Dallas Green's History

Humble Beginings

Using his wife’s paycheck from sewing on 2nd  Street, in 1954 Dallas purchased a welder for $150.00.  Dallas Green Manufacture and Repair got underway building hay loaders.  With the purchase of a semi load of used pipe Dallas added swing sets to his product line.  About two years after the welder purchase Dallas expanded his business into a tractor dealership for Minneapolis Moline.  However, this venture was short-lived as shortly thereafter Minneapolis Moline went bankrupt. 

Dallas' First Company Truck

Dallas' First Gas Pumps

In 1959, the company joined the Utah Co-op and began selling gasoline.

Tire Shop

By 1964 a tire shop had been added to the growing business

 Layton Farm Supply

Layton Farm Supply was opened in 1972 to meet the needs of a growing customer base.  UDOT’s Front Runner project forced a relocation of the Layton store and a new retail store was opened in Clearfield under the name Dallas Green Farm and Home.

 
Dallas is the holder of 3 trademarks: Green Hill Fertilizer, Prince Dog Food and Princess Cat Food.  Dallas also holds one US patent.  While delivering for Culligan Soft Water, he invented a plug assembly to facilitate tank transportation.  A US patent was secured for the amount of $1,000 and orders were taken.  Unfortunately, in the first production run, one of the parts was cast too thin and broke easily.  This costly mistake made it impossible to fill the orders and all was for naught.
 

Dallas loved the free enterprise system.  He believed that if businesses were left unregulated, everyone would receive their just reward. Those who gave the best service would have the most business. Those who treated their customers unfairly would go out of business.  According to Dallas’s wife, Charlene, he would never pass a lemonade stand. Without fail, Dallas would  stop, buy two glasses of lemonade, and always left a tip.


 

 Dallas Green

 The last few years of Dallas’s life were spent mainly doing volunteer work. The School for the Deaf and Blind, Hooper Elementary, and the Hill Air Force Museum each received hundreds of hours of service each year from Dallas.  The museum staff reported that he had put in 450 hours in 1999.