[2] Within months they sold out to a group of promoters from Denver, Colorado who incorporated as the Mosida Fruit Lands Company.

In 1911 the boarding house filled with workmen from surrounding towns, recruited to clear and plow the land and plant apple and peach seedlings.

Those who came to consider purchasing tracts of land or shares of stock were given a grand tour and a powerful sales pitch about Mosida's natural advantages and bright future.

[4] No expense was spared to impress the guests; a fine passenger boat ferried them across the lake to and from Provo.

[4] The new residents quickly found that life in Mosida did not live up to the promotional literature's glowing descriptions.

[5] Transportation to and from the isolated site was a challenge, and became even harder when the Mosida boat was destroyed in a fire on April 17, 1913.