The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25
PLOUGH-MAKTNG

/ Among the famous men of long mast data
was Hodges, the blacksmith; loose vet
brawny. The forge was the delight OF
himself and some of his sons. Plough
making was their "big hold;" at least
should think so, as SO was the price with
out stock or handle. Unpublished. thew
We're hard to scour and desperately hard to
pull. He was succeeded by John Hawkins,
who continued the business for many
years, getting the same prices until, as
1reights came down they reached the low
level of $40 cash. Bringhurst, G.. Walker
and others used to do the stocking, but SIS
was the price of plow some time after
they began to be imported in wagons. Steel
for the plough lays had been desirable and
was some times applied prior to this, but
the price was-well, it had a price.
This may be illustrated by the fad of
citizen, one of the old school; he wanted q
digging fork, and he wanted it made
OF cast-steel; the bar was duly
weighed out by the writer to the
blacksmith shop; when the fork was done,
the balance of the steel bar was returned,
but the used part cost the buyer 1926
without making, or the needed handle, and
no ''steal' either!
CoRDAGE.
Rope was much in demand. Bed cords,
clothes lines, cow ties, stalking ropes, gar
den and mason lines were all in demand
William McMaster did yeoman service in
endeavoring to supply the market, but
hemp and flax raising were just as foreign
to the then farmers as beets are now. Plant
ing, cultivating, gathering, setting seemed
too much like work. Then there were
breaking, heckling and spinning to follow,
but the rope was made, and might have
been now a profitable business had it been
continued.
OILS, ETC.
From the fax seed considerable oil was
expressed by the enterprise of H. G. Kim
ball, and caster oil was made in the south
by Elijah Thomas, but both industries now
are ''among the things that weren
TUBS AND PALS.
In woodenware, wash tubs, meat barrels.
churns, reelers, etc., there was the first
man, Abel Lamb, then the firm of Donel-
son & McMurren; then Burnett; then
G. w. Lindley, j. Elder Perkins and S
Snider's pail factory, but this branch
now extinct, like that of brush-making,
which once bade fair to be permanent in
stitution. Its Importance went when
Clements fell into merchandising and
only left as successors such lesser lights as
Jones, and Father Miles, who, years ago
did quite business in New York city.
BRooMs.
The broom business was once good.
Wade, then Colburn, and Brown, and CARD
ner were among the earliest manufacture
ers and the ambitious firm of Carpenter &
Aiken undertook to put in thirty acres of
corn for their business. These have had
several successors; ScovilIe, of Ogden, be-
ing the most important and most promis-
ing as to continuance; but farmers could
see no money in broom corn, even when
he manufacturer provided them with
seed, and so home made brooms now are
created from imported corn (bought by
the pound at that, imported wire and i'm
ported handles. The combination is all
that is LETT of what should be a profitable
and important industry in the midst of
Utah.
BEER AND WHISKY.
With that faulty of humanity which
seems to enjoy prohibited things,
beer-making was begun in the long
ago. Blazzard, Mayer and Punen
undertook to furnish a supply. The
first and last were characters, indeed,
and their beer was execrable, but bad as it
was, the regulation thereof was under
taken by the city council, and when the
last named was visited by the officers his
reply was simply, 81 brews vinegar and if
the boys will have it before it sours. 1 can't
help it.'' 1t was the same frank gentle
man who located in that fearful lane be-
tween American Fork and Battle Creek
during the hapless move south of 'jS He
there tried to ''oultivate' beer, and when
asked whether he would rather live there
or in Salt Lake city, grufly replied: 81
would rather be hung in Salt Lake city
than die q natural death here" However,
the place that knew these characters
knows them now no more, forever"
The whisky business was a more profitable
one in early times, and such men as the
Moons, Bailey and Howard all made prop
erty in their day and time; but the whisky
business Chat is, its manufacturer, does
not flourish any more among the citizens
of Utah territory; but breweries-large
ones at that-turn out vast quantities
better, it is 90 be hoped, than was sug-
gested by a leading citizen when he thought
! and urged that fourteen to sixteen gallons
! should come from a bushel OF malt, the
only explanation afterwards acknowledged
being the ironical yet plausible one that
1.-The more that was made from given
quantity of malt the better it would be for
both the seller and the drinkern
PAPER.
One Of the suggestive home industries Of
the sos was that of paper. Hollis and Jep-
son, in Davis county, began that branch,
which was afterwards continued by Hollis
ep6 Uarp on the,, after boi0o- t.ove So,