| Show BUY UTAH PRODUCTS T ill J iI J I Are Distant Fields I Always s the fhe en I I I Being a Preachment on Hard and Soft Wheat I and Human Race I IBy By F. F E. E Becker OGAN July 30 Theres There's There's Theres been no L LOGAN good chance chalce to look 1001 this story up uP In the Bible DIble but a flour lour manufacturer in Logan says Its Its It's there and Logan being a goodly I town ton and beautiful withal Im I'm not disposed to question him He lIe pointed out the spot sect on the map in Palestine I and showed me a sack of ot his flour to e prove it According to this aforesaid flour flour- maker the story goes something flour I like this this- Somewhere around the Dead sea which was so thick with salt you i could walk on it there once dwelt a II I bunch of Bolsheviks or I. I W. W yo W Ws W.'s s or something who were all the time hollering about their lot The They said the wind didn't blow the right di direction direction direction di- di I and the water ran up hill Every Peery time they bought a Liberty I bond the government went Democrat Democratic at ic or busted and when it rained honey they find anything but a sieve Even the soil didn't act right When they were expecting a short crop and planned accordingly the wind and rain and sun would behave perfectly scandalous and they would have so much grain on hand it would get dirt cheap and they'd have to feed it to the hogs Ana besides their grain wasn't th the kind People People People Peo Peo- around home wouldn't eat it and they had to send it clean across the mountains where some misguided tribes of ot capitalists asked for it and paid big prices when they got it They said their own bakers wouldn't use it but ordered some other wheat from down around the Persian gulf gult and then framed it with the Camel Dri Drivers Drivers' rs' rs union to charge Just lust about one talent a hundred freight so they could soak the consumer a dollar and six-bits six a loaf loat which would make even a a. hard boiled war profiteer scream in agony Well ell finally the Lord heard about this tribe of or malcontents or Visionaries Visionaries Visionaries Vision Vision- aries of or the New Order as they would be called today and went down downto to counsel with them He found many of or them gathered at Obadiah grocery store store talking over the latest order or of the Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem grain corporation while a goodly crowd had assembled in the public square to hear a long whis erEd fire eater r. r chew up large gobs of atmosphere and spit out fiery epithets epi epi- The Lord moved quietly among them bowed in profound thought On every hand he heard general dissatisfaction dissatisfaction faction and was vas plunged in deep melancholy mel mel- They had plenty of ot grain he heard that year but it wasn't the right I kind their kind their soil sol wouldn't raise the right kind besides the government hadn't guaranteed them enough and bad Just raised the high tariff on wet putty and was going to admit it per capita At last last after listening to the plaints of his people the Lord stepped before them Raising his sad face he to them In this wise My children he said slowly i I 1 a am deeply grieved that you ou thus thu turn away from the face of ot Beneficent Providence Behold your vines are heavy laden and the meadows billow with th the ripening grain Your Tour bin overflow with com corn and fat kine ow contented contented- I This is the fortieth of a series of articles on the industries of Salt Lake City and vicinity The purpose is is to give detailed information regarding the industries industries indus tries and their products ts so that loyal may better bettor cooperate in in the home industry campaign now being in inaugurated by the Utah Manufacturers' Manufacturers association The Telegram believes will buy Utah products if they tiley know what these products are and o 0 o this campaign of education is undertaken under under- taken Daily or as rapidly as the information can be d The Telegram will describe a local industry industry in industry in- in and its output After that it is up to the buying public to todo todo todo do its part ly Iy in green pastures Yet where all should be peace and happiness I find naught but the rankling canker of ot envy futile fretfulness and childish discontent Look to the swelling kernels of ot your grain gram See you not that they are full rull of the richness ess of or your soil soli and the I virile healthfulness of or the winds and sun Eun Do you ou thus vainly dispute with Jehovah in his almighty wisdom If It our your wheat doth prosper here is it not nota a sign of ot God Cod that it was so ordained of ot All Pervading Counsel Would you upset the ways of Providence to raise rals the pomegranate and fig tree on arctic shores or polar lichens on the burning sands of ot the desert Go y ye forth to your fields and your vineyards and sin no more with this wicked carping Rather give thanks for thy blessings lest the wrath of ot God be visited upon you Well the they did go forth according to the conclusion of ot this millers miller's narrative narrative nar nar- rathe but they didn't follow the letter letter letter let let- ter of or the Lords Lord's injunction Not so soI I you could notice it They wrangle and andI chew the fat tat about it to this day andi and I the noise has been nowhere louder than i right here in Utah It came down to us In that old dispute dispute dispute dis dis- dis- dis about hard and soft wheat If It you will analyze the controversy down downto to fundamentals you jou OU will find some queer quirks of or human nature to fill your soul with mirth and cause you to break forth with unseemly ha hat has ha's I Heres Here's about the way It frames up Down In Dakota and ad Minnesota and Illinois I and the better part of the whole northern portion of ot middle United States they raise hard