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Show ' a little book and writing pa per , a few ti n t e d envelopes and a few boards . ~t:re had no ma teria l or facilities for bleac h ing or sizing . I ma n'J g ed to produce a n indiff erent bleaqh by using quicklime . My s izing for t he b a 't c h o f w r it i ng pa per I made w it h a 1 it t 1 e r o s in which I was fort una t e to get ho 1 d of . :My en v e 1 opes were t in ted with copper , and as a mordant, I obt c~ ined a wa gon loa d' of crude alum from the southern part of Utah . It could not properly be called alum. It 'vilas rat her dirt , strongly :Lmpregnated with the alum s a lt . It served my purpose , however very well . u The paper mill at Sugar House continued running ,. so in~tim e s ,successfully, sometimes otherwise , until 1882 , when the rnachi.nery was removed to the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon , under instructi ~ n s from President John Taylor , ·and t here. the Granite Pa per Company's plant was erected . The building and machi nery cost in the neighborhood of $150 , 000 ,- many of the best appliances then i n use being a dded to the machinery already on hand . The. pla n t had a waterfall I' of 143 f e e t , one of the best sites for a mill in the state . Great things were aniicipated from the new mill , but the i mported articles , were ha r d to compete wit h , as the home-made par)er sold for one- t h ird or one - ~a lf more than the other , and even the n most of the grades were manufactured at a loss . The plant · wa s burned April 1 , 18 93 , just at a .time when it had been detern ined the kind of pa per tl';la t co-o.ld be produced a t a reB sona ble profit , a nd at the close of · the most successful run the mill had ever had . The men at the head of t he Gr anite Ps per Company were J . W. Sum.rn.erhays , w. H. Rowe ~ Da vid L . Davis and George C. Lambert . The last named had been mana ger of the old mi l l at Sugar Ho)l se as early a s 1869 . One of the men hav i ng direct c harge of pa per making in Utah in early days was Michael Grace , and Irishman . He used to assume a mysterious air, such as to give ma ny people the idea that black art necromancy or something else v e ry mystic were connected with the successful making of . pa per . • |
