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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
BASKET MAKING.

HE record of the first basket making In Salt
1 Lake City Is in June. 1852, when Job Smith
and Elijah Pearce announced that they had ma
terlal on hand and proposed to supply the trade
with all kinds of baskets. including bushels half
bushels and clothes baskets. childrens chairs, and
cradles, bird cages and fish traps. Among the
other useful articles made by this enterprlsing
firm were also included bonnie baskets. truck-lid-
ded hampers and chair bottoms. The firm occu-
pied quarters then lately vacated by Felt & Alen
cpposIte to Walker Bros. store. Mr.. Smith
is still resident of Salt Lake. and remembers
we'll his first venture in the manufacturing line,
while his partner Elijah Pearce. moved into the
north counties and made baskets in Cache for
Il number of years.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

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manufactured to supply the needs Of the people
of the territory. An advertisement carried in the
columns of The News announced that pure flax
seed oil would be sold by the manufacturers at
SO per gallon; that the sum of $3.50 would be
paid per bushel for flax seed, that oil would be
exchanged for the seed at the rate of a half gal
lon of oil for bushel of seed. great deal of
time and money spent in perfecting the plant
for manufacturing the oil. and the industry
hourished until the raising Of flax was abandoned
and the advent of the railroad brought In
rettion which made the further production of
the fluid unprofitable
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
PAPER MAKING.

IT HE first paper made in Utah" said Charles
John Lambert pioneer of 40. who is
a resident of Granger ward. was made early in
the COS by Thomas Howard who died just few
wears ago Howard from England.
whore he learned to make paper by hand. and
it was by the hand method that the first paper in
Utah was manufactured in the fall of 1861. They
had no machinery. except hydraulic press, used
to press the water of the ranges after they
had been soaked to the proper consistency. Mr..
Howard spread the pulp out on wire and with
hydraulic pressure formed the thick sheets first
produced
"Ths was down in the old building at Sugar
House ward which had originally been erected
for the manufacture of sugar, but that industry
was abandoned and the building used for
a Iaper mill. A sample of the thick paper was
carried to Ireland about that time and son of
Erin on seeing 1t said 1t some of Brigham
Young's everlasting parchment
after few years Howard left the employ
of the paper mill and he was succeeded by man
by the name of John Calderwood. who did not stay
long and Howard again returned Afterwnrd
Michael Grace employed, and he became Of
Tended for some reason and then Mr.. Howard
was induced to return. and 1t was then that
became connected with the paper making Indus
try / started In keeping books for the mill, but
soon learned to make parer. Howard left again
after awhile and c. Z. Johnson of Colorado
took the paper mill on contract. Johnson made
good. and after his engagement was at end
/ took the mill contract and manufactured
paper with the mill for 1e years and during
that time the mill at Cottonwood was erected
and furnished with lot OF machinery. The
Cottonwood plant cost in the neighborhood OF
$50 900. About the year 1888 1 kicked in
the head by q horse, and lay for weeks be-
tween life and death After recovered L went
onto n farm, and did not re-entcr the paper maxi
ing business. The machinery removed from
Sugar to Cottonwood in the winter of 1SS2-S3.
and in 1884 John Bonner was installed paper
maker
Nathan Stalker succeeded Bonner paper
maker and employed In that capacity when
the Cottonwood mill burned down In 1892
I'VE manufactured paper from rags. mostly.
but used great deal OF wood pulp also. I
member that fully 900 cords OF wood used
In making parcr, the quakng asp being utilized
mostly for the purpose The color OF the wood
paper not good as that produced from rags,
but it adapted for tho printing of newspapers.
and The Descret News printed tho wood
paper for long time. A rag bureau main
talned at The News office. and everybody. OF high
and low degree. made no hesItancy of taking their
bundles of rag to the newspaper office where
they received their pay for the old material. We
shipped several carloads OF paper to Colorado.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
GLASS WORKS.

