Show 1 Ib g Abandoned Manufactures of Utah Q SOME NEGLECTED INDUSTRIES O OCI Il I I r r s LY the owners of o the Provo Woolen 1 1 f R mills decided to offer the factory for rale Bale thus thu forecasting the possible rehabilitation of o perhaps the th greatest manufacturing In hi Industry ever conducted within lie which brings to mind till the fact that for H n number of years oars 18 past l manufacturing In Utah has ha been In Its Us decadence and this too In spite of the tho lidded facilities for forthe forthe r l the establishment of manufacturing manufactures plants never possessed by h the people of the state In years gone Sont Sonth bv by h When hen the pioneers entered Utah In 18 IS 17 I i they th were a thousand thou and miles from the nearest source of any kind of supplies Everything l 1 thoy th had In Inthe Inthe Inthe the shale of food and clothing for fOl the first few years ars consisted eIther cither In what they III e had brought with them from the cast or what they thoy the Imported t from the state from rr m which they the had turned their a faces aes westward The difficulties encountered In freighting manufactured articles tats Ills 1 determined the loaders of oC that pioneer band to institute as al far as ns possible means for making themselves what they might In the way wa of oC dally dall necessaries In the problem of sustaining life ami anti amias antias as a result rC nil all manner of manufacturing concerns welo established on a u small ecale It Is true rf but hut with Ith the determination by lW cooperative effort to render themselves Independent In ind of eastern I sources of f supply r 1 Thus from small beginnings enterprises of considerable magnitude rose ro c and nourished for foru fora u a time and then ten with the advent of the tho Iron horse bringing In Its Us wako wake cheaper chaper the products of the world were brought to tho the thor 1 r doors of the people at a rate which tho the meager resources and an crude machinery of tho the home homo manufacturers ma ers were unable to neet meet resulting i In n I tin the gradual dying out of the home nomo omo Institutions Utah at different times boasted of one of 01 the 3 leading lending woolen manufacturing institutions of the tho thes s I country countr a i typo type foundry which furnished letters lotters t Ira for printing the only ani y paper In ht the tho state In those f days doys a Ii payer paper pa er mill manufacturing the material on which the tho newspaper was printed a glass glus J factory of at no mean dimensions besides other j J manufacturing g plants producing at ot home tho the j needs of the Isolated population and It Is with s the history of or these the e departed Industries briefly i treated that this article has hM to deal deol 1 TYPE FOUNDING HE lIE Initial letter appearing at the be beginning beginning ginning of this paragraph Is a letter letterI T O I I from flom the first font of display type ever everi i cast In Utah it Is Gothic great primer Cap T and ond nd tho the appearance of the com corn font of typo at the time caused c used great rejoicing among tho the newspaper men and Job joh pi printers Inters of bf tho the time Tho The typo was made mado In The TheDe Deseret De ret News typo foundry and Is still lying b in n Its caes cacs In The News Job JOh ob department The Tho foundry t was wa s located on the top Hoor 1 or of ne tho the old Deseret a News New building and tho the first man to make male typo type In n the state was WilS James H McLaren who camo came cameto to Utah from rom Europe and began beean casting type about the tho year 1868 Ho Ito was a skilled workman i and understood his business but was of an erratic t y disposition and did dh not remain rennin with the typo trPO foundry fo any au great length McLaren was succeeded In the tho making of type nisi by Thomas Sleight an Englishman Sleight succeed cd well and worked up a u great leat quantity of old typo Into new now faces The machinery machine used In tho olden days da s In tho the casting of type was tho the thea a of lies same Bamo as used up to a quite recent period by bythe byth the th modern type founders of the th country count but the dd coo chief difficulty attending attend In tho the Industry was that with It was Impossible to make successful matrices or type patterns and the typo type was way not of even align alignment alignment ment and antI with tho the advent of oC railroad transportation eat lion tion now became unprofitable The TheA A wa also the pioneer In n tho the electrotyping line In the tho th state stute McLaren en made the first t elec electrotypes at peer i to be produced In Utah making tho the theS S Benin 1 matrices himself of lien as WOOLEN INDUSTRY fief of ONE NIi of or tho the earliest Industries established in pioneer Utah Ulah was that of bf manufacturing articles of wearing apparel from wool The ills its o I factorY built was In the very early carl days das at Sugar SugarHouse 0 B O i House Heuse known as the BrIgham Young mill President that na th y o I dent ent Young and A 0 O Smoot were the tho prime primo 8 I movers Jn vers In tho the establishment of oe this mill and lat at the It Jt was as conducted with varying success for sev several loul Bo i I 1 eral oral yeara years ars lt t I e lJ UK Tho The next mill to ho bo