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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This is the twenty-first in a series of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. T he series is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar Hous e Camp, Sons of LTtah Pioneers. President Young and several officers in the new company rode out to Canyon Creek in search of a suitable location for the proposed mill. Along that historic stream it was decided de-cided to erect the mill. Abraham Abra-ham O. Smoot and Orson Hyde were appointed to supervise its erection, while Mr. Mollen-hauer Mollen-hauer was appointed super-, intendent of the plant. Truman O. Angel was given the task of drawing up plans and supervising the erection of the buildings. In April the construction of the buildings commenced. "It is a beautiful beauti-ful place for my plan, wrote the architect, Truman O. Angel, An-gel, at the time. It was a difficult task to place and erect the buildings since the architect was not fully acquainted with the 'machinery 'ma-chinery that was to be boused there. The men who had come to install the machinery were not too helpful in the matter, not knowing every detail until un-til the machinery was finally ready for operation. More than a year was consumed con-sumed in the construction of the buildings and the installation installa-tion of the machinery. In October, Oc-tober, 1854, the Deseret News announced that the plant would be ready in a few weeks,, but advised the farmers farm-ers to dig their beets and place them in small piles, covering them with straw and earth as a protection against the frost. But the machinery was not ready for that season's crop. In the months that followed, many experiments and tests were conducted, but nothing resembling sugar could be extracted ex-tracted from the stubborn beets. A quantity of edible molasses was produced, but the elusive sugar could not be reclaimed. |