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Show A REL8C OF THE i PIONEER DAYS! i . j First Home Built South of Twenty-Ninth Street is Being Razed to ! Make Room for a Modern Structure How the Old- Timers Founded an Empire. , , i i . '. when he gazen upon the completed I c.-bln. "It wm as simple within as with-consisted with-consisted of a home-made bed. a tabic, tab-ic, made of pieces of boxes, and two i chairs. I made all of these c-nveni- j ei.ee myself. The be,; was rudely i put tocet'ier f.f blender lozs .-nd rop- ed. We had a straw tick and then on j top of this another tick which I had j Muffed with the feathers of prairie chickens that I had shot. I was particularly par-ticularly proud of this tick, as jou right Imagine." In the early hardships, incident to the primitive r pioneer way of 11 v-lng, v-lng, Mrs. Brown also shared and In .1 woman's waj, worked as hard as did her husband to make their Hist home a comfortable one. "I have wondered," said Mr. Brown. I a remlnhcent wuy, "'if the youth of today would work as hard as I did to make a homo but, then, of ourie," he pdded. "they don't have to Their environment is fo different differ-ent hod: the hard-nanded incentive that urged us on is of the past. Rut I don't know that they are any happier hap-pier with their added leisure. "No, I don't intend to erect a very large residence-; it will be only an nodlllon to the more modern part of the old house which was built In 186H. That's the year the railroad came through." The speaker turned and pointed to the two largo soft maple trees that shade the street at this point. , "I planted those in '71," he said, "there are not many trees like them In this part of the country'-" this was purchased at a cost of one , hundred dollars per thousand feet and . hauled twenty miles by the purchas- J er. Shingles, such as they were, sold i for ten dollars per thousand and must j le hauled several miles. Some nails, at eighty cents per pound, were used I sparingly. I The real carpenter work of the ) house was done by the lato Thomas j D. Dee and Bishop James Taylor. , Mr. Dee quit carpentering some time I after this and, as Is well known, died, 1 lot loug since, leaving an estate of great value. Speaking of the old home, now in the hands of the wrecker, Mr. Brown, whose hair Is whitened by the years that have passed 6lnce he laid th foundation, stated that no man of wealth was ever prouder of a new n.lllion dollar palace than was he 1 In 1SG4 and Moroni Brown 1 worked heroically ii construct, a small one-room log cabin on Washing- ! ton avenue, Just south of Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth tttrect Now the work of nearly near-ly two jcars of the long ago is being obliterated ln as many dayn to make way for a more modern and convenient conveni-ent residence for the now elderly Mr. and Mrs. Brown. The structure being razed was the first dwelling house erected south of Twenty-ninth street At the time it was built, the south line of-the city was at Twenty-eighth street and there were but scattered homes between be-tween that point and Salt Lake City. To enter Into the history of the house means to enter Into the history of Ogden. Moroni, the builder, wa3 tho 6on or Captain James Brown, the first settler set-tler of Ogden. It will be remembered remember-ed by those familiar with the history of the settlement of Utah, that Captain Cap-tain Brown led the Mormon battalion and that returning from that historic march, he arrived In Salt Lake City just five days after tho arrival of Brlgham Young. This was on July 29, 1S47. Capt. Brown left Salt Lake City ' In August of the same year and proceeded pro-ceeded up the valley and secured claims to most of the land in this vicinity. He did not stop in Utah, however, but proceeded westward to California. In December be was back to the spot where this city Is now-built now-built , but it was early ln January, IMS. that lie settled here. March C, 18C3. his son, Moroni, married Miss Eveline Connover of Provo and immediately tho young man. then twenty-four years of age, began dreaming of a comfortable-home comfortable-home which he would build for himself. him-self. Two acres of land were given him by his father. In the spring of 1SC4 young Brown laid the foundation founda-tion of his future home and then began be-gan the tedious task of bringing tho logs from Warm Springs canyon, with which the house was to be constructed. construct-ed. De Foe graphically pictures the groat Inconveniences under which his hero worked in building his abode upon up-on his island home. Readers of the Robinson Crusoe talo will please consider con-sider that Crusoe had only to hew-down hew-down his trees and drag them a short distance. It was necessary for Moroni Mor-oni to bring his logs a distance of several sev-eral miles, which might Illustrate that even the hardships of truth are stranger than those of fiction. Moroni Mor-oni tolled all day in tho mountain ciittlng down half a dozen trees and sliding them over the ice and snow toward the bottom of tho canyon Ho had no team and he needs must work for the owner of such a luxury for a day In order that the possessor of the oxen would allow him the use of them the following day. In this way the young man brought the material to tho site of his proposed dwelling. Although Al-though he started work early in the spring of 18p4. It was not until late in the fall of 1S63 that he moved into in-to the house. There was some finished lumber necessary In the construction and |
