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Show Judge Whitecotton, in the course f his speech Friday night, made a remark that the citizens of this city would do well to take as a sug- geetion and act upon immediately. He said: '-Ther should be a woolen mills in your city, and the wool that is raised hereabouts should be made into cloth right here aud not ent out of your city," If such an institution was established thousands thou-sands of dollars would be saved annually, an-nually, and a large amount of caeh that is from time to time sent out of the city wuld be kept here and circulated among the people. Some one says, "But they are going to hare a woolen mill in Mt. Pleasant! "Well what of it? That one mill can not commence to ue one half tha wool produced in this region and cuts no figure, and in that case we should have tw j woolen mills here, aud another at Ephraim. We should export woolen cloth and blankets instead of the rarr wool, Why woolen goods cannot be produced pro-duced here as cheaply as elsewhere in this country is a mysiery to u, but then we believe they can. We know of no reason why they can-nat. can-nat. The impioved machinery could be obtained, the wool bought for the same price, less the freight-The freight-The cost of labor is very little higher and we would have the advantage ad-vantage of the freight from New York and New England, which, when woolen goods come in small quantities, amount to considerable. The establishment of such an institution insti-tution would cause the merchants of southern Utah to send to this city for supplies in that line of goods and would encourage other similar institutions to come here. The example of our sister city Ut. Pleasant, is worthy of imitation by us with the difference that we should do more work and less talking. |