A n interesting development of the industrial
a growth of Utah the establishment in the
suburbs of Salt Lake City of large glass works
A company formed about the year 1885 by
local people, who subscribed $4,000 for starting
the industry. and Thomas q Taylor, at one time
business mana ger of The Deseret News. made
president of the company. with Hugh Watson
manager. Other members of the company Included
Jacob Mortz. A Fisher. Geo. F. Culmer and
others.
Mr Taylor who president of the company,
talked interestingly the establishment progress
and decline OF the glass industry. He said
'Our company secured and half acres
of land about quarter of a mile west of the Warm
SPRINGS in the northern part of the city, and
built alarge story brick building for the purpose
of making articles in glass. The actual work of
the factory began early in the spring OF 1886. We
secured sand suitable for making glass in endless
quantities from the mountain side just east of
the factory, where we also secured the limo
necessary In melting the sand. The other ingr"di-
used for this purpose was cement. and this
too we were able get at hand,
'The industry very successful. and
ployed five or six glass blowers. and quite num-
Der of men hauling sand tending furnace. etc.
besides number of boys and girls packing bottles
We manufactured fruit bottles of the Mason
patent, which secured permission to use. beer
bottles and soda water bottles. The trade r.
C NJ l. and many other stores given us. and
shipped carloads of bottles into Soda Springs
In Idaho All the beer bottles used I'm the state
were also made at our factory We used coal for
fuel. and consumed as much 300 of this
material every month
1.-The prospects very favorable for year
or two and the factory did we'll The business be-
came involved financially however. account OF
failure of some of the stockholders to pay their
stock subscriptions, and account of difficulties
in securing payment for several carloads of bot
ties shipped out Times grew hard and money
became stringent, until finally about the year 1859
IT voted discontinue the manufacture of
glass.
iThe same mountain of sand remains where it
was and the opportunities for the
facture of glass exist today did then But the
old works completely destroyed according
to my best recollection and the work OF resusci-
tating the glass industry has thus far been
attempted"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
WOOLEN INDUSTRY.

NNE Of the earliest industries established in
~ pioneer Utah was that of manufacturing
articles OF wearing apparel from wool. The frs.
factory built in the very early days at Sugar
House known as the Brigham Young MILL Presi-
dent Young and A. o. Smoot the prime
movers in the establishment of this mill. and
1t was conducted with varying success for sew
eral years.
The next mill to be built the Wasatch
Wooden mill built Parey's canyon, by a. o.
Smoot. John Sharp. and Robert T. Burton. This
the mill which was threatened with being
washed out by the waters from the canal built
from Cottonwood for the conveying of the granite
rock from the Cottonwod quarry for the Salt Lake
temple. which of the reasons for the
abandonment of the canal.
Some time afterward William Jennings bought
out the Smoot Sharp and Burton mill and built
another factory in the Nineteenth ward in Salt
Lake City. This Mr.. Jennings ana associates con-
Quoted for number of years. until the plant
was absorbed by the big wooen plant at Provo.
Other mills were established at ogden. where
the Fairs erected a plant and which was sue
ccssfully conducted UP to few years ago. At
Logan q woolen mill was projected, and the
walls for the factory were built of native stone,
but that is far the industry got in Logan.
The walls Of the old building. which was situated
In the eastern part OF the town now u
picturesque ruin. covered with moss and ivy.
There were wooden factories established also at
Beaver in the south and at Brigham City In the
north, and both of these with more or
less success for years, hut conditions be-
came unfavorable for the continuation of the
factories and one by they closed their doors.
There is only wooen factory In operation
at the present time In the state far known,
and that is the Baron mill al Hyrum, in Cache
valley This mill has hung through thick and
thin, and the factory. while not pretcntious
affair at all. is conducted at q profit to the
proprietor and n considerable amount of wooden
fabric is produced every year
The largest of the wooden factories established
in Utah however was that erected at Provo the
foundation for the building having been laid
May %, 1870 The site selected by President
Young after seeking for suitable place to build
n large plant, and Provo chosen II is said
because OF the superb water power to be had for
the factory.
FAC first wool was carded in the Provo factory
october 4, 1872 President Young the first
president of the company which known as
the Timpanogos Manufacturing company At his
death A o. Smoot succeeded him az president
and the mill for years managed by Reed
Smoot son of President Smoot. and United
States Senator from Utah. Here the wool manu-
featuring industry attained its greatest In
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
ROPE.

\ the fall of 1861 w. ~ McMaster and Hugh
/ Moon started up q rope and twine factory. .n
the eas. end of the First ward. Great Salt Lake
city" The factory called the young Sam
Rope Factory" and the propretors announced
that they prepared to work up hemp. flax
hair shares otherwise INTO ropes twines
lassos and cincheS. well and tackle ropes. From
the early accounts of the time the rope manu-
featuring business progressed very we'll for
considerable period, but 1t finally went the way of
many other Industries begun in those early
days.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.

