The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-25
SOME OF OUR WOOL PRODUCTS.
The Progress Made by Messrs. Geo.
A. Luke & Co. THk


A well-known manufacturer of boots
and shoes in Salt Lake City says, rather
dryly, that the consumption of boots
and shoes is an assured fact, because
babies don't bring them with them.
This remark would. therefore, apply
with equal force to the article of apparel
which the shoe covers, namely, the
stocking.
There is certainly an increasing de-
mand for homemade hoisery and knit
goods, or else Messrs. George A. Luke
g Co. are employing a large force Of
hands for the SIMPLE pleasure of paving
thsm off every Saturday night; and
we fancy this is hardly the case
The founder OF this business. Mr..
George \. Luke, began, in 1875 in
a rather humble way, with seven
machines and a few girls, whom he had
to initiate in the work. For several
years the trade was very limited and
entirely local. Many times bust
ness conditions were OF very discour-
aging nature, and il was solely the per
: everance OF the founder which kept il
/ floating under, at times, most trying
| circumstances. Unfaltering confidence
and hard work finally brought the BUSH
/ ness 10 a better standing. Slowly but
steadily 1t branched out and gained
/ ground until il has now extended to all
parts of the United States. goods being
sent from that firm by mail and express
to every State and Territory. Their
equality with any other American-made
goods in that line is acknowledged.
The goods now manufactured by the
firm extend TO full ard complete line
of hosiery in foreign and domestic
yarns (the foreign yarns being imported
by the firm themselves): also ladies'
skirts, jackets, underwear, mittens,
gloves scsrts. wristlets leggings, and all
other articles in this line.
Any article not carried IN stock NAV
be manufactured to order right on the
premises.
In the course of time the business
grew to such an extent that Mr.. Luke.
the originator, found it necessary TO
have some assistance, and, consequently
took Mr.. J. +. Sherlock in the hrm as
partner. Mr.. Sherlock being practical
civil engineer, and having a sharp eve,
In the commercial sense of the word,
has proved a valuable acquisition TO
the business. Instead of the seven an
tiQuated machines with which the bust
ness was started, there are now operated
chimes of the most improved pattern,
which are kept busy from morning till
night. During the busy season the firm
employees over thirty hands. and aver
ages about twenty-five hands the year
round.
The articles turned out by the firm
are not only equal for service to any
thing in the same line manufactured in
America, but they compare favorably IN
every point as 10 workmanship, taste
and finish with imported goods.
Messrs. Luke & Sherlock are also
selling agents for the celebrated Lamb
& futile Knitting Machines. There are
over forty different grades of Lamb
knitters adapted TO all kinds Of work.
They are valued as the only machines
whereupon may be worked every thing
in knit goods. They have found q good
market in our Territory.
OF course Utah furnishes the chief
market for the distribution of these
goods: but these gentlemen feel de-
termined to push them into the sur
rounding States and Territories, and no
city is better situated to do this than
our own. Other industries are pushing
their way TO the west; and although
we do not hope. nor do we care for the
mushroom-l boom which Denver has
had, still We may confidently expect a
ste dy increase in all classes of trades |
aud manufactures; and not the least |
OF these is the manufacture and distri- |
button of the class Of goods above re-
ferred 10.