The History of Salt Lake City and its Founders, Volume 2 by Edward William Tullidge

Author:Edward William Tullidge [Tullidge, Edward William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2019-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

In 1881, a retail store for the sale of merchandise and woolen fabrics was started in Provo, under the management of the superintendent of the Factory.

The dimensions of the main building are 145 x 65 feet. It is a four-story rock building, with a half mansard roof, covered with tin roofing. It has a projecting stairway, surmounted by a tower 30 feet above the roof. The upper story is used for the storing and preparing of the wool for the cards. On the floor below there are eight sets of cards and one hand mule of 240 spindles, two reels and two spoolers. The next floor below is the spinning room, containing four self-acting mules, of 720 spindles each. The ground floor contains 19 broad looms and 38 narrow looms, 2 wrappers and dressers, 1 shawl fringer, 1 quilling frame and 1 beamer, and a machine for a double and twist stocking yarn of 62 spindles. The finishing house is built of adobe, 70 x 30 feet, two and a half stories high. On the first floor are three washers, three frillers, two large screw presses, two gigs, one cloth measure, and one hard waste picker.

The factory is run by water power, with two Leffel turbine wheels, one 36 and the other 44 inches. The factory has a rotary pump, which is in operation.

Immediately south of the main building is situated a two-and-a-half story adobe building, 33 x 134 feet. The upper room is used for the receiving and assorting of wool, and the lower story for an office, salesroom, carpenter shop and drying room. Attached to this building, on the east side, is a one-story frame house, 30 x 60 feet, which is used for the dye-house and wool-scouring.

Connected with the Factory was quite a large flouring mill, but it was burned down in the spring of 1879, involving a loss of $10,000.

The Factory employs on an average from 125 to 150 operatives, who were mostly trained in the large manufactories of England and Scotland.

The company finds a market for their goods in every town and village of Utah, besides exporting some into Montana, Idaho and Colorado. Among its complete variety of goods, it manufactures about three thousand pairs of blankets per year, which will compete with the same class of goods manufactured either east or west. The amount of goods manufactured per annum is about $150,000 J. C. Cutler, as agent, sold from $ 100,000 to $120,000 per annum. The wool purchases amount to about one million pounds, out of which the Factory manufactures between three and four hundred thousand pounds. The company has done a great deal of wholesale trade.

We return to the boot and shoe trade as culminating in the factory started by Z. C. M. I., under the management of that practical and able manufacturer, Wm. H. Rowe.

These already given of the causes of the slow progress of manufactures in Utah, combined with a lack of capital, are a few reasons why manufacturing has languished in Utah; but a new era seems now to have dawned upon us.

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