ggrMUjW jftigt JP-1 'll" -ftf PACK SIX THE HERALD-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1040. THE HERALD-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940. PAGE SEVEN. LEWISTON CITIZEN RECORDS CITYS INTERESTING EVENTS The drain running along high- care for. Some of our farmers customary for every person in have harvested tons of hay the ward to attend.
The Cache per acre from the first cutting, stake then consisted of all Cache county, which by order and call of the stake president joined Lewiston in their special meeting; from that day until the present wheat has matured for flour making. Barley will in some instances reach a 100 bushels per acre. Crops Good The beet crop is seemingly on a par with the crop of two was called Poverty Flat; in so far as I am concerned they didn't need to change the name. The only vegetation was prairie grass; the common animals, porcupines and skunks, with a liberal supply of grasshoppers. Water Needed Like other communities, the first concern was water for irrigation.
A project was immediately started, culminating in water being brought from Cub River. The original canal is still in use, running east by Fay Bemhisel's home toward the sugar factory. The first schools were two log buildings, one located a mile south and a mile west from the present site of the bank, the other was situated north of the bank where George Pond now lives. In 1873 the permanent school was erected where the church now stands. A frame building which was later moved across the street east.
Saul Hyer procured this building to convert it into a residence. Samuel Allen was the first school teacher. Other teachers of the time were Mary Van Orden, Christen Jacobsen, Bessie Moorhead, Wm. H. Jackson and Jim Bainbridge.
It is said of the latter that he was a dirty old cuss. He both blew his nose and spat on the floor. The above mentioned building was also used as a church until 1833-34, when the large building, known as the old opera house BY LEON POND The first settlers came to Lewiston in 1871. Among them were three brothers, J. M.
Bern-hisel, Everett Van Orden and Peter Van Orden. The first two married Harris sisters. Other settlers were Robert Wall, W. Monroe. George Elis, Henry Talbot, William Cherry, Samuel, William Allen.
John Buxton, and Thadius Huff, the latter two married sisters of my father, by name, Mary and Frances. The next year we find such names as Lewis, Leavitt, Layne, Wiser and Waddoups. At this time, Wm. H. Lewis was set apart as bishop.
Lewiston was named after this man. Previous to this time the place structed. In as much as the memories of those who made the fight do not correspond with the records, I will merely state a few facts. At a bond election held in February 1912 73 votes were cast favoring a bond issue, 8 opposing. The Lowe spring above Franklin had been secured, conjointly by Lewiston and Fairview, Idaho.
March 12, 11912 Tom Humphreys was accepted as engineer. Construction on the system soon followed by the Wheelwright Construction of Ogden for a bid of $71,932.77. Water entered Lewiston in the fall of 1913. The system has now absorbed a quarter of a million dollars. Fred W.
Crockett appeared in Lewiston July 2nd 1912 to secure a franchise for a railroad. Work of construction on the grade commenced on the farm of Ether Telford. The effort was soon abandoned insufficient funds. However under the direction of David Eccles. The railroad, an electric, came in 1915.
In Bihiical times a manc wealth was counted by the numbers of his flock and herds. If this were true today Lewiston would be wealthy. We are blessed with bounteous crops, even more than we can properly years ago. when the average yield was 15 tons per acre. The corn now stands above a man's head.
The potato vines cover the ground, soon the bean and tomato harvest starts. Milk cows by the hundreds fill the corralls, which will be filled 1 with beef cattle during the win- ter to consume the surplus feed. Some ten truck loads of milk are taken from Lewiston daily. Added to these we have quite an extensive lamb feeding operation and a very good start in the poultry industry. Some accomplishments since the eight-! ies when the wheat froze three consecutive years.
Just a little 1 wheat and forage grass was ail they could raise. Each year during July the frost took its toll. The fourth year. Bishop Lewis called a. special day for fasting and praying.
The regular fast day was the first Thursday of each month, meeting be-1 ing held at 10:30 a. m. It was Welcome To Lewiston Race And Stampede Expert Auto Repairing and Complete Car Service js BLAIR GARAGE (Straight West of Track and Rodeo Grounds) Brower installed a drug business at about this period. Previous to the advent of Dr. W.
B. Parkinson, sister Jensen, the mid-wife was our most proficient physician. It seemed pathetic to place upon the shoulders of a stalwart man the duties of this widow. The doctor came in 1906. I do not know when Sister Jensen came but whenever she stopped sha left a bag of troubles.
Stores Added The first store was located where the barber shop now stands, Bird Harrison operator. Later Sam Allen managed the Co-Operative Mercantile, which carried such articles as cloth, shoes, spices, raisins, currants, tea, coffee and tobacco. Pond Bros, and Webster were next to establish a mercantile institution. Then came Haybafl and Swinyard. During this period, there was no money.
For convenience, the stores issued money or script, which served in the same capacity as money does now. There came to Lewiston during the year of 1891, two impaired personages, the one born blind; the other had eyes but could see naught, Joseph Owen and myself. Joseph Owen established himself as a real estate dealer, grain buyer and money lender. His original capital was $3000. At one time he owned six farms.
