The adjoining Benjamin Barr Neff farm, one fourth of a mile north of here, became known as Neff's Station at Dry Creek, or simply Neff's Station, after Deseret Telegraph established an office there in 1871. Mary Ellen Love Neff, the 20-year-old second wife of Benjamin, operated the station. The farm was an ideal location for the telegraph station because the north-south lines connecting Salt Lake City and the east-west lines connecting Alta and Bingham crossed there. With the coming of the cross-valley railroad through the Sandy area in 1973, the telegraph station was moved to that community, and Mary Ellen was retained as operator of the new Sandy station. Benjamin Barr Neff, of Swiss ancestry, became a successful farmer owning dairy cows, horses, and mules, and the well he dug for the farm was used until a few years ago and remains on the property.