Show I o 1 lf a r 1 j I I III II it Gt i w. w J f f 7 1 J I Produce what you ou consume w drw raw from the native elements the necessarIes of ot life permit no vitiated ed d taste to lead lend you ou into the in in- of expensive luxuries which can only be obtained by involving in- in yourselves in debt let home Industry produce every article of home lome consumption This is a paragraph taken from frome the e message of Governor Brigham Young made to the legislature of 1852 which convened in Salt Lake City on January 5 of o that year his second message to the assembly of or Utah There are many people who belle believe that the old doctrine or adice advice ad- ad vice ice given by Governor Young still holds good As a result of this advice manu manu- industries in the early days ays were confined almost entirely to o Utah Prior to 1852 In the latter later latter lat lat- lat lat- ter er part of ot 1851 there were four grist rist mills and five sawmills in op- op ration oration in Salt Lake City Center Center- yule vIlle Ogden and Provo as w well n as afew a few tew ew other settlements had constructed con con- constructed grist mills as also saw- saw mills The millstones in the absence absence ab- ab sence once of were cut from i the he basalt which was found In the valley alley and it was declared that they answered the purpose as well as the thc regular millstones While the pioneers were well supplied sup sup- plied piled lied with provisions the one thing staring them In the face was cloth- cloth Ing ng This had to be made from wool and but few sheep were brought rought along with the pioneers in ir their heir long march across the plains The first wool clip cUp was but hut a small smal amount mount and this was carded on a L cardIng arding machine on Mill creek near nea the lie sawmill which Robert Gardner lad had had erected the carding machine I being eing installed by Amasa Russell The he The first rolls made by him were we're spun pun into yarn by the women who wove vove it Into cloth on an old hand loom oom The rhe machinery for the woolen mill was brought blought to Utah by y Brigham Young and he lie turned It t over to Russell who established the he mill which was the first woolen mill to be put In iii operation on the Pacific slope This mill In the second second second sec sec- sec sec- ond year of Its operation received an appropriation by the tile legislative assembly in March l 1851 as an an anaid aid aido to o the mills which turned out flannels flan finn nels ads 8 jeans and yarns for knitting Another woolen mill was established and placed in operation opera- opera lion ion on April 19 10 1853 in West Vest Jordan JOrdan Jordan Jor JOr- Jor- Jor dan by John Grant who ho and soon after began the wea weaving of cloth Including sawmills woolen mills and grist mills there were on June 30 10 1850 according to the United States census fourteen industrial or manufacturing concerns There was also Included In these fourteen manufacturing or Dr industrial plants a threshing machine and fanning mill and a tanner tannery The thresher and fanning mill were placed in position to work worl on City creek Invested in these Industrial plants were with one fifty-one em em- the output being a at The pioneers were wonderfully wonderfully won won- versatile and included workers in iron leather textile fabrics fab fab- rica woods etc In 1851 the they es establIshed established es- es established a factory for the manufacture manufacture manu manu- I facture of cutlery and In August 1851 they made their first kiln o of earthenware That the adv ce given the Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons b by Governor Young through the general assembly on January 5 5 1852 was carried out was manifest manlest by the number of industries during the year and on November No- No No Ko vember 6 1852 in a public address Governor Young Young- again advised ad the people thus Buy no article from the stores that you ou can possibly get along without Stretch ou our our means skill and wisdom to the ut utmost Utmost utmost ut- ut most to manufacture what we need beginning with a shoestring if it w we cannot annot begin higher |