Show I HOME MArPACTL > rx UTAH Home manufacture as it was known In early days in Utah before there was any cQnsiderable communrltlon with the states In the east or the west is a thing past and gone forever There were hardships then that no well wisher of Utah would want to see again Every Utah boy and girl who has grown to middle age remembers the spinning wheel the hand cards and the loom in the bnserqent And when the I household duties were done and the evening had come at last then the mother brought out the spinning wheel and its hum was heard as the long soft rolls of wool were spun into yarn The spindle being full it was reeled off and how anxiously the knots were counted as they were struck off cfter so many revolutions of the wheel All this was preliminary to weaving the yarn into home made jeans for the boys and linseys for the girls The cloth turned out was not artistic in pattern nor fine in quality but it wore well and there was no suspicion of shoddy in its make It was honest cloth for those honest housewives would have scorned to have made anything any-thing else They let the article speak for itself and asked help from no one They were content to labor and let their work answer for itself All the other home manufactures of the people were conducted on the same plan Each family sought to supply itself I I with all it needed Jefferson writing to Kosciusko tells of his own household manufactures and the d description ofmore than eighty years ago of household manufactures in Virginia very well describes conditions in Utah thirty and forty years ago He says I arn much behind many others In this business my household manufactures manufac-tures are just getting into operation on the scale of a carding machine costing cost-ing 60 only which may be worked by a girl of twelve years old a spinning machine which may be made for 10 carrying six spindles for wool to be worked by a girl also another which can be worked by a girl also another which can be made for 25 carrying twelve spindles for cotton and a loom with a flying shuttle weaving its twenty yards a day I need 2000 yards of linen cotton and woollen yearly to clothe my family which this machinery ma-chinery costing 150 only and worked by two women and two girls will more than furnish We consider con-sider a sheep for every person as sufficient for their woollen clothing I How like the olden times in Utah this reads The home industry of Utah so urged upon the people was the same as the household manufacture of Virginia Vir-ginia in Jeffersons time and nothing more |