Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-13
A new INDUSTRY.
The Grant Soap COmpany's Extensive
Plans. y
q. g. "a. I. Starts tho New Home Enter.
prise OF Win mn Order for 800
Boxes of Their Boap.

VIII Utah people patronize home
industry?
This 10 question which the new
company, known as tho Grant Soar
company, propose TO give the public q
chance to answer. In order to intro
duce tho goods they are now tlrnini
out, they are about TO send their agent,
through the city ons house TO house
canvats, and TO ask every good house
wife In town 10 buy % cents worth OF
their high grade laundry soap In order
that II nny be fully tested.
The Grant Soap company feel 10
confident OF the superiority OF their
goods that they only ask each family
WHOM their solicitors approach to Riv,
the soap ono fair test, by washing with
1t a piece OF flannel goods, nnd II 1t II
not found az represented they Hay they
VIII expect no patronage. IL, on the
contrary, the gOods arc found no tc
what the company claim, they AJAX this
public when they order soap hereafter
10 insibt ON having these goods, adj "a
take no other. They also nsk our local
, dealers to lace small order with
their wholesale grocers In order that
thelr patrons may have n chance ~
test these goods against all others.
Tho Grant Soap icOmpany whitman.
fGcturo two kinds Of laundry sOay, one
called the "Co-Op.," ana the other the
"Beehive." The latter " III be sold 10
all JObbers, while the iOtmer 10 made
exclusively for Il. q. NJ. |. Both
soaps, however, are equal la merit,
only the wrappers anu brands beiDg
different. Tney viii also turn out two
brands OF toilet soap, the "While
Windsor anu "lhe Glyoerine, both
Of which are the equals OF anything
sold In the drug floI.s; they arc put up
In dainty wrappers anu exquisitely
per!umeu; the toilet soaps, ns well VA
thu launuTy soaps, viii DO ON tho local
market next week.
~ Mr.. Ii. F.Grant, managerial the Eow
company, in conversation with NEWS
reporter l,oday, said that they mad
every reason 10 feel encouraged ut the
outlook. They had not gone in-
TO the soap business until they
had given tho new patent Process a
thorough test, and satisfied themselves,
not only that they could compete with
eastern goods in price and quality, but
that they could lay down Tor the same
money an absolutely superior quality
Of soap. They had received subsIgutinl
recognition already from several lead.
lug houses, anu u. q. Nj. l., VINO had
tested the goods, mas shown their iaith
In them by an order for 800 boxes as u
starter.
The now company now has In hand
the plans for factory 10 cost from
5000 to $4,000. Toe land is already
purchased, anu Is located on ThiTl
West street, between Seventh and
Eighth South, being communicated
with by u Union Pacific switch. The
capacity OF the factory will De three
hundred boxes n day when In running
order. The officers OF the Grant Soap
company comprise the following gem
tiemen: +. A. Grant, president; John
Henry Smith, vice president, aud
Heber J. Grant, secretary anu treas.
urer, and these with II. 5. Grant and
J. II. Grant comprise the BOARD OF
direetore. In the hands Of such repre-
sentative business men, success. would
seem to bo IA ioregono conclusion, anu
the NEWS, which always feels a
friendly interest in tho Inauguration
OF home industriee, trusts that this
may be- tho case with this new anu
important enterprise.