A History of Davis County

A new era of progress-2

304 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY in 1933. He sought and approved another legislative restriction on the sport.117 Utahns had allowed most commercial recreational activities, but gambling was one of those excluded from the list of permitted pas­times. Other recreational activities at the commercial resorts, halls, and movie houses continued. They became the legacy of a new era of cultural opportunities, tolerated but not always trusted. ENDNOTES 1. Margaret Steed Hess, My Farmington: A History of Farmington, Utah, 1847-1976, 401; [Clayton Holt, ed.], The Community of Syracuse, 1820 to 1995: Our Heritage, Centennial Edition (Syracuse: Syracuse Historical Commission, 1994), 136; lohn S. White, Farmington, The Rose City (Farmington: Farmington Commercial Club, [1913]). 2. Weekly Reflex, 26 February 1914, 5. The prospect of a border-to-bor­der city was remembered as a prophecy of Brigham Young (see Reflex, 12 August 1920); interview with Harris Adams, May 1999. 3. Peter L. Goss, "William Allen, Architect-Builder, and His Contribution to the Built Environment of Davis County," Utah Historical Quarterly 54 (Winter 1986): 52-73; Glen M. Leonard, "William Allen's Clients: A Socio-Economic Inquiry," Utah Historical Quarterly 54 (Winter 1986): 74-87. See also LaRue Hugoe and Edith Deppe, West Bountiful: A Pictorial History, 1848-1988, 56, 58, 70. 4. For examples see Leslie T Foy, The City Bountiful: Utah's Second Settlement, from Pioneers to Present, 175; Arlene H. Eakle, Adelia Baird, and Georgia Weber, Woods Cross: Patterns and Profiles of a City (Woods Cross: Woods Cross City Council, 1976), 20-22; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 437-38; Carol Ivins Collett, Kaysville-Our Town: A History, 121-22; Oma E. Wilcox and E. Harris Adams, "Layton Businesses," in Dan Carlsruh and Eve Carlsruh, eds., Layton, Utah: Historic Viewpoints, 285, 287, 319. 5. Holt, The Community of Syracuse, 120-21, 136-37, 365; Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1918-19 (Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk 8c Co., 1918), 43; Lee D. Bell, South Weber: The Autobiography of One Utah Community, 395-96. 6. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 288-90. 7. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 94, 121-22, 113-14; Annie Call Carr, ed, East of Antelope Island: History of the First Fifty Years of Davis County, 395. 8. Hess, My Farmington, 304-9. A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS 305 9. Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1888 (Salt Lake City: Lorenzo Stenhouse, 1888), 44; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93 (Salt Lake City: Stenhouse and Co., 1892), 51; Utah State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1900 (Salt Lake City: R.L. Polk & Co., 1900, 78; and Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 41. 10. Utah Gazetteer and Directory, 1884, (Salt Lake City: Sloan 8c Dunbar, 1884), 303; Utah Gazetteer, 1888, 35-36; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 43-44; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 66-67; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 27-28; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 453-59. 11. Bell, South Weber, 391-93. 12. Utah Gazetteer, 1888, 44, 64, 81, 83-85; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918, 28, 59, 84, 88; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 94; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 311. 13. Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 88. 14. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 291, 298; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 44, 51, 69, 90, 93; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 66, 98, 122, 126; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 28, 41, 43, 84, 88, 128, 328; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 137. 15. Hess, My Farmington, 341; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 303, 305, 307; Utah Gazetteer, 1888, 36, 64, 81; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 44-45, 69-70; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 98, 122, 126; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 301. 16. Davis County Clipper, 21 August 1991, 44-45; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 408-9; Foy, City Bountiful, 176-77; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 121, 136; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 295. 17. Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 28, 43, 88; Eakle, Baird, and Weber, Woods Cross, 55; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 306. 18. Foy, City Bountiful, 85-86; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 122. 19. