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<\/p>\nSamuel Smith and Mads C. Jensen bought the first threshing machine owned in Brigham City, to be freighted in from Council Bluffs, Iowa. However, it had a sad side story. Young Anders Christian Jensen and Henry Tibbets were dispatched to Council Bluffs with four yoke of oxen to haul the huge machine to Utah. Enroute, Jensen was killed by Indians, but Tibbets arrived safely with the much-anticipated thresher.Ibid., 62. The little \u201cpit saw\u201d used to build homes in the Old Fort was soon replaced by commercial sawmills built along Box Elder Creek to make use of water power. The Ettleman brothers built the first sawmill in the mouth of the canyon east of First South. In the city\u2019s first recorded industrial accident, Philip Ettleman was dragged to death by a runaway team while hauling a load of timber on November 16, 1854, and is the first person buried in the Brigham City Cemetery.Ibid., 7.https:\/\/www.namesinstone.com\/Sources.aspx?dec=342928 A number of home industries flourished in the 1850s and 1860s. Some growing into business establishments, others supplying local shops, and others remaining home-based. The following information is from History of Box Elder County<\/em> compiled by the Daughters of Utah PioneersLydia Walker Forsgren, History of Box Elder County<\/em>, (Brigham City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937), 78-95., as well as a business directory in Fife & Petersen<\/em>.Fife, Veara S., and Chloe N. Petersen, Brigham City, Utah, Residents 1850, 1877<\/em>, (Brigham City: Golden Spike Chapter, Utah Geological Association, 1976), 148-155.<\/p>\n \u201cWe kept them running day and night. We each had a yoke of oxen at our camp and we used them to haul the salt water from the lake to our evaporators and also to drag the willows from the banks of the river to our furnace.\u201dLydia Walker Forsgren, History of Box Elder County<\/em>, (Brigham City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937), 88.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Next:<\/strong> Business After The Co-op<\/a><\/p>\n Search Brigham City Museum Collections<\/a> Agricultural Economy Agriculture, including raising livestock, was the major force in the local economy, with Box Elder residents branching out into the nearby countryside. In the 1850s most planting and harvesting was done by hand or by horse or oxen-drawn wooden implements. Agriculture bought the first (and only documented) slave labor to Box Elder in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWith grain crops being harvested, there was a need for a grist mill to make flour. Forsgren, in the DUP history, dates the original mill to 1855 or 1856, noting that it was not used until 1857 due to crop failures of the two preceding seasons.Ibid., 128-129. Accounts of the proposed city wall place its northeast corner at the mill, or perhaps an under-construction mill. Frederick Huchel, however, dates the stone flouring mill as being completed in time for the harvest of 1857. This first industrial building in the city was built under the supervision of Frederick Kesler, who was appointed by Brigham Young as the church millwright and sent east to learn the latest in mill technology. Upon Kesler\u2019s return in 1854, he was sent to erect a flouring mill for Lorenzo Snow in Brigham City. The mill was co-owned by Young and Snow, even through the Cooperative period.Frederick M. Huchel, “The Box Elder Flouring Mill,” (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 56, Winter 1988), 76.Lydia Walker Forsgren, History of Box Elder County<\/em>, (Brigham City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937), 259-260.<\/p>\nConstruction Industries<\/h2>\n
\nOthers were soon in the lumber business. In 1856 Alvin Nichols had a sawmill and shingle mill built, with a circular saw run by water power near the mouth of the canyon. Lorenzo Snow and Samuel Smith then built a sawmill run by water power in the same area. In 1863 H. P. Jensen contracted with Martin L. Ensign and Jarvis Johnson to build a mill, where Lyman Wight was hired as manager. That same year Johnson and Ensign built a sawing mill. In 1866 Ephraim Lindsay was foreman of a shingle mill in the mouth of canyon, where charcoal was also burned. Growth in the industry continued with various owners and sawyers during the next decade. Most of the timber was native pine, harvested from the nearby canyons and hillsides east of Brigham City, but by 1866 most of the suitable timber had been removed and the saw mills were moved to Paradise Canyon further south in Perry.Lydia Walker Forsgren, History of Box Elder County<\/em>, (Brigham City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1937), 126. The need for lumber helped spur road building since raw timber had to be hauled from the nearby canyons. Men were assigned to a certain amount of roadwork, mostly clearing brush and rocks and filling in marshes and swamps. After the Move South<\/a> in 1858, road building became more of a priority. Forsgren reports that many young men trying to avoid conscription into either the Union or Confederate armies came west, and some of them were hired for road work.Ibid., 141.
\nBlacksmiths were vital, both for local needs and to serve emigrant trains, freighters and pack animals which soon began coming through the community. William Davis and John D. Rees both followed this trade, and were joined by Rees Richards, John Williams, Edward Lindsay, Hans Peter Jensen, Lars Mortensen, Joseph Packer, Johanson and Sons, A. M. Josephson, Heber Smith, Samuel Jeppson, and William Gidney.Ibid., 94. John D. Rees and John Morgan made nails from scrap iron abandoned along the trail. In 1854 Martin L. Ensign and Simeon Dunn traveled east 300 miles by oxen to obtain scrap iron left behind by emigrants, and made square-headed, four-sided nails still found in remaining early structures.Ibid., 90.
\nLime was another material needed for building, and the earliest recorded supplier was Elias Jensen who burned lime in a field west of Brigham City in kilns heated with marsh gas. A better source was later found in the nearby mountains, and James Sheffield operated a kiln near Mantua<\/a>, where he burned lime used in construction of many local buildings.Ibid., 94.<\/p>\nHome Industries to Business<\/h2>\n
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