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THE NEW AGRICULTURE 255 being of local residents governed corporate actions. Davis County's home-owned salt industry melted away as part of the transition to a commercial economy105 ENDNOTES 1. Quoted in Annie Call Carr, ed., East of Antelope Island: History of the First Fifty Years of Davis County, 71. 2. Leonard ]. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, 341-44, 348-49. 3. Ibid., 345; William Robb Purrington, "The History of South Davis County from 1847 to 1870," 74. 4. Clayton Holt, ed., The Community of Syracuse, 1820 to 1995, 59; Carol Ivins Collett, Kaysville-Owr Town: A History, 29; Mary Ellen Smoot and Marilyn Sheriff, The City In-Between: History of Centerville, Utah, 34; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 71. 5. Kate B. Carter, comp., Heart Throbs of the West, 11:53-54; Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah, 1540-1887, 726; Chris Rigby Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics: Mormon Women and the Silk Industry in Early Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (Fall 1978): 378-79. 6. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom, 227-28, 254. 7. Margaret Steed Hess, My Farmington: A History of Farmington, Utah, 1847-1976, 343. 8. Joseph L. Robinson, Autobiography and Journal, April 1876. 9. Chris Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics," 382-83, 387-88; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 396-97, 283, 90, 244; Hess, My Farmington, 343. 10. Farmington Ward, Teachers Quorum Minutes, 23 lanuary, 13 February 1876, 31 March 1878, 12 lune 1881; Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 85-86. 11. Carter, Heart Throbs, 11:54, 78-79; Robinson, Autobiography and Journal, 26-28 May, 16-17 June 1877; John Taylor, discourse, Kaysville, 2 March 1879, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool and London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1855-1886), 20:169. 12. Deseret News, 13, 20 April 1877; Carter, Heart Throbs, 11:57; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 283; Hess, My Farmington, 343. 13. Hess, My Farmington, 344, says this dress preceded Clark's. 14. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 31; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 397; "John H. and Ada Arvilla Burk Earl," typescript, in private possession; Carter, Heart Throbs, 11:78-82, 312. Chris Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics," 388-89, found reports of only four silk dresses made in the terri- 256 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY tory, three of them in Davis County. The information presented above sug­gests a much greater production. 15. Chris Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics," 391; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 396; Davis County Clipper, 25 January 1894. 16. Chris Arrington, "The Finest of Fabrics," 393-96; Davis County Clipper, 4 August 1896, 8 April, 16 December 1898. 17. Charles L. Schmalz, "The Failure of Utah's First Sugar Factory," Utah Historical Quarterly 56 (Winter 1988): 36-47, 52. 18. Deseret News (weekly), 11 November, 20 May 1868. 19. Farmington Ward, Teachers Minutes, 13 April 1879; Deseret Evening News, 18 September 1880; Davis County Clipper, 2 April 1897; Fred G. Taylor, A Saga of Sugar (Salt Lake City: Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., 1944), 62-64. 20. Leonard J. Arrington, Beet Sugar in the West: A History of the Utah- Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1966), 6-7; Taylor, A Saga of Sugar, 64-69, 73-84. 21. Leonard J. Arrington, "The Sugar Industry in Utah," in Allan Kent Powell, ed., Utah History Encyclopedia, 534-35; Kent Day, "The Layton Sugar Company," in Dan Carlsruh and Eve Carlsruh, eds., Layton, Utah: Historic Viewpoints, 264. 22. Holt, The Community of Syracuse, 102-3; Day, "Layton Sugar Company," 266-67. 23. Day, "Layton Sugar Company," 269, 273; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 103; Lee D. Bell, South Weber: The Autobiography of One Utah Community, 162. 24. Day, "Layton Sugar Company," 273-81. 25. Glen M. Leonard, "A History of Farmington, Utah, to 1890," 107-8; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 96-97. 26. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 97-98. 27. Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1888 (Salt Lake City: Lorenzo Stenhouse, 1888), 36, 44, 64-65, 81-85; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93 (Salt Lake City: Stenhouse and Co., 1892), 44, 51, 69, 90, 93; Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1900 (Salt Lake City: R. L. Polk 8c Co., 1900), 66, 78, 80, 98, 122, 126; Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918-1919 (Salt Lake City: R. L. Polk 8c Co., 1918), 27-28, 41, 43, 59, 84-85, 87-88, 128, 328; Arlene H. Eakle, Adelia Baird, and Georgia Weber, Woods Cross: Patterns and Profiles of a City, 46; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 135-36. 28. Davis County Clipper, 19 March 1892; Weekly Reflex (Kaysville), 1 May 1913, 6. THE NEW AGRICULTURE 257 29. For examples see Davis County Clipper, 8 June, 27 July 1893; Deseret Evening News, 31 October 1894. 30. L. R. Humpherys and A. C. Matheson, eds., Utah-Resources and Activities: Supplement to the Utah State Courses of Study for Elementary and Secondary Schools (Salt Lake City: Utah Department of Public Instruction, 1933), 428; F. Ross Peterson, A History of Cache County (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society and Cache County Council, 1997), 228-29. 