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

still does business in the city, but later
nrmes include, Tweedie, Goringe, Jenkins,
the Platts, jr., and Gustaveson, all good
workmen and successful manufacturers;
! the latter makes now a speciality OF axle
grease, which is not only popular at home,
but is of considerable export.
WHIPS.
In the days of OK and mule teams, of stage
| coaches and general freighting, the import
ant article of whips made quite trade.
Buckskins, Indian dressed, were used by
such clever manufacturers as Huskison,
whose trade it was, and afterward by
Tweedie, who made it an adjunct of his
harness business.
Here cropped out another industry,
which is now nearly extinct, the making of
buckskin gloves, which employed quite
few hands. Mr.. Worley used to redress
the light Indian cured buckskins, and put
them into solid colors. Such families as
the Forsyths and Andersons used to make
the heavier. mems, which were generally
smoked, but at times they were silk-em-
broidered, fur-backed or cuffed, and Mrs.
j
turned out hundreds of pairs, which were
sent out of the territory and bought by
travellers at prices ranging from So to $40
per pair. These were for ladies, and they
were close fitting aud excellently made,
slashed with colored ribbon and with en-
broidered backs and cuffs, or fur cuffs, as
might be preferred.
CP0cEEpy
1t used to look preposterous, after haul
ing queensWare across the plains, to charge
the prices then common in the stores: So
was the price for half dozen cups and
saucers or plates, and the writer remem-
bers putting an advance on English goods of
25O per cent. and more on invoice to cover
duties, charges and freight, including
package, but this excessive advance
only gave a better chance to the
home manufacturers, among the earliest
of whom were the English Croxalls and
the Eardleys; also the Danish crockery
kiln by Nels Jensen and Petersen in the
Second ward, who made good ware, al
though there were many difficulties in the
way of all these men, whether in Salt Lake
city or outside. Firing was all wood,
profits of manufacture were absorbed in
living, and though the demand was good,
capital never accumulated enough for en-
largement nor has anything beyond brown
ware been produced even to this day, al
though the territory is full of the raw ma
terial for almost every variety of needed
crockery or glass.
LEAD.
In the early days lead and shot command
ed good price. Freights from the
river, it will be remembered, oscillated be-
tween 20 and 80 cents per pound, gross
Southern Utah had lead. and hundreds of
pounds were made into bars, hauled to
Salt Lake city, and bartered for imported
goods. This lead, however, carried a large
per cent of silver, which none knew how to
separate, and sportsmen discovered that a
rife was soon spoiled by its use, so that in
dustry for the moment failed
f. A Mitchell, always an enthusiastic
advocate Qof home manufacture went
to considerable expense in the effort to oxi-
die this lead. All reachable acids, how
ever, failed to act sufficiently to create
a paying business. The kindred article
Of gunpowder was way up'' in price, and
the Frenchman Loaoe undertook to make
this, as he did many other things. refining
native sulphur, alum, saleratus, rosin. etc.
but chemist though he was, and educated
broadly, there appeared to be in his ex-
periments with native material those in
tractable elements which afterward on a
larger scale, and after the expenditure of
much means baffled the efforts of leading
men to utilize the immense fields of iron
ore in the mountains of southern Utah"
MATCHES
The crude sulphur of Cove Creek, which
should have been the base of many other
things, never reached any higher dignity
or activity than what was given to it in
those early matches so highly priced by
their creators, and so often provocative in
the users Of language unfit for ears
polite" still, Alex Neibaur, and
Hugh F'indlay, afterward Thorn
as all immortalized themselves
as matchmakers, and the efforts of later
Swedish company, it is believed, only
served to add to the catalogue of successful
yet abortive workers, in the prosecution of
imported, labor was exacting, and even
with machinery, competition buried the
whole concern.
SALT, ETC.
Years ago every little store carried the
crude home elements, until railroad freights
crushed them out, as it were, by giving a
purer article at less price, such as alum,
sulphur, starch, saleratus, etc, and salt,
the present great staple Of our inland sea,
appears to be the only article of this class
which has been able to hold its own. Even
now, for butter purposes, English and
states salts get away with all the product
of our best manufacturers. The Inland
Salt company's product and crude salt for
huxing are both used though, and exported
to very large extent.