Pace CreameryĪ few stores and a trading post were established in the area. When Hyrum caught up to them they were all piled in a heap one horse was dead and others badly cut up, one in such a condition they had to shoot him." 2 page 296. Coming back Hyrum stepped off his wagon, his team started and with no one to hold them back…they started running down the canyon. At one time Hyrum Workman went to the mountains very early in the morning for a load of lumber, with a four horse team. "Timber was cut on the steep slopes of the mountains and most of the roads were very narrow, steep, and dangerous. The next morning they would start at two o'clock to deliver their loads in Park City." 2 page 296 to 297. Many of them left at three o'clock in the morning. "In those days everyone got up early to get to the mill to get loaded and home before dark. The lumber was used to build their homes was hauled to Park City for the mines, and some of it was sold to the lumber companies in Park City and Salt Lake City. "Francis people logged and had their timber sawed at all of these mills. In 1886 he moved this mill to the foothills above his home east of Francis.
In 1885 Bill Pace owned a saw mill in Little South Fork.
There was Benson's Mill, and the Pack boys had a sawmill.
Sawmills were built in the mountains close to where the timber was cut…There was one in Pine Valley where the lumber was sawed for the church house. "William Gines…remembers his mother telling him that the water first started to run on the bench from the Provo River the day he was born, Augand that she was so happy she felt like getting out of bed to see the water running down the ditch." 2 page 284 Timber & Sawmillsīecause of the difficulty in obtaining water "the men of Francis supported their families by working in the timber and sawmills that were in the mountains. After it reached the bench the canal divided into two ditches, one going north, following the foothills toward Kamas and known as the Burbidge ditch the other coming west along the south rim of the bench and ending on what is known as the Bradshaw farm." 2 page 284. The canal was made four feet wide at the bottom. "This was a very difficult project…The work was hard and slow.
In order to make water accessible, the South Kamas Irrigation Company was formed and began the challenging task of digging a canal. One of the early settlers recalls how she "took her clothes down to the Provo River to wash them." They also had to haul all of their culinary water from the river. The settlers dug a well a hundred feet deep in 1865 but no water was found. A few springs provided the only water, but they were not sufficient for irrigation. One of the many difficulties was the lack of water.
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