Show STORY MANUFACTURING I UTAH EARLY STRUGGLES AND LA LATER TRIUMPHS m AT changes have been wrought In 1 n late to years In ht woolen mill Industry G and today tollay the tho products of at the mills of oC this state have havo a ready rendy market In time tho east cast It wits was not so very vory long ago that the home manufactured wool woolens ns lIe became amo merchantable In hr 1 a sense but now It Is a very different tory story The mill ot of to today OY Is n a much different institution than the tho one found here hore a 0 quarter of oC a century or more ago In 1 it mood a 11 tl few days ago ogo John C Cutler who has haR done dono very much to build up tins great homo Home industry related some of at the tho trials ex el h by the tho of oC the early factories established In the tho state elate ot of which there thero were several Thu Tho first mill established In utah Mr Cutler stales H Willi built hy by the tho late lata President halll Young This wan back In the tho GOs and time the location tie se selected for It WM was at a the tho mouth ot of Par Parleys Ics leys canyon eanon and anI only n short distance from the tho Utah penitentiary It was known ns as the tho Deseret mill and amI Janice Cummings was ot of It Inter another plant was built hullt near or er Suit Lake Laka City hy by President Young A 0 Smoot father tather ot of Senator Reed Heed Smoot and General It H T Burton About 1870 1810 the Provo Woolen mills were established and sane other mills also Into existence about that time tillie Ono One was wall built nt at Ogden another at Springville anti and still another lit at heaver to all say all ot havo gono g ono out ot of existence excepting the tho Provo mills which grown Into large pro proportions portions and aid now furnish employment for tor about people Business was waH carried on In thin thA early carly days In a 11 barter and trade way my While time tho goods good manufactured nt at that time ot of a 11 very ory durable quality they InterIor inferior In other ways The Tho methods ot of cleans the tho wools not per por feet and It was a mutter In deed dee to eradicate the grease contained In them For that reason realon the tho goods WHO not purchased freely by merchants and the lie manufacturers rs CIa compelled to exchange their for tor other products disposing of at the tho latter as best they could It was therefore uphill work worl for tor several years carH to stake the tha business succeed however the prices obtained were wee usually A 1 common quality ut ot blankets sold then for tor US per ler pair Nowadays n a much better Crude cnn can ho ha obtained for tor half the tho price Cantos Calicos In those thoRo tines timeR were expensive and con cou samara had Ind to pay 40 to GO cents n a yard far 01 goods which can ho purchased now from 3 to 5 cents Anti And AntiO so O It urns with nearly everything else Mr 11 Cutler slates litotes that white while the wool woolen en II mills of oC Utah were In ht their crude state a 11 greater grealer variety ot of fabrics were manufactured than now Dress lion flan nels neis were In great demand during the Iho carl early staves ot of the tho industry tiN as were certain other grades which are arc not used now nt at all she fhe Provo mills were established In 1870 and President Young was the largest stockholder the balance ot of the stock was subscribed b by Utah county citizens who paId for tor It mostly In labor Very OT little money uehl being received With the installation of oC modern mn In late years time the superiority ot of ottile time tile woolens became bf recognized In inthe the tho east and now there thre Is such Buch a de demand mand coining from that quarter that fully ull ot of the product ot of the tho Provo mills are shipped out nut ot of the state Nearly Nearl all time tho woolens sent avay aWa are which h Includes limn dent silk mixed and Tin Provo mills alone Mr Cutler Mates consume approximately pounds ot of wool yearly yearl For Zor years It has hua been the tho custom to send representatives tives ot of the tho Institution to the varIous sheep camps In the bt before toro time tho shearing season fly pursuing this course courIC anI only the tho best grades ot of wool are and the tho local Institution has hils the over the eastern ot of not being required to depend upon the warehouses for Its |