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Show Money was bad> n getin Utah and people often paid theirbills wit& fqngmd~~ fcredit at a stnm. In 1W- 92 S, T* ~ isahn d & mpm af Chicago, Illinois. bought h o ~ dyf h gdd coins from the beakeepe& ardmd Spring-ville. Samuel J. Chapman hmn EhiP; a@ pafd fur the honey as it was lo& d 3n a r a i h d boxcar at Springville. Qliuar Kwtington supervised & e bading of bath exhackd honey and mmb honey, The b ~ x awra s see? offm NovesnWr 3,1B92, with Z2.0.00 paunds of h e y . After the Fist seasap1 of h e bwp. ectipns the amomit of hahey shippd fioh Spping-ville, Prom, ~ agthn, arid Bmwn in-creased. The m e > Ch icag6 cmnp'fny& & a railtoad car to Sprmgdean & toha 5,1893. Oliver Huatingtan who had jyst m e d 70 years old, ~ ~ ~ p ~ cmmkbahodni~ n ~- ~ the boxcar so t hc~ om b ? ad mtbe bmbq on the ride to Chicago. 5. T. Fsb and Cosn-pany sold the Utah honey on Chicggo market to peqpje in ewtern cities and in Europe, The amount of honey sold i~ l a 3 h mju st m ep art of Utah County W# 34,000 pun& bf whfcb 11, OW pounds was the high- gde comb h ~ n e ~ . Honey was animpmhnt business in U~ during the 4 85th. Although beet sugar even-tuaUy hame the major source of sweets, beekeeping has continued as an indusky in t r e . Clover honey from Utah is widely know as a favofit? honey. And Utah fzmers apprmi9C m& er vital bee service; as h i t trees and see. d crop. lncr& e bes are fn de-mand to pollinate the b1wsbn- t~ I- t twob as if beas will remain important in the Beehive st&. Dr., Humpbesp is a asuIEant for the Salt Lake ComPtp P* eml Rmeatlm mi the deuehpbnt of Wbgekr F- Brm, a m~ m- hk'toricfa mn of 1890- 3910 . The Greek Sheepmen At t h b~ eg ianing of tbis century many men and hys from G r m found work in Utah m j , ~ san d an r9ilmad gangs. They had come from a pastoral people w h s~ pe nt the grmtes p@ qf & B year driving sheep and goats to moH- a& ins far sumher pasture and b ~ IaizrSf ar winter protection. They could not have S U W . ~ Vin~ ~ th eir bmrm, craggy land without sheep to provide d ~ fomod and wool for clothing, It was hard for the immigran$ to bmme used € a & e lonely ten? wd raihahar. cal-onies on the plains of Utah sagsbrmh d to long shifts working in roam of cod, their shoes ice- encru~ fedw ater. The young men aIso missed theh native food; chees~ m ade from goat's miLk. yogiurt [ curdled d l k b and lamb, which they could afford ~ d ayn Christmas n d Eastar in ihei~ native countq- if at dl. A few of the wwkms took advantage of this longing wd bought jmmg farilhs that they raisad and killed bef&& they k a m e yezings. dong with We I& bs they kept goats to provide milk faa &@ emtiking. Their attantion, though, was centered on sheep bmause goats can survive on sparse rough fodder and require less cam. To the Greeks gheep are creatures of Gad: one af the symbals fnr Jesus is the lamb. The Bible ttses ' the lamh to denote purity: Matthew 2533 says " And he Oesus] shall set the sheep [ the good] an his right hand . . .". Before killing a lamb, Greeks made the eign of the cross in payer for a swift. unhatched death. Many folk crtst~ msw ere bmug h t to Utah. Just as they had in G- e, the ken used tufts af clean Wa& I dipped ib the film hat formed an IQg~ fgo. a t chwm'to cbw out in£ ecfian. A b a y injmd pe& on ws krapped in Phg pelt bf a fmMy Mlad sheep. On Easter the tmdi-t i o d mast lamb was eaten, and them& was follmd'by an older, respected man's " md- $ E" * he shoulder Mad~ xamining the Eries md pjttisgs on the bane to divine what the year would bring. As and mare Greeks came into Utah to work In the newly opened mines in Garban County3 Greek boardinghouses sprang up in each cod camp rand more meat was needed. The men began riising larger herds in en-of Utah SoofhId, Carbon County, and the Uinta Mountains. When these areas became over-grazed, they lkased rich land around Craig 1 and Grand Junction, Colorado, but most of h m still lived in Utah, Familes spent the three months of sum-mer " at sheep." Mothers and daughters cooked fir muwds of men, canned enough fruits and vegabIes to last their families arid sheepherders until the fallowing season, and rolled nut dough into stacks of thin sheets ta he made into cheese pastries whenever needed. Sons cut alfalfa, worked aound the summer house, weeded the garden, and tqok sappiies to sheepherders in thdr m p s among the aspen. Older boys took the tr turn as sheepherders. The very youngest children had the job of bottlefeeding the " bum" lambs ( orphmed, rejcted, or the weaker of Mns.] In September the children returned to I town and school and waited impatiently far I their fathers- turn from marketing the , sheep. Utah sheepmen usually sold their shwp in the Kansas City stockyards. Until the late 1930s owners traveled with their sheep in special cars, which had stoves for cooking. i These autnmn journeys are well described by Hughie Call in The Golden Fleece, a story about a Montana sheep family. Children could tell if the price of lambs was high by the gifts their fathers brought # em. And if the price was not high, there was closures outside of the towns and continued dw~ ytsh e excitement ( ~ hfa visg their fathers to feed them on h y. This worked well and at home for two monhs or so. ( Sheep on the the meat suppliers ba~ amteh e mostprosp=- winter range were left in the care of ous of immigrants until the early 192Bs. shekpherders.) The fathers msfed and visited that time many G* ek works had b e ~ n coffeehouses where they met friends, dis-leaving the mines and railroad gang2 and cms~ d the latest news in Greek- language using their savings to go into business. Mew newspapers, and drank Turkish coffee from Greek immigrants did not take their p l w ~ smalI white cups. Soon it was time for lamb-because the s a t immigration laws of f 921 ing when the newborn needed every protec-and1924hostcutoff~ eirentranceinfoth~ ti~ nfromcddwinds, andthecyclebegan cornby. again. With the clc~ shgof ~ m any Gmk boarding- The depression af the 1930$, W orld War houses, the m- t suppliers decided to become 4, and the deaths of tbe first immigrant Greek sheepmen in the real * me: breeding, raising sheepmen diminished the number of Greek hay for feed, sheafingin the sprin& md seU- shmp families. There are a few third-ing their animals in & a fdl in Denver, Kan- generation Greek sheep familim, howewer. sas City, and Chicago. Although they have not kept up Ule lore and Mow the sheepmen returned to the life cndams manacted with sheep, for them they knew best b m ckijdhood, although there is only one way of Ti f d e e p raising, now their sheep were gumbered in the thousands, not in the Pens and fmenties. They ~ r sP. ap anikoIas, a member of the Board of state trailed their sheep fm summering into the Histov. has publish& m. any accaudi of immigrant life Oquirrh Mountains, the high country mound and wstom in Utah. 16 |
