The Florence tribune., 1897-10-23
No NEED or r.j.sE1.
Utah Mormon Community That
 Does Without Cash.
All Business Is Carried CD by nar- ter-work Is Paid For is Kccessaries Of Every
 Description.

In the extreme southwestern corner of Utah is e cotton and woclen mili more than a hundred mics from the nearest railroad run with rT~ctleails no cash capital and doing bCsirs
 most entirely tWoa ga sEae s
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 eiat4f win The aafl, aal
 of the Mormon church aii tied tY
 ham Youag It x9as iis fish colonies wherever ti.a lasa s-a- ter rights seemed to 5..al per of permanent AoIes .e.
 He selected Q number of families ts establish a mission among the Indians in what is now Washington county The mission was begun ia 1861. and had among it's objects tke cultivation Of cotton with Rhieat7 pFly the people with cotton goods. The sell proved well adapted to the purpose. and the first crop gathered in 1862 was about 102,oeG pounds. To save freight oa She raw material and at the same time afgor6 work for skilled labor a plant was shipped by wagons to Washington. where there was water power adapted to manufacturing purposes. The piani had originally been brought across the plains by OK team. and was set up at first in Salt Lake City, but had not been used much for lack of cotton.
 Since it was first established tue mill has been run regularly, supporting a number of families and forming the center of very interesting industrial community. The resources of the eoun- try are necessarily limited, and com munication with the outer world is diff cult. The present manager is Thomas Judd. He has been a Mormon mission ary in England, he was for a long time bishop of one of the wards in St. George, his home town, and he is a partner in a large mercantile firm, manager of q sill yer mine and mill at Silver Reef, and owner of big ranch On the Rio virgen.
 To dispose of the cotton and woolen goods made at Washington, Mir. Judd has found it necessary to take anything in payment that is offered The man who wants overals or towels or sheet ing or cotton baeging may come from mvay down on the Muddy in hottest Nevada. hundred miles away. He may bring rock salt to trade. or butter and eggs or dried fruit He may come from across the Arizona line and bring lumber from the forests that fringe the grand canyon of the Colorado. Wherever the customer comes from and whatever he brings he is accommo- dated. Possibly $1.O0O in cash passes the door of the mill in year, but Mir. Judd declares that the total is not more than that. The cotton batting manu- faetured is sent to the big cooperative store belonging to the church in Salt Lake and brings cash or it's equivalent in merchandise credits. Outside of that the expenses are met without the passing of . dollar.
 Fay day furnishes one Of the novel, ties of a lifetime to the visitor. The cashier, who is also bookkeeper, time keeper and paymaster, takes his place in 2 warehouse adjoining the mill. Wien the time comes for closing on Saturday evening the men, women and girls file into the warehouse. Each operative checks up the time credited for the weeks work and makes his wants known. The groceries, meat. butter, eggs and sundries are weighed and measured out and charged as an offset against the credit for work. Gen orally the balance is in favor of the