| Show TL L Ba Baking a o In ing Industry in in Year E y j A o 4 O Ei T a p t Trade Publication Gives History r o ns Chapter in Jubilee Narrative vard Ed dward and John Connelly Among i Rem Remaining ining Pioneers Who Had Part Pai t in t 5 Early Bakery Management E g. g The history of pf commercial baking in hI jn Salt Lake ke City from t Ink time ime Richard Golightly opened the first bakery three 3 years ears n after ter the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers forms an inter inter- e cling ing chapter in in a special e edition of the Western Vestern Baker San Sana 1 a tra trade e publication just received in iii in this city The special s number was was Issued In connection con con- with the recent diamond celebration at San Francisco Jerking the seventy fifth ry llUy of California's admission n as a elite sute salt Lakes Lake's s Im important place In the tory of or a flourishing western In- In d stry sIry Is also a coincident In that It ib five seventy years jears ears ago l t commercialized b biking baking was un- un taken by the Utah pioneers The mIcle points out that Edward lace ace ace nOw residing In Los Anes Ah- Ah es w arine s of ot the first master In S Silt lt Lake City Cit while John a merchant f at East Kast First South street ilso one of the few remaining ploys plo plo- ys rs who operated commercial Bakeries in the early days he following is reprinted from t fhe e jubilee number of the San Franco Frano Fran- Fran co o publication ghe he birthday cake of the com- com i baking industry in Utah al at- at Tins t-Tins Its Us se ent seventy fifth fifth candle this y r and bakers In Inthis this state are II the thc diamond jy y of ot the establishment of the tIte first ker kery which served the meager eds of ot a desert settlement DUTCH OVEN USED fourths f of a century ago Mien e en Salt Lake City was merely the 1 lW center of a vast vast un- un d area known as Deseret a 1 baker who had journeyed oss the infested Indian-infested plains by team pulled the first brownsted brown brown- sted loaves from his quaint teb ov oven o n and offered them for or or i itch a e Ike lk most other business ss enter- enter 1 ses of Salt Lake City and Utah InCeption of the baking industry on x 1 commercial scale Is closely Inter Inter- J en wen w wIth th the religious movement which forms olm the historical background background background back back- ground of the state It antedates many of those pioneer undertakings and has lias kept pace under private te operation with all the Institutions which today toda go to make up the capital of the nations nation's great Intermountain Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter mountain area Salt area Salt Lake City the Center of Scenic America The first band of Mormon pioneers pie pio b b by Brigham Young entered Salt Lake rake valley on July 24 1847 Three years later under the direction of that same leader I the first commercial bakery was established with Richard GolightlY himself a Mormon pioneer who endured endured en en- I dured the hardships of ot a trip across the plains in charge of the plant This first commercializes commercialized baking establishment housed in a small story one-story frame building at about what Is s now No Na 26 South Main 1 street is virtually in existence to today today today to- to day in the form of the BakIng Baking Baking Bak Bak- ing company A Dutch oven used by py the pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- of 1850 but rebuilt many times In the Intervening years Is still turning out cakes and pies for forthe forthe forthe the great great grandchildren grandchildren of ot those who bought its first output of wholesome loa loaves es GLOBE FIRST BAKERY The first bakery In Utah which Is equally applicable to a great area as broad as the several states now composing the Inter intermountain regon was known as the Globe The successor successor successor suc suc- cessor to that institution Is regarded regard regard- ed by the timers old-timers as the Baking company compan then known as the Excelsior bakery Edward one time apprentice apprentice apprentice tice find and la later laer er practical baker In the Globe bakery and afterward succeeding succeeding suc suc- to its trade and prestige is 15 alive today toda residing at Whit Whit- tier street Los Angeles Although 85 years of age and retired retired fr from m mI I active for any years Mr I Is still a practical baker bakeri alert to the widespread changes that I have e taken place in the industry I aft after r a period of three-quarters three of ofa a I He has never severed the business relations which hold him closely Identified with the pioneer enterprises enterprises enterprises enter enter- I of Mormon endeavor Mr is s a a. prominent stockholder I in Zions Zion's Savings bank and the J. J J JG Jj I G G. l I McDonald Donald Chocolate Company The present bakery business conducted con- con ducted in Salt Lake City under his I name is operated by E K L L. Saunders I Iwho who beca became e Its proprietor In 1888 I PIONEER GIVES HISTORY The Western Baker Balter Is Indebted to John Connelly oldest surviving ba bakery bakery ba- ba I f kery proprietor residing in Salt l I Lake City and former manager of of J j the Globe bakery for many of the they facts pertaining to the early history of the Industry Although not a baker in the practical sense Mr l Connelly was the business head of I the Globe for the administrators of the Richard rd Golightly estate from 1874 to 1876 and afterward opened I j jand and operated a a. bakery of his own Retired from active business life Ufe Mr Connelly now resides at I East First South street Richard Golightly was was was' the I type of ot practical baker produced produced produced pro- pro I by years of ot apprenticeship In Inthe Inthe inthe the trade in England said Mr Connelly Connelly Connelly Con Con- nelly in commenting on the diamond diamond dia dla- mond anniversary of ot commercialized commercial commercial- zed baking in Utah He was about 44 H years ears of age when h he hg came to Utah as a Mormon emigrant In n 1850 He lIe may have hive been brought to Salt i Lake Cit City to establish the first commercial com- com comI comI I I I mercial bakery for tor It Jt was the same I i I II I years he came I have been told that Brigham Young loung built bum the Globe I bakery and rented It to Golightly