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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. and 537 by Joseph Christiansen. In '94 the company and the store is now owned by Henry Jensen, who operates a north and south branch, and does a go<«d later sold out business. There are three stores, the third owned by C. C. Lartwo blacksmith shops, owned by Arthur H. Campbell and Jorgen Ivnudsen; a fine forty-barrel roller mill, owned by the Willardson family; three well-conducted district schools, under able instructors; a Eelief Society hall, used for amusements and religious services, and a ward of the Latter-day Saints under the wise counsel of Bishop Parley Christiansen. The present population consists of fanners and stockraisers and numbers probably 800 people, noted for their honesty, industry and enterprise in conquering the desert and building magnificent homes in this mountain vale. Mayfield is well supplied with water from TwelveMile creek and from a large reservoir located in the canyon, seven miles from the settlement. The Mayfield Irrigation Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, was insen; corporated March 19, 1892. The present officials are: Parley Christiansen, president; Charles Whitlock, vicepresident; C. R. Nielsen, secretary; Frederick J. Christiansen, treasurer, who with J. P. Carlson, Austin M. Vorhees and George T. Balle, constitute the board of directors. The company had some difficulty with Gunnison people in securing a proper division of water, but the matter was peaceably adjusted by arbitration. In '88 a new canal was built through the almost inipregnable rocky crags to the Mayfield south field and a new and larger area put under cultivation. This work was done under the co-operative system characteristic of UJah farmers, labor being the basis of stock held in the canal. Work was reckoned at $1 per day and shares |
