Show BUY uTAH PRODUCTS DE JK I. I m I 7 laking aking a ci Wallop and Coming Up Smiling Destructive Fire Only Puts a Slight Crimp in Knight Woolen Mills By F. F E. E Becker PROVO Sept 6 Theres There's There's Theres ore one olle thing thins about Utah Uta industries they Industries they are great for taking punishment They carry the fight to the other fellow from the tho tap of the gong and the mixing is always alwa's lively If Ii the they get hit hit be between between between be- be tween wind and water and have ha to take the count of nine the they are on their feet again hammering away as though the battle had Just commenced I dont don't believe belle the records will show wh where re any home manufacturer was ever counted entirely out unless unesS he was giving away too much Weight eight or was only a near-champ near to begin with Now you take the Knight Woolen Mills of Provo for instance That plant took a wallop In July a year ago that would be curtains for al almost almost almost al- al most any concern But did it throw up the sponge Not so you rou could no- no tico it I dont don't know Just how It start started d Unless unless un un- less it was because they were speedIng speeding speeding speed speed- ing up the machinery too fast but anyway something something- got too hot around the place and the whole works went I up in smoke About all the they saved out of the conflagration was the It I and they've theve still got They lost Just like th that t. t and busy men and women didn't t have I any more Jobs than so many bunny rabbits All of ot a sudden everything stopped and breadwinners looked sort of mournful Jesse Knight came down and looked the place over It was as all ll black ck and smoky and sort of ot lIl like e you feel on the morning after a bad night be be- fore tore Jesse shifted his cigar over to the northwest corner of his face and said Yell Well boys I guess wed we'd better better bet bet- i ter get busy and build her up again I Jesso Jesse Knight is conceded b by those bet I who know him to be a hard headed I business man who has the faculty of getting in on the big things or perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps he makes them big things be because because because be- be cause he gets in on them Anyway Anway I he is not picking many selling Even though it was a courageous thing to do I cant can't give Jesse Knight any too much credit for that famous remark because he simply had to do It It was inevitable foreordained and andall andall andall all that sort of ot thing The Knight Woolen Mills 1 could no more go out of ot business than people could stop sleepIng sleeping sleeping sleep sleep- ing under Knight blankets or wearIng wearIng wearing wear- wear Ing Knight mackinaws They simply had to have them I All that shows how embarrassing ItIS it itIs itis Is to have a a. big reputation Supposing Jes Jessa Knight had gone completely busted wh when n that plant lant burned down downor or went up In smoke lie He would have had to rebuild it It anyway because people peo peo- pip pIe all over the West Test would calling for Knight products and he would have had to talk some fat banker out of ot the money But nut that fatal supposition would be beall beall beall all wrong Jesse was there with the Jack and went down to his own bank and wrote out a check and told the contractors to hop to it Hes He's still telling em the same thing thingS for it Isnow is isnow isnow now the fond desire of the Knights and their associates and the Joy of ot Provo to make malce the woolen mills bigger I and better than they ever ver were be- be fore Thus we learn two lessons from the story of the woolen woolen mills that are woven into the woof and warp of Utah industry One is that they had established established established such a reputation for excellence excellence excellence excel excel- lence of product that they couldn't quit if they wanted to and the other Is that Utah industries can come back backwith backwith backwith with a rush after taking a solar plexus that would put most anything to the mat for keeps In case you dont don't know it I dont don't mind telling you that the Knight plant was started way back in 1858 I as a community proposition and was known as the Provo Woolen Mills 1 I Even though the machinery came in This is the is seventh forty of a series of articles on the me industries of Salt Lake City and vicinity The purpose is is to give detailed information regarding the industries indus indus- tries and their products so that loyal may better cooperate in the home industry campaign now being inaugurated by the Utah Manufacturers Manufacturers' association Th Telegram believes believe will buy Utah products if tey know what these products are and o 0 o this campaign of education is under under- taken Daily or as rapidly as the information can be d The Th Telegram will describe a local industry industry in in- in and arid its output After that it is is up to to the buying public to do its part I by ox team it was thoroughly equipped even in those early day daYI and was the biggest and best concert of Its kind west of the Mississippi From rom the very first the products o 0 the mill were turned out with thai that degree of good homely excellence thai characterized all early Mormon efforts ef ef- forts and I imagine that a littlE search would reveal some of thosE thos first all wool blankets still doing service after atter a lapse of sixty years Probably they never will wear out and will be handed down to succeed ing centuries as examples of inal weaving art in Western Vestern North America About ten years year ago Knight an anc his friends stepped into the game ant an made it tho the Knight Woolen 1 Mills Ills H Hi HEI I started speeding up production an am equipment and last year when th thE fire came he had reached the pea peal of output in the history of the con cern It was vas at that time the biggest and best mill of ot the kind west of th thE Mississippi If you will remember in ot of last year Uncle Sams Sam's boys were chasing Huns out of ot various trenches and forests in France The war was wat going on right merrily and knew whether it was going to last four months or four years Therefore and because Uncle Sam was calling loudly all over the country country coun coun- try for war material As a result Jesse Knight was making uniforms uniform and army overcoats so fast that all bearings were hot The plant was a noisy hum b by day and a bright bunch of noise at night Two hundred and anc fifty men and women tolled toiled In three shifts and Uncle Sam was taking 80 per cent of what they turned out Jesse had It up to what is known aaa as aa asa asa a set nine-set mill which was bigger than It had ever been Well the fire pretty near cleaned them out as as hereinbefore mentioned but when I was out there recently they had a new busy building 40 by feet long with nearly a hundred persons working away as though nothing had happened They had gotten started agai agai- within three months after efter the fire and they have been speeding up every month since They told me that they took the wool right from the sheep's back which is no jok jOkl for the sheep on a I- I cold spring morning and the they make that woo wool ito into everything in the heavy woolen lines 3 or For r instance the Knight plaid and staple blankets are shown all the way to Alaska and back again They make uniform for the army and overcoats and auto robes and their theli mackinaws are about the best on the market They make stag shirts flannel shirts mackinaw pants and vests If the sheep suffers for a few mornings after he loses his winters winter's padding he certainly certainly makes it warm for some of us when the Knights get through with it They have separate scouring carding carding carding card card- ing dyeing picking spinning dressing and weaving departments from which the cloth finally goes to the garment factor factory It Is only a set four-set mill at but they are fitting up Just Justas as fast as the machinery can be se se- se cured This last item is the thing that holds them back most most- because there was little wool mill mm machinery made during the war The old salesmen are on the road talking to the old trade and the |