| Show WOOL OOL r pULLING lUNG PLANT I Interesting Processes at Near N nr Tooele S OWNED I S 4 t c BY y ROWE BOWE MORRIS OR S AY Pelts Go Through M y at atOp Operations Op Operations Before They I Become BecOme Beady Rea y For Por or the Mar Ma st Capacity qt o the he is is Ii r Lerga j i Is rs an Important Impo Industry One One of the most important of ot Utah which w is also one 0 of ot the te has just x o in Its s I new nev horpe aws awai aW Out Cut lea between the line of the Salt Lake Los Angeles railroad and the lake laIre The rM plant of C the Utah Tan Twi Twining Tanning ning company which for many years had a hard fight light to remain wt w n the city limits of Salt Lake and which wl ch was as finally naly moved has Jias on OIl a larger scale than ever eyer At what is J T n as the i halfway ir house on on the railroad It has the lar st establishment of at py of cC the surrounding t Idaho yom inG mi Nevada Nevada evada Colorado or Mexico and Arizona Arisona There yet remains In Salt Lake ink the tanning factory proper at the old location ti n on Fourth FourMi I Y orth rt I street beleen First lit t and Second West str wh there t art and facilities acUities for tor I curing cuti and andr tanning thirty dozen dosen hides bides per week I The plant was wag driven chi eB away from Its 1 Old ld home There Had bad been be n a a a fight C t upon it because or of the I stench which h arose rOse in the process of putting pulling the wool wooi woo It hail had been there th re for to twentythree years J rs and there bad had been en complain compian at different times time but the city council which had bad been Induced to tomake tomake tomake make investigations had report f that good ground for fOl complaint did not ex cx exist exiSt tnt and nd that t u seemed seamed to end the matter But last May the factory burned down After a a long search for tor an unobjectionable unobjectionable location in Salt Lake Luke a build Ing ins and location was waa purchased out near n r the track ack of the he Salt Lake ft cI Los Lots Angeles rood road of ol water wat i which w j was th difficult in many suggested sugg lo is 18 did not cause much trouble out oat there A spring ring which bubbles u tI up from the prairie is undo However the com coin I I pray has ha had to rent rout from from tile the antI and the supply to be had rad h not quite enough to rUn iMn the factory f without economy C nomy An Interesting Process The process process of oj tearing the wool from sheep peltS pelt Is interesting and am complicated though to one unaccustomed to the tM odor the experience is not pleasant plea It might seem a very easy thing to pUll pall wool hair and even legs but the tile meth method methOd od Cd of o the Utah Tanning company pany is complicated and arduous and amI requires the work of a dozen or ur more inure e men menThe menThe menThe The dirty and besmeared red dry pelts are dumped into the store storeroom room Toom on the e t end second nd floor noor of one of 0 the buildings they are carried on over to another one ne and anti dropped down to the vats ats a floor below where they the are soaked in water for fat two or three thre days until they become soft and pliable or until they are ace green again Then they are run through the tiie burr burring burrIn ing In machine an intricate te affair ail so ar C arranged ranged that it has hae teeth t th which comb out most of 0 the dirt and grease with wit I th the e aid of ot water rater W and tears from the skin the flesh and nd blood and anti which clings to t It front from tim the cheep The Theman Theman Theman man who runs this can an handle 0 O pelts each tIdY day which is almost ae as manyas manyan can tian be taken care of in other portions I of or the work I These cleansed hides are then sent to sweat boxes teft in number n each of 0 which holds hol ISO pates pett They T eY are ue fizet fi painted with th a a preparation of cf f arsenic I and potash which preserves pl the skins shins I and keeps them m from decaying deca The pelts are kept in these heated vaults for from three to six days depending i ion I on their condition c on and at a tempers tempera temperature te m hire ture of or from SO to 90 0 degrees Steam Ste m I pipes pipe which run through 1 the hallway of at the tate dark chambers wherein wh lein the boxes are keep up this warmth I The theory of ff this tl s heating beating ia Ut very simple It has haa been bien noticed by rattle men JIen and butchers from time imme hums immemorial immemorial I morial modal theft th the hair on heated hides can be torn off easily cushy ea The heat develops am Bm ammonia meals monia which causes a decaying pro process 1 cess ces ce loosens l na the hair The sweat boxes act net upon the sheep pel in tile the Way var The heat by b causing ca the generation of ammonia loosens the wool When the process te is complete the pelts are sent nt upstairs to the pull pulling J ing beams three in number convex j I boarts on which whick skins ki s are laid 90 lID that I t Ithe i time the wool can be he scraped off elf The three nee men who do this work can each handle I j a day Grading the Wool Tile The Th scraping is not however hOwever the I most important part of their work They must separate the different grades of o wool found on different pelts and on the same seme rne pelts The woot wool on the back of ofa ofa ofa a a Sheep heep is thicker and longer than that on hia belly and an his legs This Dds selection becomes by continual practice a mat matter matter matter ter of o habit Wool which to the un untrained un Untrained trained eye eoye seems Q the same aume grade these th e men will without second thought separate into three different trades gram They are the most moot expert pert and are the tile best paid men in such stick k establishments I There are ten grades gradet n cJ but only four tOW or orfie fie f importance The Utah Tanning company separates s its wool in B C Cc and combing grades principally There are yet other processes t gone through These There grades are gathered up and placed in tit the tractor a curious machine Up to t tj tN s point it t nn be r red the wool is wet we and dripping ping with water Subsequent Bu quent w work is for the purpose of set get getting tins ting it t dry The extractor is a large la tu tub three feet f deep and probably four tour feet ta In diameter with ith ih a center piece of alfoot a t tor or more in diameter something like a asma smarter sma er tub inverted and with wire sieve sides Wh When the wool Is pa ed I in the receptacle about the smaller Iel tab ta the whole machine is whirled around at very et rapid pare pa The wool woot naturally moves to the circumstances cu m and packs pa hard against t the machine thereby I pressing out the water It Js is then taken to drye dryers in each of which there there ia is a separate e grade toy Lay ing lag on a wire netting hot t air Is ia through by a powerful electric fan tin in a few the wool is hi dry Ary ami alii ready for seeking sacking It Is ia carefully tamp tamped tai ed in these th big bl isacks ho about 00 pounds each adr Then Thea it I l ready r for tor shipment The whole process eAR te g e be e finished in from a week to ten en days dava The green reen potts pelts need ed not net go h the soaking process ena may be 1 handled in less Ie time The hide bidE stripped mi of are sent aDt to the tannery in town o n for wiDe curing C g an so another soother I other procEss p which takes tal es a They may be he made hit ll ed 1 leader for fur the Khe e uj u use of or local sHoe aoe as and an for others rs who w o use uee them or seat Mot I fn In an unfinished condition 1 n to eastern The Th tI th e from oIn placing the theP pelts P in the wat warehouse to cleaning fa the wool from rom them and aM ater turning the 1 Into finished leather is abo t Three i iw weeks w k S |
