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Show 28 THE CHASE MILL 1852 and several others, have been down, tried to stop it, but to no avail." She said all this to me before I had a chance to say "How do you do," or even "sit down." So now she beckoned and I sat on a chair near her and I said, "Well, Aunt Em, that is just what I have come to you for - to ask you what course I must pursue to stop them from tearing the mill down." She answered, "First of all, you must visit the City Council and see the City Councilman." She told me to see a Mr. Buckle (who happened to be Perry Rockwood's wife's father). He was in the Deseret News Building. When I went to him and Kate Chase told him my story, he told me whom next to go to, and the next was Brother Summerhays. He was in his office, in the wool and hide business right on the corner southwest on block south of the Oregon Short-Line Depot. Mr. Summerhays was another of the City Councilmen. He heard my story and advised me to see a Mr. Robertson. Mr. Buckle and Mr. Summerhays were both Mormons. Mr. Robertson was not a Mormon. He held the position of cashier in the Wells-Fargo Bank. I thanked Mr. Summerhays and from there I took the street car and went right up town again to see Mr. Robertson. When I got off the street car on Main Street and was walking down the street to the bank, I met Wesley K. Walton, a very dear friend of mine, and he was at this time one of the Land Commissioners of Utah. He was also a sweetheart of mine at one time-it was after him that Fanny named her son, Wesley Mathews. He seemed very happy to see me. I told him I was down town in behalf of preventing the city, if possible, from tearing down the Old Mill at Liberty Park. I said I had been to see a Mr. Buckle, that Aunt Em Wells had sent me to him and he had sent me to a Mr. Summerhays. Mr. Summerhays had advised me to go to Mr. Robertson who was at the Wells-Fargo Bank, and I was on my way to see him now. Mr. Summerhays told me that I must see Mr. Robertson because he, it seems, is the main instigator in tearing down the mill. He is not a Mormon, I understand, an Easterner, |
