The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30
SILVER / q ON WORKS.
Rapid Growth OF Home Industry
That Is Spreading Every Day.
The Good Work Done.

/ The name Of Silver in connection
/ with the iron manu- featuring interests
LOT the territory is indissolubly linked
Joseph silver many years agose
many that even the eldest inhabitani
has forgot en- commenced the manu-
facture OF iron articles in a modest
! way, and to his credit be it said. own
led the first shop OF the kind in the
I territory. In those days, he did well
/ if he found enough business TO keep
| himself at work
\ In the business where one man found
| it rather difficult at one time to keep
| himself employed 62 men we're yester-
/ day earning good weekly wages. And
the firm has not stopped growing,
| either.
| Under the able management OF Mr.
| Joseph Al. Silver, who is ably assisted
| by John "A. and HyrInl Al. Silver all
sons of the pioneer iron workertEae
| business has spread until the wares
| produced are sought for by miners and
builders in adjoining states
Through the works.
| Acconlpa nied by Manager Silver, who
! is the inventor of many labor-saving
devices in connection with the bust
ness, a Herald representative yester-
day spent couple of. hours in the
shops, taking in all the, details from
the private Office where the drawings
are made to the room where the great
and small castings are carried in to
cool. It was busy scene, and one
that but few Salt Lakers would be pre-
pared to witness.
One Of the interesting sights is the
Oldest woodworking lathe in Utah,
which was brought here by the late
President John Taylor.
kept the numerous models in wood of
the work turned out is a veritable cu-
riosity shop. and while most of the pat
terms would be passed by without no.
tice by the ordinary observer, yet they
mean much to the owners of the
works, as they represent not only the
study and work of years. but also
many thousands of dollars.
The machine department is supplied
with many OF the latest mechanical
labor-saying devices, and ell OF them
are up to date.
81 do not believe said Mr.. Silver,
Sin buying machines from catalogue.
Every piece of modern machinery in
the shop was purchased only after [
had thoroughly Inspected its practical
workings-after had seen the work
that it was possible to do. The result
is that we have machinery here that
no other contract shop in Utah can
boast. Of and none are as well fitted
to do heavy forgings or, in fact, any
thing in the shape of iron or steel than
we"
A glance at the many machines,
though necessarily hasty, confirmed
this statement.
Four FORCES in the blacksmith shop
are models of hardness, in comparison
with which the old-time bellows and
brick or adobe base seem like relic
Of the dark ages.
Contracts on Hand.
The firm has numerous contracts
now on hand, and among the most i'm
portant Of thesesis that of furnishing
the iron work for the remodeiing of the
come very close to $4,000. These pat
are also a couple of other con-
tracts for fifty icoalcars, the wheels
of which will be of the chilled self-oil-
ing description device of Mr.. Joseph
A. Silver An automatic ore-weighing
machine is also in process of construc-
ton. The iron work now being put in
the new telephgne building on State
street is also being furnished by this
firm, and the iron stairWays there are
the first ever built in Salt Lake.
An interesting sight is the bending
of street car rails. which is done by an
ingenious system of rolls, original with
the firm.
Busy All the Year.
To sum it all up, as Mr. Silver put
1T: Our firm has been busy all the
year, Notwithstanding the cry of dull