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 122; Foy, City Bountiful, 179; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 307; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 84, 88. 20. Foy, City Bountiful, 179-80; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 27; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 304-5. Foy dates the furniture consolidation at 1923; Wilcox and Adams say 1921. 21. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 49-50; Foy, City Bountiful, 179-80; Utah Gazetteer, 1884, 307; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 88; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 304-5. 22. Ronald Stucki, Commercial Banking in Utah, 1847-1966 (Salt Lake City: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 1967), 43-46, 141-43. 23. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 63, 94, 111-12; lournal History of the Church of lesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 13 October 1896, 9. 306 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY 24. Hess, My Farmington, 319; Davis County Clipper, 27 May, 10 lune 1892. 25. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 296-97. 26. Foy, City Bountiful, 182-83; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 459-60. 27. Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 28, 43. 28. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 388-89; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 37-38; Bell, South Weber, 279; Utah Gazetteer, 1888, 81. 29. Foy, City Bountiful, 89, 182; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 403; Eakle, Baird, and Weber, Woods Cross, 9. 30. Foy, City Bountiful, 89, 182; L. R. Humpherys and A. C. Matheson, eds., Utah-Resources and Activities (Salt Lake City: Utah Department of Public Instruction, 1933), 360-61. 31. Selected tradesmen are listed in the entries for Davis County cities in state gazetteers cited above; Hess, My Farmington, 334-35; Goss, "William Allen, Architect-Builder," 54-60. 32. In addition to entries in state gazetteers, see Carr, East of Antelope Island, 424; Hess, My Farmington, 327, 345; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 32-33. 33. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 298; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 125-28; Foy, City Bountiful, 184-85; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 69; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 122; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 27-28, 41, 59, 84, 88. 34. See note 33. 35. Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 122; Foy, City Bountiful, 184; Hess, My Farmington, 310; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 95; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 27, 59, 84, 88. 36. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 421-22; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 66-67, 98, 122; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 27-28, 59, 84-85, 88, 328; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 33-34; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 311, 317. 37. Allan Kent Powell, ed. Utah History Encyclopedia, 545-46; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 104, 106; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 412-13; Foy, City Bountiful, 147; Davis County Clipper, 10 lanuary, 21 February 1896. 38. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 104, 106; Foy, City Bountiful, 159-60; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 138. 39. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 106-8; Foy, City Bountiful, 159-61. 40. I. Cecil Alter, Early Utah Journalism (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938), 385, 390; William V. Sanders, "A History of the A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS 307 Weekly Reflex, Kaysville, Utah" (M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1966), 18-21. 41. Alter, Early Utah Journalism, 39-40; Foy, City Bountiful, 177; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 398-402; Davis County Clipper, 19 March, 17 lune 1892. 42. Alter, Early Utah Journalism, 95-96; Davis County Clipper, 12 lanuary, 16 February 1893, 25 April 1895; Reflex, 28 August 1913. 43. Davis County Clipper, 1 May 1896; Alter, Early Utah Journalism, 95. 44. Sanders, "History of the Weekly Reflex," 19-21; Alter, Early Utah Journalism, 95-96, 385. Alter gives a 1904 beginning date, Sanders 1911; however, other sources confirm that the Reflex was publishing at least by 1909 (see Farmington City Council, Minutes, 1:94, 10 November 1909, Farmington City Hall). 45. Reflex, 3 April 1913; 12 March 1914, 8 April 1915, 3 lune 1915, 4. 46. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 122-24; Sanders, "History of the Weekly Reflex," 23-25, 39-43, 91. 