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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 Once Supported the Stagecoach Stop on the Mountain 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 lived to tell and there are no records left to account for its trials and tribulations. 2 ******** JAMES HARBERTSON Figllre 497. Some of South Weber's First Entrepreneurs: John Hill, Mary Bennen Hill and Grandson George W. HiU. 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 of South Weber's first capitalists were involved in just that kind of commerce. In the fall of 1859 when the South Weber Saints returned from southern Utah after having gone south to avoid Johnston's Anny, 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. 1 A boiler and engine room. One of South Weber's Figure 500. Haroertson Jr. James James Harbertson, one of the first entrepreneurs in South Weber, for many years engaged in fanning in Weber County. He specialized SOUTH WEBER HISTORY |
