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HONORABLE MENTION SHORT STORY HOME INDUSTRY AND THE PIONEERS Lillian H. Fox HO North 100 West Manti, Utah 84642 were talking about the pioneers and my teacher said there vere no stores in all Central Utah. Where did the kids "Children in those days had no money to spend, my dear. There were no stores here when the pioneers "We must remember that it was November when they came here and they had only the 'provisions' brought along in covered wagons to keep them alive and warm. Sanpete was a wilderness area inclusive of what is now Sanpete, Carbon, Emery and Grand Counties. This large area was inhabited only by wild animals and Indians." "There must have been a store someplace." (now Provo). Then there was Salt Lake City, but that settlement was only two years old, and it was three weeks away when traveled with a team of oxen." "That first winter they lived in dugouts in what is now Temple Hill. Along with the supplies in their wagons, the men hunted and fished. They had some wheat, but only one little grinding mill to make it into flour. They to door for everyone to use. They mixed the flour with their breakfast cereal." "Did they have milk to put on the cereal?" 88 |
