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Show ::mi me Tllfll sugar . The community centered about the business district at 11th East , and 21st South was named on a i technicality instead of an actuality, j The name Sugar House was ad- I opted the year before the original sugar factory was finished and ready for operation. At that time the pioneers expected to use the building to refine sugar from the beets grown nearby. However, some of the sugar-making machinery mach-inery was lost enroute from the Mississippi river because of fights with the Indians and other reasons. , When the five-story adobe build- j ing was finally completed, avail- : 1 able machinery installed, the set- ters managed to refine sugar as I far as making it into a batch of : molasses. Because of lack of necessary machinery the early residents were unable to ever actually make any sugar in the old sugar house. After the sugar refining project was abandoned, the tall gaunt ' building was uswi as a roundhouse for repair of trains which ran into Parley's canyon. Later it was converted to manufacture galvanized galvan-ized pails. At one time the historic structure struc-ture was used as a nail factory. Just before it was torn down in 1928, the building was pressed into service as a coal yard. Millard F. (Phil) Malin, present-day sculptor, and creator of the plaza monument, was the source of most of this information received by the News Bulletin. He remembers hearing his grandfather, Samuel Malin, tell about the problems encountered in building the original sugar house. Mr. Samuel was the contractor who built the factory. He had 18 adobe layers and 8 hod carriers helping him to construct the edifice. |