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Show Sugar House Sermonelles by E. Cecil McGavin This is the fourteenth in a scries of articles on the early d.iy history of Sngar House. The series is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Ut.-ih Pioneers. The task of assembling a caravan of heavy wagons, made especially for the burdens burd-ens they were to bear, and the irksome project of purchasing pur-chasing strong oxen along the way and training them for the labor they must do was a staggering assignment to the young, ambitious men from Europe who had come to supervise sup-ervise the installation and operation op-eration of the sugar processing machinery. Young Do LaMare traveled more than six hundred hun-dred miles, much of the distance dist-ance on foot, seffrching out and purchasing the strong beasts of burden he needed for the long journey. He carried $5,000 in gold coins stored in a money belt, making purchases purchas-es where he could. Many of the strong oxen he bought were fresh from the ranee, never having lx-en broken or trained. This was an almost unsurmountable ob stacle for these men from abroad, unaccustomed to such labor, to harness these wild beasts and break them to the oxbow and yoke. This was a task that must be accomplished ac-complished and no obstacles were too great to dissuade these men of genius and vision who had come to this strange land to extract sweetness from the bitter soil of the arid west. With young Do LaMare on this perilous expedition were his loyal wife and three children. chil-dren. They had been reared in luxury and wealth in great cities in Europe. They were strangers to the rigorous life of a pioneer, but were willing will-ing to suffer the privations and hardships such a journey would entail, that the desert might be made to blossom as they gathered with the Saints in their mountain fastnesses and shared the spirit of Zion. |