built was the Wasatch IS fa Woolen mill built buill near Parleys canyon canon by b A 0 O e C ux eI Smoot John Sharp and Robert Kobert T I Burton This hU d I two was tho the mill which was wn threatened with being beng rock to 0 r R H 1 washed out by the waters from the canal built i from Cottonwood Callan wood for the convoying of the granite f 1 I rock roel from tho the quarry for tho the Salt Lake Luko temple which was vas W 3 one ono of tho the reasons for tho held a t I abandonment of oe tho the canal canale led e Ut ork l I I Somo Some time afterward William lIlIam Jennings bought out tho the Smoot Sharp and Burton Durton mill and built Ii d 1 another factory In the Nineteenth ward In Salt Sail l d d Lake Lake City CIl This Mr Ir Jennings ana associates con conducted ducted for a n number of yearn year r until the plant B orb was Vl s absorbed by the big bl woolen plant at Provo IJ Other mills were established at Ogden where tho the Parrs Fans erected a plant and which was suc sue successfully e II conducted d up uJ to a few faw aw years ears ago a o At Atad nd ad d Jr Logan a woolen mill null was WOR projected and the thebe m be walls for the factory J were built of native stone but that Is as far as the Industry got In ht n Logan Logn i The walls alls of the old building was situated ul B a In tho the eastern castern part pert of the town arc now a b u at lor picturesque ruin covered 1 with moss and ivy J rth n s futon There were woolen factories established also at atea elS ea pt p J Beaver In the south and at Brigham City In the north and both of these were run Iun with more or orless ng ag for less leB success for fa I some years yeara but ut conditions con be became bem m 1 carne came calli unfavorable for the continuation of the the factories and one by b one they thc closed their doors door yet 15 bAre i I There Is only one woolen factory In n operation e at fit the present time limo In hr the state us IU far as DoS known cr ero d tp z and an Q Qi that is II the Baron mill at Hyrum In Cache fin i wallet valley vall This mill has hns hung on brought thick and thin and the factory while not a pretentious 0 and It affair r at all Is conducted at a profit to tho the thet ct t to rr rr proprietor and a considerable amount of woolen he fabric Is produced every eer year ll c t The largest of tho the woolen factories established d Golu In Utah Ulah however hO ver was wall that erected at Provo the haM e t foundation for tor the building having been laid on oni onins i ins l te le May MIlY 28 1870 Tho The site was selected by b President rill 11 atone eo Young g after seeking necking for a suitable to build eA a largo large plant and Provo was chosen holen It Is If said laid e because of the superb water power to bo he hind hall for We tho the factory er Cf d T SSie e fl t wool was waa carded cardell in the Provo factory We October 4 1812 1873 President Young Youn was tuns the tho first e president of the tho company compan which witch was known as hs 6 t tho the Manufacturing company At his hla Iclal l f death A O 0 Smoot succeeded him us president d n and nd the mill for years was ss av managed by b Recd Heed 1111 Smoot son lion of President Smoot and anI now United d gIe re J I States Senator from fromi Utah Here the tho wool manu manufacturing industry attained attained a Its greatest success In int ina a t 1 0 2 1 9 m s J Jr r ty i s Ja x i ii i p o o L 1 I Ia I Io a o I II s I 1 CO P Utah four large buildings being required to ta house ho so tho the machinery and of 0 the tho fac factory factory ac tory The Provo mills used about pounds of wool a year ear said Senator Smoot In speaking of the palmy days at the Provo factory factor The product turned out was valued at about Wo We employed on an average averne from to poo P peo pie men women and boys and girls per cent of our OUI goods was shipped to Cincinnati New York Chicago and Baltimore and other eastern cities titles I was connected with the tho mills as manager up to tho the year 1902 1903 about two years cars before the mills were closed down The last lost year ear or two I understood the factory factor was unfortunate In having a largo large amount of wool destroyed destro ed in the tle scouring process something liko worth of oC being lost In this way and this was one of the tho contributing causes resulted In the closIng down of the factory It is not a n question of making the wool manu menu manufacturing manufacturIng business pay in n this state It has been demonstrated that the business can be 1 e m e epa pay pa But there are aro so many man disadvantages to bo met and so many man teaks leaks that have havo to xo be he guarded against that tho the risk is greater reater away awny from the great gr at wool centers of the country countr It is necessary to have hae not only a manufacturer at tho head of the Institution but an executive man as well familiar with conditions as to help holp etc Tho The Provo mills are In first class shape today tollay equipped with the most modern machinery and with every eer facility ty t for or successfully manufacturing wool The slant may he offered for sale sule and If Ie sold sol I look to see sea seea se sea a most successful woolen manufacturing industry carried on at that place p ace PAPER MAKING HE first paper made in Utah said