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Show WHY NOT MHKE PAPER? i WHY NOT MAKE BOXES? "V WHY NOT MAKE GLASS? home folks." Sounds kind o' nice, does it not? "On? more word and I am through. We have tons of suid here millions of It. Good enough to make bottle and the cheaper glassware. Once there was 1 a glass factory here. Fell through, I believe, for want of sufficient capital. Start it up again, put In enough capital and let us make our own glass dishes, glass bottles, etc. The breweries here would use thousands and thousands of thein annually." , "I notice the meeting of the Salt Lake . JercHtfhts and Manufacturers' associa-tiotlrfsverlooked associa-tiotlrfsverlooked two important Items of inoTistry which might profitably be established es-tablished in our midst," said Samuel C. Ewing of the Cullen hotel today. "One of them is the establishment of a paper and pulp mill. We have plenty of water, plenty of cottonwood trees, s plenty of willing hands and plenty of pemand for the finished product. I am sure The Telegram could and would make use of home?pun paper and so would all the other papers of the city. "In addition to this there are something some-thing like 2n) other newspapers in the territory tributary to Salt Lake which ould easily be induced to buy their paper pa-per from a home market. "As to the coarser straw papers 1 know there is plenty of straw that ould be made into all grades of wrap-l.ing wrap-l.ing paper. ' "Following the thought a itep further, fur-ther, if paper can be made, so can cara-board;,lf cara-board;,lf cardboard can be made, then why not make all our own paper boxes, paper bags and the like? "We O.o not have to go out of the Slate no. not even out of the county for the raw material. All that is needed need-ed la sufficient capital and men with experience n the Industry. The goods would be sold at fair profit if produced of standard quality. "And to go a step further, why not v make the ink here the papers are print-Jed print-Jed with? Denver does it and success-r success-r fully too, as is amply attested by the newspapers of that city. 'A home paper pa-per full of homely thoughts, printed on home-made paper, illuminated with homemade ink In varicoior. for all the |