| Show AP win MAING IN arliese ar liest efforts success and final F mal destruct tion of the mill by gire fire on tte the bench near tile li mouth ot of big biff nood canyon stands a ruin its blackened walls walla rise aque botn near e th bed of the creek and artly arti hidden bidden by the foliage ollae presents a picture to tile the traveler on the a vit road As ar camping parties martlea ar by the younger aiels love to weave tome rome romance about tho the old nit mill it tall the boys have many tales to r e iceo ot of its being haunted there la is a kory f the mill but it la Is one of 0 plain historical facts acta the ruin la Is a monument to one of 0 the lost industries of utah the plant was wag one once e hie file granite paper roll arid its iti destruction by lire fire more than five years aso put a stop to what juht coughl havo hav proved a nourishing flourishing manu factoring industry to the state the history of paper waking in utah datch much i c it farther back than the erection of 0 the granite mill and the story as related to the tribune by tile the pioneer paper apar makers and others will no doubt doub prove an interesting recital thomas howard lives at the rear of I 1 13 east fifth south street this city lie ile made the first paper by hand in the i valley and as far as can ile bo learned the first fl rat paper made in that way west of the missouri river mr I 1 toward howard was waa born and bred a pa per maker lie ile is a native of wrexham Wr exham north wal wales 1 I and was voin bom larch 4 1815 lie ile relates that the iho first attempt to build a paper er mill in salt lake was in november 1851 Brial brigham varn young on learning that there wa wai i a paper maker in the colony sent for or him birri and requested that lie he confer with sidney robertta ali the latter it seems know how lo 10 0 bund build saw malla and lie he said he could build a mili mil so no he set to work but the blieme advanced no fishr than the mill race and pit for r water located in city crook this attempt 1 was abandoned in 1152 tiie the next year a mr howard had a pei vional ant inter r view with brigham young on the fill same subject somo some machinery had been brought to the valley for tho the manu III facture L of barur cintr beet beets and ad it was sir r I 1 w r d wish that this machinery or a part of nf it should be loaned to him temporarily for the lail making king of paper mr young finally anally consented and f I 1 q f I 1 lip thomas mias howard the pioneer frani rholo photo loaned by himself raIf 7 4 ir W anit 3 av it fag ii i I ax ciul inh mk 1 4 1 2 al f YN am I 1 z I 1 H az N RR 12 1 1 j granite paper mill as it stood before the fire irom a photo bv savage I 1 thomas mills with howard put up it a small shed in n the temple block power was derived from the shops nearby chich hach bail bad a good bat water r supply the beet grinder was converted into a ray rag engine of eighty pounds capacity and other parts of the beet machines wore were used but the giemi part of making the paper was done by hand and the that hist paper made was on june 27 1854 it was dried and bleached ili tile the still aun they made the paper on cn which tho tha deseret news was printed hut but of course the article was of inferior quality avid and as aa mr air howard facetiously remarks one suld said tile the deseret Def leret news looked as though it was printed on pancakes there writs a great mill dini culty in getting the raw material brigham young toung had early advised tho the people to save the rags but the pioneers declared they had none to spare from their backs and RO me the paper makers meld AN ith a dilli culty in this I 1 le e ct paper r making lne was kept up on the temple block for six months nhan hen the to tio promoters tied to give gave up the aucar machinery to those iho ft ho were building the iho sugar factory and this ibis put an annd ena to paper papermaking making on the temple block during the time lime they verc there however howard honnard anti and made newa and wrapping paper and card board for boxes and sur bonnets the latter beloff quite in vogue AN bach made the board indispensable in 1860 frigham Brig hajn your h ot others e ra th 11 purchased in a thirty I 1 r ty s six 1 1 rich inch gavitt cylinder machine which nith the necessary fixtures waa inas hauled by ox teams front from the missouri tiler ihor to salt lake in january mr howard and Z derrick N ere engaged to rut put the machinery in place at the old mill still standing at sugar ward the sugar mill was to bo be converted into it A paper mill sad and in july 24 MI this had been done the first paper by machinery was made in utah there era tw rag engines each mith alth a capacity of pounds of rags and to the rag pulp was wait added waste paper for thickening at this athla time was alls made news wrapping wrap pine book and v paper hc ivy card board and some tinted envelopes several methods were improvised pro tor for bleaching anil 1111 1 sizing quicklime and rosin being used the envelopes were tinted nith th copper n and nd as a mordaunt a wagon load ot of alum was used which was brought up from southern utah tills this mill continued until 1883 3 when nhen the machinery was all moved to tho granite mill at the mouth of 0 big biff cot conw toni TOOd 0 o d hera was it i latee large building with ample ale A water amter power avid and n a modern plant w viii ws i established for the aking ot of paper up to 1 tills alini was own owned it by the deseret neus ketts company but in thal thai year it now new company was waa fOr formed aled anti and the granite raper paper illel company nas tile the result the plant wait figured at and was wan mort complete in every way white while the product wax was ot of an excellent quality the inlall turning laming out various grades ot of coarse and tine fine paper pane jeorge C lamberis Lam lambert berit hail bad long ims sit lor for the news newa and his brother C J lambert was foreman at loth both the sugar still and granite mills in sir mr lambert left the nen a to devote hla his whole ume lime to the superintend ney ncy of the granite m mill ill the business had lagged for several years and mr lambert was trying to put it A on oil a paying just as aa lie he had done so warn the company vas mas feeling encouraged 0 over er the good results and the storeroom store room held many thousand dollars worth of oc finished paper the mill caught jiro and bu bernol tied on apt abill it 1 1893 3 it wan ikas it a sail blow blon to the promoters hta nho had wished to add one more important factory to tho the liet ot of home industries d dus st tries rieti 11 no 10 attempt has since been rna made I 1 e to manufacture paper in it utah but the hie granite mill now in utter ruin wis was once a hive of 0 industry and where now only the crickets and the sage heni hena hold high carnival was once a row of oc cottages tor for the workmen the blick black pried walls alone remain as evidence ot of tile once P I 1 aspel ospel ous factory it has haa ever been a a matter of regret that the efforts of the pioneers in tills this branch of home industry eho ild go but such I 1 Is s t the 1 ic cise case the mill site Is now the he property of ill the union t leht h t and aila a ila ald potter company As it I 1 Is n valuable gutib 0 sito site tit hi company mily may some noma day start a new building on the foundation and it so BO success should be the result faich in talismans Talis mans more than halt half the men I 1 know wear in their pocket some sort of 0 talisman a coin of odd date or aid or fore ign or of strange metal the inevitable rabbit foot of cf tile the true graveyard va marbles small ston alonea els pit phials I 1 a I 1 a I 1 poker chip a rubber lubber bari band anything anything 9 ilk TM 01 MI A A 1 j r m m cwb eav I 1 a CL L idill 11 3 N N J I 1 1 49 71 az it q arpa 0 pvc wj si 11 et um ill CC C ill cd co LP L P ad C mw raia C X zae g at D 71 7 wor ruins ruing ot of granite raper paper mill big cottonwood from a photo by gallup |
