| Show AN EXAMPLE IN 1 HOME manufactures salt lake city and utah have demon that certain manufacturing industries can be successfully conducted in this far west which denver amongst her many factories has not yet got out but ought to have for instance the annual wool crop of utah is about pounds while that of colorado is adust pounds but utah has two old established woolen mills while colorado has not yet even one either old or new A few particulars of the utah factories should therefore be interesting to denver and colorado readers in utah the F sheep are mostly a mixture of merino and cotswold Cots wold there being few if any mexican sheep and the wool is known as medium territorial 11 in scouring it shrinks from 50 to 75 per cent none less than 50 per cent wool manufacturing in utah dates from 1860 and there are now factories one at provo employing hands the other the deseret mill in salt lake city employing from sixty to seventy five hands bands and they have no difficulty in getting all the skilled labor they require the provo mill has a payroll of about per month and turns out about worth of goods per annum annu M while the deseret mill in salt lake lak e city pays about 2000 per mouth month in wages with an annual output of about these two mills consume about pounds of native wool per annum manufacturing it into a large variety of chevious cheviots chevi flannels lindoe lindseys lind ys blankets shawls and yarns ELEGANT SUITS OF NATIVE CL CLOTH OTH each mill has its own dying outfit some of the cheviots chevious chevi and mens cloth goods are excellent and business suits ot of this native cloth are made to a measure in salt lake city at A 25 each three fourths of the product of these mills are sold in utah and the states and territories immediately adjoining and the balance sent even further afield in 1890 the provo mill alone shipped not less than worth of goods into Colo colorados Colora dc the gray mottled blankets made by that mill are sold from boston to san francisco at from 60 cents to 70 cents centa per pound a pair of blankets weighing from five to ten pounds in straight pure woolen goods free from shoddy ar 0 ther other fibre fabre the utah mills claim to be able to compete with anything in america the yarn mauri manufactured by these mills furnishes the material for two local knitting factories which turn out considerable quantities of hosiery the provo mill recently got a complete set of knitting machinery which will be started up at no distant date making hosiery ander underwear wear cardigan jackets leggings mittens etc Is it not time for denver and colorado to possess mills to supply the local market ma arket with woolen goods from native WOO wool TANNERIES AND A SHOE FACTORY take also the tb leather industries salt lake city has tanneries canneries tann eries dealing with aple leather and sheep skins making possible or materially assisting a good local boot and shoe factory the tanning is done by means mean of tanning extract obtained from california 1 I did not have time to visit the tanneries canneries tann eries but spent an hour or soia so in the shoe factory which employed emp loyes people and besides the product of the local tan ceries uses considerable leather from outside utah the shoe factory pays about per month in wages the annual product of goods la 18 about at least 80 per cent of which are sold in utah and the balance shipped to adjoining states and territories all varieties are made from a ladys flue fine shoe to a co common laborers shoe and miners boots everything is done by machinery as far as pom possible ible when will denver danver have such a factory colorado has 8 9 greater su p ply of bides and ski skins no than utah and a bigger home market for the manufactured goods LIGHT ENI employment FOR FOB GIRLS I 1 also visited an overall and under wear factory having fifty five em aloyes mostly women and girls the cotton cloth known as denham for the blue overalls is obtained from massachusetts but the woolen cloth for the shirts etc is from the utah mills this factory has a payroll pay roll of about 1000 per month the work all being by piece and the annual product is nearly about seventy per cent of this product is sold in utah and the balance shipped to adjoining states and terri toadies denver being one of the new customers thirty six pairs of overalls are cut out at one time by means of a long narrow knife worked by machinery the material being laid in seventy two the factory ulses a full nine ounce denham cloth and employs employ s W white h it 40 labor exclusively the chief competition coming from california with chinese labor the employee emp loyes of this factory as in the shoe factory especially the females impress a visitor most favorably with their brightness and high intelligence and will stand comparison with the employ es eg of any denver establishment the cotton mill in denver can furnish the material for overalls and surely the time Is not far distant when the immense quantity of overalls used throughout colorado will all be made in denver Denv erand and there tl ere are scores of women and girls in the city who would be glad to be so employed there to is also a small silk weaving establishment in salt lake city which I 1 had not the time to visit and add at lehi a beet sugar factory which has cost about and Is ie about to commence operations there is no reason whatever why colorado should not grow as good sugar beets beet and make as good beet sugar as utah or any other place on the earth A FIRST auditorium A D in conclusion salt lake another big thing of which denver ought to have the duplicate or go one better and that to is a large auditorium building with perfect acoustics on september 16 a concert was given in the tabernacle in honorof honor of th the dele edele gates to the irrigation convention that concert with its ito chorus of nearly voices leaving ample seating accommodation for over persons in the particular building was alone worth orth the journey from denver good music is beard to the best ad vantage advantage in such a room and a building of that character ts to a direct incentive to the creation and successful and continuous contiguous operation of large local musical organ izat ious ions and the frequency of high class and refined entertainments to say nothing of its value for large convention etc and in many other ways yes denver is behind salt lake city in several respects as above shown but with the exception of the great salt lake itself and the mineral q springs spring ta there is no reason why it should be or why enterprise and capital should not and that right soon build an auditorium in denver and establish woolen mills tanneries canneries tann eries boo and shoe factories and every other similar industry and there is and will be in this rapidly developing western country trade and business for them all surely we have sent our raw materials to the east and bought the manufactured goods from the east too long already in the meantime denver can cordially and unhesitatingly wish salt bait F ta lake city her fullest measure of growth and prosperity in the future and rejoice with her in that certain growth for denver will never be less than people ahead anyhow IV THOMAS TONGE |
