and molasses you make from juice of the cane, would replace sugar for family consumption needs and have some to spare." As near as can be ascertained, a molasses mill, which served our people and some from the nearby communities, was established in our ward in the late 1860's by Davis Bartholomew and James Hutchins Sr. This was the first and only mill of its kind the writer has any knowledge of that operated within the surrounding area at that time or for several years later. During this period, it appears, changes that contributed to the future economy and welfare of the people began to take shape. Two stores that opened for business in the late 1860's; a blacksmith shop; and flour mill that were established in the early 1870's following completion of the railroad, all proved to be assets to the community. Henry Bowns opened the first store ever to conduct business in Slaterville and shortly afterward, Henry Holley Sr., neighbor who lived across the street, opened a similar enterprise. Merchandise handled by the two small concerns was confined principally to such items as sugar, rice, currants, and raisins, tea, coffee, baking soda, and a few flavoring extracts. Volume of business transacted by either, we can be sure, did not exceed the limit of purchasing power of consumers. The writer failed in an attempt to get a discription of and learn something relative to the building in which Mr. Bowns conducted business, but like some, few living in our ward today remember well Mr. Holley's old store building. The aged, frame structure, untouched through the years by the painter's brush, dingy and grimed by the heat and snows of time, stood until comparatively recent years, west and a little south of the family dwelling, its original location, and remained there in tact until ownership to the premises changed many years ago after Mr. Holley's death. It is possible that service the stores rendered in our community, created an incentive that urged William Smout Sr. and James Moore,a brother-in-law, to start a blacksmithing business and Thomas Byington and Fredric Foy to establish a flour mill. While these were the first enterprises of their kind to operate in their respective fields, after serving the community well for several years, they ceased to function. However, as will be seen, later in this connection, other stores were opened here, and a blacksmith shop operated by LeRoy Perry and Elden Field, (See Fig. 10-1) which closed after a couple of years' service, but the milling business never was revived. The blacksmith shop operated by William Smout and Mr. Moore, where farmers brought wagons to have tires set; horses to be shod, and plow shares to be sharpened, stood under the spreading branches of large locust trees by the roadside a short distance west and north of Mr. Smout's dwelling, the present home of Amos Halverson. The mill erected by Messrs. Byington and Foy, where local farmers and some from adjoining communities brought wheat to be processed into flour, was located on the south side of Richardson's Basin on the bank of Mill Creek, a stream that furnished power to operate machinery of the first flour mill -118- Pea Vinery (Slaterville) (Fig. 10-1) West view of LeRoy Perry's Blacksmith Shop Central Weber Sewer Improvement District (Slaterville) (Fig. 10 - 5) -119-