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3 Senjamln Barr Nelf, Neff, who with his father and In 1870. Benjamin family had been Pioneers Into Inlo the Valley In 1847, and were now living in the Mill Creek area, took Brigham Srlgham Young's . advice and as he had married and had a family of his own ovvn since coming to the valley. valley, he came to the Dry Creek area and bought the land from Mr. Bell. It was In his home that the first Telegraph Office south of Salt Lake City was operated by his wife. wife, Mary Ellen Love Neff, Neff. Nov .12,1870. .12.1870. came Milo Andru. Andrus and took up land About this time also ceme south of Mr. Neff. Edwin Brown also homesteaded a quarter section of land In the southern part pa,.t of the area, (11400 ( I 1400 south-11800 south ). Then came William Taylor In 1875 homesteading a piece of land from the'Gulley' west to the Jordan River; River j Sullock In 187~, taking up land . from the River Joseph Bullock east between 11000 south to 11400 1 1400 soulh. south. Also AI so John N. Eddins who bought some land from Mr.Andrus. In 1879 came Hyrum Lancaster and John Lloyd and Pehr August Dahl In 1880 from the West settled the Wesl Jordan area and .ettled North part of the area. In 1877 William H. Smith came. Andrew Shulsen Shutsen and John Wilson settled next to the Lloyd property. In 1882, 1 eS2, Frederick August Olson 01 son bought 80 eo acres of land east of State Street from what is now 10800 10eOO south to 11000 11 000 south. However he did not move here till 1 883. In 188S 1885 from the Cottonwood area came William F alrbourn ,• Albert G. Brown, Brovvn, William V. Morris, Jame. James B. S. Cunliffe Srown and bought the quarter Section from and Henry W. Brown Edwin Brown. Srown. William H. Atwood bought land east of that property but did not Immediately occupy It until later. Soren Jensen and a son James (Jens) Peter Jensen bought 60 acres of land east of State Street In 1885 1 SSS as did Nels August Nelson who bought property which William G. Taylor had acquired at 10200 south - 10600 south. south, east elllst of State Street. Now, many more people began to move Into the Dry Creek area but these people are considered as the PloPioneer nee,. Builders Sullders of the Dry Creek area. Most of the land was covered with Sunflowers, sage brush and greasewood. The river bottoms were swampy. who were able As the land was being cleared, the mtn \/\/he) took their teams and helped to make the East Jordan Canal from the Narrows Into the Valley. Valley, along with men and team. teams f,.om from Draper. Albert G. B,.own Srown and William Fal,.Falrl • lane Into Crescent, bourn made the Canel Canal from Cook Cook's (11400 south). Nel son, Fred F red Jayne.. south), while Nels A. A.Nelson, Jaynes, Fred worked from there on. Olson and others wor'l<ed Weirs and headgates were . made along the weyand WeIrs way and dltene. ditches were dug to take the water to the various fields. Then the desert began to blO.som blOssom as the rose. The gound was rich and fertile and alfalfa grew g,.ew as tall as a manls man's . waist. Some sugar suga,. cane was grown grovvn and the housewives made sorghum molasses which they used as ' a sweetner. Grains were also raised and potatoes and sugar suga,. beets were ,.alsed. raised. No modern mode,.n harvesters did they have to plant or harvest the crops. Potatoos were laid In the sun lor for two · 0,. three days to 'ripen' and then the family "turned out" to or cut the sets. Then as a fur,.ow furrow was plowed the sets were dropped about a foot apart d,.opped apa,.t In the furrow, then covered by another furrow and so on till the field was planted. The harvesting was done In a similar slmlla,. manner, a furrow being plowed and the potatoes we,.e were picked up by hand, placed In buckets and then put Into secks. sacks. At the end of the day in pits or celthey were hauled In the wagon and placed In la,.s until needed for use. lars Sugar beets were harvested In in much the same way.Of course cou,.se they were planted by machine. Then came the task of thinning, which was done by II a man 'cross-hoeing' and then youngsters thinning the beets, leaving only one beet between the cross-hoe. They were paid a few cents a row but no one got' rich' although they did make a little were plowed by spending money. Then the harvest; harvest j they we,.e a team of horses horses;j the harveslers harvesle,.s pulled them out of the ground, "'ook shook olf pi aced them In off the dirt, placed in plies, then with long knlve. knives cut off the tops, threw them Into plies afterwhich the wagon went down dovvn the furrow. furrow, the beets were thrown Into the wagon and hauled to the beet dump and loaded by hand Into the cars. car.. Manl Man I that was work! As Aa time pa. •• .ed, Inventions we,.e were made which ' took much of the hard work out of beet-raising which today can be done with two men, one driving d,.lvlng the machine and the other driving the truck. . In the early . .utement ttlement of the valley the threshing th,.eshlng of the grain was done wIth flalla which beat the grain from the with flans .t,.aw straw but by the time Orescent ere scent was settled, a threshIng threshing company had been formed fo,.mad who went about dOing the thresh-- . Ing. Hyrum Lancaster cracked the whip which kept the team. teams going round and round which kept the machlne,.y machinery goIng ,.ound round end and round Inalde inside the seperator. seperator, which shook the grain g,.aln from the straw and chaff. John Lloyd sacked the grain g,.aln a. as It came f,.om from the chute on the side of the seperato,. seperator Cha,.les Charles Smith was the "perato,. $Sperator man. man, and Albert Lunnen •' and Ike Golf Goff took care of the straw and chaff. The farme,.s' farmers' wives fed the threshing wIve. th,.eshlng company as long as they were on the Job. The farmers, being neighborly. neighborly, exchanged labor with each other at threshing time. It was an exciting time wfth fo,. for the children too, and some even got excused from school to go home to watch the amazing work of the threshmachine and the horses going round and round. Ing machIne Time ~n..d. ~".d. J"v~ntlon Jt'v~ntlon has certainly taken the hard work and wonder oul of farm work. Remember Remembe,. how the farmer walked behInd behind the hand plow which made one furrow at a time and was pulled by a faithful team of horses? He worked from daylight till dark as soon as the frost was out of the ground to get his. h18. 'sprIng 'spring plowing' done ready fo,. for plantIng. . Ing • 0,.