31. Alley S. Rose, Journal, entries each August or September from 1905 to 1910, LDS Church Archives; Joel E. Ricks, The Utah State Agricultural College: A History of Fifty Years, 1888-1938 (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938), 85; John A. Widtsoe, The Principles of Irrigation Practice (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 470. 32. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 44; Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 281; Ricks, Utah State Agricultural College, 85 33. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 96-97; Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 251, 277, 279-83. 34. Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 277-83; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 13 35. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 367, Leland H. Creer, The Founding of an Empire: The Exploration and Colonization of Utah, 1776-1856 (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1947), 340. 36. Leslie T. Foy, The City Bountiful: Utah's Second Settlement, from Pioneers to Present, 92; Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 31, Hess, My Farmington, 337; Leonard, "A History of Farmington," 107; Bell, South Weber, 177; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 368, 425-26. 37. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 96-97. 38. Foy, City Bountiful, 92; Bureau of the Census, "Census Schedules for Davis County," (Seventh Census, 1850). Mower is not listed in the 1852 ward report and may have moved elsewhere by then. 39. Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 31. The 1850 census lists William as a farmer and his older brother Osmyn as a blacksmith. Both men pursued both occupations in Utah. 40. Deseret News, 6 luly 1850; loseph Cain and Arieh C. Brower, Mormon Way-bill to the Gold Mines (Great Salt Lake City: published for the authors, 1851); Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 10, 32. Burton was not listed in the 1850 census but is found in the 1852 bishop's report. 41. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 385-88; Foy, City Bountiful, 92-93; Hess, My Farmington, 334; Farmington Ward, Teachers Minutes, 13 May, 29 July, 5 August 1866. 258 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY 42. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 385-87; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 142-43. 43. Inez Barker, comp., John Weinel, Miller: Early Pioneer Builder and Operator of the First Flour Mill in Kaysville, Utah (Kaysville: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1983), 38. 44. Ibid., 27, 41-45. 45. Foy, City Bountiful, 87; Utah Gazetteer, 1888, 36, 44; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-1893, 51, 69; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 98; Hess, My Farmington, 341. 46. Oma E. Wilcox and E. Harris Adams, "Layton Businesses," in Carlsruh and Carlsruh, Layton, Utah, 291-92. 47. Ibid.; Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 112; Richard C. Roberts and Richard W. Sadler, A History of Weber County, 240. 48. Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 33-35; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 162-63; Deseret News (weekly), 20 May 1868. 49. Eakle, Baird, and Weber, Woods Cross, 9-10, 46; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 162-63; J. R. Moss, "History of the Deseret Live Stock Company (M.A. thesis, University of Utah, 1965), 8-10. 50. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 128; Stanford J. Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," in Carlsruh and Carlsruh, Layton, Utah, 255-56. 51. Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-1919, 128; Roberts and Sadler, History of Weber County, 240. 52. LaRue Hugoe and Edith Deppe, West Bountiful: A Pictorial History, 1848-1988, 451; Moss, "Deseret Live Stock Company," 17-24, 49-50, 73; Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 77-78. 53. Allen Roberts, "History of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake" (Salt Lake City, 1981), 25-27, 37-48, 56-57, 62; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 68-70, 73-86. 54. Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 266-67, 284. 55. Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," 257. 56. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 92, 94-95. 57. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 163-64; Eakle, Baird, and Weber, Woods Cross, 9, 46. 58. Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," 257; Bell, South Weber, 186; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 173; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 92; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 66, 78, 80, 98, 122, 126; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 59, 88. 59. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 421; Hess, My Farmington, 336. THE NEW AGRICULTURE 259 60. Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," 257; Bell, South Weber, 102, 190; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 233. 61. Foy, City Bountiful, 144; Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," 253. 62. Foy, City Bountiful, 93-94; Humpherys and Matheson, Utah- Resources and Activities, 42. 