Friday 19 January 2024

Fifty-Six Bright Hopes

 

In 1909, R. E. Morrison, Joseph Simpson, and J. E. Davis, purchased land at the southwest edge of Utah lake. They planned to divide it and sell it as peach orchards. They gave their project the name Mosida, from the first two letters of their last names. Promoters from Denver quickly bought them out. As there are no streams in the area, they installed pumps and dug irrigation ditches. They built a boarding house to accommodate 250 workers, who then cleared and plowed the land and planted 50,000 fruit trees. By 1912, there was a hotel, private homes, a store, a post office, and a school. There was even a ferry to carry people to and from Provo. But life in Mosida-by-the-Lake wasn’t a bowl of cherries. The soil wasn’t rich enough for fruit trees. When the lake receded, the pumps didn’t work. Then the ferry caught fire. Today, all that lives there are alfalfa and dairy cows. 

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