Show i BUY UTAH PRODUCTS f 3 w. w Th Theres There's ere s Romance in in HUmble fumble umble Shoes C. C M. M I. I Factory Shoes I 1 Feet of Men Who Build 1 i the West r. r f B By y F. F E. E Becker OON CON or late every writer who deals In romantic tales is bound t to write of ot a R. ladys lady's slipper He Hee e 1 simply cant can't keep a away from it ft I There There M Y something mighty i n ig ng In the dainty bejeweled trifle hUle that Ight light have we encased the silken foot toot of ot ome orne naught haughty beauty The rhe trail troll of ot It I night light lead one through lavender lavender- tented boudoirs across polished ball hall ballroom hallI I oom room floors oven even unto a moonlit balcony bal bal- balI I cony ony overlooking o the sea Bea Perhaps if It I he the romance runs to tragedy the poor object of at his quest will ul ultimately ul- ul bo be found at the foot Cool of or the lifts where tho the cruel waves dash hungrily hun hun- hun I against tho the rocks w 4 So much for tor the Jeweled je slipper 1 Can th there thero ro be romance In a good rood honest honest hon- hon est st substantial mining boot broad of ot b beam am and heavy of or tread Or its brother In tho the development of at tho the West the nattier rather pointed al almost almost almost al- al I most effeminate high heeled boot atthe of at the ithe dashing vaquero Well Yell I should say eay so sot 4 And that brings us directly to tho the story of ot the tho shoe and boot factory of ot the Zions Zion's Cooperative Mercantile ler In- In tho the home and birthplace of ot Western Sen Service ico Shoes and today todar tho largest ar cst institution of or its kind between between be- be tween the Mississippi and tho Pacific coast THE r HE START IN 1874 1871 ft s Do you ou remember the Big nil Boot Shoe store Illare back In 1874 ISH with tho the huge boot that hung in front of or the location on Main street between First an and Second South Just below helow the present Kearns building It If you OU look closely you will I find the place where the words Spencer Spen Lynch appear in well worn brass letters cUers In the sidewalk That's where the Idea was born which evolved ol Into the present Z C C. C M M. I. I shoe shoo factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory turning out enough boots and shoes to supply 20 men and boys a adar aday aday day dar from the Pacific to to- the eastern slope of ot the tho Hockles 1 I The idea ilea took form in the organization tion Hon of ot tho the Workingmen's Coop was a 1 group of ot time old-time shoemakers under the leadership of ot D. D M M. McAllister father fathel of at George S. S McAllister present mana manager gel of ot the tho shoe factory who ac according according ac- ac cording to his own admission was born bornand bornand and ral raised ed in the business A Associated with tho the elder ehler 1 McAllister tr were William I Compton John Hughes 1 William 11 lam Ness End and other l' l shoemakers of that day I I I I I This is tho second of a n series aeries of articles on the industries of Salt Lake Lako City and vicinity The purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose i is to give detailed information regarding the industries and their products so 60 that loyal may better in the home homo in industry industry industry in- in campaign now being in inaugurated inaugurated in- in by the Utah Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' Manufacturers Manufacturers' association The Telegram believes will buy Utah products if they know what these products are and eo so this campaign of education is iJ undertaken Daily or as rapidly as the tho Information can be bo assembled The Telegram will describe a local industry and its output After that it is up to I the buying public to do its part The They organized tho the factor factory In IS 1 1874 l and began beg making custom slices shoes and boots t to order turning out the high- high toned footwear of ot tho the times for tor rich I miners and stockmen and merchants who were tho the princes of at Industry whose polished boots or fancier shoes flashed on the tho thoroughfares In councils councils coun coun- of ot state or gala assembly The output then thon was waR something like twelve pairs per day but as has always been I the case with the Z C C. M. M I. I I. I factory factor there was a steady and consistent growth from the be beginning to this day UNDER TH THE E Z 2 C. C M. M I. I In 1876 William II Rowe bought the tho factory but held it anI only a n year when he ho sold to the present ownership and went in as manager which position he held until 18 1890 0 George Georgoe Romney Jr and Rodney Hallam were subsequent I managers until 1907 when George McAllister Mc Mc- McAllister lc- lc Allister the pre present manager became I Ithe the guiding spirit When hen Rowe first took the business he Introduced theIron tho the iron last and tho the English method of ot nailing the sole sale directly to the tho uppers and new methods of or sole solo cutting He had learned the tho business In England When hen the Z C C. C 1 M. M I. I tools took over the proposition In 1877 it ii moved mo tho the factory factory factory fac fac- tory to the rear of the Jennings block blockon on First South and still later occupied the top tOl floor loor It moved to tho present location on South Temple In ht 1889 It was not lon long after atler the factory started In n 18 1874 4 that It was expanded from the mere production of or custom made shoes hoes to a restricted output of ot case shoes which had Increased in IBM 1859 to and pairs of ot shoes per perda da day ranging from Infants' Infants shoes to tomen's tomen's tomen's mens men's stogie boots of ot all grades and kinds LOCAL TANNERIES At that time there thero were some Borne local ocal tanneries in the valley of tho the Great Salt alt I r. Lake ike l calf nr I and cow- cow I Started in 1874 Output Now Totals Quarter of Million a Y Year car hides which were necessarily of ot primitive primi tive tI grade The finer tans were I I brought from tram tho the East th then n 1 the tanneries have vanished They I could not survive e the variegated competition competition comI com com- I petition of at tho the coast and Eastern tan