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made cheese to take to the Bishop's storehouse, where men.(5) The Manti Temple was built between 1877-1888. Hardwood had to be shipped from the Southern States for the winding staircases and railings. Often merchandise was bartered or exchanged, but cash was demanded for the beautiful hardwood. A cooperative creamery, operated by W. D. Livingston and Joseph Judd in Greir's Hall, was then moved to the Warm Springs, which later became Crystal Springs.'"' Andrew Merriam made buttor and ice cream there in 1906. He packed butter in one-pound molds with four screws placed at precise intervals, one across from the other, mines in Nevada or points beyond.C?) In 1923 final preparations for the Manti Cheese Manufacturing Company were made. It furnished a market for milk from Mayfield, Sterling and Manti. About 13,000 pounds of milk were delivered daily, from which 200 pounds ot cheese was produced.<8> The Manti Commercial Club was such other projects as a high school for Manti, a Carnegie LiDrary, and a municx pal1y owned light and power plant¦ A large group of farmers set up the cheese factory as a co-op so that no one could own more than enough shares to equal the sum of $10.00; thus, one person could not gain From the minutes of the Manti City Council, Ernest Madsen, Mayor, there appears: "Sept. 15, 1923, Marshall Sidwell stated that the Cheese Factory had applied to trick. ^iTwas instructed to Sttend to^this natter."(9) The Manti Cheese Manufacturing Company began business on January 19, 1924. Paul M. Smith was the first cheese-maker hired. He was cheesemaker, janitor, bookkeeper and 40 |
