Plaque 11

Fisherman/Farmer

While fishing on Lake Konstanz, bordering Austria and Germany, Johannes Huber heard two men saluting him from shore. He rowed to them and then wasasked to hear the message that they bore. Explaining he could not delay his work, he took the missionaries in the skiff instead, and listened while he fished. Huber was baptized in the lake. soon he saluted fishing boats from shore. He sent his parents with his converts to America, and lingered as a missionary two years more. 

"...Monday to Konstanz, where I...was able to catch trout for 3 hours...pike for 2 and 1/2. This is the first time, after a long time. But the work in the kingdom of the lord is better."

From stepfather, Hans Martin Naegeli, Huer learned the fishing trade; they labored side by side. In utah, they'd subsists on sego lily bulbs and chew on mildewed grain in rainy years. Plowing by ox, sowing and gleaning the in the fields, they used the scythe and sicle. Then with their women, they would tie the bundles up by hand. Huber was cutting grain at Solider Hollow when the crickets lit, and when spring came, 

"March 22, 1868 sowed about 5 acres of wheat, which we put into the soil in good time, but the grasshoppers at everything, so that we had no harvest this year..."

Referred to as "The Ranch," across the roade were Huber's barnd and sheepsheds, and his cir ular corrals; a granery, milkhouse, pigpen, and a chickencoop, stood as the working center of his 160 acre spread.\.

His eldest son, John, taught the boys to hide their poles and lines along Snake Creek, and watch for hoppers as they plowed. Crossing the bridge to take refreshment, they would pause to fish, and soon the trout required for Huber's breakfast had been caught: by day's end, all the fish the brothers could provide.

"1888 a bless year in everything. We had 325 bushles wheat, 176 oats, 40 bushles lucerne seed, selling at 8 cents a pound, lots of lucerne hay, a good crop of potoatoes. Got a buggy from A. C. Springer. Wheat goes out 75 cents., oats 1.30, potatoes 25, beeft 5 to 9 cents."

He who never yet hath given those, who ask for bread, astone.