tan- Something ml mighty fascinating I about the efforts of some of those plot plo plo- I t to revive in this thE then n Inhospitable j i land the Industries and nd crafts craft the they haul had I brought wit with h them from eastern I America and from across s the thc Atlantic I Somo were bound to tall fall as bein being geographically geographically geo geo- graphically and f out of or place The Tho tanned hide had to quit I but tho the shoe marched bravely bra on At the present time the leathers that go o to make up the Z Z C C. M. M L I I I- product come in about equal amount from tho the Pacific coast and from the East The krom tans and elk leathers como come from tram the coast Tho The sole Bole leather and finer grades of ot calf and side leather come from tho the East Horse leathers utilized largely In the making of ot patent leather Jeather have never been used here to an any extent THEY BUILD THE COUNTRY To m my mind there is romance and to spare in the boots of ot those earl early days That was tho the time when the railroads Were pushing their way across the plains and mountains great mines were discovered and opened up the buffalo were being dr driven Cn to oblivion to tomake tomake tomake make wa way to for l' l the hordes of ot tion Who knows what Z Z C. C M M. M I. I boot kicked the glittering fragments of or rich ore discoveries How man many feet teet shod with tho the Salt I Lake ke ake product rested beneath beneath be beneath be- be neath mighty council tables where the fate of Western estern empires hung hunS in the tho balance Today it Is tho the proud boast of ot the concern that Its shoes and hoots boots lend lead the grand rand march of ot the mining and stock Industries of the West est In the future of these industries lies tho the futuro of the the- factory and In the generation of ot schoolboys living and to come for come for bo be It known ten years ago aso the factory left off ott the manufacture ofa of ot ofa a Go wide varlet variety of or shoes ami and began to specialize on mens men's working shoes miners' miners and cowboys cowboys' boots and boys boys' school shoes GREAT POSSIBILITIES This is the ago age of ot specialization said Mr McAllister We Ve have found that we wo can make a better success of a afew afew few tew lines best suited to the countr country ItIs It Is a n special field that we are thoroughly thorough thorough- I ly equipped to handle nn and antl we make the tho best that can be purchased In these particular lines Wo We make malce a splendid miners miner's shoe or boot but In spite of ot the fact tact that these articles from tram our factory have hit tho rho drifts in practical practical- practically ly ever every mine in the country we still have a prejudice to meet of an nn indefinable sort that is hard to classify or oppose There Is where your Homo home Products' Products campaign will help us If our miners miner's shoes could net Jet the home consumption to which they thoy are lre entitled we could be making making making mak mak- ing four times the amount We wo are now putting out However wo we are building up a splendid trade in cowboy boots and the heavier working shoe for farmers Our boys' boys school shoo shoe cannot be beaten and is spreading even to the tho coast Our direct trade to the retailer Is at present confined chiefly to Utah and Idaho but there thero 1st is another avenue which v Is carrying our shoes all over o the West This is a special line of ot shoes shoe we are making for tor the Utah Woolen mill the Lo Logan an Knitting factory factory factory fac fac- tory an and the Utah Provo Woolen mills of Idaho Falls FaUs These companies g putout put putout putout out a n special line of heavy woolen goods good which are shipped hipped as far tar East as the Dakotas and West to the Pacific The They do a 1 large mall mail order business and our shoes are arc one of the lines tines they I carr carry Incidentally I ml might ht also aiM mention mention men men- tion that we furnished all the shoes for tor forthe forthe 1 I Ithe the prison camp at Ft Douglas They I kept the boys bon there thero shod In a Utah product LARGE CONCERN As AR you rou probably know tho the Z C C. M. M 1 I. I was started starter In 1868 At tho the present time It does docs a business of ot a year and has about 1000 stockholders It has seventeen se wholesale departments departments departments depart depart- ments of ot which outs ours Is one and although although although al- al though all ll kinds s of ot shoes are arc handled j the company compan specializes on the shoes wo we make the Western estern Service Shoe Tho The company compan has restricted Its field to Utah and Idaho through all of the these o years ears but the th shoo department has been permitted to branch out and we weare weare are going going- at after r the Pacific Coast trade We 0 are also alloo going directly after Colorado Colo Colo- rado Wyoming and Montana VVe e now have six salesmen on the road but will doubtless have to increase this force We 0 ar are working out new models which are to be adaptations of oC the arm army last and we wo are arc also alRo carrying the finn army last Into boys boys' shoos shoes Man Many other now new models models mod mod- els are arc under tinder consideration The factory factor now occupies two t whole floors of at the building feet in extent and md equipped with the most I up- up upI to date machinery procurable It comes from tram the United Shoe Machinery Machinery Mach Mach- Iner company compan the most wonderful ln line of ot machinery In the world We Ve employ five fifty persons and the factory actor Is divided Into six departments consisting consist consist- lug ing of the tho cutting room stitching stock making and the cleaning and packing rooms The Tho output runs close to pairs each dR day Our factory represents represents rep rop- resents an Investment In of ot and last year ar the value of our output w was close to From th the Vel very beginning the business business busi busl- ness has had a good rood consistent growth Wo We 0 aro are now adopting adopting- a more Mh nl e 0 policy and I can see no limit to the possibilities rf f t our expansion Tomorrow The Tomorrow The Utah Condensed Milk Company I II I |