Q ONE of the smaller manufacturing Industries
~ which nourished in the early times those
of nails, combs and boneset pills George j..
Taylor announced in 1868 that he prepared to
work up old iron into nails, guaranteed unsur-
passed in tho territory. Mr.. Tayors factory was
located in the Nineteenth ward where he paid
literally for scrap iron and charcoal, and pro-
duced nails in quantities to suit.
The Deseret comb factory situated East
Temple street. three doors south of Jennings
store. and conducted by James Sadder
Agreeing to accept in exchange for straight.
combs back combs and curly combs all kind
OF grain and good pay" Mr.. Saddler continued
the manufacture of these most useful articles
successfully for number of years.
J. e. Johnson the genius who brought into
existence the household remedy, Compound
Boneset Pills. The pills. together with the Essence
of Life. Nerve and Bone Linment. ConklIn Salve,
and complete assortment of family medicine.
were manufactured in the laboratory of the ie,
ventor at Spring Lake Villa Utah county. Deserst,
and the home made remedies attained wide
sale for years throughout the territory.
AT North Ogden in Weber county. Thomas
Farbrass opened up leather tannery In 1858
where he made leather on shares. giving those
bringing hides to his tannery half the leather
produced Phillip Pugsey and William Jen-
nings conducted for many years successful tan
nerles in Salt Lake City.
S. Lees. who located at the sack fac
tory on Emigration street, engaged III the ha"u-
facture of the homey but necessary article, the
shoe peg, while Thomas Hawkes.. at T. d. Browns
store on Main street, carried on an umbrella
and parasol mandatory.
a great many other fields were entered by the
people in the early days In the way of manu-
featuring the articles required by rne pioneers
who were thousand miles away from any
source of supply which. upon the arrival of the
railroad became unnecessary, or at least unproht-
able on account of eastern competition. But that
the people were equal to the requirements and
sought to become self sustaining when no other
supply was to be had. Is amply shown by
the account given of the industries started In
this state when 1t was but an oasis In stretcn
OF two thousand miles of uninhabited country.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
MANUFACTURE OF OIL.

N the year 1861 Heber C. Kimball brought
i successful operation mill for the manufacture
OF oil from flax seed. After number of unsuc-
cessful experiments. President Kimball. with the
assistance OF Thomas Lawson and william ]. Sill
ver machinists, placed in operation two hydraulic
presses which pressed out ten gallons of oil per
day An account of tho establishment of the
Industry at the time. printed in The Deseret News.
gave the information that II expected that
soon a sufficient quantity of this oil would be
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
SCHOOL STATES.

NURING the month of March. 1S62 the first
Oarticle OF school states manufactured in Utah
brought to Salt Lake from Wellsyille Cache
county where Robert Wnrdrop had discovered
slate quarry and established factory small
scale. Mr.. Wardrop said that he had found mex
haustible quantities of the material, and proposed
to make school states for the whole territory of
Utah.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

where it found ready market
"Some idea of the quality OF paper we produced
in the finer varieties may be had when 1t is
known that John Nichoson's book. the
martydom of Joseph Standing. printed on our
paper also other books written at the time
Finally the paper mill at Cottonwood was de-
-stroyed by fire. and it was decided sell the
machinerv for old iron. and this ended the maxi
ing naper Utah"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
THE SILK INDUSTRY.