to operate When Golightly died In 1872 the administrators of his estate placed the business in the hands of a manager man man- lager ager agel and It was about bout two hyo years jears ears j after his death that I took charge I gas as manager I 1 was then a practical I and added a 11 department department depart depart- I I ment of this kind to the bakery baker I II I I During the period that I was In charge Mr 11 and George Dayer Day- Day I 1 I er both pf whom were practical bakers employed at the Globe decided decided decided de de- de- de to go Into business for themselves them them- selves EXCELSIOR ENTERS FIELD FIE They opened the Excelsior bakery on Main street in a building I which stood as I remember on a portion of the site now occupied by bythE bythe bythe the De Deseret eret News building In later years eais the Excelsior was moved down n to the present site of the plant which is virtually the same I place where the Globe building I stood I Although bread formed one of of the staple products of the earliest bakIng baking baking bak bak- ing establishments in the community community community com com- the real object behind the enterprise fostered by Brigham Young loung was to supply his followers with such commodities as cakes and crackers according to Mr Connell Con- Con nell nelly In fact the output of all the early plants consisted in large measure of a line of foodstuffs supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied today by great nation wide institutions of production and distribution distribution dis dis- One of the most Important products of the old Globe bakery was Its justly famous butter cracker crack crack- I er continued Mr 11 Co Connelly nelI In In many re respects It took the place of or the present soda cracker although I I Ithe far tar richer and more nore appe appetizing than the present product It was made of milk butter and the best grades of flour obtainable in those days and entailed no small amount of af manual labor I I I j I I I I II I I I I I 1 I The old fashioned butter cracker I of Mormon pioneer days day was cup shaped when finally baked and I confess that I 1 know of few bakery I products today which can match the tasty concoction of those veteran makers ACTUAL CASH SCARCE I cash There was not much actual money In circulation in those days I Iso so all sorts of produce was taken in trade for bakery products Our I rent on the Globe building owned b bj by Brigham Young was a I month a big figure at that time but It was paid In trade I estimated that the rental viewed from a cash standpoint was one-half one that amount The Globe supplied the members of Brigham Youngs Young's s family with bakery goods and when the amount did not come up to th the rental charge we we were given the balance I In store orders These orders were exchangeable for merchandise at atthe atthe atthe the church general store which to today today today to- to day Is Zions Zion's a Co operative Co-operative Mercantile Mercantile Mercantile tile Institution Our bread made from native flour sold at the rate of 15 16 cents for a loa loaf weighing more than two pounds and computed on the same sameI basis as rental you jou can realize that the actual cash return for that loaf was about 7 cents Sugar was one one- of the costliest of all supplies entering Into the bakery business of pioneer days day I remember paying around 24 2 and 25 a hundred for sugar even after the Union Pacific railroad was wasI built It was was' shipped from a re refinery refinery re- re finery at St st. Louis It generally are I took about all the cash received to pay for sugar and such other supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies as we had to purchase outside mostly at Mississippi river points The emigrants who followed tb the Mormons west fi nr first st t to the goldfields gold goldfields I i fields of ot then to the I northwest and finally into the mining minIng mining min min- ing districts of Idaho and Nevada were our best sources of cash Salt Lake City was a supply point for these travelers They would stock up for another leg of the long Journey westward and the bakery came in for Its share of their business When hen they didn't t have cash we sometimes had to lo accept articles in trade hade such as hides or manufactured goods from the east east Although he sold his own bakery bakery- after atter two years of operation to en engage engage engage en- en I gage In the wholesale grocery business business busi busl- I ness Mr 11 Connelly recalls with In Intimate Intimate in- in view his pioneer efforts In I that industry His Ills reminiscences regarding the Globe are corroborated corroborated corroborated I rated in large measure lJ by Mr 11 Sa Saunders present proprietor of the I bakery who r received his in information information information in- in i formation during the years of as association association as- as sedation with Mi Mr h While owner of the business durIng during during dur dur- ing his active years In the Industry Mr 11 preferred to give his personal attention to the baking end of the business leaving the sales department to a manager Wr r. r Saunders as well as his brother I I J J. J W Saunders served as manager of ot the Institution before re retirement retirement re- re of the owner I I Many other names are mentioned I i in connection with the early baking industry In Utah but those of Golightly and Edward stand stand standO O out lt at th the top of the list In the tho ho seventy five years jears ears which have elapsed the Industry has his kept pace with the growth of this intermountain empire Today an any one of of a snore score of bakeries in Salt Lake City is capable capable capable capa capa- ble of producing enough bread and other products to supply the entire population of the village which looked to the Globe for Its oven supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies In 1850 The same may be said of the modern bakeries In other cities and towns of the state Bread from Utah plants Is shipped to three neighboring states daily Bakery storage rooms receive flour and other supplies not by mere i i truckload but out oy uy shipments e of several ca carloads loads at time lime And every modern method ridden forward with the pat years jears ears until the bakery induct industry Utah stands shoulder to shoud with that of any state in the Un o 0 |
