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Show j MATCH MAKING IN UTAH. All Kinds and All Make, and Some Are Tipped with Sulphur. ; This morning a Democrat reporter jumped into the delivery wagon of the Great Western Match Factory, and asked the driver not to dump him out then and there, as he wjanted to visit the factory and see if he could not find for himself a suitable match. ' There are, by the way, several kind of match factories, as well as several sorts of match makers. There are fighting fight-ing matches, racing matches, working matches few of the latter are, however, seldom made athletic matches, baby matches, wedding matches, and, in fact, matches of all sorts, and for all kinds ot people. Makers of these various kinds of matches are usually to be found in abundance in any community the smaller the community the more numerous numer-ous the match makers. Those who engage in making matches for marriages are mostly to be found among old maids, and rich mothers with several very marriageable daughters. There are several of both kinds in alt Lake, and in the neighborhood where the writer sojourns are a few kind and loving mothers who are devoted to the interests of their charming, yet single daughters. But somehow or other, said mothers have a notion that newspaper men as a rule are not Astors, or Goulds, or Mackays, and so let go a most opportune chance to work up a match of the character which mothers are adebt in making. The factory visited this morning was not an institution for making wedding matches, and let us hope there is no such a one organized in this now happy city ; but it was a place . where matches are made with sulphur on the end of them. The Great Western Match Company is a young and flourishing factory located in the Second ward. Three yearg ago it was entirely destroyed by fire, but phoenix like, rose from its ashes a better and more lasting institution. It may be news to many who daily use the Red Cap matches, j to know that they are made in this city ! by the G. W. M. Co. An inspection of the machinery used in making the matches and the matchboxes match-boxes satisfied the reporter that, though small, it is complete and does work equal to that done in the East. In a few days; however, a large and more complete stock of machinery will arrive from Connecticut, which will enable the manufacturers to supply the trade not only for Utah but the surrounding States and Territories. The timbor used in making these useful little articles is red pine from Pleasant Valley, used for the match stems, and quaking-asp, from Cottonwood, used for the boxes. Tao sulphur used comes from Dicker t's sulphur beds at Cove Creek, in Southern Utah. |
