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Show FACTORY STARTS TO CUT OVERALLS Electric Machine Is Being Operated on Denim by the Scowcroft Company Beginning of a Big Industry Machinery Wonderful Labor Saver. P. G. Wright, superintendent of the manufacturing department of John Scowcroft & Sons' company, placed in operation at the factory which is located at tho corner of Twenty-second and Wall avenue, a high power Eastman cutting machine which cuts 98 bolts of cloth simultaneously. The machine is used exclusively for cut ting goods from patternc. Ovora'l cloth Is spread out upon a tablo in lengths of 60 yards, the pattern of an overall is outlined upon tho goods and then the machine Is guided like a tracing wheel through the thlcknes.s of goods, cutting out the various pieces of the denim with great precision pre-cision aud speed The machine Is motor driven and is equipped with a guiding nose which feels Its war under and over the goods a sa horizontal chopping knife traveling up and down at the rate of 2.S00 strokes per minute cuts tba goods up into sections of the proper phape. Heretofore the cutting of overall material has been done oy hand and the process has been very slow but with the new improved machine ma-chine about 80 dozen overalls can Vinf iMif nut In n dav. This is the beginning of the manufacture man-ufacture of overalls in Ogden on a large scale, and from now on the Scowcroft company will be turning out the worklngman's apparel by the hundreds of dozens. |