ' the big ones. Johnson provided seine the the river were inundated.. Travelers moving south stretch of Through the years, a sandThe Deseret News reported from Salt Lake City found it bar hut formed across the .. Tobias Dallin, the town's no-- ... Hobble Creek that they had that in Utah County most mouth of Hobble Creek where table fisherman, with a supply cleaned the previous spring. expedient to cross the Jordan it flowed into Provo Bay, This of cotton yarn. Dallin twisted of the bridges crossing the The busy group loaded the River at a ferry recently ' streams that emptied into Utah established near the Pointed .bar sometimes hindered the the yarn into cord and wove a net on a large wheelbarrow Lake were either destroyed or the Mountain. They used the i lakes native trout from gain-in- g net. or seine. and walked a little more than full access to the stream. rendered useless.. much drier road down the Johnson also put his sons to a block to the banks of the The torrent that surged west side of the lake. work. They cleaned a stretch A reporter for the News stream. The boys entered wrote: "The Provo River is Travel through Utah Valley of Hobble Greek running from the creek with bare feet and down Hobble Creek during Main Streetto Fourth West. the spring of 1862 washed seined all of the holes from booming, and the other rivers oq the east side of the lake ai-most ceased entirely. One load out this bar and deepened the .' The boys removed all of the ; .Main Street to Fourth West. ' discharging their waters into ' Utah Lute are reported to be of mail was "utterly destroyed streams mouth. Backwater The fishermen received amsnags and large boulders. In American Fork Creek. as high, or higher, than ever Then the bishop reserved from the rising lake worked ple reward. Their catch filled k known before since white men its way up into Hobble Creek. that The Deseret News warned stretch of the the btuTow to overflowing, v dwelt there. its readers that the road ... These two factors combined stream for seining purposes. ' , with fine trout, many at them . v ' Thousands of acres of farm- between Provo and Payson Good fishing was the re-to give trout better access to weighing from 4 to 6 pounds. land in Utah County were Hobble Greek, and local fishBefore the sun had risen, ward for their hard work. Don appeared to be impossible to either flooded by overflowing navigate. The torrential wa-te- rs the fishing party arrived back Carlos Johnson, one of the ing improved tremendously.' streams or covered by theris-in- g of Hobble Creek bisected Tint summer, fishermen in bishops sons, later said, The at Bishop Johnson's rambling waters of the lake. Hobble Greek Canyon caught family had trout until they home, which stretched along ' Springville, making it very Mormon Apostle George A. dangerous and nearly impos- -' trout weighing as much as 88 were no longer a luxury. the east side of Main Street sible to travel from one side of pounds. The following winter, , between First and Second Smith, who oversaw activi-, J 1862-6-3, Was relatively dry, North. All of Johnson's avail-- ." and Utah Lake slowly re- '. able wives and children helped ceded. But It still remained ' make final preparations for at a higher level than normal " the feast. when spring arrived in 1861 Brigham Young and his parTrout once more had ready, ty Spent the evening of April access to Hobble Greek when 20 in American Fork. Early the their spawning runs began. It , next morning they resumed . looked like another first-rat- e their southbound journey and passed through Pleasant Grove year for lovers of the sport .without stopping. piscatorial. ; North of Provo River, the People who did not live in .. Utah Valley were not for- - '. Provo Brass Band met the tunate enough to have such .. . travelers. These musicians .J Satt Lake Regional Medical Center has earned the ASBS Center of Excellence ready access to trout. To provided entertainment tor Certification for its surgical weight lass program. This recognition comes as many of them, a meal of fresh the company as it moved trout still reigned as a royal a result of the exceptional programs and care offered by the hospital-owne- d through Provo and on toward feast lobe treasured for a Springville. Loss Center Utah. of Surgical feight About halfway between . longtime. When Bishop Johnson and Provo and Springville, the The SurgicalWsght Loss Center of Utah is cumently offering FREE Surgical the other leaders of Spring-vill- e Springville Brass Band "and learned that Brigham v Weight Loin Seminars in Utah Valley. These seminars are designed to quite a respectable delegation of citizens on horseback," Young and his entourage educate and inspire individuals considering surgical weight loss as an ' were scheduled to visit their according to a letter from a Utah is The directed by Surgical Weight Loss Center of option. 1863 of while of. member city during April Youngs party, Dr. Daniel Cottam and Dr. Christina Richards... tour of on a met the cavalcade and escort-- , the southern settlements, they editintotown. likely wasted little time before : As Young and his company inviting him to tarry long " approached the Johnson resi26 enough to do a little preaching dence, some of the Tuesday, women placed large drip-peand eat a trout dinner. It prob6:00 7:30 p.m. upon two big cast-iro- n ably took Young even less time to accept the offer. stoves, and soon trout were Fairfield Inn - Provo - it I i 2 , . . . . ; four-bloc- . . . 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Brigham Young,. HeberG Kimball and Lorenzo Snow took their turns behind the pulpit. When the meet ing ended, the visitors climbed into their wagons, and the caravan once again wended its way : southward. : . d . flat-roof- . I D. Robert Carter is a historian who lives in Springville . He can be reached at 489-8256- 1 ,y i ..v' Weight loss f is i -- Kim lost 130 lbs. ) ve$W5is ( ' I v " : . ... Want freedom from CPAP? Try a comfortable and portable alternative. iSlW md' .y -- . 3 mylife,it gave my life back to me! tts IfnsX-v- i'J vA'j 1 1 vavf 756-09- 00 Dr. Carl McMillan : 12-foot www.thinbeginnings.com t : -- 1.866.602.THIN . ' . a - . The Springville trout fest was very by; President Young. Later developments indicate that the peo-- .. pie of Provo may have been a little envious of the success gained by their sister city, and Rrovo officials made a bid to gain some fishy recognition of their own..' On his return trip from 'southern Utah, Brigham Young stopped over in Provo to preside over a two-da- y conference. Representatives from Utah Countys 13 towns received invitations to attend this affair. ; To provide a meeting place that would hold a large group, Provo residents built a 138by bowery on the block where Provos tabernacle stands today. The large, structure open, could hold about 5,000 people, and thats about how many churchgoers showed up. Not wishing to be outdone ... ' by the people of Springville, the enterprising Provoans served up a trout dinner of their own. , The next week, George A. Smith favorably mentioned the meal in a letter to his cousin. Smith wrote: "We feasted on mountain trout, which are caught in great abundance in Utah Lake and Provo River, some weighing from one to seven pounds, of very deli-- ; dous flavor; they are caught ' with hook or with seine." It is difficult to ascertain whether Springville or Provo , prevailed in this culinary contest, but one thing is certain -the visiting church dignitaries triumphsd twice. : Call today or go online to register, as these seminars tend to fill up quickly. L : . Not to be outdone 1 surgery didn't just change ; . . 5 5 $. University Ave. I . Therapy Oral Appliance Therapy For Sleep Disordered Breathing and Snaring ' 9 |