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Show SECTION 11: Business and I n d u s t r y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 390 was, that which is, and that which could be. EARL Y BUSINESS ENTERPRISE One of the earliest business enterprises located in South Weber was a stage coach stop on the Mountain Road which was owned and operated by John Hill. In association with that rest stop John had a whiskey still nearby which supplied overland customers. And interestingly, one of South Weber's very first entrepreneurial enterprises was the production of whiskey . ( • . ., Figure 498. Whiskey Ona Supponed the Stagecoach SlOP on lhe Mo untain Road. first attempts at legitimate business was started on September 18, 1895, when James Harbertson constructed a two-room building - one room made of rock for a boiler and engine and another to store wood to fire the boiler. This endeavor was the first attempt at manufacturing in the town but what they made is not known . The effort was too short li ved to tell and there are no records left to account for its tri als and tribulations." ******** JAMES HARBERTSON Figure 497. Some oj South Weber's Firsl Enlrepreneurs: John Hill. Mary Bennen Hill and Grandson George W. Hill. Whiskey Stills in Zion. The manufacture and sale of booze may not be the world's oldest profession, but it has to be a close second; and some o f South Weber's first capitalists were involved in just that kind of commerce. [n the fall of 1859 when the South Weber Saints returned from southern Utah after having gone south to avoid Johnston's Army, two whiskey distilleries began working in the town . One was run by G . W . Hickerson and Vince Cooper, the other by David Parks. They remained in operation until 1860. I A hoiler and engine room . One of South Weber's Sn{ITH WFRFR / , h Figure 500 . Haroenson Jr. J ames -} . ~ ',; Figure 499. Sr. " 'v James HarberlSon James Harbertson, one of the first entrepreneurs in South Weber, for man y years engaged in farming in Weber County . He sptXiaiizco I-ITf\Tn1)V |
