By Mark Karpinski, Elizabeth Karpinski, Jonathan Dugmore, Samantha Kirkley, and Garrett Webb By the early 1900’s the United States coal industry housed between 70 and 80 percent of its workforce in company owned housing. Heiner, Utah was one of many coal company towns that emerged in Carbon and Emery counties as Utah rapidly industrialized and urbanized during the late 19th …
Becky BartholomewHistory Blazer, January 1996 In the late 1800s a building boom occurred in Salt Lake City. Concrete had not yet been developed that was strong enough to be used for building foundations, so granite and sandstone blocks were used instead. Quarries in Little Cottonwood Canyon furnished the granite. Red and white sandstone came from quarries in Emigration Canyon. Initially, heavy …
Glen Leonard History of Davis County The transition in flour milling was not unlike that of other mechanized aspects of the new agriculture. New forms of power and mechanical improvements of machinery impacted the millers as well as the farmers of Davis County. To keep abreast of improvements meant replacing water power in the mills with steam or electricity and …
Linda Thatcher, Beehive History 16 Rumors of a salty lake somewhere in western America circulated for more than a hundred years before it was actually sighted by white men. The Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776, while not attempting to visit the Great Salt Lake, nonetheless recorded the lake on the expedition map drawn by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, their cartographer, using …
Michael W. Johnson History of Daggett County While Browns Park ranchers fought the wealthy for control of the range, there were others who took the battle a step farther. Men like Butch Cassidy, Elza Lay, Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid), and Matt Warner became bandits, robbing banks and trains and giving at least some of the money to the poor. …
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer May 1996 Home industry—in Utah the two words almost immediately bring to mind the pioneer era and the exhortations of Brigham Young to produce locally as many of life’s necessities as possible. No doubt the Mormon leader would have applauded the tub-thumping of the Utah Manufacturers Association (UMA) 70 years later. During 1917 the Utah …
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, May 1996 During the spring and summer of 1912 James C. Hogensen toured the state hoping to organize Boys Potato Growing Clubs in every county. This project of the Extension Division of the Utah State Agricultural College (USAC) helped to fulfill a requirement that the division “provide agricultural and home science information to anyone not …
Linda Thatcher History Blazer, October 1995 The Utah landscape is dotted with hot springs resorts that have come and gone. Although a few remain, most are merely memories to aging Utahns. One such popular resort during the 1890s and early 1900s was Castilla Hot Springs in Spanish Fork Canyon, Utah County. The name Castilla was suggested either by the castlelike …
W. Paul Reeve and Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, September 1995 On April 19, 1922, some 500 people gathered in Sandy to honor Gordon Stuart, a Salt Lake County deputy sheriff slain in the line of duty. Mourners were shocked, however, when the graveside ceremonies were interrupted by eight or nine Ku Klux Klansmen who appeared at the cemetery in …
W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, May 1995 About 75 miles southwest of Salt Lake City in the semibarren expanse of Skull Valley the bronze bust of a Polynesian warrior rises as an anomaly out of the eastern fringe of the Salt Desert. The bust and the nearby cemetery are the only reminders of an even greater anomaly from Utah’s past—a …