wheat In Utah Idaho Oregon and WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and a few other pla places es In the i West Vest the they raise mostly soft wheat Here in Utah they raise the finest i iI I quality of ot Turkey Red which is the hardest and best soft sort wheat ever I pumped into an elevator The Utah wheat has haR the coast or Washington I I wheat backed clean off oft the boards be because because because be- be cause of ot peculiar conditions of or soil soli and climate It is an ideal bread wheat as asI aswell aswell I well as pastry and biscuit wheat and its fame is spreading through the na- na tion But what happens asked D D. II IF Thomas manager of the Thatcher I Milling l and Elevator company of or Logan Logan Logan Lo Lo- Lo- Lo to him the theother gan when I 1 was talking I I othEr Why day the People are Just naturally I II perverse about it In the first place I right in southern Illinois where they I lare are great biscuit shooters and Pastry I hounds they think our Utah Turkey I wheat champion for bread I Red wheat is IR the and everything else The same condition condition con con- in the South the Southeast I Southwest and California bakers in At the same time our I Utah clamor for the hard Eastern secret but trade wheat It be a I the bakers may that the hoard hard wheat say and moisture flour will take more I up the dough doughI make heavier loaves and will stretch farther Can you beat It I No The Vs L-Vs You result cant can't iS is' is even that hat tie we e It are re shipping isi I wheat which u Is of or ofa orla our so called soft sot a hard quality and the b best st grown la anywhere for au around all around use t lo to All u Flour Industry rf of J f Utah Becoming Becoming Be Be- I coming One One of lof of States State's I Biggest Biggest Assets I points Jf df t the compass excEpt compass except in Utah Utah and and after we get the bins I empty we must turn around and buy hard wheat from Minnesota Somebody Somebody Somebody Some Some- body pas pa's pays th the freight boys ways ways but we are living up to flour traditions so ever everybody body ought to be happy There was a movement on up here hereto I to study carefully the introduction of certain hard wheat Into the valleys of Utah and they came to see me II about it I knew their wheat wouldn't thrive and that we were already raising raising rais rals- ing better wheat anyway so I told I II them that little story out of ot the Bible I Haven't heard from them since he added And then I learned some InterestIng InterestIng interesting Interest- Interest Ing things from Thomas It seems that the old Thatcher mill was started started started start- start j I ed by Hezekiah Thatcher back in 61 the burrs and machinery coming over the plains by ox team from the Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- river The old mill was started MIS-I MIS on the site of ot the present plant with witha a great water supply from the Little Logan river which turns the wheels I today and is one of ot the most valuable I water rights in the state The company company company com com- pany was Incorporated in 89 by the j I II second generation of ot Thatchers Lee Leej j I Thatcher now being vice president i i I and the only member of ot the family active in the business II Ir E. E Hatch is president also president of or the Thatcher Bros Banking company and i I e in the administration of or the j multifarious Thatcher Interests in and I about Logan Hezekiah and his progeny progeny progeny pro pro- geny have been great builders and i i accumulators D D. II H. Thomas keeps the mill turning and humming j i The company turns out barrels of ot flour lour per day besides large quantities quan- quan I titles of ot grahams cereals feeds feed gErmade germade germade ger ger- made a wheat breakfast food and other things They have grown with the beautiful city of ot Logan and the theold theold theold old mill is surrounded by a wonderful lawn which bespeaks the cleanliness and purity of or their famous SIg g T T. and Purity flour I Since there must be nigh onto ninety flour mills grinding away in inthis inthis inthis this state with a total investment of or I I find that I cant can't write about all of or them but must take the Thatcher mill and its steady sumay increase of or production as or the ex expansion expansion expansion ex- ex I and growing importance of or orI I the flour industry of ot the state The moral of the little tale about distant fields being the greenest applies to all I of them There are some sortie other things I 1 learned Utah produces about five times as much flour as it consumes the big reason being that tha t Imagine they are getting something better If the they use an outside flour The fact of ot the matter is that Utah flour enjoys en- en joys loys a splendid reputation away from j I j home and frequently commands a I premium over other flours Thomas told me that twenty I II years I ago he went to Rawlins Wyo where where j they thought the sun rose and set in I Minneapolis flour By some i I he hypnotized them I Into an order or- or I I der del for tor Utah flour and the they have I been selling sel it ever since That was i I Ione one of ot the early excursions of ot Utah I 1 flour Into foreign fields and it has been making good ever since I I learned also that millers are arc not notI I so keen about the methods and practices practices I tices of ot bakers 1 If rr If you could get the housewives to I baking their own bread again you I would be doing a great service to hu humanity hu I humanity manity manit I J was told The bakers of ot j I course cours are out for the money and if i i they can make their bread look right they don dont don't t care much what goes into It besides air If It people did their own baking there would be less Utah flour leaving the state and less outside n flo aim ia und and there you ar are ax |
