The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-01-21
The WOODEN MILLS
70 Have q Full Knit
tioq PIo9t.
Capable Of Turning Out
100 Pairs Of Hose
Each Day.
Twelve Compton Looms Nov
On the Road from San
Francisco.
To Take the Place Of the
Narrow ones Now in Use
at the Factory.

A visit to the Provo WOODEN Mills
yesterday elected the fact that the re-
cent visit of Superintendent UHderhill
to San Francisco, Cal, will result in
much benefit to the variety of goods
that will from now on be manufactured
at this institution. Heretofore, the
dress goods turned out have been linn
tied to but very few patterns, mostly
| plaidS. Now, however, the variety Of
design is almost unlimited Superin-
| tendent Underhill showed THE DIS
PATCH man no less than fifty of the
finest designed fabrics for ladies' dress
goods, that Will make a regular corner
on the market when the fairer sex set
to see the product. Supt Underlill
terms each season
Among the machinery purchased by
Supt. Underhill on his visit to the I,i0-
neer Wooden factory, at San Francisco,
was a complete knitting plant, which,
when in full working order, will malill-
facture one hundred dozen pairs of
hose each day. Twelve full CrOmpt0n
looms, manufactured in Massachusetts Is,
were also purchased. Each OF TIL .se
are l23 inches long, - harness, VITA
boxes on each end. These looms are
capable Of turning out blankets, ladies'
dress goods and other fabrics of six
quarter width, OF fifty-folT inches wide.
Laid down in Provo, the looms viii
cost at least $3.50 each. or a total of
So, $50 for the twelve looms. These
looms will replace some of the marrow
cues now i'll the factory, which are, as
the superintendent puts it, 'out Of
date.
There is great deal of difference III
the brilIianCy OF the WOODEN goods now
manufactured and those of a wear a 20.
This is due to the fact that heretofore
the wool has not been sufficiently
secured. To show the difference Stunt.
Underhill cOIducf ed THE DISPAT CHI
representative to the top Hoor of lie
main building and picked up 4 hand
full of wool that had been sent up as
cleaned. " 1t was like mop stIcxY.
greasy aud compact. See the differ
ence, said Mr. Underhill, showing us
a handful OF bright, lose, dake-Iike
wool. This has been we'll secured.
The only difference in the washing
between t ie two samples is this, that
this wool LalIuding to the we'll secured
article has been allowed to stay in the
water longer than was the custom here,
and treated to bath IN another vat,
which | had made on my assuming the
management of the mills. As a result
of this extra cleaning. continued Mr.
Underhill. the bods now made are
not only brighte4 in color, bat they
have not that greatly touch that was the
case with the goods heretofore turned
chimes do not suffer from the clean wool
like they used to do. When the wool
Is not we'll secured the cards become
gummed up, and are bent and twisted
IN every conceivable shape. Conse-
quentl y we not only turn out better
goods by cleaning our wool, but we
save several hundred dollars every
year in the wear and tear of the ma
chinery"
Thanking Mr.. Underhill for his
Kindness in explaining to Us these
several points, The DIsPATCH man
withdrew.