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Show OLD HOME TORN DOWN City's Chain Gang Batters Down House Built by Brlgnam Young Salt Lake City, July 24. Walls of tho old adobe residence of Samuel J. Sudbury, miller employed by President Presi-dent Brlgham Young, a landmark In City Creek canyon, wero battered down yesterday by tho chain gang of tho city prison. It is said tho ruins In their stato of decay had becomo dangerous. Threo boys nttempted to shield themselves there from a storm driving down the canyon nbout ten days ago, and an ndobo gablo fell, endangering their lives. Tho slto of Brlgham Young's old, mill and tho residence of his miller will bo converted Into a park tho work to bo performed by tho prison chain gang. When members of tho gang practically had complete1 work on tho boulevard yesterday, they wero led to tho adobe ruins by Sergeant A. C. Spears and Mounted Patrolman David Crowther. A batter ing ram was swung between two trees, nnd n two hours tho walls wero crumbled Into a heap of debris. It was nearly half a century ago that President Young's grist mill was established In tho canyon along City Creek Soon It was found necessary nec-essary to construct a resldenco for Sudbury, tho miller. As long n8 tho mill was In operation tho ndobo resldenco res-ldenco wn8 occupied, but nearly a coro of ycara ago, when tho build-lng build-lng was abandoned tho roof commenced com-menced falling In. It was visited by ftro later and soon only tho walls wero left standing. |
