Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES Dean of Lumber Yards S. S W. W Morrison Follows T Timber Industry Throughout Entire Life j I The he grand old man of or Utah's lumber lum urn ber bar is S W. W Morrison of 32 Sev Seventh raft East street He was born in a lumber yard In 1856 at Fort Fart Atkinson Wis and has had his hand on the pulse o of the timber business ever stare since With his hie family Mr Morrison Morrion moved to Denver in 1870 and there began delivering building materials for lor his pIs father In those days all 11 of the lumber was wa hauled in wagons For years I held the reins on Old Dobbin The work was hard and tr trying but I enjoyed en joyed it And believe me boards didn't didn t have the smooth surface they have today and a fellow spent no lit m. little tie tic time dine in prying out sli slivers ers The horse and wagon remained i ithe hithe in hi inthe the lumber business almost as a. long longas longas' longas as as' as it has has' with the dairies It wasn't until approximately 10 years ago that the hum taro of the truck drowned dro out the neigh o of the hor horse c at lo local al umber lumber yards After seven years as a teamster Mr Morrison took a fling at prospecting But it failed tailed to hold the thc fascination of the timber camps and alter after a is few w months of search for tOl ore in the Black Blac wk k Hills he hc returned to the splinters rs in in Denver A few years later he too took k over a lumber camp amp at Buffalo alo Creek Cree Colo There he supervised super the cuttin cutting cut cut- tin ting tines and milling of or big timber in i a 1 at t typical old western lumber r camp amp In 1888 he established a lumber bust bus bustness busi ness in Laramie Wyo and two years ears lat later r or organized a 3 lumber firm in Salt Sail Lake City where he has remained ever since Today Mr Morr Morrison on is estill still in the l lumber business But Mr Morrison has not only been prominent in the world of shavings tf t f i. i S 1 1 z 9 r l lF F 4 4 r yf p M k S. S W. W Morrison 1 and sawdust He Hc was one of the fa la of Utah's constitution being one of or the members members- of or the states state's const convention He was wa one o of the pioneers in in the forming of the Salt L Lake ke chamber of commerce |