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Show MILLS by Elizabeth W. The few flOUR MillS people who were here in Lind Butterfield, Samuel Egbert and Alexander Beckstead. Marinda Allen Bateman's diary adds the Thomas 1849 and soon after settled close to the river to be near water. From their covered wagon homes, some of these pioneers made Grimmet family. "dug out" homes in the bluffs a short distance both east and west of the Jordan river. Earlier Goshute Indians Raymond and their families settled the river by had dug cave shelters in river banks. Families lived in these dug outs until logs could be brought from Cutler, Harmon and Lucy Cutler and families came in the fall of 1852 as well as Josiah Arnold, William and Bingham or Cottonwood Canyons to build cabins or until adobes could be prepared for building more permanent structures. Even then they could not move far from the Eliza Bird and river until a water source families in the on own history Alonzo and Clarinda the winter of 1851-52. on the east side of Royal and Theda family who joined these others a short they started digging a mill race, bringing it two and one-half miles to where they could build a saw mill. families arrived in 1850 taking that the west side of the river in 1850, the were those of Marius Ensign, by water out of the Jordan river and This mill area First mill started in 1850's Emily Pettigrew, distance from the east side of the river. A short time after the Robert and Archibald Gardner could be established. Archibald Gardner recorded in his when he arrived David and race was taken out of the river Robert and Archibald Gardner families James the Jordan River. Pres. Bateman in first wagon; his father, antlers on roof.) A. Bateman, in last wagon on left. (Note courtesy Alice Pierson on 219 some distance |
