Utah Economic Development
While serving as mission president in France Taylor was directed by Brigham Young to prepare to establish a sugar industry in Utah. This was done under the auspices of the Deseret Manufacturing Company. He purchased sugar-making equipment in Liverpool while returning to the United States. These early attempts to make sugar in Utah proved unsuccessful.
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