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Show • • to send all k i nds of ra gs and waste paper ·of all de scri ptions , to t he Tithing Off ice i nLJ.edia tely ••. 11 Five mon t hs later, after Willard R ic h~ r d s had died , t he nDeseret News" s tepped out in its f ir s t homema ae paper . It had been made with t he use o f a oeet grinder serv ing as a ra g eng i ne , with a capac ity o f about eighty pounds . Other sugar ma ch iner y wa s used , but most of the pa permaking had been done by hand and had been dried and bleac hed i n the sun . rrhe paper ma c h i nery was powered· f rom the s hops of the t empl e block , draw i ng t he ir energy f rom City Cree k . I t is said tha t the pi onee r pl ant on t h e te mple block , in add i t i on to mak i ng paper for print i ng , also yielded c a r db oa r d f or boxe s and sunbonnets , and livra _pping paper . Appar ently, t he paper mill on t he temple bloc k d i d not long o perate , f or t ne follo wing yea r t he "Nevvsn 'was appeal i ng f or rags for a Da vis County paper mill ope r a te d by "Hollis & Gepson , papermakers . " Machiner y f or a suga r fac tory , meanwhile, had been se t up i n a long , gable- r o ofed adobe bu i lding on Kanyon Creek (Sugar Hous e) · for BLtOther a t Lempt at s ugarmaking • ..1. \bout .:: t he same time t he firs t pa per was manufactured on Temple Squa r e , i n 1854 , the first type was cast in ULah , by John Ei . Bume l wi th rna trices brought across t he plains . Page 122 In 1860, t he year before t he begi nni ng of t he Civil Wa r at J:i.,ort Sumter, Brigham Young purchased a papermak i ng machine i n Philadel phia . It was a thirt y- six inch Gavi t cyli nde r aff& ir. Tugged over t he plains fr om t he Missouri Rive r by ox teams , t he equipmen t arr ived i n Sa lt Lake Valley i n t he fa ll. According to Preside nt Young , t he expense in attaining the machinery reached 11 s ome t went y or t went y- f ive t h ousand dollars . " The ma ch i ne was taken about four miles southeast of t he t empl e bloc k , and pl a ced i n t he she l l of t he s uga r House . ~rhe .f:;a bleroofed a do be buildi ng had been c ornp l eted s i x yea r s before-- the first factory fot the rtlanufa cture of sugar in the Mountain \Vest . It had produced nothing but a dark molasses , and s ome of its hydraulic presses wer e l ater used for making l i nseed oil and in t he bindery o f the Deseret News plant. The Suga r House was on Bi g Kanyon (later called Parl ey ' s 1 Creek , which was be coming a stream o f mountain industry . Thomas Howa r d , t he English pa pe r maker wh::::> had supplied pa pe r f or the "News" f rom a crud e lit tle plan.t on the temple block seven years before , was placed in charge of t he mill . As t he plants were g oing ahead·, t he Presiding Bishop of the Chur c h , Edvvard Hunter, t hrough t he "News," appealred f or "worn out wagon cove rs , and every de:.script ion of cotton and linen r age f or pape r na k i ng . " |
