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Show Also at that time, F. Wallace Walton of Centerville, purchased Malinda Smith's interest. He spent the Sunnier working on the ranch. During the period that we lived in Mountain Green, my father, John Ford Porter, served as a Counselor to Bis¬hop Joseph A. Parrish of the Mountain Green Ward. While my father owned the ranch the main crops were hay, grain, and beef pro¬duction. In November of 1919 the ranch was sold to Conway Morris and our family returned to live in Centerville. —Rodney Wright Porter MY RECOLLECTIONS OF FOUNTAIN GREEN I was born, 28 January 1899, in Centerville, a son of Fred W. and Emma Porter Walton. I attended school in Centerville and also the Utah State University. During school vacations, I spent summers at the Porter ranch and in 1917 I went to live with the John F. Porter family for three years. John lived in a log cabin built by the Parrish brothers who had homesteaded the ranch property on the Cottonwood Creek. This land was later purchased by the Porter family. In 1916 John W. Porter built a frame and stucco three-bedroom house in which we lived. We ran a general ranching operation on which the old Centerville Co-op Dairy was located. It had been organized by a number of Centerville dairymen, who operated a sunmer dairy on the south side of Cottonwood Creek. Fond memories of Mountain Green are recalled of how the ranchers would get together and help each other out on cattle drives to the Ogden market. This was before modern trucking was available. I remember the times we would go to Peterson to pick up the mail and to shop at Fingal Bohman's Store. We would haul our cans of cream to the Peterson depot to be shipped to Ogden. It was always hilarious at the store when it came mail time. Jim Williams, the Warners, the Rollins and others along with the Carrigans would gather at the store and have a neighborly celebration. One of the most delightful recollections in the busy ranch life was when we had time to hunt the wild chickens and go swimming in the reservoir located on the flat above the Parrish, Warner property. In December of 1919 the ranch was sold and I left for my LDS Mission. So my Church and Civic activities came after leaving Mountain Green. After two years in the mission field I came home and joined the Porter-Walton Seed and Nursery Company. 250 |
