For many years in nineteenth-century Holladay, a tithing yard near this site included a barn, corral, scales for weighing hay and grain, and a storehouse for home produce and products. The LDS pioneers who founded Holladay followed Church teachings of donating one-tenth of their annual increase to the Church, and because cash was scarce, many gave tithing at market value in animals, chickens, eggs, vegetables, and goods made at home. Other people donated one day of work in ten to Church work projects such as community canals, roads, and Church and school buildings. A Holladay family might donate livestock, overpay its tithing, and receive credit for surplus goods kept in the storehouse or yard. For years the LDS Church printed tithing scrip, an important currency in the eighteen fifties and afterward. Holladay's tithing yard and storehouse met many community product exchange needs and, along with tithing yards elsewhere, supplied LDS Church headquarters with food and supplies for people employed on its public work projects and generated income to pay its creditors. In 1890, when this tithing yard still existed, two-thirds of all tithing donations were in livestock and produce. By 1900, when Holladay's tithing yard and storehouse were cleared away, two-thirds of such donations were in currency.