Show ua A ait N r n 0 4 sit cf tip N r M Z wi ck y caw w S ck vy 0 Z continued from last week by MRS AIRS WILLIAM CHADWICK CHADWI K SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS IN MORGAN COUNTY As early as 1854 warriner War rimer porter and sanford porter jr crossed over the mountains from centerville Cent erville into hardscrabble canyon and built a saw mill there on a stream called beaver creek they carried provisions and the necessary machinery etc on pack mules this was before there were any settlers in weber valley to use lumber or a road over which it could be 1 hauled to market they built lo 10 log g houses and moved their families up t the he following spring ira porter was born there in january 1860 on account of the difficulties and expense encountered in constructing the mill it was not completed until 1857 then en came the ove nove south in 1858 and they remained in provo during the winter of 1858 and 1859 they returned to hardscrabble in july 1859 this mill was very expensive having cost about it supplied centerville Cent erville with some lumber the first feet was taken there over the mountains on a cart with four yoke of oxen loxen i joshua williams started a saw mill in peterson at a very early date roswell stevens also had a saw mill in that vicinity mr me lean one of the early settlers of mt alt green built a saw mill on the weber river where the strawberry bridge is david coolbear says that at one time nelson arave and george higley built a flat bottomed boat to cross the river at the mill in using it the first time the boat capsized and let all down into the stream mr coolbear was not able to swim and very nearly lost his life he was rescued by nels arave in milton james hansen built and operated a saw mill near his home at the mouth of line creek he was a carpenter and builder john H giles also operated a saw mill he drove the last yoke of oxen used in milton in his saw mill business about 1861 three men abiah wadsworth a left handed carpenter and his two sons in law george higley and nelson arave and their families came from mt alt green and settled near where the grist mill stood they built a saw mill there the cottonwoods cotton woods that grew along the river were cut up into lumber and this greatly helped the new colonists in in improving their homes they floated logs down the river into a pond back of the mill this pond covered many acres of ground and is inow now being farmed by dark clark brothers about 1866 or 1868 ezra T dark clark of farmington bought the saw mill and on the spot where it stood just east of the crossing they built the weber valley flour mill about 1892 thomas and edward bought the clark mill and mill site they tore it down and built the roller mill which was in operation until february 10 1932 when it burned down just east ok of where the seminary building how stands was a saw mill in the early days and also a shingle mill MILLS IN hardscrabble CANYON about 1870 an eastern man william farrell brought a steam saw mill into the valley and ten expert mill men he also brought a large number of oxen they camped in richville that spring the mill was taken up into hardscrabble canyon where they cut hundreds of thousands of feet of lumber the cutting and hauling of the timber furnished employment for most of the menn porterville and richville after using this mill about a year mr farrell sold it and brought in a larger one a 60 inch saw with which he was able to cut a great deal more lumber his camp supplies he brought direct from the east fruits and finer provisions to the value of were brought by him at one time he had a lumber yard at richville where the stanley rose property now is which was the largest that has ever been in morgan county mr farrell married a daughter of billa dickson nine saw mills were operated in hardscrabble canyon in the early days some of these were run by steam and some by water there were also two shingle mills the mill farthest up the canyon was farrells mill which was located on the east fork of hardscrabble the timber was brought down the mountain side by oxen the next was the standish mill it was located on the west fork of farrell canyon the work here was mostly sawing ties the next was hold mans water power mill which sawed a great many shingles and lumber also this was located at the mouth of standish fork then came billa bilia Dick sons mill this furnished shingles ancl lumber of all kinds it was situated about yards down thi the main canyon from farrells canyon the water mills ran night and day because they could get more power in the night than day time further down the canyon was porter and waltons mill and at the mouth of arthurs canyon was jake arthurs mill josh williams also owned a mill in the same canyon lumber was hauled bover over the mountains from these mills to bountiful charcoal was produced in the same canyon this was shipped to the mines at bingham for smelting smelling sm elting purposes the lumber business brought a great deal of wealth to the people THE GRIST MILL AT RICHVILLE RICI IVILLE e about 1863 george AV taggart and two brothers morgan and henry hinman of farmington davis county commenced the building of a grist mill in richville owing t to 0 the difficulties in those days of obtaining the necessary materials it was not completed until 1866 the irrigation ditch which the earlier settlers had made was now enlarged into a mill race about 1867 a little child of baltzer peterson was drown drowned i in this stream the body being caught against the grates of the mill about 29 years after thia another child that of john wood was drowned in the same ditch before completion of this mill the people were dependent on the lower valleys for their flour etc at on time the high water destroyed the road through devils gate the hour flour supply became exhausted and the people were reduced to extreme want not until the first of august was there an outlet made to the other valleys at this time the people were compelled to make a move and consequently ten teams each ach having from one to two yoke of oxen made an attempt to cross the mountains in search of flour the teams were hitched to carts and followed hardscrabble i grabble canyon down to heber C kimballs Kim balls flour mills they were obliged to cross over ten feet of snow but obtained some flour and returned home much to the joy of the people so this grist mill the first to be built in weber valley was greatly appreciated by the people as it gave them th the e opportunity of milling what little grain they raised and encouraged cou raged them to plant more grain this mill was patronized by the people of coalville Co alville and all this upper country they would r ome come and camp over night As many as thirty teams have been there at one time the mill remained in operation until 1890 but some years before that time the manufacture of flour was discontinued the old mill was torn down in 1913 continued next week |