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Show THE UNITED ORDER OF SMITHFIELD. <br><br> This institution has lately completed a building designed for a shoe and harness shop and salesroom, and a few days since commenced taking orders for both. The building is neat and commodious and well adapted for the purposes named. The shoe shop employs six hands at present but others will be added immediately, and this department commences business with all the orders they can fill. <br><br> The tannery of the Order is a well-appointed institution of capacity sufficient to turn out all the leather that is likely to be wanted by the shoe and harness makers, and the quality of the leather made here is very good indeed. The people of Smithfield greatly prefer boots and shoes made of it to those imported, even at a considerable higher price. Brother Robert Meikle superintends the tannery and Brother Hans Petersen, the shoe shop. <br><br> The Order manufactures lumber, shingles and lath and will keep on hand at the sales room in Smithfield a stock of home made cloths, yarns, etc. Arrangements are being perfected by which the Order will be enabled to supply the settlements north of Smithfield and up into Idaho with door and sash. Ground adjoining the shoe shop, has been graded preparatory to the erection of a blacksmith shop which, it is expected, will soon be in full operation. A planing machine is to be immediately added to the wood-working machinery, and plans for a cooper shop and machine shop are in contemplation, as are other varied and extensive improvements. In fact the United Order of Smithfield is fast assuming proportions that will render it a very extensive and important commercial and manufacturing institution. They will be able to manufacture and offer to the general public all articles in their time at prices that will command a market, and we commend the institution as one in every way worthy of cordial encouragement and extensive patronage. It is prepared to pay the highest price for hides and pelts either in its own products or cash, and parties having these articles for sale should try to sell them at home. See advertisement of the order elsewhere. |