63. Foy, City Bountiful, 94, 144, 187. 64. Ibid., 186-88; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 239. 65. Foy, City Bountiful, 185-86; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 414-15; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 448-50; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 295; Don Strack, "Utah's Canning Industry," in Powell, Utah History Encyclopedia, 67-68. 66. Strack, "Utah's Canning Industry," 67-69; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 98-99. 67. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 99-100; Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 112-13. 68. Hugoe and Deppe, Woods Cross, 448-50; Roberts and Sadler, History of Weber County, 238-39. 69. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 105, 100; Layton, "Agriculture in Layton," 253-55; Hugoe and Deppe, Woods Cross, 239-43. 70. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 136; Foy, City Bountiful, 91. Joseph Robinson mentions trading for coal in his Autobiography and Journal, 14, 19 September 1887. The advertisements are in Robert W. Sloan, ed., Utah Gazetteer and Directory (Salt Lake City: Sloan 8c Dunbar, 1884), 330. 71. Robinson, Autobiography and Journal, 8 April 1859; 14, 19 September 1887; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 91-94. 72. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 45; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 368; A. Garn Butcher, Who Put the Fruit in Fruit Heights? ([Kaysville and Fruit Heights]: Kaysville-Fruit Heights Centennial Committee, 1996), 1-3. 73. Bell, South Weber, 184-85; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 378; Davis County Clipper, 4 April, 4 luly 1895. 74. Butcher, Fruit Heights, 4-5; Foy, City Bountiful, 91; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 368-69. 75. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 45; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 71; Davis County Clipper, 4 April 1895; Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 34, 115; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-1919, 28, 41, 59. 76. Hess, My Farmington, 338; Davis County Clipper, 7 March 1969. 77. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 45. 78. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 82-83. 79. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 47. 260 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY 80. Family sources say the peach was propagated first in Fruit Heights by William Butcher or Grandison Raymond, Ir., and then promoted by Gleason (Butcher, Fruit Heights, 3-5). 81. Reflex, 27 November 1913, 5 February 1914. 82. Quoted in Carr, East of Antelope Island, 378 83. Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 35; Smoot and Sheriff, City In- Between, 38. 84. Farmington Ward, Teachers Minutes, 7 March 1880; lournal History, 28 May 1878, 6, from Deseret News, 12 June 1878. 85. Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 66, 98, 126; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 59, 88. 86. Humpherys and Matheson, Utah-Resources and Activities, 98-99. 87. Richard W. Sadler and Richard C. Roberts, The Weber River Basin: Grass Roots Democracy and Water Development, 104-7; Edward B. Clark, Autobiography of Edward B. Clark, 23-24; Collett, Kaysville-Our Town, 44. 88. Davis County, Court Minutes, 6, 14 March, 3 April 1876, Book B, 134-35, 141-44; Farmington Ward, Teachers Minutes, 7, 11 March 1877, 16 May 1880, 28 May 1882, 18 March 1883; Davis County Clipper, 26 August 1898. 89. Sadler and Roberts, Weber River Basin, 104-7; Davis County Clipper, 3 August 1893. 90. Sadler and Roberts, Weber River Basin, 54-55, 60-62, 253-55; Davis County Clipper, 24 April 1896; Reflex, 22 May 1913, 2. 91. Sadler and Roberts, Weber River Basin, 107-13. 92. Ibid., 59, 62, 66; Deseret News, 12 lune 1864. 93. Sadler and Roberts, Weber River Basin, 62-66, 117-21; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 106-9. 94. Hess, My Farmington, 342-43. 95. Ibid.; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 186; Foy, City Bountiful, 154, 182. 96. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 86-87. 97. Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 38-39; Bell, South Weber, 120; Foy, City Bountiful, 159. 98. Bell, South Weber, 101; lohn L. Clark and Norman Helgren, "History and Technology of Salt Production from Great Salt Lake," in J. Wallace Gwynn, ed., Great Salt Lake: A Scientific, Historical, and Economic Overview, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin 116 (Salt Lake City: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, 1980), 204. 99. Clark and Helgren, "Salt Production," 204-5; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 427. THE NEW AGRICULTURE 261 100. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 55; Hess, My Farmington, 343; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 90, 99. 101. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 56, 59. 102. Clark and Helgren, "Salt Production," 205-6; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 56-57. These production figures are for 1890. 103. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom, 392-93. 104. Clark and Helgren, "Salt Production," 205-7; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 56-59; Davis County Clipper, 22 April, 17 June 1898. 105. Clark and Helgren, "Salt Production," 207.