47. Alter, Early Utah Journalism, 96; "Capsule History of Davis County Newspapers," Historical Newsletter (Kaysville-Layton Historical Society), Fall 1988. 48. Deseret Evening News, 18 September 1899. 49. Obed C. Haycock, "Electric Power Comes to Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 45 (Spring 1977): 174, 183, 186-87; lohn S. McCormick, "The Beginning of Modern Electric Power Service in Utah, 1912-22," Utah Historical Quarterly 56 (Winter 1988): 6-7. 50. Foy, City Bountiful, 162, 229; Utah Power 8c Light Company, "History of Origin and Development," (11 May 1941), 244-48, 252-53, 276, and fold-out chart "Succession of Predecessor Companies," Utah State Historical Society. 51. McCormick, "Modern Electric Power Service," 8-9, 12; Utah Power 8c Light Company, "History of Origin and Development," 242-45, 248, 276; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 139, Bell, South Weber, 117-19; Foy, City Bountiful, 229. 52. McCormick, "Modern Electric Power Service," 12-20; Bell, South Weber, 118-19. 53. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 413; Bell, South Weber, 90; Foy, City Bountiful, 181-82, Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between: History of Centerville, Utah, 58; Hess, My Farmington, 339, 379. 54. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 352-53. 55. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 314. 56. Clayton ]. Holt, "The Bamberger Railroad," typescript, 1996, 1-2, 308 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY copy in possession of author; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 485; Foy, City Bountiful, 158. 57. Davis County Clipper, 23 May, 18 lune 1895; 21 lanuary 1898; Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 2-3; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 140; Foy, City Bountiful, 158. 58. Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 3-5; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 128, 130; Reflex, 31 July 1913. 59. Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 2, 5-6; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 128, 130; Jack Goodman, "Light Rail a Rehash of Zippy Interurbans," Salt Lake Tribune, 24 December 1995, E2; Reflex, 25 December 1913. 60. Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 6; Layton Town Board, Minutes, 13 April 1925, 25 January, 14 December 1926, Layton City Hall. 61. Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 6-9; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 128, 130. 62. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 141. 63. Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 469-70; Reflex, 1 January 1914. 64. Holt, Community of Syracuse, 140-41; Holt, "Bamberger Railroad," 5; Reflex, 5 March 1914. 65. Kate B. Carter, ed., Heart Throbs of the West, 9:236. 66. Hess, My Farmington, 140; Foy, City Bountiful, 163; Reflex, 30 March 1922. 67. Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 47; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 140, Bell, South Weber, 293; Reflex, 8, 22 May 1913, 24 lune 1915. 68. Reflex, 12, 18 June 1913; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 301, 303-5. 69. Foy, City Bountiful, 169; Farmington City Council, Minutes, 11 March 1914, 3 January 1923; Hess, My Farmington, 332; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 305, 309, 312-14. 70. Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 293, 295, 297, 301, 305, 308; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 28, 88. 71. Ezra C. Knowlton, History of Highway Development in Utah ([Salt Lake City]: State Road Commission, [1965?]), 78-80, 84-86, 92, 122-23. 72. Quoted in ibid., 126-27. 73. Ibid., 128-30, 136-37. 74. Ogden Morning Examiner, 28 July 1911; Knowlton, History of Highway Development, 153. 75. Knowlton, History of Highway Development, 157-58, 163; Davis County Clipper, 5 September 1913, 14 May, 4 June, 5 November, 1915, 13 August 1920; Reflex, 22 July, 18 November 1920. A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS 309 76. Republished in Deseret News, 12 March 1983. 77. Knowlton, History of Highway Development, 157-59, 168-74, 176, 195; Davis County Clipper, 29 March 1918; Reflex, 19, 26 lune 1919, 30 March 1922. 78. Reflex, 29 July, 5, 12, 19 August 1920. 79. Reflex, 12 August 1920; Davis County Clipper, 13 August 1920. 80. Reflex, 20 November 1919, 3 March 1921. 81. Davis County Clipper, 20 August 1920; Reflex, 13 January, 2 June 1921. 82. Foy, City Bountiful, 163; Davis County Clipper, 4 January 1894, 17 February 1922; Reflex, 1, 15 May, 3 July, 21 August 1913, 19 January 1922. 83. Knowlton, History of Highway Development, 220, 263, 273; Weekly News Express (Layton), 14 December 1933. 84. Knowlton, History of Highway Development, 220, 241-42, 270, 491; Davis County Clipper, 28 June 1935, 19, 26 December 1947, 15 October, 4 December 1948. 