The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company was a large sugar beet processing company based in Utah. It was owned and controlled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. It was notable for developing a valuable cash crop and processing facilities that was important to the economy of Utah and surrounding states. It was part of the Sugar Trust, and subject to antitrust investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Hardwick Committee.
Sugar beet presses at the Garland factory
The Garland factory in 1971
Ingersoll Rand vacuum pump at the Garland factory
Remnants of the Elsinore plant
Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the public practice of plural marriage among members of the LDS Church in 1890.
Woodruff in 1889
Phebe Whittemore Carter
Woodruff in 1849
Wilford Woodruff Farm House where Emma lived; built in 1859