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


also, such as the Davis county tannery,
and at Brigham City, as already noted, and
since that in locations where the shipping
of hides is difficult and distant, or where
barter is yet more or less the order of the
day.
BOOT AND sHOEMAKING.
Jennings and Winders partnership made
this branch of manufacture boom. The
latter, while not practical workman, had
yet been in the business. So the tannery,
currying shop and shoe factory, drew hides
from far and near fair price being paid
Tor them IN merchandise or in boots and
shoes. Samples of leather made by the
firm were shown in New York in 1862 and
pronounced good, for the works had been
going for several years. Experience and
pride as to success had superseded the
Tlpey leather, or VALLEY TAM" as it was
called, of more hurried times, when the
buyer OF No. z shoe would, in wet wea-
Their, suddenly find himself in possession of
No. 9's or los by reason OF expansion.
Jennings 81 Winder also reduced their
stoga shoes to So per pair and stoga boots
TO So, with improved quality; finer goods
were sold at proportionate rates, all of
winch was stimulus to general produc-
uon, as well as use. The firm also reduced
the price of sole leather to 45c. per pound
from 81, and Golding & Raleigh had fol-
lowed more or less, but they made q
speciality Of ''clogs,' which were
then recommended, and some excellent
horse collars were of their manufacture.
There was quite number Of very fine
Workmen then engaged on custom work in
this city, such as Snelgrove, Shade, Riser
and u. Campkin. Lower down were Dye
Saddler, Bunting and others, but prices
were stiff. Material was all, of course,
imported, yet $50 and upward seemed
enough for pair of calf boots; at ali events
those who could not indulge in so expensive
luxury.
When Hockaday or Youssig & Co., as
1t was called, undertook tanning and
currying exclusively they supplied and had
from Jealousy, partly, the recommendation
of nearly all the individual shoe trade.
Doubles Yopssig was clever and man of
great experience in Europe, but while
handicapped as all manufacturers in Utah
were, he turned out some excellent stock.
Billy Sloan became noted soon afterward
as shoeman. He did great business,
selling out afterward to the Working Mems
Coop. This company had the sympathies
of the public and could have made de-
cided success, but as with workmen in all
parts of the world, petty iealousies led to
difficulty and the business was sold out to
William a. Rowe, who afterward trans,
ferred it to z. c. MI
FURNIT URE-MAKING.
To furnish the homes of the early
colonists was quite consideration. Chairs
bedsteads, tables, cupboards, flour bins,
were always in demand, and that these
were not always of the best may
be inferred from conversa-
ton listened to II Old England prior to the
writer's emigration. new missionary
had arrived in a certain locality, where
there was one already from Salt Lake
City. After mutual congratulations they
turned to home topics and one said to the
chairs in Salt Lake City?n "Yesn' was
the reply "Well, those chairs all fell to
pieces" said the other! GLOW did you
pay me for those chalrs?" said the second
speaker. "Why, don't you remember my
building your house by the Warm springs
there" 'Oh, yes, certainly" was the
answer. "Wel, that house fell down !''
Both were evidently too primitive and IN
like the quite early rushbottom chairs made
by John Gotham and Bird and Hawkins,
specimens Of whose manufacture in 1861
are still veuerated in the homes OF some of
our earliest citizens. The latter firm had
as workman, H. Dluwoodey, who bought
out later their traps" and commenced
for himself. He has prospered beyond all
his contemporaries, but enjoys reciting the
struggles of the early sos.
Dallas was the first wooden-bottom
chairmaker. Then came general furniture
men in the wake of Dinwoodey, such as
Barker g. Bowman, Taylor & Co., Lufkin,
E. Bird, who included carving; Naisbitt
who was the first manufacturer to get
away from the common bedstead and the
to-day.
He it was also who supplied the first
Card, Pembroke and Loo tables ever made
in Utah, ana that from native wood One of
the latter tables was made to order for Vim.
Jennings-a fve-foot circular, English,
you know" with made-up rim, heavy pillar,
triangular block and claws. 1t served the
buyer (after making trip to Battle Greek
during the move) for over thirty years,
and was returned to the maker when the
Devereux house was abandoned and is
now doing duty without crack or failure,
and vastly more precious as q relic than as
table, although nearly as good as new.
Colonel Little was engaged in this bust
ness in 1867 till the move. Returning he
included carriage and wagon building as
did Naylor Brothers and others later, but for
good work, that done by William Bell,