Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-27
THE PROVO FACTORY.
Mining Experts Get stalled on
blankets and Make a Purchase.


Aside from his knowledge of Europe,
the ordinary Eastern reader knows but
little of his own country. The average
New England boy places the Ohio river
on the verge OF civilization, while the
Missouri is the boundary line between
baked beans and savages. And the great
trouble is that we are the savagesl With
what scorn do we look down from our
Rocky mountain homes upon those
brown-bread eating, east-wind-cut NOR
tails, and ask them to climb up if they
cam but they cannot. Had the Pilgrim
Fathers landed on the Pacific coast, the
New England States would now be II
bowling wilderness. | thought this the
other day while l was going through
THE PROVO WOODEN MILL.
Under the guidance of Mr.. Twelves,
wendell my way to the tower on top of
this four-story building, and was over
taken by the superintendent, Reed Smoot,
who, accompanied by Judge Dusenberry,
was plotting Prof. Blake, of the New York
School OF Mines, and Oscar Vandercook,
OF the United States Marshal's Office.
The Professor remarked that if there was
only one more raise to climb, he could
stand it, and he did. But what view
and what scenery there is below as one
steps out at the foot of the tower! Slap
up against you like wall stand the
Wasatch Mountains-so plain and APP
parently SO near that you feel like reach
ing out to pluck one of those brown
autumn leaves growing and falling almost
within reach; the valley south and north,
with the well-kept fields and trimmed
hedges, and away west, where Utah Lake
trembles in the evening breeze, is a pie
ture worthy of brush if not another
pencil. Standing there in the presence OF
GODS MIGHTY MONUMENT,
Overlooking the richest valley in the
Rocky Mountains, felt that when Satan
took Jesus away up to the summit in
order to tempt him by the display be-
meath, that he, Satan, slandered this Sec
ton by placing his hat upon Utah That
old hat still remains, but once in a while
the sunlight steals in through the cracks
in that weather-beaten beaver, which
gives us an inkling of the broad light of
freedom, joy and happiness to be found
on the outside.
"But the factory" said the Professor,
and we want back to business, wool and
| grease.
On the upper or fourth floor OF the fac
tory l found about $4,000 pounds of
secured wool. This, after being carded
by twenty-four machines, couple of
pickers and two renovators, is sent to the
spinning-room below. Now let us stop.
There are many OF us yet living who are
not yet too young to remember the dear
old face, framed in gray hair and white
cap, sitting patiently by the open fire.
place, her left hand turning the wheels,
while with the right the bobbn was fed
and filled. Alas, for the good old long
ago and its r-to-be-forgotten spin
ning-wheel the machinery of to-day
has done .lwGy with grandmother.
Just think of four self-acting
mules, each working 72o spindles,
requiring the attendance of only
one operator. The man who invented
this automatic mule was horse, work
horse at that. Why, to 60 through this
Provo factory and see the manner in
which wool is manipulated by machinery
when you get down to the cloth depart
ment you feel that by disturbing bolt a
flock OF shorn sheep will run out from
under the pile. They should keep a
couple oil sheppard dogs around the
works here in order to help out this illu-
sion: Seventy power looms turn Out the
goods OF this mill. Blankets, shawls
dress goods, jeans and suitings of ali
kinds are turned out here at the rate OF
1000 yards per day, and in the manufac-
ture OF which employment is given to l3C
persons. Girls are employed chiefly, and
| need not add, they are good looking and
intelligent.
After inspecting the whole institution
closely, Prof. Blake, purchased two pairs
OF Provo-made blankets and mortgaged a
bolt OF cloth. Deputy Marshal Wander.
cook, fearing the cold current of air on
the U. q. road, also purchased Il pair OF
mottled gray blankets, which for texture
and makeup will put to shame any Cali.
lorna blanket ever shipped into this Ter
ritory. MoNoroyY,