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Show 1 MATTRESS FACTORY IS NOW BRING COMPLETION Brick masons are preparing to renew re-new buildinp; operations on the mattress mat-tress factory of J. I. Smith, on upper Twelfth street, and work will bejein this week Th'- main part nf ihe factory fac-tory has been completed, but, because I of a scarcity of masons, the building ! for the stuffing and excelsior department depart-ment has not been finished. The structure struc-ture lor this department is to be about 50 feel in length by 30 feet wide and one story, being an annex to the card-' card-' ing department on the south and Ihe -tin lung department on the we 8 1 ld the latter department being in the ' main building. Mr. Smith states that when the entire en-tire plant is completed, which will be i before the summer season is over, the i factory will have a capacity of from 50 to ioo mattresses a day. besides the i manufacture of various kinds of bedding bed-ding material. To operate ihr- plant to full capacity la payroll of about 2" people will he qaaintain ed The carding and st itching departments depart-ments are now equipped with modern machinery and the machinery for the -tufting di partmenl la on hand In the stuffing department will be j placed machinery for preparing what is known as excelsior-wood Bhavingfl that will be plated in laer.- between cotton filling for mattresses These shavings are made of quakingasp wood, much of which is shipped to Og den from the forests of central and southern- Utah. The shavings are cut I so thin that they make a very soft and I rather fluff.v filling, giving stability to (the mattress. From this department the mattress is conveyed to the stitch ing and tutting department b gravity, the department being a number of feet ! above the stitching rooms. t The raw material for the mattresses is turned into the stuffing division from the cleaninc and carding department de-partment The (leaning division is supplied with machinery which removes re-moves all dirt and other foreign substances sub-stances that may be found in the material ma-terial that comes from the cotton fields of the south The process nf cleaning is by means of air currents and sifting apparatus, the cotton passing through elevators which contain fans and sieves, the dust and other accumulations accumula-tions of dirt being deposited m small receptacles and carried to a dumping place outside the factory. It is said by Manager Smith that when the plant is perfected it will Ae niLoern in every detail and he hopX to make it a factory that, of wnicn Og-den Og-den may br jusih proud. The demand 1 for bedding in Utah and surrounding rrtiiory is extensue and will tax ihe ' '. di n plant, as well as other plants in the E late, to capacil . The entire plant ia operated by a 00 -horse power water wheel. |