Show living in Salt Lake Luke er was born In Maryland went into business at a youthful age failed and turned to steamboat ing on the Mississippi river Ho lie came to Utah in 1850 1550 and was a member of oC tha state contention convention elected in 1855 to frame a const lotion for the Ule state slate of oC Deseret lu u n 1859 he was elected delegate from Utah to the sixth Thirty sixth United States congress James Hale who boiled salt for commercial purposes on the edge of the Great Salt lake west of Hooper settled in that country as early E-arly as 1853 1563 He lie was the father of oC tho the first fiut white child born bora in Hooper named Howard vard Hate Hale in 1864 William Garner Sr and many others other's instituted the tho building ofa of oC ofa oCa a canal to Hooper in 1867 The rhe intake f from om the Weber river was wasat was was' wasat wasat at a point north of the present Amalgamated Amal Sugar company's plant in Wilson The south branch to Syracuse was completed ed in 1875 Total cost to that year was It now waters between and acres acre In 1867 Jesse W. W Fox lox surveyed sur the town to of oC Hooper and laid out the farming land in one one half half mile ClUe blocks with streets four rods wide running parallel Charles Hardy divided the blocks into 20 acre nera plots in 1868 Then a townsite was sun surveyed eyed on a quarter sec see section lion tion of land owned by franklin franklinD D D. D Richards and lots sold at 5 each First religious sen ices Ices of the community were held in the old herd house bouse Later Lat r they were con con- conducted conducted ducted in the home of Charles Parker In n 1863 1569 a t board of or trustees trus trus- trustees trustees tees was appointed to further edit edit- caU u and ana an a schoolhouse was built In 1863 on the southeast cor corner cortee tee ner De ot ut tho to This Thi's building build buildIng building ing stands today en cn the property of oC Lorinda 13 E. 1 Tarter Parker and an is 1 known iown as liS the tho Pioneer cottage collage Gilbert Belnap Levi Lev LeI Hammond and James Halo hale composed th the board During Durins the first lint years of ot the settlement the people many of oC the hardships of dt c the settlers of 47 and 48 In failure of the crops seemed likely mel but water in the tho hills proved plentiful Grasshoppers attacked their crops in 1870 and everything seemed teemed lost when the seagulls came tame over from the Great Salt lake Before Defore that the tho settlers dug dog trenches in the Insect Infested InC sted fields and burned many ot of the pests Henry W. W Naisbitt built a steam sl am grist mill a co operative eo farm about 1873 Little grain grata was raU- raU raised ed and the mill was operated only limy nya a portion of the time Ha Hs raised r the first frat alfalfa and owned the first pink pink eyed eyed rabbits brought brou ht to Utah They hey sold as higH ad as 50 per pair |