| Show alUTAH UTAH EARLY NAIL MAKING Also the Manufacture of I rome r-ome Ihlir sllDj Utiululiouces George J Taylor Informi us In regard re-gard to the nol making business referred re-ferred to by Samuel L Adams In the NEWS of the led luel5 that be never claimed to have made the first cut nails In Ulsh lu 1682 He did state bower that fur two or three years about 1662 lo 1BG4 he ran lbs firit call machine ever made In i Utah thai I wee mode by A W blblo ome years before Mr Taylor still bias the mcblllo In he poesesioa During the tIme thai Mr Taylor was running tbe factory Ibe rolling mill gavu out and he had a pair of new aud larger rollers msdc They were forged by James Lawson out of bay tire Iron at his sbop In the HovIulb wsrdnolwere IUllod out by Wm J Silver on Ills lathe AS to whether Mr Adumes macblnewulcn Mr CyJor oovr boad 01 bror wa uiado earlier than Mr Habius Is I a mallet to I doclaed by tha cmml Ion According to all acoouatrt Mr Sablu O an able mechanic sod has 10 crdll 01 mklug Ibo II recln even made In Utah as well as tIle hpe and oil aocrue ed III their cue lucloll Our 01 Ibe pistols doubt 10 would trove ao obJet 01 Inlnl 10 mocbnlc I l cull tie oxblblld at the lorlbcomlng fiftieth 24th These revolvers were made of tiru Iron In regard to tbe nail bunlnnit the credit might bu Justly glveu Daniel II Wells lor lulrouuciuu the first nail machinery In Utah which made a complete out nail as all others tbeugtl cut by InaLblnor1 were hodod by hand Mr Taylor has the Sablu machine now In uia possess loi I la I strongly coostructed 01 heavy wrought iron nod contains tha steel cutters let sharp enough to bite tbe head oil a nail Itwamxhiblted < In one ot our recent Territorial lairs and was labeled First nail machine tu Utah moue by A W Sablu I was teen by tbou oalld sod Mr Taylor novr bord u Ibis statemenl 01 lit being tbe first machine being disputed before and consequently believed the itatenlec of Informant correct |
