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Show IIITWIISII lit; COVER N MEN T ORDERS Two Hundred Thousand Yards of Uniform Cloth Is the Last Order Placed with the Local. Mills By Government Purchasing Agent Factory Will Devote Practically All Their Time and Help to Government Orders Until the First of the Year t Thousands of Army Blankets Have Been Turned Out Girls and Young Men Can Do Patriotic Work Here at Home By Keeping the Knight Mills Running. ;-.C; ' , Captain T. C. Stevens was here yesterday yes-terday conferring with Manager John , S. Smith of the Knight woolen mills relative to Borne orders for uniform material for government. While the mills have not been commandeered , byho government they will work on war orders exclusively until the first of January, 1919. Manager Smith stated that they had virtually turned over the whole plant to the government govern-ment for the manufacture of uniform material and other orders for war department de-partment The Knight woolen mills were given orders for more than 200, 000 yards of uniform, cloth yeeterda" by Captain Stevens. After the first of July civilian orders will have to he turned out after the regular army orders are taken care of first ' The local mills have been doing tin immense amount of work for the government gov-ernment and the . management has been glad to be able to co-operate with the national government in this way. Hundreds of thousands of yards of cloth has been manufactured here and' turned over to the war department at their various depots or supply departments depart-ments during the past six months. The government has asked that all textilo mills in the United States devote at least 80 per cent of their capacity to war orders, and the Knight mills will go a little better than this for the next six months. They have been giving about 60 per cent of their output to the government work and that amount will be increased to 100 per cent until January Jan-uary ,1, and then they will takd cara-of cara-of their regular customers as usual. Captain Stevens is purchasing agent for the quartermasters' department of the army with headquarters at Fort Mason, near San Francisco. Hundreds of 'Provo girls, who are now employed by the Knight woolen mills, will hav3 a splendid opportunity to serve their country right here at home by helping keop the wheels going in this local factory fac-tory and thus turn out the cloth to be manufactured into uniforms for our soldiers. From time to time girls will be given an opportunity to loam this work, which Is very remunerative. The least any-girl gets at the mills now Is f 10.20 per week and many of them make 315 and up. The young men m- ' Provo and also in this county who o not wish to go out on the farms and work can find good lucrative employment employ-ment at the Knight woolen mills This factory has done much work for the prosecution of the war, and for the next few months they will do nearly double what has been done. Just now 'the local factory is finishing finish-ing up a large order for thousands of blankets for the ship . builders, the . t.luejackets and the boys In khaki. Many of our Utah boys who have crossed the rea will probably find that they will be supplied with fine warci blankets made right in their home state. |