T. ERHAPS the first silk cocoons to be produced
in Utah to any considerable extent was in
1863, when Octave Ursenbach exhibited in Salt
Lake City some three thousand of the silk balls
winch were said to be the product OF original
STOCK oil two dozen worms. The were
according TO an account OF the remarkable exhI-
bltion Of the industry of the silk worms of ex-
cellcnt color and in good condition 1t was from
this beginning that the adaptabillty of the soil to
grow mulberry trees capable of producing the
finest quality of silk demonstrated and re-
suting in the more extended development of the
silk Industry which afterward followed
From this humble beginning grew an Industry
which reached statewide proportions II was de-
monstrated that the soil of the state was ad-
mirably adapted the raising of the mulberry
tree. whose leaves fed the worms which pro-
duced the cocoons.
In 1896 the first state legislature passed a
law providing for the organization OF the Utah
SILK commission. and appropriatng money for
the announcement of raising SILK worms by
paying a bounty 25 cents per round for
the production silk cocoons. The commission
was appointed and Mrs Zna D H. Young be-
came It's first president and Mrs. Margaret A.
Caine its first. and only secretary. The other
members of the original commission were Mrs
Ann C. Woodbury.. of st. George Mrs. Isabelle
L. Bennett of Salt Lake and Mrs Cazior of
Nephi
The work which consisted chiefly in the edu-
cation of the people in the growing of null
berry trees and SILK worms, successfully
conducted for nine years The industry grew
and schools held in St George Box
elder. Weber, Cache. Wayne. and Emery.
ties and in other sections OF the state too
the business hourshed. Utah silk was the best
produced anywhere a ready market was to be
had for all the silk which could be produced.
In 1905 the state legislature passed law
turning the equipment and property of the silk
commission to the Agricultural college
with the idea of making it portion Of the
work Of the college to conduct experiments in
silk culture and to carry the work we'll
begun by the silk commission. But the
legislature which abolished the commission failed
to provide further appropriation for carrying
this especial work. and since that time little
has been done with the advancement of the silk
industry in Utah
The soil of the state Is especially ADAPTED to
raise mulberry trees: the skworm lives and
thrlves nowhere better than here. and the
quality OF silk produced heretofore has been
pronounced unsurpassed. and 1t would seem that
nothing remains in the way OF successfully reviv-
Ing the departed industry" to the benefit and
profit of the whole state.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

maze there. Offering box containing between
tour and five hundred matches for 10 cents
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

HE initial letter appearing at the be-
ginning of this paragraph is a letter
from the first font of display type ever
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

4N ~ ~
ECENTLY the owners of the Provo Wooden
mills decided to oner the factory for sale,
4 " thus forccasting the possible rehabilitation
of perhaps tho greatest manufacturing in
dusry ever conducted within the state which brings
TO mind the fact that for number Of years past
manufacturing in Utah has been In its decGdcnce.
and this too. in spite OF the added facilities fer
the establishment of manufacturing plants
possessed by the people of the state in years gone
When the pioneers entered Utah in 1Si7, they
were thousand miles from the nearest source
of any kind OF supplies Everything they bad In
The shape of food and clothing, for the first few
years, consisted either in what they had brought
with them from the cast what they imported
from the state from which they had turned their
faces westward The difficulties encountered in
helshting manufactured articles tiis distance
determined the leaders Pioneer band o
institute as far as possible means for making
themselves what they might in the of daily
necessaries In the problem OF sustaining life and
as result all manner of manufacturing concerns
were established. Il small scale it is true,
but with the determination by cooperative effor:.
TO render themselves Independent eastern
sources OF supply
Thus. from small beginnings. enterprises of
considerable magnitude and nourshed
time and then. with the advent of the iron
horse, bringing in Its wake cheaper ransr ortation,
the products Of the world brought to the
doors of the people at a rate which the
resources and crude machinery the home
manufacturers were unable to meet. resulting in
the gradual dying out of the institutions.
Utah at different times boasted of the
leading woolcn manufacturing institutions of the
country; type foundry which furnished letters
for printing the only paper in the state in those
days; paper mill manufacturing the material
which the newspaper printed; a glass
factory of dimensions. besides other
manufacturing plants producing a home the
needs OF the Isolated population. is with
the history OF these departed Industries. briefly
treated that this article has deal
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-18

