Show history of east millard county HISTORY OF HOLDEN continued cloin last week richard Jo linson did tile the first threshing in tile the county and lie he also owned the first mowing machine in town william stevens owned the first arst harvester in town and willard johnson Jo linson owned the first automobile A brown bear was caught up tip lit in a tree where tho the meeting house lot now low Is the bears bothered tile tho sheep quite a little in in tile the old days johnson Johns said that when lie he and his wife were up in the mountains herding sheep they had to build a platform above tile tha ground to sleep on A very tragic accident happened one christmas christinas eve down where t the he red and white store now stands some young men had a little whiskey and they wanted to celebrate they made a cannon out of 0 the boxing of 0 an old wagon wheel tilled filled it with guu gun powder and stuffed it with wet gunny gun ny sachs sacks it go off 0 so mark parker lit it and then got down to blow on it it exploded suddenly and blew the top of 0 his head 0 oft ff lion was blown everywhere and a piece went through tho the calt calf of 0 a mans leg who was standing across the street other than this no one else was injured owing to the scarcity and unsanitary condition ot of the water supply a company was organized with anthony stephenson george W nixon and charles wood as officers A tine fine water system was put in in 1889 which was the first in this part of the state other lines were laid in the next few years in the early days the people paid their tithing entirely in produce all kinds ot of vegetables grain hay meat butter eggs cattle and horses were paid tor for tithing this tenth of 0 what they raised was taken to the tithing house a log building which stood where mark johns johnsons ons home la is today in this lot there were pits for or vegetables hay was stacked there and the grain was stored away later a tithing granery was waa built in 1890 david R stevens was chosen counselor to stake president ira N hinckley and on august twenty second ot of the same year anthony Y stephenson succeeded him as bishop with ancil P harmon and edward bennett as counselors on november 1 1899 the creamery a cooperative institution was organized with willard R Jo linson as president the men were allowed ono one dollar a day lor for work done on tile the building and five dollars in cash would allow an individual to work two hundred and fifty dollars in labor and to receive stock in the company on january 1 1900 they started collecting money to buy equipment and machinery for or the building the constitution was accepted on january fourth ot of the same year and by tile tho next april the creamery was wait ready to do business the creamery was leased to nells neils iverson la in 1900 aud and lie he operated the plant lie he was only responsible tor for the machinery in 1902 the creamery paid its first dividend ot of nine per dicent from then until the creamery was sold to individuals it 11 often paid stock holders dividends ot of fifteen to twenty per cent each year on june 25 1905 the creamery was placed lit in charge ot of A E stephenson and in 1906 benjamin kenney replaced willard R Jo linson I 1 as president of the creamery board in 1910 samuel bennett jr was hired to run the creamery and in february 1918 ray hay took charge of operations in november 1923 the individuals sold their stock to ray and the business became a private enterprise in 1925 5 the creamery was sold bold to I 1 the valley creamery com pany and was moved to fillmore about 1900 the ward built a large and spacious social hall it has a stage in the east ond end and a dance floor on the west there Is also a large basement in 1914 a large brick school house was built to replace the one built in 1883 1983 it contains six class rooms and an assembly hall and has modern heating and lighting facilities on oa february 11 1917 bishop stephenson was honorably released and john C poulsen was chosen as his successor with james A stephenson and edward F stevens as his counselors in 1920 a large granite monument was erected on oil the meeting bonso lot in fit honor of 0 our soldier dead parley turner and james W crosland and the other soldiers from this town who fought lit in the war lit in 1922 a town doard board was appointed by tile the county officers edward F stevens was appointed pies lent ilent and john wood benjamin konney kenney john E F hunter and sidney P were lap appointed pointed trustees thebe men were instrumental in fit securing electricity lor for this town the holden electric system was installed in 1922 at the cost of approximately twelve thousand dollars tile the town issued bonds amounting to nine thousand dollars and the he 9 same year they levied a tax of twelve inells on oil tile the citizens of tile the town the town board went without their sal salaries arlei this year to enable them to alse tile the amount necessary the street lights were installed by mr lawrence ot of delta ile ho furnished the town with brackets and I 1 lamps and agreed not to ask for payment until the following year the town ot of holden gets its electric power from roin the telluride power company and they have a contract that for twenty five years from the day installed that the town of holden and the telluride power company sh alleach get one halt half of 0 all money collected for lights and power the holden town corporation owns tile system which connects with the telluride power line five miles west of town the system was in use lit in september 1923 in 1924 the officers e elected under the newtown new town corpora corporation tion were john wood president and william T bennett cloyde anderton adderton carl nixon and william T stevens trustees in 1926 tile town board con consisted isted of john wood president J C bennett frank badger sidney P alegand pl egand and E F steven s tt usters lit in 1928 the town officers were J C bennett president byron stephenson enson frank badger J alma stevens ens and john B stephenson Step honson trustees in 1830 1930 the town government consisted of J R String liam president edward jones edward A nood wood william R johnson and J alma stevens trustees these men were instrumental in ill securing the new water system tor for the town A question arose lit in the mutual improvement Asso association associate ciati on in the project department in regards to a new water system the idea grow grew and a new water system was started in tho the early part of the year 1931 it was handled under the direction of the town board mr air richards Ulc hards and mr hall of salt lake city were the engineers engine ors tho the spring known as currant is southeast oththo town it Is tour four thousand seven hundred feet from the storage tank and six thousand feet from the nearest house the spring was purchased front from tile tho irrigation company ot of the ton to bo be piped to the city for each share of 0 the irrigation water stock tile the owners ere allowed credit in ID the water system in all the system required about seven miles of 0 pipe ranging in size front from six inches down to three fourth inch in diameter which was laid irk in it a trench four feet feel deep the water Is conducted six thousand feet to town front from the spring through a six inch pipe to tile the first dividing point it Is then carried lit in a tour four inch pipe one running north six hundred feet and one running west six hundred feet to main street there it la is divided again into three inch pipe running north and south along main street all of this pipe from six inches down to three inches in diameter is made of cast iron nearly all other streets have two inch pipe water mains with three quarter inch outlets to each home this water system cost about 22 00 which represents about one third labor and two thilda cash the cash was raised by bonding tho the town for or and by soiling selling small size pipe to stockholders the rest of the money was borrowed from a town stockholder the storage tank has a capacity of forty thousand gallons of water with an elevation of one hundred fifty two feet above the center of the town the spring flows about one hundred and eight gallons per minute four months were required to complete the system continued next week |