The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-21
FIGURING INTERESTS.
A Thoughtful Paper on Utah
as a Producer.
PRAISE FOR THE GAZETTEER.
Valuable Views OF Mayor Peery-what
Might be Done by United
Movement of the People
of the Territory.
PRAISE FOR THE GAZETTEER.
From an occssIonal Contributor.

UtGh G1@etteer without feelings Oh wonder
at the progress OF this Territory, deeper
interest in its present position, an earn
est desire for its future development
into great and prosperous industrial
State. Utah has reached its enviable
position in spite of difficulties most
appalling. We look with establishment
at the record of its growth, and gravely
reflect that if the Queen of the Noun
tains has attained such prosperity while
rocked with fierce and rancorous contests
what magnificent commonwealth
might it not have been had its citizens
been of one heart and one mind in the
management of its public affairs. No
animosities are SO fierce as those which
grow out of questions OF loyalty and
religion, and it is upon these very issues
that our crop of envy, hate and
uncharity has grown. The Utah Gazetteer
is SORT of messenger of peace, for it
gives US without trace of craftsmanship
faithful reflex of material Utah, and
must arouse in all classes of men feel
ing of patriotic pride in this mountain
principality1 and fergetfulness of its
troubles in the ferYent hope of better
days to come, and possibly very near at
hand
But in the midst of rejoicing ever past
achievements comes the remembrance
of present evils. The conditions of
prosperity change. Some elements of
growth disappear, and other resources
must be developed. Until within the
last two or three years the home pro-
duction OF wheat appears to have been
a trifie less than the home consumption
OF -four consequently, the price of
wheat was made up from the market
value OF that grain at Omaha with the
price of freighting to Salt Lake added.
Now the production of wheat is in excess
OF the home demand, and the local
price IS the price ef this grain:at Denver,
less the cost of carrying it there from
Salt Lake.
The importance of this is seen by CON
sulting page 81 of the Utah Gazetteer.
We find that in 1875 the total value of
the manufactured products of the Terri
tory was placed at So, 831 ,S17, of which
the -four product alone was 81, IS2, S31.
Upon the price of flour and wheat
depends the prosperity of every farmer,
and In consequence the success of every
merchant, mechanic, laborer and freight
er is affected. The amount of money
involved is not so great as in the pro-
ducts of the mines, but the interests of
:! much larger number of persons are
linked with this product.
Our surplus wheat ought to leave the
Territory in the form Of -four. The
supply of bran and shorts is never equal
TO the needs OF the Territorial live stock !;
OBTAINING this portion of the grain here
we save the necessity of importing this
kind Of feed; we employ more capital
and more mill operators here. and we
largely diminish the general freight bill.
Had we no better Touring mills than
existed here two years ago the exporta-
ton OF flour would be impracticable-its
quality would prevent its finding a
market; but now that we have mills
superior to any other between the Mis-
souri, River and the Pacific Ocean, there
Is no reason why Utah -four should not
md high rank and ready sale in all the
markets of the land. The ney-process
mills recently built at Salt Lake and
ogden are furnishing us -four eft for
Kings" and our millers have in a single
season cut off all possible competitions
N any direction. The superiority which
IN old times attached itself in New York
State to "Genessee Mills" and in these
later days have made Minneapolis
Mills known the world over, will yet
be met and overshadoRed by the Utah
MHls" OF Ogden and Salt Lake. We
nave the best wheat and the best mills,
and the best -four is the next step in the
march of progress.
Mr.. Peery is as proud of his new mill
at Ogden as a mother of her first babe.
The Mayor invited the writer of this to
look over his model establishment few
days ago, and it was well worth the
Tune required even of the busiest of busy
men. The Phoenix Mill is five stories
nigh, 54379 feet deep by AK feet wide,
and as BELTS the casket of one hundred
TONS OF iron and steel, is built entirely
OF brick and stone. So Sohdly are it's
massive walls laid up that in four lower
stories there is no perceptible jar when
me entre mechanism of the mill is in
Iuli motion. The motive power is the
wafer obtained from the Weber River,
ana afall OF 1771 feet produces, as applied
10 the Leffel turbine wheel, a force
equal to 100 horsepower. The milling
processes combine the best that human
SSH ssh mas ct devised. Beginning with
the breaking process, in which four
t5ratlot vertical rollers are EMPLOYED !:
three sets of rollers next apply the pres.
sure principle, and in the seven times
the wheat passes through the course of
cleansing, separation, and reduction. the
best fancy flour is obtained, which takes
front rank wheneverit appears in market.
That portion which still remains. obsti-
nately refusing to yield to the polite
request of the polished rollers. deseends
for its eighth and ninth Journeys
through the old fashioned stone buhrs.
and in their rough whirl yields the last
particle of -four the berry contains.
The various journeys of every bushel
OF wheat passing through this mill re-
quIze twenty-nine elevators, threading
the mill somewhat like the way the veins
and arteries travel the human frame.
The scalp chests, purifiers, scalping reels,
Dust collectors, scourer oh, we'll, a
professional only can understand this
wilderness of automatic machinery,
working IN uniformity and harmony
no portion hindering or crowdfne
another-neither chill in one part nor
fever in another, but the regular pulsa-
ton and heartbeat of healthy mechan-
ical humanity. Five stories of macbin-
cry, producing 1900 pounds of -four
every twelve hours How many dozens of
men are required to superintend and
manage this mass of mechanism, which
cost $50, 600 to set up? Here is the entire
roll: James Mack, bookkeeper; II. W.
Dreyer, foreman; Chas. Rash ,machinist.f
J. NJ. Shaw, packer-four men all told
take in sell and t1Irn ont 'fiftaar,f fbo,,