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Show Sugar House Sermonettcs by E. Cecil McGavin This is the twent y-second in a srrles of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The series is presented nndrr the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. During the winter of 1852-53 many of the farmers in the valley expressed their unwillingness to raise sugar beets the coming season. That first test in the temporary tem-porary mill on the Temple Block could not be forgotten by some of the farmers, yet Brigham Young and the brave men who stood with him in the new enterprise, en-terprise, were not satisfied to give up after only one failure. On Washington's birthday, 1S.53, the Dfscrct News carried a long article written by Orson Hyde, encouraging the farmers to supply the beets and the proposed pro-posed mill would soon supply a vast amount of mollasses and "as good an article of sugar as can be produced in France." President Brigham Young was determined to make the sugar beet industry a profitable and permanent industry for his people. The small mill on Temple Block was not large enough for the plant President Young had in mind. The new mill must be made so large and so successful that it must be located a reasonable distance from the city. In March the leaders were looking about the community for a suitable suit-able site for the proposed sugar mill. |