The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-09
FRIDAY =
March 8. 1883.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Members Meet and the Wooden
Mills Discussed.


On Wednesday evening last, the
members of the Chamber of Commerce
held meeting, pursuant to call, the
special object of which was to give
further consideration to the report of
the committee On manufactures sub
mitted at recent meeting proposing to
buy out the Ogden Wooden Mills, and
operate them.
The president of the chamber being
absent, Mr.. Isaac Clark was elected
chairman of the meeting.
Mr.. Enoch Farr, a partner of the
firm who at present own the mills,
opened with a speech in favor of the
scheme, and submitted q few figures to
show that the mill could be operated
advantageously. He showed that the
plant could be bought for $28 900, which
would include the mill. machinery,
forty-three and one-thlrd acres of
land, and a perpetual wafer right.
There is three times as much
water power available than has ever
been used hitherto by Messrs. II. FAIR
& Son, in the working of the mill. The
mill could work about 100000 pounds
of wool in the dirt, which would be
worth $4,000. The working of this
wool would cost about $4,000, which
would show an outlay of $4,000,
while the value of the manufactured
product would amount to s65. 900,
which would realize a profit of
SIS 900.
An informal discussion arose, in
Isaac Clark, Mr.. Cahoon, Mr.. Arm
Of
part. A statement from Mr.. Watson
that he had beaten the price Of Ogden
and Provo grey yarns by Is cents per
pound, evoked considerable discussion,
but on Mr.. Rich asking him if he
could replace it at that reduction,
finally acknowledged the he had got
the yarn at the reduced price by
reason of having bought party out
Mr.. Rich very pointedly remarked that
there was not a merchant present who
would attempt to compete with the
prices at which goods were sold by
Messfs. d. II. Peery & Sons at their
fire sale little while ago.
Farley T. Wright said that he
had bought Ogden yarn last winter.
and it did not compare with the Provo
yarn in the matter of strength.
Mr.. Rich stated that the Ogden mills
had not been running for three years,
and the yarn Mr.. Wright referred to
must have been old, and had doubtless
been moth eaten. While Mr.. Rich was
employed by the wooden mills, it was
his custom to hang Ogden yarn and
Provo yarn by weights to one threadto
show people that the Ogden article
would hold more weight. which was a
sure test of strength. The Provo mills
had bought large quantities of yarn
from the Ogden mills on a contract to
manufacture for them, and there was
no doubt that thousands Of pounds had
been sent back to Ogden merchants as
Provo yarn. He had sold the goods in
Denver, Leadville, Gunnison, Ouray
and in all the principal places in Colo
RADIO; also in northern and southern
Utah, Idaho, and Montana, and
he had never heard single complaint
about yarns, blankets or hannels, with
the exception that some OF the lighter
flannels did not have as good a finish
as some of the eastern products. which
was on account of the Ogden mill not
having the right kind of a press.
Ogden merchants had acknowledged to
the speaker that they had paid more
for five and six ounce twill hannels laid
down from the east than the prices at
which he sold the Ogden goods. A
question arose as to whether the pro-
duct of the mill could be used in Weber
County. 1t was estimated that they
would produce about $4,000 worth of
goods annually, and an inquiry by Mr..
Rich of Mr.. John Watson, OF the q. G.
NJ. l., showed that his institution sells
about SIS 900 worth every year, and
Mr.. Wright said his house used about
IS, 600, thus two of Ogden's merchants
use one-third of the value of the ap
proximated product. Mr.. Rich also
stated that. figuring the time the mills
we're running, they turned out goods to
the value of $50, 900 monthly, indepen-
dent of the goods sold to the Provo
mills.
At the conclusion of the debate, the
following resolution was put to the
meeting and carried:
That a committee of twenty be ap-
pointed, for the purpose OF making a
general canvass of the citizens of the
county, to determine the approximate
amount of capital that could be raised
for the formation and incorporation of
Joint stock company for the manu-
facture of wooden goods.
The discussion of the matter showed
ooncluslvely that the public is inter-
ested ia the scheme now being de-
veloped, and there is hardly a doubt
but that few months will suffice to
see the Ogden wooden mills in lively
running order. When once a start is
made in the direction of production,
and it is demonstrated that industrial
concerns can be operated pro6tably, it
will not be long before other manu-
features will be inaugurated, and Ogden
will yet become the hub of manufac-
turing enterprises.
Yesterday afternoon, Chairman L.
Clark. of the special committee on
wooden manufactures, appointed the
following gentlemen q committee to
carry out the instructions embodied in
the resolution referred to above: For
Pleasant View, Amos Maycock; Slater
vile, ]. A. Aldred; West Weber, H. D.
Peterson; U1ntah. Samuel Dye; Mound
Fort, Ambrose Shaw; Lynne. D. f.
Thomas; and the following for Ogden
City: James Wotherspoon, j. A,
Boyle, q. r. Hank. 7. Cahoon, }. G.
Armstrong, David Eccles, Theodore
Schansenbach, William vanDyke, John
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