He built a granery on the corner north of the present site of the Third ward church. He filled this one year with 3000 bushels of wheat, which he held for three years before being able to sell It at a profit. His largest loan was $1500. Every dollar loaned was collected, with interest, the rates he gives as follows: When a man went to the bank to borrow money, he paid 18 interest, that was what I got until that old man from the east came to Logan and loaned money for 11, that cut me down. Money Invested He purchased Sego Milk stock, which he sold to buy Elk coal mining stock.
After expressing a willingness to buy Amalgamated Sugar, David Eccles paid was "erected. This served until 1900 when the red brick church was built, then the old building became the opera house. Lewiston was known for being a good show town. Road shows came, some of them to stay for a week at a time. During this period Emma Telford had a flourishing hotel business.
First Implements The first mowing machine, a Champion, owned by the Allen brothers. The first grain binder used wire instead of string, owner, Beason Lewis. The first buggy, owned by John Telford. The first threshing machine was owned by one-eyed Boman. It is said, that he refused to allow any person other than himself to feed grain into the machine.
When you consider that a day's work was from day light until dark, you marvel at the stamina of the man. I cannot conceive of a man being that crazy to work, even knowing his grandson, Rob. The first male born was Will Van Orden, the first female, Mary Abagail Huff. The first to be Mary Van Orden, to Hyrum Bair. The first auto came in 1905, a chain driven Reo, owned by Wm.
Howarth, who found here a wife, Cora Allen. Mike Mower, a step-son of Isaac Smith, bought an Overland in 1911 for $1800. Mike's son Duane, was the first person to be killed in an auto accident. Isaac Smith lived to be 93 years old. Town Organized la 1904 the town of Lewiston was organized, with Brigham Pond president.
J. W. Bright as clerk and S. F. Wiser as treasurer.
In' 1905 the Lewiston State bank was established, with W. H. Lewis, president, and George H. Percival cashier. W.
H. Lewis was instrumental in securing for this community a sugar factory. He went out to subscribe and sell stock in a factory. His success seemed well assured when David Eccles secured the rights to the factory, which he built in 1905. Squire Choate, with Alvin him a visit.
Following is a of some investments: 11400. Amalgamated Sugar stock; 10000. Amalgamated certificates; 7000. Elk Coal; 900. to Jim Allen for Elk, Coal par value; 400.
Jake Larsen for Elk Coal par value; 300. Brig Pond, for Elk Coal $700 value; $300. Mart Pond for Elk Coal $700 value. These Investments were every one lost insofar as Mr. Owen was concerned.
The poor man now lives in famished circumstances. William Telford purchased Mr. Owens granery, which he desired to move to his farm, where Hyrum Karren now lives, some miles distant. He invited the ward, or everyone except the bishop to come to the work. The response was splendid, even to the bishop who arrived about the time the party was well organized.
He bought a barrel of beer and said he put a quart of alcohol Into it. In so much as they had to buy beer by the barrel its only logical to assume they procured alcohol by the gallon. For the truthfulness of this story ask a man who was there, M. H. Stocks.
Houses Built Very few log houses were built in Lewiston, the most of them were frame. Kenneth Baer has recently built a home. The records at Anderson Lumber show that less than 500 pounds of nails were used in its construction. While in the house Joseph Pond built, where I now live, there were 4 tons of the old square nails used. The walls are adobed to the roof, IV Inch tie rods were used between the wall and beams 14 inches square, 2 14 nailed together for roof support.
An example of the construction of our early settlers. Miles of trees were planted to stay the wind frhich often blew out the crops, many farms were encased. The best remaining example is the Litz farm where Harold Wood lives. Considerable work must be expended to build a city, especially one as large as Lewiston, In area the largest in the state. list way No.
61 east from the bank to the river was constructed by donation. Under the direction of father. Zeke and myself have worked with teams, approximately 150 days. For 30 consecutive days we worked in the drain only to return the next summer for its completion. Zeke was my brother who married Eve.
Eva Stocks. Roads Difficult Then there was a matter of strawing roads. The sand was so deep and loose that consider-tble difficulty was encountered in moving the crops to the sugar factory anud railroad. Straw piled a foot thick on the sand made a firm bed when tramped into the sand. Jim Hodges says he with Jack Crowly worked for Pond broth-lers one winter, never seeing Lewiston in the daylight, leaving home before daylight for the canyon id then returning after dark.
Perhaps there was not much difference in working for Pond in those days and now. Tim and Harris hired a man last summer who comes to work at 4 o'clock in the morning, having had his breakfast. During the winter they let him take it easy, he comes to work at 5 o'clock- Then is allowed time off to eat his breakfast. As agriculture intensified Lewiston needed more water for irrigation. The idea of pumping water from Bear River was conceived.
Andrew Hyer who was then bishop called a mass meeting, telling the people that the project would cost $3600. He deemed the project so necessary, that rather than see the opportunity passed he would raise the money himself. The Bear Lake Irrigation was formed, installing four 20 second foot pumps. It is said that the at men of this nation are dead. If that be true of this nation it also applies to this community.
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