85. Carr, East of Antelope Island, 395; Hess, My Farmington, 313; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 292-94, 300. 86. Hess, My Farmington, 9, 313-14; Utah Gazetteer, 1892-93, 44-45, 69-70, 93; Utah State Gazetteer, 1900, 67, 98, 122; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 59, 128; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 300, 306, 315. 87. Bell, South Weber, 395; Adams and Wilcox, "Layton Businesses," 300, 303, 309, 311, 312, 317; Utah State Gazetteer, 1918-19, 84, 88. 88. For an overview of life at the turn of the century see Holt, Community of Syracuse, 127-35, 155. The 1920s are profiled in Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 150-52. 89. Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 21-24; Hess, My Farmington, 353; Tom Busselberg, "Social and Cultural Life," in Carlsruh and Carlsruh, Layton, Utah: Historic Viewpoints, 203 90. Bell, South Weber, 327-32; Collett, Kaysville: Our Town, 23, 137; Foy, City Bountiful, 178-19, 189, 194; Hess, My Farmington, 352, 256-57; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 123, 141; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 215, 285; Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 36-37, 52-55, 114, 116. 91. Busselberg, "Social and Cultural Life,"205, 214-15, 225-31; Foy, City Bountiful, 194-95; Hess, My Farmington, 353; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 122-23, 143; Hugoe and Deppe, West Bountiful, 494-95. 92. Foy, City Bountiful, 193; Wilcox and Adams, "Layton Businesses," 301, 305. 93. Dale L. Morgan, The Great Salt Lake, 353-56; Busselberg, "Social 310 HISTORY OF DAVIS COUNTY and Cultural Life," 206-7; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 88-89; Smoot and Sheriff, City In-Between, 32. 94. Lake elevations are charted in J. Wallace Gwinn, ed., Great Salt Lake: A Scientific, Historical, and Economic Overview (Salt Lake City: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, 1980), 262, 276. 95. Morgan, Great Salt Lake, 356-57; Nancy D. McCormick and lohn S. McCormick, Saltair (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1985), 8-14; Davis County Clipper, 10 June, 31 August 1892, 2 May 1895, 2 December 1898; Hess, My Farmington, 379; Busselberg, "Social and Cultural Life," 207-9. 96. Morgan, Great Salt Lake, 356-57; Carter, Heart Throbs (1944), 5:83-86; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 59-62; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 188; Busselberg, "Social and Cultural Life," 209-11; McCormick and McCormick, Saltair, 15-16. 97. Morgan, Great Salt Lake, 358; Holt, Community of Syracuse, 62-63, 123; Carr, East of Antelope Island, 189. 98. Morgan, Great Salt Lake, 358; Davis County Clipper, 7 August 1894, 15 August 1895. 99. Davis County Clipper, 14 November, 6 December 1895, 18 September 1896, 1 October 1897. 100. Davis County Clipper, 28 February, 8 May, 26 June, 10 July 1896. 101. Davis County Clipper, 22 May 1896, 28 May, 4 June 1897. 102. Foy, City Bountiful, 192; Davis County Clipper, 7 June 1894; 28 March 1895. 103. Davis County Clipper, 24 July, August 7, 1896, 9 July 1897. 104. Davis County Clipper, 10 April, 11 lune, 23 October 1896, 4 June 1897, 22 April, 24 June, 5 August, 30 December 1898; Reflex, 29 May 1913, 8 July 1915; Charles Rendell Mabey, Our Father's House: Joseph Thomas Mabey Family History (Salt Lake City: Beverly Craftsmen, 1947), 210. 105. Davis County Clipper, 26 February, 26 March, 2 April 1897, 27 August, 22 October, 19 November, 1897, 28 lanuary, 1898. 106. Reflex, 29 May, 13 August 1913; Work Projects Administration, Utah: A Guide to the State (New York: Hastings House, 1941), 283. 107. Farmington Ward, Teachers Quorum Minutes, 1 February 1880, 30 May, 13 June 1886, 19 October 1897. 108. Ibid., 31 August 1873, 8 September 1887. See also ibid., 5 September 1886, 20 lune, 26 September 1897. 109. Thomas G. Alexander, "Between Revivalism and the Social Gospel: The Latter-day Saint Social Advisory Committee, 1916-1922," BYU Studies 23 (Winter 1983), 26; Farmington City Council, Minutes, 2 July 1919. A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS 311 110. Davis County Clipper, 11 September 1896; Farmington City Council, Minutes, 9 August, 8 September 1920, 13 July, 3 August 1921. 111. Davis County Clipper, 10 April 1896, 20 July 1892. 112. Davis County Clipper, 17 July 1896; Farmington City Council, Minutes, 29 lune 1912, 20 August 1913. 113. Farmington City Council, Minutes, 20 lanuary 1908, 5 June 1918. 114. Ibid., April 17, 1912. 115. Hess, My Farmington, 381; Farmington City Council, Minutes, 26 June, 3 October 1912. 116. George Quincy Knowlton, A History of Farmington, Utah, 71; Mabey, Our Father's House, 288. 117. Reflex, 8, 22 May 1913; Hess, My Farmington, 381.