The Sugar Loaf
In the early days of St. George being on the edge of civilization, they wanted for many things. They had enough of several vegetable crops and corn bread. But there was little merchandise brought down from Salt Lake to north and even in the north there were some commodities hard to come by. One of the longed for commodities which no one had in Dixie was sugar. How nice it would have been to sweeten a drink or make a little icing for a cake, or to sweeten a special batch of cookies. However the day did arrive that sugar finally arrived. It had come from the British Isles and was not refined very well, it being a muddy red color and came in a solid brick. And when you needed sugar you would shave off the needed amount with a knife. The pioneers in remembrance of that first bit of coveted sugar named the sandstone formation north of St. George along the red cliffs which now bears the name Dixie the "Sugarloaf".
No comments:
Post a Comment