-- 20 years ago today - Oct 23, 1991
[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 23 In Company with many others including my wife Emma I took Cars & rode to Lehi to visit the sugar works. It was vary interesting. It took us several hours to go through the works. First we visited the store houses whare the new beets were stored. There were 3 sheds 500 feet long filled with Beets & room for 2 more. There was a Canal runing in the Middle of the sheds with runing water whare the Beets were flung in & washed in the Curant. The beets were never touched again by hand but were sliced up by Machinery & the juce pressed out & traveled in pipes three Miles & then droped into sacks pure white granulated sugar. It was a great institution at a Cost of a about 500,000 Dollars. We then returned home. Distance 80 m. (2)
-- 120 years ago today - Oct 23, 1891
Western line of telegraph from Salt Lake to Carson City, Nevada to San Francisco completed. Brigham Young sends the first message. (3)
-- 150 years ago today - Oct 23, 1861
1 - The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://www.woodlandinstitute.com
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
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