Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-27
. JUNE 81, 1904 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
The Beginning Of Making Paper in Ufah
First Today
Thomas Nineyy nc LA andrear
G II Desee

which was being built about three miles
from Salt Lake city demanded It's
machinery. According TO our pre-
vious agreement, we were Obliged TO
give up the hydraulic presses, etc. and
mus ended paper making by hand I'm
Utah. OF course, the paper we pro-
duced under such conditions was neces-
sarily of inferior quality. one gentle
man remarked that the Deseret News
looked as though II We're printed on
pancakes, Another remarked that he
did not care how Il looked as long as
he was able To read il. This In brief.
II the history Of paper making by hand
ON Temple block in Salt Lake CITY :
BETTER MACHINERY.
In the year 1860. Brigham Young, in
connection with others, purchased 49,
inch Gavitt cylinder machine In Phila-
delpha. This machine. with the neces-
sary fixtures, was hauled by OK teams
from the Missouri river to Salt Lake.
In January, 1861. Brigham Young sent
for me TO convert the sugar factory, "A
building i0Xl0O feet into a paper mill,
During the spring of 1861, with the as
sistance Of u. Derrick. this machinery
was put In place. Much Of the wood
work and fixtures, however, We're manu-
factured In Salt Lake Finally all was
I'm readiness and on July "a, 1861,
made the first paper by machinery,
HOW IT WAS DONE.
u had at this time two rag engines,
each capable Of taking 100 pounds OF
rags and this rag pulp we thlckened
with waste paper We made at that
time newspaper coarse paper, little
book and writing paper, a few tinted
envelopes and few boards. We had
no material or facilities for bleaching
or sizing, | managed TO produce an in
different bleach by using quicklme
My sizing for the batch of writing pa
per ] made with little rosin which [
was fortunate to get hold Of My en-
velopes were tinted with copper and
as "A moTdant, | obtained a wagon load
Of crude alum from the southern part
Of Utah, II could not properly be called
alum. II was rather dirt, strongly
impregnated with the alum salt II
served my purpose, however very we'll
UTAHs ONE BIG PAPER MILL
This mill continued with Indifferent
success until the year iu.", when the
machinery was moved to the new Gran
tie mill, which had been built at the
mouth Of the Big Cottonwood canyon,
10 miles from Salt Lake City. The mill
was moved, owing TO failure Of water
power at the old site. In addition to
the old machinery new 66-lnch
Fourdrinler machine, six rag engines,
each with a capacity for 1000 pounds
OF rags. rotary boiler, together with
all Of the recent improvements, were
placed in the mill nj the new site. This
new mill was well constructed. II had
a capacity OF nye tons Of paper every "a
hours by that time raw material had
become plentiful
SUGAR HOUSE OBSTACLES.
"a drawback we experienced at tho
old Sugar House inlll was lack Of raw
material. There waH barely sufficient
to run the machine two days in the
week We depended mainly upon cot
ton rags, gunny sacks and waste paper
A small percentage of woolens was used
In the wrapping paper while the bulk
Of the wooden rags was used IN making
nocks for beds. The Granite mill con-
tinued In operation until April |. 1893,
when II was unfortunately destroyed by
fire. No paper Is manufactured in
Utah today"