The day after Christmas seemed as good as any to work off a bit of the yule tide cheer. I headed up Millcreek Canyon again, this time to the pipeline trail with Justin, Rebecca, & two faithful canines, Duke and Otis.
Easy come, easy go.
Not so happy, again we ate too much the day before.
The old rusted out pipe from which the trail gets its name, not sure what the pipe was transporting, water, oil, Jello?
Yes, the pipeline was transporting Jello to the Jello refinery at the mouth of the canyon. However the entire operation was shut down during the Great Gelatin Strike of 1902. The owners of the refinery got involved in a shady land deal with the people at the vinyl strip mine across the valley in Herriman. The mine's controller was found dead one morning in his office, and the death was pinned on the employees of the Jello refinery. Consequently the refinery owners fired all the employees and riots broke out. This was when the pipeline mysteriously breached and spilled 100,000 gallons of bright green Jello down the hillside during the Great Jello Blight of 1903, but that is a different story...
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HISTORY!!!
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