Show THE PAPER MILL the destruction of the deseret paper mill is as an nearly it a mournful event as aa anything oy thing in which human life is not sacrificed can be not because of the great loss in dollars and cents nor spee pec ally because of the destruction of valuable atle machinery because these can be recovered anu and restored but for ire reft Bone much more weighty 1 for nearly a geLera tiona span the founders of this community and their successors have sought to make among other things independent in the matter of that indispensable article paper one of the first machines it if not the very onto first ever brought to the territory was wag a printing pro pres now la in the possession ol of the NEWS company then the considers con sidera tion was waa the other adjunct of the art preservative and in order that home news might it if possible be printed on home paper machinery for that purpose was next brought in it was wae crude and as compared with the perfected apparatus of today primitive but it served its purpose in the emergency long waits edween t trains from the east sometimes left the NEWS without white sheets on which to appear and then our paper mill had to be relied upon its product was course coarse and decidedly unlike the driven snow in appearance in fact it was decidedly dingy but it served as an a temporary medium for conveying the happenings at home and abroad to the people who made no complaints regarding the terra cotta aspect of their only journal and felt thankful that they were not deprived ot of it ai altogether together the years wore on and improvements Improve mento sprang up here and there in all departments of trade the proprietors of the N aws were never behind any of the others and as fast as increasing business and improved communication would permit new features were added to the printing establishment and its aux auxiliary illary the paper mill 1 until both became as nearly com complete as any institution of the kind in the interior west latterly the two institutions have been under separate management and the paper mill in its ita bew i ew and commodious quarters on cottonwood has baa been at once a credit and a source of pride to the whole community some grades ut of the paper made could not be excelled east or west while all of the product was up to the abe average or past it and in good demand the industry had bad rown with the coun country tryla growth and the various stages of progress on the part ot the community were marked with the advancement made lu in the manufacture re of paper the object aimed at by the pioneer promoters of the enterprise was not only gained but surpassed to la that all the paper required could be made at home and there be plenty to sell at rates which would return a profit besides which much of the material employed in the manu fao fac ture and which otherwise would be destroyed or wasted was a marketable commodity and yielded a revenue all around now comes the fire and amid the flames and smoke the results of the labors labora the enterprise the perseverance and the investments investment of two score years disappear in an couil it is sorrowful but sorrow and regret accomplish nothing the thing to be done now is to commence again |