The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-07
DEsERET WOODEN MILLS.
Now Ready to Begin OperatiOns-Best APP
pointed Mills in the West.

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attention of every person coming into Salt
Lake city from the north of late, is the new
structure that has been erected in the Nine
teenth ward. 1t is the new Deseret WOODEN
mills building. This structure has been put
up since last fall, and is now practically
ready for the manufacture of wooden goods.
A HERALD scribe dropped down in that vi
cinity yesterday, and went through the
mill. 1t is putting it mildly to state that
he left with very large admiration for the
forethought and care displayed il attending
to every detail, and in making the factory
as complete as the present knowledge of
man admits of.
SsThe main part of the building is of brick
and is three stories in height, with tower
which is not only an ornament, but is used
also as a huge water tank, and from which
water is distributed over the entire build
ing and is one of the
GREAT SAFEGUARDS AGAINST FIRE.
In appointment this is like all other
modern mills of the same character and it
is the pride of its owner that it will not
only turn out as excellent cloth, but it is as
well appointed as any mill in the west. The
work really begins on the top floor, to
which place the woods are taken from the
ground by an elevator that is run by steam
Here every particle of it is sorted over by
hand, after which it is sent down to the
first floor and there is washed perfectly
clean, wrung out and thoroughly dried and
made ready for the pickers. The pickerS
are on the top floor, to which point the
wool is again raised. The room into which
the wool is forced by the pickers is the one
in which the great danger from fire exists
so it has been lined with heavy sheet iron
on the roof and the four sides and the floor
is made of cement. 1t would now seem
that fire originating in this room could
not communicate with the other portions
Of the building.
The wool, thus picked and cleaned, is
lowered to the second floor by means of
chutes, where it is received in bins and pre-
vented from spreading over the floor.
These bins are at the very hands of the
persons who feed the carderS on the second
floor, and the operator has only to turn
round and reach for the wool that has been
dropped from the third floor into the bin,
weigh it that it may be fed to the carder
regularly and to prevent too much from
getting into the machine at once, and keep
on working without interruption. In this
room also are the spinning jacks, of which
there are four, as the mill is four set mill.
Some of the carderS are wholly new, while
the others have been refitted up and so
thoroughly renovated that they are, so far
as the wear and tear and results in cloth
are concerned, just the same as if they
were wholly new. On the four spinning
jacks there are 1924 spindles. Here the
wool is, of course, made into threads and
placed upon the bobbins. From this floor
the Oobbins are then carried in trucks to
floor below by means OF the elevator.
From the bObbinS to the spOOler the warn
is taken to the dresser; from the dresser to
the beams and from the beams to the looms,
where it becomes cloth, but by no means
such cloth as we buy from stores or have
our clothes made Of.
ITHAs FIRST TO BE SECURED,
then 90 over drying screen which has a
capacity of drying 1000 yards of cloth per
day, and which is placed in a room by it
self where the temperature is kept at
Turkish bath heat all the time. Then it
has to 90 through the dye house, if It IS to
be dyed, then over Z steam heated stretcher
and press aud undergo some other pro
cesses that cannot be enumerated.
On the first floor are the looms and the
other portions of the machinery named,
together with the Hitting factory in which
about forty to fifty girls are kept en-
plOyed. Here are woven the socks that
the Deseret Wollen Mills company sell, the
ladies hose, the ladies skirts, mittens, to-
bOggans, legTings, combination suits for
children and other articles.
The main building is li0x60 feet and
three stories high. The dye house is 4OX+O
feet, one story: the weave room is 5OX60
feet, one story in height while the boiler
house is 20X4O feet also one story in height.
It looks like q little village up there in the
Nineteenth ward, only that it is built so
cOmpactly that one would hardly credit the
great quantity of machinery there IS in the
place until ne has gone through it.
4 new EftY-tWO horse power COOper-COr-
lisS engine furnishes the power. All
through the building is a perfect system of
heating, the overhead having been adopted.
The engineer, from his room, can control
the heat of every part of the building and
the whole arrangement IS as simple and eff
cacious as is the water system, which,
from the tower can be distributed to every
part Of the mill.
All the water that is used comes from an
artesian well that gives a tremendous flow.
OF its own force the water rises into the
tower from which it is sent anywhere at
will. 1t is clear and cool and of even TEN
perature. Then the whole place IS drained
and the premises kept dry and pleasant.
All the surplus water runs off through the
drain channels that have been provided and
then finds its way to the Jordan river bed
by means Of an old canal.
IN ALL THE DETAILS,
and appointments of the
mill it is perfect and nothing is left to wish
for.
Mr.. F. W. Jennings, the superintendent
who designed the arrangement of the place,
and who escorted the scribe through the
new building, stated that they had ex-
actly the room that they wanted. They
had not q surplus foot, and yet were not
OYercrowded. He also states that the mill
will keep close on one hundred persons con
stantly employed, and the design is to run
it every day in the year, Sundays excepted.
They will make 10000 yards of cloth a
month.
The plant has involved an outlay of 49,
300, and is an evidence of energy and enter
prise on the part of the young men inter
ested that it would be gratifying to see
some Of our weather. and older citizens
follow. Home industries. if well managed
and controlled, are no longer questions of
success. AS they are the only sure means
Of giving employment to our people, those
vino inaugurate industries of this kind
should receive the gratitude and the praise
Of all who have regard for the country
and the employment of our citizens.
The rush at Woolley, Lund & Judd's for
their cheap farm implements continues. 1t
is something to the farmers to be able to
buy machinery at cost.