Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-12 | Page 6 | Paper Made Here in Early Days

Paper Made Here HereIn In IIi Early arly Days Utah was one of the first of the western states to have a paper milL Th The mill mm was established In 1864 at what is now In 1877 a 1 null mill was established n near r I Ithe the mouth of Big Cottonwood can ton on The mill at the mouth of the flourished for or a time In it were made milde writing and ond printIng printing print print- ing papers from rags and nd wrapping wrapping wrap wrap- ping papers from straw With the coming of the ra railroad and cheap freight rates the mill found it extremely difficult to compete with wilh the larger mills in Wis Wiscon Wisconsin on- on sin and nd the New England st states tes and therefore was soon abandoned aban aban-