The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-04-07
UTAH INDUSTRIAL FAIR.

The hearts of all patriotic UtOnians
swell with pride when the subject Of
Utah industries is brosched. Just now
there is a quietly conducted exhibition
of the multifarious industries of this
territory going on at Salt Lake.
There are many strangers in the city
from all parts of the world and the
visitors are astonished to note the re-
suits of the home industries of our
people. But none are more surprised
than our own home people who have
focked to the city to attend the sixty
fourth annual conference Of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dsy
Saints. In a general way our people
are aware that we have woolen mills,
soap factories, iron mills, pottery
works, etc., ETC., but vast majority
did not before know that we have the
cotton batting made from the home
grown Utah staple, at st. George,
which is a revelation to most people.
Home made stove and shoe polish.
Utah made suspenders. Large tailoring
establishments running day and night
upon Utah manufactured cloth. Hat
manufactures whose products are not
surpassed by any of the far-famed
eastern houses. Overall manufactures.
Homemade white shirts. Trimming
cords made in Utah of all kinds and of
the latest fashionable styles. Home
knitting machines giving US Utah wool
spun into yarns and knit up into line
stockings, socks, underwear and all
manner of other knit goods shown as
the products of their industry. We
have several of these enterprises in
Utah, at different points. These knit
ting enterprises are competing actively
with eastern mills. Orders are filed
from Idaho, Montana, st. Louis ard
Providence Rhode Island The capa-
city of the mills is being enlarged at
rapid rate and the demand is far ahead
of the scale upon which they are run.
White and colored shirts are made
from the raw material grown and sup
piled alone by Utah farmers. The Salt
Lake silk manufactorY is in full tide
of successful operation and has many
surprising specimens of the aecomp-
lishments of the operatives of their
mill.
But our own Provo Woolen mills |
have the leading exhibit at the home |
industrial exhibit. This vast home
enterprise has her products there in
such variety and OF such unapproaeha-
BILE excellence that all are astonished,
no less by the extent than the richness,
variety, style and finish of its goods,
Eastern experts are dumb-founded by
this chow of domestic woolens, and
when told the prices at which they can
be bought are incredible, They fail
TO grasp the mighty truth that here in
the heart of what they consider the
desert land is found mill rivaling the
mills of England and the east, both in
excellence of goods and perfection of
styles and fnish-selling at prices be-
low what they can be made for abroad
Or in the east.
We clip from the excellent report of
he Deseret News the truthful and con- s
Iervative notice of the exhibit of our L
yOolen mills: .
The show made by the Provo t
Noolen mills is one Of the most extern a
i've, valuable and pleasing in the t
whole fair. A factory that makes n
uch products as those on exhibition g
hould never have to shut down be- d
ause Of any lack of patronage through O
with such goods as are i'm a
ported here. Eastern experts who b
lave looked at the goods say they can "
lot be eXcelled and are seldom equaled L.
or the same price even with the ad- it
'antages Of large production and cheap b
abor in the east. The exhibit is tast- al
Iy arranged, there being tier upon tier
f cassimeres, jeans, hannels, ETC., of =
esutiful patterns and splendid quail "
tY. On one side Of the booth is an q,
rtistic display of homemade stockings
nd knit goods, which forms pleas 81
* picture. A feature of the exhibit ~
J the yarns that are shown. The pro or
rietor of a knitting factory that uses Nc
nported yarns should take a look at b,
lis division of the fair. \
Now, indeed, no Utah man or woman Sa
ther is compelled to send east, or - -
zen to the stores at home for foreign nmr m
eastern made goods, nor need thev trt
less fashionably or elegantly at tn
red than they would be were they piI
in New York, London, re-
aris or Berlin. Give Utah free silver So
Id it won't be decade until she will
rolling in wealth, and poverty will
unheard of in all her future history.
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