The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-27
COTTON SOCKS
ARE MADE IN UTAH
Twelve Thousand Dozen Pairs
Are Turned Out Every
Twelve Months.
ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
MADE in EVERY MONTH
Brushes, Too, Are Also Made
in This Factory, as Are
CincheS.

One hundred and forty.four thousand
pair of socks are made in Utah every
year. They are knit from cotton Y You
did not know it, neither did your neigh
Dor, neither did the taxpayer who re-
sides in Kane county, nor the taxpayer
in Cache county. But they were manu-
factured. That is 1000 dozen pairs
turned out every month. They are
manufactured from cotton, and they are
good socks, too. Where are they made
Where is tho factory7 Where do the
worltmen live?
Men who are convicted of crime do
the work, knit the socks. Some are
serving life sentences, some one year;
but they knit socks.
Where They Are Made
The mandatory where they are
made is In the Utah State prison, Be
hind the high walls which surround the
penitentiary buildings. In these build
ings and the grounds about them are
confined 206 criminals, two OF whom
are women.
Among those incarcerated for life are
Abe Majors, James Shockley and Ma
than Haworth. The crimes for which
these three prisoners were convicted
are fresh in the minds Of Utahns.
There are other life prisoners, convicts
who have been there for many years.
IL
term Of years after death His life
sentence was for murder His sentence
after death was for burglary commit
ted in the southern part of the State.
Not all Of these convicts knit socks,
but many of them do; others make
brushes, and, like the socks, they too
are good; others are employed on the
farm of $50 acres which belongs to
the State, and others make ciuches.
Cannot Compete With Other Labor.
Under the law, convicts in the Utah
State penitentiary cannot manufacture
anything for sale that would Inc in com
petition with the labor of people who
are outside of prison walls. No one in
the State is engaged in the manufac-
ture of cotton socks, brushes or cinches,
hence the State, with the work of its
criminals, manufactures these articles.
The Utah State prison, under the
management of Warden Pratt, differs
from all other institutions in that il is
self sustaining. And If the cost of
maintaining the prison the next four
months do not exceed the past eight
months by monthly averages Warden
sum equaling $4,000.
The State prison is model of clean
illness. There are no houses in Salt
Lake that are more clean than the Utah
penitentiary, and this applies to the
entire prison. The convicts, of course,
do the work, and they are made TO do it
well, The kitchen is a model. So IS
the bakery, In which n pounds of
-four are used monthly A, ere the cell
houses and the workshops
Prison Admirably Lighted.
The Utah State penitentiary is ad-
lighted and ventilated there
are no dark cells, neither are there any
dungeons. The solitaries are we'll light
ed. Of the latter there are two, and
they are in building facing the east
wall. They were completed last year
Thus far but one prisoner has been con-
fined therein, and a few hours sufRced
for him The solitaries are near the
place where Mortensen and Rose were
executed. The squad of men who shot
these two murdercrs TO death stood be-
hind n screen in the big doorway
whicn opens into the building where |
the two solitaries are built.
Convicts are superstitious. They know
where the two executions took place. |
There is horror to them of being con-
fined there, and, as said above, a few
hours in the solitary causes them to |
weaken.
Like most modern prisons, stripes are |
being discarded, and certain classes of |
cOnNlclS may never wear IuelHs
On the farm belonging to the prison ,
is raised all the hay necessary to care |
for the animals on the farm. This year |
the potato crop will exceed $500 bush |
els All the butter and milk used in |
the prison is obtained from the mich |
COWS on the farm, and all the ice nee
essary for the prison is put up by the
Warden Pratt has added largely to
the prison library, and ii is run on q
system similar to all libraries in check
ing out the volumes to the prisoners.
Live in Modern Cottages.
All of the guards and prison en-
ployees who reside outside the prison
walls have modern cottages In which to
i've, a number of these homes having
been built east of the prison, and are
furnished at nominal rental
The grounds about the prison are
and from the Warden s resi-
lence splendid view can be had of the
:ity and of the Salt Lake valley.