Id Charles THE T John Lambert a pioneer of 49 who is now nowa a resident of o Granger ward was vas made malic early earl in inthe Inthe inthe the by Thomas Howard who died Just a 11 few years eans ago Howard came erom England he learned to make mako paper by b hand and andt It t was by b the th hand method that thal tho the first paper In Utah was manufactured In the fall of 1861 They had no machinery except a hydraulic press used usell to press tho water out of the ranges after they the had been soaked to the proper consistency Mr III Howard spread the pulp out on a wire and with hydraulic formed tho the thick sheets first produced This was WN down In the old building build In at Sugar SugarHouse SugarHouse House ward which had hall originally been erected for the manufacture of sugar hut hilt that Industry was abandoned and the building was used for fora a raper r mill A sample of the thick paper was carried to Ireland about that time ante and a son of oe Erin on seeing It said It was some somo of BrIgham Youngs everlasting parchment After a few ew years ears Howard left the employ of the paper mill and he was Va succeeded by 11 a man manby manh manby by h the name nam of John Calderwood who did not stay sta stalon long lon and Howard again returned Afterward Michael Grace Graco was wa employed ed and ho he became of offended offended offended fended for some somo reason and then Mr Howard was wa n av Induced to return and It was then lien that I Ibe became be ame connected with the paper making inching mal Industry Indus Industry try tl I started In keeping books for tho the mill but hut soon learned to make mako paper Howard left again after awhile and C P I Johnson of Colorado took toole the paper mill on contract Johnson made good and antI after his engagement was at an nn end ontI endI I took toole the mill on contract and manufactured paper I was with the mill for 19 years can and during that time limo the tho new mill at Cottonwood was WOI erected and furnished with w Ith a lot of new nerr nc machinery The Tho Cottonwood plant cost In the tho neighborhood of About the year 01 1888 I was waa kicked In Inthe Inthe Inthe the head by b a horse and I lay I for weeks be between tween life and death deuth Alter After I recovered I went onto a farm tarm and did not reenter the paper mak making makIng ing business The rhe machinery was wa j removed from Sugar SU ar to Cottonwood In the winter of and In 1884 John Donner Bonner was Installed as paper maker Nathan Staler succeeded Bonner as paper pager maker and was WOH employed In that capacity when the Cottonwood mill burned down In 1892 1893 We e manufactured paper from rags mostly but I used Ule a great greM deal deaI of wood WOl pulp also I re remember remember remember member that fully cords of wood were werl used In malting making paper pager par cr tho the quaking asp being utilized mostly for the tho purpose The color of tho the wood paper pap r was not so good as that produced from rags rag but It was all adapted for the tho printing of newspapers and The Deseret News New was wa printed on tho the wood paper leper for a long Ion time A rag ra bureau was wag main maintained maintained maintained at ut The News New office and everybody of high and low degree made mallo no hesitancy of taking their bundles of rag rog to tho rho newspaper office where they thoy tho received their pay pa for the tho old material Wo We o shipped several II ee Ill carloads of paper to Colorado w t oM where it round fount a ready market Some Somo Idea of oe the quality quail of paper we produced in the finer floor varieties may ma be had when It Is known that John Nicholsons book on the of Joseph Standing Stand In was printed on our paper also other booKs w written at the time Finally the paper mill at Cottonwood was wn do by b tire fire and It was decided to soil soli the for fol old Iron and this thle ended tho the mak maki makIng i Ing log of paper raper in III Utah GLASS WORKS N Interesting development of tho the Industrial AN A growth of Utah was tho the establishment In tho the suburbs of oC o Salt Lake Lako City CIl of large largo gloss glass works A company was formed about the he year 1885 by local people who subscribed for starting tho the Industry and Thomas E Taylor at one ono time limo business The Deseret D seret was mado president of the company compan with Hugh Watson manager Other members of o the company Included Jacob Moritz A Fisher Fishel Geo F P Culmer and others f I Mr 11 Taylor who was president of tho the company compan talked interestingly on the establishment rn progress ogress and decline of tho tie glass Industry He said Id IdOur Our company secured two and a half acres of land about a quarter of a n mile west of the tho Warm Si Sl rings In the northern part of oe tho city and built hullt ono one story star brick building for the purpose of oC making articles In glass The Tho actual work of or orthe the factory actor began be an early carl in the spring of or 1886 We a secured sand suitable for making glass In endless quantities from tho the mountain side ide just east cast of the factory factor where we also alNo seemed secured the limo lime necessary In melting the sand The Tho other othel Ingredient nir U ent used w ed for this purpose was cement and this too wo we were |