Show SOAP A HOME INDUSTRY THAT SHOULD BE lle SUSTAINED there ia is nothing like leather is 1 a common phrase and it may be stated with equal justice that there are few things like soap this saponaceous substance s u is an indispensable necessity in every household its struggle for a prominent place among home manufactures would form an interesting narrative beginning with the time long before the railroads were built in the great west when frugal TJ ionian housewives saved their grease with exquisite q ul site care and scrupulously divided it one part going to the making makin got of the sallow looking dip banules can ules and the residue plumped into the capacious soap kettle kettie these were the days when lye and liea ilea were scarcer in these parts than either of them are now and the household soap was waa generally a terrible looking article the proportion of grease largely preponderating over that of its antidote some of the tho struggles to ralee raise a lather with t the be clumsy 0 amsy chunks being almost pathetic in many instances the shapes of the supposed squares bars bara des rip nip tion la in color they were somewhat after the tone of an adobe but almost form although not void still the people got along very well in the times when s 0 a seasons were asi as regular regula in the household as washing days comparatively few used the imported article the price of it being something extraordinary the first to endeavor to create a saponaceous revolution of any extent was mr chas popper ha he imported the necessary apparatus from st louis at a good deal of expense several years before the railroad was built and established a soap factory at his slaughter house on the bench northeast of the city he healam aiso also imported a soap maker makers who turned out to be a fizzle at ati the busi busl nests ness for he utterly spoiled the first batch another man was brought on who boiled over the bungled batch of soap and the factory turned out good wares but after a while the railroad came along niong reducing freights and causing lui ini pored soaps to tumble in price so mr popper make his fortune out of that branch of business which finally languished and exair ei high priced tallow and too much railroad having b brought on a consumption to I 1 he lie b business but not of i the home manufactured soap boap several smaller soap makers started up but they proved to be merely bubbles which and vanished at the first W aff whiff of a breeze of adversity but brother john B maiden malden started a factory in the ward that was the initiatory base upon which soap has been build up as a home industry he started out under a cloud some of his first productions having been impaired by improper proportions in the mixture of materials although this was soon rectified hi in subsequent batche batches 3 the flavor of the mistake hung to it for some time public prejudice bang b ing hard to turn when it t oc once gets to going in any direction in the fall of 1871 the utah manufacturing fac turing company bought out brother maiben Malben sinco bince that time till now the price of standard laundry soap has been on the decline A at t that time ic was sold at a box of 60 ibs iba be gradually until now it has reached the comparatively ively low figure of the people of utah are not aware of the debt of gratitude they owe to the home soap makers who have been and aud are still struggling to maintain the ground against importers they have been contending vigorously and determinedly against the most adverse circumstances and the large reduction in one of the most common nece necessaries maries marles 0 every day household use is due to their commendable persistency and it is not extravagant to assert amert that if they were to shut up sho shop P ay and let tho the industry dies die dle the price of soap would take an upward jump that would ras cas as the natives mr air kirk or any other parties placing soap on the utah market has been compelled to bring down the prices in order to hold the ground it ia Is also to the financial advantage of railroad companies to keep the importation por tation avenues open opens and special rates have been given to outside makers to enable them to maintain their thein stand irwill it will be seen that this comparatively humble home industry has kept scores of thousands of dollars in the pockets of the people that would otherwise have gone out of the country in a steady stream this correct view of the case increases the moral obligation of the people to sustain the home makers by using their wates wares which are acknowledged to be of an excel lent quality about the beginning of 1879 mr henry henny snell commenced the m manufacture nu of soap his productions were in our opinion scarcely excelled by any he had a special pride in making superior boap soap of every class he manufactured I 1 mr snell bnell was bough tout rout by the ulah utah soap manufacturing Com piny in april 1881 1681 now the excellencies of both establishments ato are combined rhe fhe ae present c capacity of the concern is li from to pounds per month the company purchase all their tallow at the market here and turn out soap that competes in in quality with any imported and at the same price the principal brands are pale palo savon pale palo white grecian and pure wax a as a also aiso so various classes of toilet soap boap L such ruch as transparent glycerine turkish cocoanut Coco anut honey and long bar and several others |