Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
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Lake city, within It's corporate
limits. IS a city within q city, n
suburban municipality OF superior
attraction and progress, the ever IN
t.rcstlnz sugar House. 1t is noted far
and wide for is beauty rs a resident
,al district. for It's superb c!imatic
conditions and for the high quality oil
its citizens.
Its history is filed With the romance
of pioneer days. He who can look back
upon the scenes in Utah 30 years ago,
with al, the privations and hnrdships
ever attendant to pioneer life, ana VINO
see today this glorious state. SAT-
Lake a thriving city with It's real
metropolitan air OF business ana pros
nnrity' its wealth and its culture.
must at times wonder If the future
viii not repeat the past. ana make
isunv an d-timer of tomorrow wonder
why he did not grasp the opportunities
| OF today. Such to some are inc leei-
inxs engendcred by visit to sugar
| Hulse now in comparison W:th n we"
/ or'thc Sugar House of many years ago,
Times change rapidly and some are
/ wont TO believe that their forctathers
4 alone we're blessed with golden days of
/ nnportuntIty: but are they not missing
h he present with its possibilities, great
or.tan any of which the world ever
drGamed are they not sleeping while
L great things are happening III thcir
very doors!
so much has lately been said about
Sugar House as an addition to fast
h growing salt Lake, that summary or
H its history, growth. and resources Is
Fl most opportune. Its center Is located
at Eleventh East and Twelfth south
III about -four and u half miles from the
1t -t,.t Sl N Il
II HISTORY OF SUGAR HOUSE.
n The history OF Sugar House is filed
ri with the romance and thrilling details
II which characterized the early settle
,nent of Utah. The first white man to
set foot on the ground now, occupied
81 bv Sugar House was w. Z. ~. Snoot,
II who oven now is one of the prominent
III figures daily seen upon the streets oil
H the busy suburb
Il He and several other. men who were
with him when the first trip was made
II to Sugar House, in 1S4I, came into
L Utah with the original pioneer COM
L pany. headed by Brigham Dung.
+ In accordance With his well known
organizing ability, Brigham Young
separated the original pioneers into
Il groups OF 10. each 10 having its cap
II tain. over the group winch included
II W. c. A. Smoot. Mr.. Samuel Turnbow
! was captain.
h Upon tho arrival of the pioneers
in salt Lake City, 1t became necessary
/, for them to look for their future
4 homes, as salt Lake ut that time con-
| sisted Of an almost barren delta FOR
q nation through which ran CITY creek
4 and one or two other well known
streams, and the fertile portions OF the
| district were unable to support nm
I nediatcly, at least. the number mat
| MI 4.
Capt Turnbow said to the group over
when he was captain, rs he looked
4 southwark from an cmnence near the
present site of Salt Lake city, "Boys,
| see green streak down the noun
q tain side here. Let's so down. at inc
same time pointing his finger TOWARDS
4 the stupcndous peaks OF the we'll
fertile portions which nestled close TO
| them.
ORIGIN OF COUNTY ROAD.
II had been Mr. Shoots custom
whenever the 10 were travelling to Drive
the first team, and so upon TINS mem
orabe OCCASION Mr. Smoot drove lne
first wagon on its way through Wnat -
now Sugar House. BY winding
about hills and points of vantage, the
little party eventually found its way
through was Is now the Sugar House
district and all along the course capt
Turnbow shouted his instructions as
to the road to follow to Nh. Smool'
who was driving the first wagon. Ihey
followed the trail which to this day Is
used as II road and Is known far anu
Il wide as the County road.
The first night the little party
campcd in Cottonwood near the noun
tains, but eventually some of them re-
turned to rcinspect tho district the!
had followed on account OF the beau
ties of the scenery and the fcrlilit!
n they had encountered. The men Wh,
composed that original party consisted
of Samuel Turnbow, w. G. A. Smoot
Hayden Church. Benjamin FRANKLIN
Stewart, James Stewart and James
n Stratton.
FIRST SUGAR, FACTORY.
About the year 1853 Brigham Young
called upon "A. .. Smoot who WAS q
that time in Cottonwood to come viii
his family to Sugar House for tho pur'
IN pose Of raising sugar bcets which were
to be utilized In sugar FACTORY
N President Brigham Young sent t
France for machinery which was tn
i very latest and best that could be p:o
n duced at that time, and which cos
4 100000. Another 100000, Or approx
In lmntcly that figure, was spent IN haul
n ms the heavy machinery thus pro
~ cured over tho old Pioneer trail to TIT
Sugar House factory sugar rae
\ tory was erected ut n great eXpchs
n and the machinery installed and every
81 Nhlng made ready for the making 0
En- sugar, Mi. a. O. Smoot being put II
4 superintendent of the factory itself
Il The sugar works in those early times
Of course, created considerable inter
est among the early settlers ana man.
/ proceeded Immediately to raise suSa