TAX lidicky, us Sc mi pozastei-
sklo pc vas a proto sem Sc rozho-
dnul 81 S vami zasejc posprechovat
jak doucasy. Jak dou easy, to sa
mi wife. Snfh a zima, a lima a
snfh. PAX Ease snfh a pc mem es-
te vic snehu a este ma to snih.
TAX mas pc certech eastovala letos
nj lima, Re US sem myslel Sc vod-
stehovat do Alasky kde to snad
ami nejni tax Ely jake tady. Este
dobfe, Re vychazel mIj roman
"zkamenela jitrnice". Nebejt to-
no byl bych Sc hned pc tom PRIV
MIN sturmu seoral a Sci pesky, ne
bot jak je yam znamo, vlaky eny-
hau nejezdily. Takhle sem chtel
videt jak celej ten roman Dude w
padat v tisku. Pan redachtor mje
potfepal ma rameno a sp&sem zata-
hal "a kozf bradu, a povfda:
ALE, ale, pane Votrubo;" wy
ste pfeci jenom chlapik. Ia tako
vel roman by Sc nemusel stydet
zadnej-ani Mazelovskei slouha.
Takovej roman este nevysel CO
svet svietem stojf. 49,.
Tot Sc vi, Re sem mjel ztohodte
radost, a taky pjekne "zkamene
lou jitrnici" mann schovanou v kuf
ru (vlastne ien roman, poz. saz.)
(CloveGe, co Sc mi pofadejc plete-
tie do feci. Sotva, pc dlouhej do
be 81 chci S mileima Gtenafi a kras
nymi ctenafkami posprechovat
vod srdce k srdceti, us do toho str
kate ten svui ushupany ratifak.
Pc druhy az budete neco chtft ffct
TAX drzte hubu, rozumfte.)
10, abych nezapomsl. TAX wife,
Re stvrtJho brezna byl nastolenej
mas novel president. pan Taft. Mu
sim Yam no pfedstavit aspo6 v
duchu. Pan Vilem Taft, vysokej
6 stfevfcG, vazf $50 liber, pofad
SO smeje, a jinak, az ma to republi-
kanstvf, povfdaji demokrati, je dob
rak vod kosti. X Will jeho dobro
to a snasenlivosti, hadaji politika-
Fl, Re Dude dobfe vychazet S kon-
gresem, kerej je dobfe zastoupe-
nej pacholky vod trustd a jinejmi
spinavejmi interesty. To Sc totiz
hada, protoze do kabinetu sv5ho
pfijmul Fildtu Knoxe, kerej Sc
vosvedcil CO znamenitej pravnfk a
nadhonGi volejnyho trustu. Pan
Taft nepochazi 2 obycejn5ho lidu,
AMI S mimi Sc nestykal. Nevf vod-
jakziva co je to nouze., Byl dfte-
tenn Stest6ny. Bejval vyslancem,
sekretafem namofnictva, guverne-
rem ma Filipinach, soudcem u vrch
nfho soudu a jine mensf 1fady, Ike
zastaval s uspokojenfm. Pred
rokem vykonal cestu kolem sveta,
phi kerej nabyl hodne vedomostf
vo kerejch vobyeejnej clovek ne
ma ami ponetf. .t
Jedna vec u mel, kera Sc my IT.
bi, je ia, Re jedna vopatrne, kon-
servativne, jak Sc v p~olitick5m
fika. Bude-li chtft, niue
udsIat dobfe lidem v boji proti
spinayeim pen6znfkum. Tim chci
ffcti, Re nepude ma ne S bubnem
jake Rdzvelt, ale spise potichu a
chVtfe, ...
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-18

Nam ma prodej mfchanou travu
English blue grass, red top, timo-
tn a red clover "a 1Oc libra. ".
M. Horaeek. f4-8
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-18

Missouri. Wife Kanoun uz je 80
let starej, ale pevnej jake dub.
Vodjakziva drzel S monopolisty a
to wife, Re takova naklonost v jeho
postavenf je nebezpecna. Pref
nejvfc zabrahuje revisit ella. Me-
chce by Sc snfzilo ma nekter5ch We
cfch. Pan Taft slfbil, re jakmil6
Dude posazenej ma prestol presi-
dentskej, Re v cuku svola sezenf
snemovny a clio Sc must vopraVit.
Merck zdali snfzit anebo zvejsit.
Ale vse vobecny domn9nf je no
snfzit, protoze vysoky clio pomaha
vzrdstu trustu, kere chranf pred
evropskou kompeticf.
Ze ale poslanci Ease zvolili Ka-
nouna mlufkou, sem toho nahledu,
Re clio Sc nesnfzi ami nezveisf, ale
zvostane zrovna tax iak je. Zvo-
lenf Ramona znamena asi tolik,
Re vetsina poslancd jsou proti revi
81 ella a vetsina, jak wife vftezf.
Proc ale je v9tsina p~oslancu proti
revisi ella, mnohej z vas Sc Dude
plat. Inu, monopolisti nechcou
revisi a protoze dobfe mazou, do
bfe take jedou. Vic nefeknu.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-18

Re hrom neudefil skopkem do
toho staryho dedka Jouzu kanou-
ma We Wasinktonu! US Ease no
poslanci zvolili mlufkou v hauzu.
v pondelf NELL zvlastnf sezenf We
snemovne a zvolili no 204 hlasy,
prot 166 vrzenejch pro Clarka .
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-03-18

Zavfel jsem 3 leteho byka; Ger
veny a bile Aeky. Mattel jej OBJ
drzf pc zaplacenf teto oznamky a
jinych Gtrat. Ant. Slama. Al